Aluminium trays and some need some clarifications for related stuff for homans

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Namaste,

 

Aluminum is a modern metal and my hunch is that it does not have the right

gunas. I suggest sticking to gold, silver, copper, bronze, brass, clay etc.

But if one has access only to an aluminum or iron havan kunda (or tray), one

may do in it.

 

Wrapping the copper havan kund with aluminum foil so that the havan kund

remains " clean " is also not a great idea. A bit of aluminum mixes with the

fire slowly and that is not a great idea. Fire should come in contact with

auspicious materials only.

 

Quick burning logs containing artificial materials are also not a good idea.

Plain firewood is better. Many people are doing homam with mainly dry

coconut.

 

Brahma is invoked in a small silver bowl with water with darbhas placed on

it and a small pooja is done to him and the bowl is placed on the south.

Varuna is also invoked in another bowl. The procedure I give in the manuals

gets rid of some steps to simplify. Things like Brahma pooja, Varuna pooja,

Aajya suddhi, punyaaha vaachana etc are all skipped. There are many steps

given in tradition and different priests pick different sets of those steps.

There are different procedures in vogue, having some common features and

some differences. Doing all the steps makes it long. Not every step is

equally important. If the main homam is 3 hours, having an overhead of 45

min may be ok. But, if the main homam is 20 min, overhead has to be 5 min.

And, a 20-30 min homam done everyday or every week is far more effective

than a 3-4 hour homam done rarely.

 

Tarpana is not necessary for all deities. You can skip it for Mahaganapathi

homam also. When you do tarpana, you can do it with milk or just water (in

which a few akshatas were added).

 

Best regards,

Narasimha

 

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" m540i98 " <m540i98

 

Friday, November 21, 2008 8:24 AM

Aluminium trays and some need some clarifications

for related stuff for homans

 

 

Namaste

 

In the US a lot of priest do use aluminium trays for conducting homams

In fact when I started doing homans I also used aluminium trays till

I got a copper kunda. We had in the past done a couple of homans in

the home and both times the priest(different) used aluminium trays

and inthat they poured first sand and then on top of sand they used

dry coconut and in the US we also get something called quick burning

fire logs I suppose they contain some wood and the same material they

use to make candles, Oops I forgot the name of this material and some

other things.

 

So I also when I started did use initially aluminium trays and also

quick burning log along with coconut.

 

Further more I have actually wrapped the copper kunda with aluminium

foil so that the kunda remains clean. May be I should remove the

aluminium foil.

 

Any conclusive guidance about wrapping haven kunda with aluminium foil

and usage of quick burning log in the homa is appreciated.

 

Further I think there are few other things that are also needed, I am

note sure or understand their usage

 

Suchi, srava, proksani and pranita and sphya. I have no understanding

of these items as to how to use them. again any more information very

much appreciated

 

Further I read somewhere that one needs to also invoke brahma for the

entire time from start till poornahuti is done and is to be seated on

the south side, I am not sure how to do it.

 

Tarpana in the Ganapati homan, there is tarpana details but others

like laxmi or krishna or saani homan manuals do not seem to have or I

missed it. Do we need to do tarpana always with milk for all homans.

I suppose so. Again some clarification would go long way

 

Best Regards

Mitesh

, aparajita Vidya

<aparajita_vidya wrote:

>

> Namaste

> Â

> So aluminium aslo should not be considered a good thing as it means

rahu...

> Â

> -Best Wishes

> Â Aparajita

>

> --- On Fri, 21/11/08, Sanjay Prabhakaran <sanjaychettiar wrote:

>

> Sanjay Prabhakaran <sanjaychettiar

> Re: Re: Iron Homkunda

>

> Friday, 21 November, 2008, 5:21 AM

|| Om Gurave Namah ||

> Dear Aparajita,

> Â I dont know the sanskrit name for Aluminium. But My understand is

the that it's ruled by Rahu. Rahu is a vata planet, very light. It's

one of the few Kali Yuga metals.

> Warm Regards

> Sanjay P

>

> http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Aluminium

>

>

>

>

> 2008/11/20 aparajita Vidya <aparajita_vidya@ .co. in>

>

>

Namaste

>

> ok. Is aluminium similar to iron or is it any better?

>

> -Best Wishes

> Aparajita

>

> --- On Thu, 20/11/08, Narasimha P.V.R. Rao <pvr (AT) charter (DOT) net> wrote:

>

> > Narasimha P.V.R. Rao <pvr (AT) charter (DOT) net>

> > Re: Iron Homkunda

>

> >

> > Thursday, 20 November, 2008, 3:37 AM

>

>

>

> > Namaste,

> >

> > It is a bad idea to use an iron homa kundam. If there is

> > any chance to avoid

> > iron and use a better metal such as copper, that should be

> > done.

> >

> > Iron homa kundam may be used only in circumstances where

> > there is no choice

> > and the only alternative is to not do a homam at all.

> >

> > Those who live in India and have a big yard can actually

> > dig a homa kundam

> > (2 ft length x 2 ft width x 1ft deep or 1 ft x 1 ft x 0.5

> > ft deep) and do in

> > it also.

> >

> > Iron represented by Saturn is not an auspicious metal.

> >

> > Best regards,

> > Narasimha

> > ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

> > Do a Short Homam Yourself:

> > http://www.VedicAst rologer.org/ homam

> > Do Pitri Tarpanas Yourself:

> > http://www.VedicAst rologer.org/ tarpana

> > Spirituality: http://groups. / group/vedic- wisdom

> > Free Jyotish lessons (MP3):

> > http://vedicastro. home.comcast. net

> > Free Jyotish software (Windows):

> > http://www.VedicAst rologer.org

> > Sri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website:

> > http://www.SriJagan nath.org

> > ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

> >

> >

> > -

> > " aparajita_vidya "

> > <aparajita_vidya@ .co. in>

> > <>

> > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:22 AM

> > Iron Homkunda

> >

> >

> > > Namaste

> > >

> > > I was trying to get a hom kunda and ended up buying

> > one made of iron.

> > > It is ok to do homa in iron hom kunda?

> > >

> > > -Best wishes

> > > Aparajita