[Advaita-l] pUrvajas' karma / pApa & our burden (satyanArAyaNa pUjA)

[Venkatesh Murthy]

We should do Satyanarayana Puja on Paurnami or Sankranti day  Ekadashi
is fasting day. A Udyapana is after 4 years.  Better than food the
Prasada is very delicious.

Avahana of Satyanarayana is in Kalasha only.Purusha Sukta is main
mantra. Even Shodasopachara can be done with Purusha Sukta mantras.
They only keep a photo of Satyanarayana. Why do you do Navagraha Puja
here?

Regards,

-Venkatesh

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate if someone can provide any specific evidence of this
> ritual-practice in Southern India.
>
> praNAms Sri Yadu prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> I am from smArta brahmin family (not Telugu, I am Kannadiga ) from
> Karnataka and we have been doing this vrata every year...Though normally
> we dont see any vAra, tithi, nakshatra to observe this vrata, most of the
> times we do this vrata on ekaadashi day at pradOsha kAla and next day
> dvAdashi we have mahA naivedya and as usual have a sumptuous brAhmaNa
> bhOjana :-))  it is believed in our saMpradAya that  it is auspicious to
> do vrata on paurNami day (full moon day).   And procedure of this vrata is
> also very elaborated one and in this vrata we do nava graha, indrAdi ashta
> dikpAlaka, drugAdi sAdguNya devata-s AvAhana in navagraha dhAnya & kaLasha
>  & offer them pooja..And after this, we do prANa pratishtApana,  offer
> shOdashOpachAra pooja to 'saparivAra sameta Sri lakshmi satyanArAyaNa'
> through purusha sUkta & purANOkta shlOka-s...and finally, prasannArghya &
> ashtAvadhAna seva...Here in Bangalore, it is very popular vrata among some
> of vaishya families also...Here local Arya vyshya sangha observe this
> vrata every year in a very big scale (108 couples do this pooja at a
> time!!) with non-stop (akhanda) vishnu sahasranAma parAyaNa...I, myself,
> perform satya nArAyaNa vrata 30-35 times in a year as a 'priest' :-))
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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