Guest guest Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Nandaji, thank you very much for being such a good friend and answering my questions. As always, your answers are very clear. One tiny thing: do you keep the thread on after reciting? (I think I'll stick to just reciting for now, but out of curiosity I would like to know if there are people with a whole collection of threads round their wrists..) veel liefs, Henny , Nanda <chandimaakijai> wrote: > Lieve Henny, > It is my privilege to be of help. Please see below for your questions and my responses. Please let me know of further questions. > Veel liefs > Nanda > > Henny said : > yesterday I was looking through some of last year's posts and found one in which you explain how we use the namaste mudra when bowing to the lineage of guru's. I also found we use the upasanghara mudra when reciting the Rigvedoktam Devi Suktam. I was wondering: are there any more specific mudra's we should use when reciting the Chandi? And what do you do in general with your hands when reciting (when you fold them in your lap you easily touch the feet which is not done, I suppose)? Are there any rules? > > Nanda says: > This is not a mudra but something we do when chanting every text. When we "Prithvi tvaya dhrta loka ...casanam" in the beginning prayers of every text (please refer to the text for the actual page) , for blessing the earth we place both our hands on the ground to the sides or the back of our asan. > > Swamiji has sometimes recommended that we keep our hands in the chin mudra ( the tips of the index finger and thumbs touching and the other fingers extended) , while chanting the text. So your hands would be on your knees and the fingers in chin mudra. Other than that there is really no rule for placing the hands except to keep them still as much as possible and move only the right hand when turning pages. > > Another place where use mudras is in the Navarna Vidhi where we use tattva mudra to point to the locations in the body during the nyasas. > > Other than that I cannot think of any other place where we would use a mudra. > > Henny asks: > So far, I have not tied the piece of string around the middle finger or wrist (thought I'd better not complicate things too much). But: how are you supposed to do it? (I guess the instructions 'using the knees as a frame' I found on the website are not applicable here?). And do you keep it on after you've finished? Any particular colour? > > > Nanda says: > I have not done this during the actual chanting either. I just chant the mantra. When I have seen Swamiji and others do this tying of the thread (left hand for ladies and right for men) , it has been the "normal" tying of thread - no fancy threadwork involved as mentioned on the website. The color of the thread has been either white or red. > > Henny asks: > > Last year's post also specified that we purify mouth and hands with the mantra's beginning with 'om kesavaya' end ending with 'om vishnuh'. Do we sip water, as in the Shiva puja, with 'om vishnuh' only or also with the other mantra's? > > Nanda says: > No the process for sipping water is different from beginner Shiva Puja - thank you for asking this question. > > We say "Om Kesavaya Namah svaha" - sip water > We say "Om MAdhavaya Namah svaha" - sip water > We say "Om Govindaya Namah svaha" - sip water > > Om Vishnuh Om Vishnuh Om Vishnuh - wash hands with water and pat dry. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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