Pitri Tarpana Manuals Available Now

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Namaste friends,

 

Now three detailed pitri tarpana manuals are available on the internet. They are

appropriate even for a novice and explain clearly the details of pitri tarpana.

The mantras are simple, the materials needed are few and it does not take too

long.

 

Homam (fire ritual) and pitri tarpanas (water ritual) are two of the most

important rituals of Hinduism and worth performing regularly. They cleanse a

person, remove various obstacles in material and spiritual lives and speed up

spiritual evolution. An aspirant desiring spiritual progress should take

advantage of them regularly. More about the philosophy of pitri tarpana is

explained below, where I reproduced an extract from the manual.

 

Please download the manuals from

 

http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpana

 

There are three manuals - one with the regular procedure (taking 30-45 min), one

with a short procedure (taking 12-20 min) and one with a super-short procedure

(taking 5-8 min).

 

Please feel free to pass this word around to interested people. I hope this

information reaches with Her blessings as many interested souls as possible.

 

By the way, there is an important solar eclipse in a few hours. It is a great

time to perform pitri tarpanas. Actually, it is a great time to perform many

spiritual sadhanas.

 

Best regards,

Narasimha

 

Do a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homam

Do Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpana

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External rituals are meant to create the internal visualization needed to affect

desirable internal changes in the long run. For example, one offers a full

coconut into fire as poornaahuti (complete offering) at the end of a homam (fire

ritual). This is symbolic of surrendering one's head or ego (sense of I-ness) to

god and burning it in the fire of wisdom and becoming free from ego. As one

keeps engaging in this act again and again, the visualization becomes stronger

and stronger and ego is slowly reduced.

 

 

One important ritual of Hinduism is tarpana. Tarpana means " satisfying " or

" satiating " . One acknowledges the debt one has to devas (gods), rishis (sages)

and pitris (ancestral manes) and tries to satisfy them using this ritual. Just

as gods are invoked in fire in a homam, pitris are invoked in water in this

ritual, then held in the palm and released in a specific way conducive to

freeing them.

 

 

One owes a lot to one's parents and ancestors. In modern scientific terms, one

owes all of one's genetic characteristics to one's parents and ancestors. Each

ancestor is actually present in the person as a genetic characteristic. In

karmik terms, one inherits some karmas of one's parents and ancestors and each

ancestor is actually present in the person as a kaarmik predisposition. The

latter approach obviously extends to multiple lives and some karmik

predisposition is inherited from the ancestors from a past life too, though they

may not be related to one in this life.

 

 

By thinking of the deceased ancestors with gratitude and trying to give them an

emancipation, one is actually trying to free oneself from various kaarmic

predispositions that one has as a result of the rina (karmik debt) with several

people. One can view this as an external event of satisfying and emancipating an

external entity (a pitri). Alternately, one can view this as an internal event

of satisfying and releasing an internal kaarmik predisposition. Ultimately, it

is the latter. However, one needs to externalize first and perform external

rituals, while thinking of what it means internally. This builds up one's

visualization and slowly brings about internal changes and eventually the

desired internal change itself.

 

 

Two external spiritual sadhanas are particularly powerful, useful and

recommended for every person desirous of fast spiritual progress:

 

 

 

1.. Homam (fire ritual): Gods are invoked in fire and satisfied with offerings

with mantras. Please see the homam website at

http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homam for more. In the long run, a regular

practice of this ritual increases the subtle fire burning inside one's subtle

body, burns various impediments to spiritual progress and gives clarity, focus

and stability to the mind.

 

 

b.. Tarpana (water ritual): Gods, sages and manes are invoked in water and

satisfied with emancipation given to them. In the long run, a regular practice

of this ritual increases the release of various kaarmik predispositions and

weaknesses that are blocking one's spiritual and material progress.

 

 

This document describes the procedure of pitri tarpana with the relevant mantras

using a simple approach. This document is the regular procedure. There are also

documents giving a short procedure and a super-short procedure for the benefit

of those with time constraints or problem with Sanskrita language. Download them

from http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpana.