[Advaita-l] MB Subramanian - Guidance for students who have missed out Sandhyavandanam

[Venkata sriram P]

The set of mantras starting from यद्देवा देवहेळन.....are called कूष्माण्ड मन्त्राः.

“कूश्मितं प्रकम्पितं प्रतापितं वा अण्डं ब्रह्माण्डं येषां तेजसा तानि कूष्माण्डानि – ie., those mantras with their radiant power refine (कूश्मितं / प्रकम्पितं /  प्रतापितं) 
the cosmos (अण्डं /ब्रह्माण्डं).

Symbolically, we take them as pumpkin as the name suggests....Now-a-days, people have developed the tendency to mock our rituals and 
pose useless questions which have no meaning...They question for the sake of questioning only and not interested in logic.

rgs,
sriram

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On Thu, 20/12/18, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

 Subject: RE: [Advaita-l] MB Subramanian - Guidance for students who have missed out Sandhyavandanam
 To: "Venkata sriram P" <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Date: Thursday, 20 December, 2018, 6:49 AM
 
 There are couple of
 कूष्माण्ड mantras that are capable of
 removing the sins.
 
 praNAms
 Hare Krishna
 
 After seeing the
 'kUshmAnda', I remembered one incident, when I was
 doing kUshmAnda prAyaschitta hOma at some one's house,
 one of the visitors asked why these mantra-s  related to
 kUshmAnda (pumpkin) what is the significance??  Why we give
 bali using the pumpkin (kushmAnda bali, kUshmAnda bandhana)
 why not water melon when it is comparatively 'red'
 inside when doing house warming ceremony etc.  😊 For
 Rigvedi-s we have pavamAna hOma, kUshmAnda sUkta will be
 recited during the pitru shrAddha also. 
 
 Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
 bhaskar