Thanx for the sloka's and request for resolution of one more query

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To all dear Vaishnava's Thanks for the prompt response to the request for obtaining Shri and Bhu sloka's. I feel highly grateful to all of yours kind gesture. I beg to place one more request and that pertains to obtaining knowedge on any sloka/mantra which one should utter while offering food to the lord.Futhermore ,the procedure for offering naivedium before eaing anything ,may please be explained in case pure food is partaken at home, as well as outside. Thanks and regards Sashikant

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Dear Swamin,

 

Here is the basis:

 

ya-jn^a-shi-SHTA-shi-nah sa-nto

mu-chya-nte sa-rva-ki-lbi-SHaih |

bhu-n^ja-te te tva-gham pA-pA

ye pa-cha-ntyA-tma-kA-ra-Nat ||

|| Bhagavad-Gita III-13||

 

The righteous people consume food remaining

after being offered to a ya-jn^a and are thus

released from all evils; but the wicked, who

prepare food for their own sake, indeed eat only sin!

 

 

ya-jn^a-shi-SHTa (remnants of a yajn^a,

food remaining after performance of an yajn^a,

remannats of fire offering, food offered in worship).

 

Note: The BEST yagna as per BG X-25c is JAPA

(ya-jn^A-nAm ja-pa ya-jn^ah a-smi).

Thus if we mentally offer food to God and

eat it as prasadam, it is sanctified food.

Otherwise, we are eating only sin!

This can be done wherever we are.

No need to rush to nearest PerumAL

sannidhi.

 

a-shi-nah (eating, consume)

sa-ntah (the righteous, good, devotees, true)

mu-chya-nte (they are released, are liberated, are freed)

sa-rva (all kinds of)

ki-lbi-SHaih (from sins, from wrongs, from evils).

bhu-n^ja-te (eat, relish, enjoy)

te (they, those)

tu (indeed, but)

a-gham (sin, impurity, pain, suffering)

pA-pAh (the wicked, sinners, the evil ones, sinful ones)

ye (who)

pa-cha-nti (prepare food, they cook, they digest)

A-tma (own, self)

kA-ra-Nat (for the sake of)

 

 

Thus, simply taking Lord's name

or any hymn you are familiar

with is fine.

Remember, eating food is

traditionally referred to as

PerumAl amshe.

Some popular shlokas from BG

used for offering amshe are:

 

bra-hmA-rpa-Nam bra-hma ha-vih

bra-hmA-gnau bra-hma-NA hu-tam |

bra-hmai-va te-na ga-nta-vyam

bra-hma-ka-rma-sa-mA-dhi-nA ||IV-24||

||Bhagavad-Gita IV-24||

 

Brahman is the offering,

Brahman is the clarified butter,

Brahman is the fire to which

Brahman makes the offering;

Brahman indeed is to be attained

by one who is absorbed in action,

which is also Brahman.

bra-hma (Brahman)

a-rpa-Nam (the oblation, offering)

bra-hma (Brahman)

ha-vih (the clarified butter, ghee)

bra-hma (Brahman)

a-gnau (in the fire)

bra-hma-NA (by Brahman)

hu-tam (poured/offered into the sacred fire) |

bra-hma (Brahman)

e-va (indeed)

te-na (by it, by him)

ga-nta-vyam (shall be reached, to be accomplished)

bra-hma-ka-rma (action is Brahman)

sa-mA-dhi-nA (is absorbed, in contemplation) ||

{bra-hma-ka-rma-sa-mA-dhi-nA

(by one who is absorbed in action which is Brahman)}

 

a-ham vai-shvA-na-ro bhU-tvA

prA-Ni-nAm de-ha-mA-shri-tah |

prA-NA-pA-na-sa-mA-yu-ktah

pa-chA-mya-nnam cha-tu-rvi-dham ||xv-14||

(Bhagavd-Gita XV-14)

Having entered the bodies of creatures as

digestive fire and working in concert with

in-coming and out-going breaths,

I digest four kinds of food.

 

a-ham (I)

vai-shvA-na-rah [the fire vai-shvA-na-ra (the digestive fire )]

bhU-tvA (having become, becoming, as)

prA-Ni-nAm (of the breathing, of living beings)

de-ham (body)

A-shri-tah (entering, joining, inhabiting) |

prA-Na (inhalation, vital breath, in-coming breath)

a-pA-na (exhalation, abdominal breath, out-going breath)

sa-mA-yu-ktah (associated with, united with)

{prA-NA-pA-na-sa-mA-yu-ktah

(joined/together with inhalation and exhalation)

pa-chA-mi(I digest)

a-nnam (food)

cha-tu-rvi-dham (of four kinds) ||xv-14||

 

dAsan

 

KST

 

 

Sumathy Srinivasan <aiyarsks

 

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 5:37 am

Thanx for the sloka's and request for

resolution of one more query

 

To all dear  Vaishnava's Thanks for the prompt response to the request

for obtaining Shri and Bhu sloka's. I feel highly grateful  to all of

yours kind gesture. I beg to place one more request and that  pertains

to obtaining knowedge on  any sloka/mantra which one should utter while

offering food to the lord.Futhermore ,the procedure for offering

naivedium before eaing anything ,may please be explained in case pure

food is partaken at home, as well as outside.   Thanks and regards  

Sashikant    

 

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