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Tryambaka Homa For Getting Good Husband – Wife

Traymbaka Homa is a very ancient ritual dedicated to Lord Shiva and Mother Goddess Shakti in her Ambika form. This ritual is performed by unmarried women for getting good husband and by unmarried men for getting good wife. This ritual finds reference in the Satapatha Brahmana. How To Perform Tryambaka Homa? The person performing the ritual needs to take bath early in the morning and wear white color dress. A shivling or image of Shiva-Parvati should be placed in the northeast side of the house. Offer few drops of water, light diya, offer a fruit, offer bhasma and offer white color flowers. The person should then create a mental image of Shiva Parvati in mind and chant ‘om namah shivaya’ 108 times. After puja, all puja offerings should be deposited under a bilva tree. The person should then visit a Shiva temple and should go three times around the sanctum sanctorum. The ritual should be performed on all Mondays or Saturdays till desire is fulfilled.

Narayan Bali Puja 2024 Dates - How To Find Narayan Bali Puja Dates?

Narayan Bali puja purifies the dead person from his/her sins and renders the person fit for being offered a Shradh. So how to find Narayan bali puja dates in the current year. Narayan Bali Puja Dates as per Vishnu Purana: The ritual can be performed on the Shukla Paksha Ekadasi tithi or the 11th day during the waxing phase of moon in a fortnight. Narayan Bali Puja 2024 Dates January 21, 2024   February 20, 2024   March 20, 2024  April 19, 2024  May 19, 2024  June 18, 2024  July 17, 2024 August 15/16, 2024  September 14, 2024 October 14, 2024 November 12, 2024 December 11, 2024 If the person for whom the Narayan Bali puja is performed died due to snake bite; then the puja should be performed on Shukla Paksha Panchami tithi or the 5th day during the waxing phase of moon in a fortnight. So look in your regional calendar when there is Ekadasi during waxing phase of moon. This is the Ekadasi after Amavasya or no moon. This day can be used for performing

Linga Sharira – Subtle Body As Distinguished From Gross Body

The human body (or the body of any living being), which is destroyed after death is called sthula sharira (gross body). There is another body which is anadi (beginningless), which continues after death, from birth to birth. It is called Linga Sharira – also known as Sukshma Sharira or Karana Sharira. According to Samkhya, the sthula sharira is composed of 18 tattvas (elements). These are: the three-fold antahkarana (internal organs – intellect, egoism, mind), the five tanmatras (subtle elements), five jnanendriyas (cognitive senses), and five karmendriyas (motor senses). It is described in detail in Samkhya Karika (39-42) and 55). It is said that the gross body gets dissolved at the end of each birth, but the subtle body remains the same in all births. Linga Sharira contains samskaras (traces) of all past experiences and deeds, which it carries from birth to birth as it accompanies the being. Just as a picture needs the support of a paper or a wall, and a shadow must have an

Meaning Of Prayer At The Entrance of Kanaka Durga Temple

‘Ammalaganna yamma, mugurammala moolaputamma’ is the prayer that a devotee reads at the entrance of the Kanaka Durga Temple atop the Indrakeeladri in Vijayawada. This invocation to divine Mother Shakti was composed by Poet Bammera Pothana in the 15 th century. The meaning of the prayer – it hails Goddess Durga as the mother of all mothers, universal mother and origin of three mothers – Sri Parvati, Sri Lakshmi and Sri Saraswati. A devotee undergoes an indefinable transformation when the devotee passes through the sanctum sanctorum door. All unwanted thoughts of worldly life are forgotten and the mind is fixed on Mother Goddess Durga who is the primordial source in which all born and in which all merge (die). Traditionally, the female deity is always on the left of the male deity but in the sanctum sanctorum of Kanaka Durga Temple Goddess Durga is positioned to the right ofher consort, Sri Malleswara Swamy.

Yoga Vasistha Teachings on Desire

A collection of teaching from Yoga Vasistha on desire. Liberation is not on the other side of the sky, nor is it in the nether world, nor on the earth; the extinction of the mind resulting from the eradication of all desires is regarded as liberation. The desire that arises in the course of one’s natural functions devoid of craving is that of a liberated stage. But that desire which is bound up with craving for external objects is conducive to bondage. Wise men do not desire to do anything; wise men do not desire to abandon action either. When there is no desire, there is supreme peace at heart. They in whom the ego-sense and its counterpart (vasanas or tendencies) do not exist, know neither desire nor anger. He who has realized his oneness with the entire universe and who has thus risen above both desire for and desire against is never deluded. Samsara rises when the mind becomes active and ceases when it is still. Still the mind, therefore, by controlling the