Why to do chradham and all - moderator expects reply from all interested mem

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Dear Sri VAsu VAdhyAr, respected members

 

The view I had heard on this was that according to Vedam and

dharmashaastram, offerings to ancestors is a " naimittika karma " i.e. a

required act according to Vedic dharma, so it shouldn't be given up,

whether the pitrus are in moksham or not. Again I may have

misunderstood so please correct my mistakes.

 

However at least from a Vaishnava perspective, I understand that

such acts are not so much seen as offerings to please the pitrus,

instead they are offerings to their antaryAmin, srIman nArAyaNa, on

whom their existence rests. So perhaps when we do offerings to pitrus

etc., we are

 

1) fulfilling the vedic requirement to perform these acts, and

2) keeping our pitrus as the focus through which we worship srIman

nArAyaNa yet again - since all the offerings ultimately go to him.

 

In Bhagavad Gita, I think Krishna says " those who worship the

pitrus go to the world of the pitrus " - so rather than worship the

pitrus themselves, we still focus on worshipping parabrahman through them.

 

Thirdly, it also helps in a psychological sense in that we can

remember our dear departed relatives and their time with us.

 

sarvAparAdhAn kshamasva,

with praNAmams,

namo nArAyaNAya

 

Ranjan

 

PS: question: I remember one post in this group a while back

clarifying the sankalpam for upaakarma, in which it stated that in

fact we are not offering to the pitrus, but the deva/rishi pitrus -

i.e. devatas " in the place of " our ancestors or the ancestors of the

devas and rishis themselves. So are we actually offering to devatas,

not our pitrus?

 

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