[Advaita-l] Wearing religious marks

[K Kathirasan NCS]

Namaste Jaldharji,

Could you kindly transliterate the shloka for my benefit and others who are
yet to know. Thanks. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas [mailto:jaldhar at braincells.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:33 PM
To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Wearing religious marks


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, S Venkatraman wrote:

> Please forgive my ignorance; what is tripundra?
>

You probably know it by some other name.  It is the three horizontal lines
of bhasma (ash) warn by smartas as a tilaka.  (And Shaivas which has led
many to erroneously conclude that all Smartas are Shaivas which is not
true.)

This shloka which we say when we do tripundra dharana explains its meaning:

Fire is ash, air is ash, water is ash, earth is ash, ether is ash,
Everything is ash, mind and these eyes are ash.

When a fire burns something, ash is the essence that could not be burned.
When the fire of knowledge burns maya, Brahman is the essence that remains.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
It's a boy! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/nilagriva/
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