second mantra offered in homam

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Namaste Narasimhaji,I am bit confused about 2nd mantra offered in homam. After offering the pradhan mantra in homam. If we offer mantra of some other deity, does the offering reach that deity or the deity invoked in the fire?I have one more question after going through Sri-Krishna manual. In that you have mentioned that all offerring are reaching via Lord Vishnu i.e. Vishnu actually runs the universe. I was thinking Advait vedanta is most widely acceptable, but reading your guide, I think dwiata vedanta is also worthwhile to study(which mentions Vishnu as the highest form of god and of course many other things). How would you comment on this?Please answer my above 2 questionsThanks & Regards, Prasad A.

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Dear Prasad,

 

Suppose you are doing Mahaganapathi homam and viewing Mahaganapathi as the supreme cosmic being as described in Atharva Seersham. It says "tvam brahmaa tvam vishnustvam rudrastvam" etc, which means that Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Indra, Agni, Vayu, Surya, Chandra etc are all various forms/parts of Mahaganapathi. If you have called THAT Mahaganapathi in fire and made offerings to him, you can also make offerings to the other deities who are his own forms/parts.

 

If you invoke Vishnu, Mahalakshmi, Krishna, Shiva, Chandi or Mahaganapathi in fire, you can view them as supreme cosmic being (or the energy of supreme cosmic being) and make offerings to all deities through them.

 

Regarding the second question, I am not really dogmatic about how people view the relationship between themselves and the supreme cosmic being. Irrespective of one's views in that matter, one can do sadhana and make progress. Let me use a simple analogy to clarify my stand.

 

Whether the final goal of one's travel is accepted as Haridwar or Amarnath or Mount Kailas, one living in Kanya Kumari has to start traveling north. I am showing them paths that go north and to Himalayas and creating manuals for those travels. They can decide for themselves whether they go to Haridwar or Amarnath or Mount Kailas. I do not want to impose on them. My manual only covers the initial travel in the northern direction.

 

However, when I put together a travel manual for one attached to Haridwar, I do not want to cause confusion by talking about Mount Kailas. So I talk about how traveling north to Himalayas can make one reach Haridwar and focus on Haridwar alone in that manual.

 

Bottomlime is that I will be equally happy whether one reaches Haridwar or Amarnath or Mount Kailas using the travel manual I made. And all are great places and difficult to reach.

 

Best regards,NarasimhaDo a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homamDo Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpanaSpirituality: Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.netFree Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.orgSri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagannath.org

 

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Prasad P

Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:30 PM

second mantra offered in homam

 

Namaste Narasimhaji,I am bit confused about 2nd mantra offered in homam. After offering the pradhan mantra in homam. If we offer mantra of some other deity, does the offering reach that deity or the deity invoked in the fire?I have one more question after going through Sri-Krishna manual. In that you have mentioned that all offerring are reaching via Lord Vishnu i.e. Vishnu actually runs the universe. I was thinking Advait vedanta is most widely acceptable, but reading your guide, I think dwiata vedanta is also worthwhile to study(which mentions Vishnu as the highest form of god and of course many other things). How would you comment on this?

Please answer my above 2 questions

Thanks & Regards, Prasad A. Pole ------