Bramnan should not cross the sea ?

[Guest guest]

Namo Narayanaya

 

Adiyen dasan , working in Maldives . Mama , Hope Srawanam is

on Aug 19th. I am having doubt inrespect of Sangalpam on

that day . Since , Bharatham is a Karma boomy and all

Sangalpams given by our gurus are based on Baratha kandam ,

how can i do my Sangalpam on that day ?

 

At what time i can do the Sravanam ?

 

Namo Narayanaya

 

Is there any condition that Bramnan should not cross the sea ? whether

he will be unqualified for the Thiruvarathanam in temple or our

bhagavat

 

kaingaryam , if he cross sea ?

 

Mahavishan ella idathilayam viabithu irrukiran . Anaithu logamum

avanudayathu . Apadi irruka , yen avan padaitha samuthirathi thanda

kudathu

 

ennkirargal .

 

In present day life , we are travelling to other countries for our job

or profession .

 

Mama , adyenuku villakam tharavum

 

Namo Narayanaya

 

***Mdr***

Dear Member,

If you send lot of messages in one day, I will be happy, but all the

members will not take in a correct way.

You put all your question one by one in one mail, it will be very easy

to me also to answer.

Let it be.

19/08/2005 the upakarma should be done.

Upakarma is not a single step action to fix the time.

But everything should be started only after the sunrise.

You do it in your anytime after sunrise on that day.

Check our website www.ahobilam.com/upakarma for procedures and other

details.

 

About your question " all places are in the Paramathma, why there is

difference? "

 

I am givning three examples to understand. Do not take in wrong sense.

 

1. We are living in our own house. We are dividing our house into

sevaral portions.

We are not doing all the works in all the places. We are not using bed

room to do pooja,

bath room for dining purpose.

This is to understand the works to be performed in the places

predetermined for that purpose.

 

2. There is a mango tree in a garden with sweet fruits. A tall and big

wall is there some feets

apart from the tree. There is another wall near the tree, which is

very perfect to pick some fruit.

Now you say which wall you use to pluck the fruits?

 

3. The letters to be posted only in the post box, not in any box seems

to be a post box (by applying the logic, all boxes are made out of

iron

 

and red painted).

You can drop the letter in any box, but the letter inserted in a post

box only will reach the mentioned destination.

 

Bhagavath Saannithyam is only in India, that is the reason all

'Avadharams' taken place only in India.

That is the reason all rishis had selected a place from India and put

that place in one side of a balance,

and put all other places of the world in other side of the balance and

found one place is more weight

than the rest of the places of the world put in the other side. That

place was then called " Mahi Saaram "

which is now called as " Thirumazhisai " near " Poonamalli " .

Also the duties entrusted for a brahmin is not required to travel

beyond a sea.

I can say many more examples and reasons,

We can not find 0.0000000001 percent of error from the sastrams made

by the rushis.

So, it is better to accept the sastras and should try to do the

compensation for the mistakes what we have done.

Which are described in the sastras itself.

We know always the truth is bitterful.

Switch of the painful thoughts, leave it, sure, we will one day come

out from all our sins.

Always hope for the best.

Best regards,

Moderator

[Guest guest]

Dear respected members, namaskaarams to all

 

I am a youngster born and settled in the UK who finds the issue

of 'crossing the ocean' very interesting for obvious reasons. A few

thoughts I had on this issue - although I certainly don't deserve the

title 'braahmanan' I thought I would share them with you:

 

Anyone who has read elementary school science will know that our

planet Earth is one of nine planets, which is in our solar system

surrounding our Sun, which is in turn one of millions of star systems

in our galaxy (the Milky Way), which is in turn one of the billions

of galaxies we have in the in the unimaginably huge observable

universe. In light of this observation, I have the following doubt

about the issue of 'applicability of shastra to India' - why would

our dear Lord Sriman Narayana, in his infinite wisdom, make the

ancient sages write such dharmashaastras which can only be lived and

adhered to properly in such a tiny, tiny corner of the universe known

as 'India', 'Bharata' etc?

 

I am not asking this question to offend anyone's sensibilities, or as

a 'naastika' - in fact I am always seeking to deepen my faith in the

Lord, understand my family's Srivaishnava sampradaayam and serve Him

and His creation, but I do think that this is a legitimate question.

What I am trying to understand is, why would the Lord do something

which seems so much like 'bad planning'? If India is the only place

in the *entire universe* where dharma can be properly adhered to,

then what of the potentially trillions of life forms that will miss

out on knowing God because they were born in the wrong country/even

the wrong planet!? To me, the question of crossing oceans within our

own planet earth then becomes a bit indulgent, as these days man is

even able to go into space, has landed on the moon, etc. I know this

may seem very silly/hypothetical, but what should a braahmaNa do if

he goes on a rocket to the moon? He has left dear Bhoomi-devi, what

to speak of crossing the ocean. Should he stop performing his

sandhyaavandanam, etc. because he has lost his brahmaNattvam?

 

Returning back to planet earth: some observations regarding my own

experiences of practising my religion in the UK. My family was not

very religious, but I decided myself that I would come to India, have

my upanayanam and practice whatever I could of vaideeka tradition and

learn about my family's Srivaishnava tradition. Up until now I have

never felt guilty for living outside India when I do my religious

duties. I have always been accepted fully as 'British' by our local

friends in this country and also my relatives in India see me as one

of their own. However, to use our respected Moderator's analogy (if

India is the 'pooja room' of the world, perhaps England is

the 'bathroom', I know many of my relatives jokingly use the

word 'London' to mean toilet!), somewhere like England is not really

suitable for practising of vaideeka dharmam. But what I don't

understand is, isn't dharma supposed to be practised everywhere? You

are meant to be a good person whether you are in the pooja room or in

the bathroom, is this not so?

 

Then this introduces doubts in my mind as to how useful vaideeka

dharma really is for the whole world/universe, if it should only be

practised in India - unless it can be practised outside India, how

can all those other people of the world know about our great Vedic

tradition? Shouldn't we as Vaideekas, work for the welfare and

upliftment of the entire world and try to spread at least a tiny

fraction of Sriman Narayana's compassion and grace to those other

places too?

 

I also wonder whether the reason some dharma shaastras say that

crossing the ocean/going to other countries is prohibited is because

the sages may not have actually visited those countries. For

example, a few of you who have never visited the UK may think it is

very hard to stick to 'aahaara niyamam', that everbody is

materialistic etc. However, I can tell you that this country is one

of the easiest countries in the world outside India to be vegetarian -

in all the main shops those items which are 100% veg have a green

label (like the green dot you see on items in Indian stores), and

also that many people here have a very deep social or religious

conscience and are very active in working for charities etc - the

very opposite of 'materialistic'. Similarly, I wonder whether at

least some of the injunctions in dharma shaastras are due to the

sages not fully knowing, perhaps having some prejudice as to what it

is like 'on the other side of the ocean'. I do not mean any

disrespect to the great sages like Sri Manu, etc. but surely they

couldn't know what it is like in all these far away places before the

invention of aeroplanes, and what's more, surely they didn't know

what England and the USA would be like in 2000 years and that

actually, there would be big temples in those countries constructed

according to aagamas, with utsavams and yagnas and all sorts of

things being conducted there - yes, in these so called 'bhoga-bhoomi'

places!

 

I am sorry for the length of this post and infintely more so for any

apachaarams/offence committed to anybody unknowingly - but I seek

only guidance and clarification from respected members and our

respected mama as this issue recently has confused me. Must I feel

guilty or incomplete for being a proud 'British' vaideekan?

 

sarvAparAdhAn kshamasva

namo nArAyaNa

 

with praNaamams,

Ranjan