[Advaita-l] shrAddha for the departed soul

[Shashwata Shastri]

Can I get a scanned copy? If it is in english or Sanskrit.

Best Regards and Pranams.

On 07-Feb-2018 9:50 AM, "H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> Daivattin Kural has been translated to english and published as Hindu
> Dharma. There is a 2-page article entitled " Sesame and water ; Where do
> they go? ". I presume this answers the query by Bhaskar Ji. I have
> separately sent by PM scanned copy of the article to him. He may confirm if
> that is what he was looking for. If anyone else is interested, I can send
> them by PM the scanned copy.
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Paramacharyal explained that shrāddha is an obligatory duty that purifies
> > the performer. He emphasised that the pitrus do no sustain themselves
> > exclusively on the pinda that is offered during the shraaddha ceremony.
> >
> > praNAms Sri Subbu prabhuji
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> > Thanks for sharing the clarification by HH.  I am happy to note that
> > unknowingly I have shared my thoughts with her something similar to this.
> > I told her,  whether pirtru-s are there in pitru lOka or not, whether
> they
> > are in svarga or Naraka, whether they attained shAshwata brahmalOka,
> > vaikunTa lOka, whether they have already taken re-birth or still in
> sUkshma
> > deha/rUpa in pitru lOka,  we cannot ascertain here in this lOka.  So,
> > irrespective of their status in some other lOka, being a putra one has to
> > perform these rituals to his parents with utmost Shraddha as it is an
> > obligatory duty in discharging the pitru ruNa.  And it is the only
> saMskAra
> > that children will have to do to their departed parents and other
> > saMskAra-s like from puMsavanAdi vivAha paryantaM parents will do to
> their
> > kids.  And concluded my clarification, for doing  all these rituals with
> > prescribed injunctions only shAstra is the pramANa.  Being a vaidika
> dharma
> > follower we have to have unconditional ‘shraddha’ in our scriptures and
> we
> > should not put these rituals and injunctions into logical scrutiny ☺
> Though
> > my intention at that time was just to convince her somehow, I now
> realized
> > that my clarification is not that stupid ☺
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > bhaskar
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