Mission :- Purascharana and Chandi ---- Some Clarifications

[Guest guest]

Namaste All,

 

There have been some questions around what we are planning to do - I

want to address them here

 

1) The start date ----When is Hanuman Jayanti ? Should we start on

4th Apr - Purnima or Hanuman Jayanti - I am going to ask Swamiji and

get back to you soon.

 

2) What Purascharana are we doing ? Swamiji has approved our original

suggestion of Om Namah Shivaya - 10 malas before doing one chapter

from Chandi.

 

Some of you expressed a preference for other mantras.

 

All I can say is that you should choose WHATEVER mantra that works

for you. Personally, I am going by the original suggestion of Om

Namah Shivaya. If you DONT want to do a mantra japa before learning

the one chapter, that is FINE too. We are going to be doing this for

more than 4 months and so you should take the sankalpa that works for

you individually.

 

It would be nice to know before we begin , how many of us are going

to Purascharana of Om Namah Shivaya, Navarna etc. Just to inform

Swamiji .

 

3) Sanju's question regarding - whether he can continue to do the

Navarnah Viddhih. SURE .

 

This is a sankalpa that we are taking so that we can rely on the

group's momentum to help us all achieve our common goals of doing

mantra japa and learning Chandi at the same time.

 

It is not meant to replace your existing sadhanas. Please continue to

do whatever form of tapasya that you are doing now.

 

4) Reading from Sanskrit versus reading the English transliteration

and translation.

 

Again - we want to make this sankalpa useful and meaningful for each

of us. We are all at different levels , and for some the sankalpa may

mean learning to read from the Devnagari script, and for some just to

be able to read the transliteration would be an achievement.

 

But for all, remember the final goal is to absorb the meaning in our

everyday lives. So my humble recommendation would be to also try to

understand the meanings of the verses. If not all, atleast to get an

overall idea.

 

Hope that helps. And I will get back to the group on the start date

so that we are all in sync.

 

I am going to start another poll *grin* to see what mantra each of us

are planning to do as part of the Purascharana. Please vote for your

mantra so that I can forward it to Swamiji and let him know our final

decisions.

 

JAI MAAAAAA

Latha

[Guest guest]

Dear Latha,

 

Please count me in for Puruscharana and Chandi.

 

Thanks,

Ruchi

 

 

Latha Nanda [lathananda]

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:19 PM

Re: Mission :- Purascharana and Chandi ---- Some

Clarifications

 

 

Namaste All,

 

There have been some questions around what we are planning to do - I

want to address them here

 

1) The start date ----When is Hanuman Jayanti ? Should we start on

4th Apr - Purnima or Hanuman Jayanti - I am going to ask Swamiji and

get back to you soon.

 

2) What Purascharana are we doing ? Swamiji has approved our original

suggestion of Om Namah Shivaya - 10 malas before doing one chapter

from Chandi.

 

Some of you expressed a preference for other mantras.

 

All I can say is that you should choose WHATEVER mantra that works

for you. Personally, I am going by the original suggestion of Om

Namah Shivaya. If you DONT want to do a mantra japa before learning

the one chapter, that is FINE too. We are going to be doing this for

more than 4 months and so you should take the sankalpa that works for

you individually.

 

It would be nice to know before we begin , how many of us are going

to Purascharana of Om Namah Shivaya, Navarna etc. Just to inform

Swamiji .

 

3) Sanju's question regarding - whether he can continue to do the

Navarnah Viddhih. SURE .

 

This is a sankalpa that we are taking so that we can rely on the

group's momentum to help us all achieve our common goals of doing

mantra japa and learning Chandi at the same time.

 

It is not meant to replace your existing sadhanas. Please continue to

do whatever form of tapasya that you are doing now.

 

4) Reading from Sanskrit versus reading the English transliteration

and translation.

 

Again - we want to make this sankalpa useful and meaningful for each

of us. We are all at different levels , and for some the sankalpa may

mean learning to read from the Devnagari script, and for some just to

be able to read the transliteration would be an achievement.

 

But for all, remember the final goal is to absorb the meaning in our

everyday lives. So my humble recommendation would be to also try to

understand the meanings of the verses. If not all, atleast to get an

overall idea.

 

Hope that helps. And I will get back to the group on the start date

so that we are all in sync.

 

I am going to start another poll *grin* to see what mantra each of us

are planning to do as part of the Purascharana. Please vote for your

mantra so that I can forward it to Swamiji and let him know our final

decisions.

 

JAI MAAAAAA

Latha

 

 

 

 

 

 

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