Guest guest Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 Dear Members Wish you all a very happy new year. I had a few questions to people who use wood for homa. Sometimes the wood bursts in the fire with a loud crack. Is it because of trapped air in teh wood? If so, is there anything that can be done to reduce this cracking. Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during poornahuti. What does cloth indicate? -Regards Rajarshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 One more question I had, the homa Agni burns away the karmas which are represented by the wood and the offerings we give. Now is this only the negative karmas it burns or also the once we call good karmas? The upsurge (of consciousness) is Bhairava - Shiva Sutra--- On Mon, 5/1/09, rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 wrote: rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 Some more questions Date: Monday, 5 January, 2009, 12:03 PM Dear MembersWish you all a very happy new year.I had a few questions to people who use wood for homa. Sometimes the wood bursts in the fire with a loud crack. Is it because of trapped air in teh wood? If so, is there anything that can be done to reduce this cracking. Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during poornahuti. What does cloth indicate?-RegardsRajarshi Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Namaste Rajarshi Bhai, >Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during >poornahuti. What does cloth indicate? Is it not akin to offering clothes to the invoked diety? if for example, one offers 'Saree' in the Homa fire during chandi Homam, it may mean that one is great devotion, offering Saree to the Mother Chandika. Like a Son/Daughter brings Saree for his/her own Mother. just the way i thought about it and you also would have thought the same. Regards, Utpal , " rajarshi14 " <rajarshi14 wrote: > > Dear Members > > Wish you all a very happy new year. > > I had a few questions to people who use wood for homa. Sometimes the > wood bursts in the fire with a loud crack. Is it because of trapped > air in teh wood? If so, is there anything that can be done to reduce > this cracking. > > Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during > poornahuti. What does cloth indicate? > > -Regards > Rajarshi > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hello Rajarshiji, U said in your post about - " karmas burns away which r represented by wood and offerings one make " . What do u mean by karmas represented by wood ? Are this special karmas ? It means one have to do offerrings of such things which r based on ones karmas, like i have brahmin curse and very bad Grahamallika yoga, so i have to add something special ingredients to offer in agni inorder to get rid of that sufferrrings.What are your ways and Shri Narsimha's thinking on this topic ? please write me few things. BY the way karmas in itself indicates sort of debt, akind of negativities so it must be washedoff. On otherhand its actually dharma which is positive thing to acquire. please all scholars present here, write few lines on this topic. thanks, dheeraj , rajarshi nandy <rajarshi14 wrote: > > One more question I had, the homa Agni burns away the karmas which are represented by the wood and the offerings we give. Now is this only the negative karmas it burns or also the once we call good karmas? > > > > The upsurge (of consciousness) is Bhairava - Shiva Sutra > > --- On Mon, 5/1/09, rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 wrote: > > rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 > Some more questions > > Monday, 5 January, 2009, 12:03 PM Dear Members > > Wish you all a very happy new year. > > I had a few questions to people who use wood for homa. Sometimes the > wood bursts in the fire with a loud crack. Is it because of trapped > air in teh wood? If so, is there anything that can be done to reduce > this cracking. > > Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during > poornahuti. What does cloth indicate? > > -Regards > Rajarshi > > > > > > > > > > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger./invite/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009  Namaste Rajarshi, Happy new year to you and others too. Cracking can be because of air or moisture trapped in wood. Don't worry about it. Offering clothes to gods is like offering clothes to your mother and father. But remember one thing. If you give expensive clothes as opposed to simple clothes, human beings may be happier. But gods do not care much about the value placed on clothes by human beings. A simple 1 ft x 1ft cotton cloth offered with devotion, sincerity and surrender may please Her much more than a 9 ft x 4 ft silk saree with elaborate silver embroidery work offered with pomp and pride. Gods do not think like normal human beings. One should offer what is reasonable based on one's finances and time and maintain a humble attitude of surrender. A child who is proud and pompous does not impress his mother as much as an innocent child does. When you do a homam, think and behave like a small child who plays a game with his mother in which he feeds small bites of food to mother. One's mother may be big and be able to take care of herself. But she may like to play a game with the child and say "I am hungry my son. Can you please give me some food?" Even if the child gives very small bites, she may say "oh thank you. I am full now." Just as in the allegory, we are children and gods we worship in fire (or elsewhere) are parents who have everything and do not really need anything from us. Yet, for their pastime, they engage in a play with us. Be an innocent child in that play rather than being a pompous and proud kid. We are feeding little bites to playful parents who do not really need anything from us and who actually own everything that we consider ours. Esoterically, clothes represent the gunas that condition us. Regarding burning good and bad karmas: Suppose a great saint visits you and you serve him and offer him something nice. Suppose he blesses you. His blessings may either enhance good results or decrease bad results. Both are possible. With fire and homam also, both are possible. Fire may burn a bad karma and relieve you from having to experience its fruit. Fire may also receive a good karma and give its fruit immediately. Fire is intelligent and you do not have to worry. 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 - rajarshi nandy Monday, January 05, 2009 1:51 AM Re: Some more questions One more question I had, the homa Agni burns away the karmas which are represented by the wood and the offerings we give. Now is this only the negative karmas it burns or also the once we call good karmas? The upsurge (of consciousness) is Bhairava - Shiva Sutra--- On Mon, 5/1/09, rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 wrote: rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 Some more questions Date: Monday, 5 January, 2009, 12:03 PM Dear MembersWish you all a very happy new year.I had a few questions to people who use wood for homa. Sometimes the wood bursts in the fire with a loud crack. Is it because of trapped air in teh wood? If so, is there anything that can be done to reduce this cracking. Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during poornahuti. What does cloth indicate?-RegardsRajarshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Namaste Narasimhaji As usual your explanation is wonderful and brilliant. I understand the significance of cloth now. Actually I asked about the cracking sound because of something I noticed. This may sound weird and nonsensical, but teh way my homa goes gives an indication of how the coming days pass untill my next homa. Or while doing the homa if some thought about something comes into my mind, the way the fire reacts with the sounds gives an idea of how the things will go. This I have observed two many times. Initially I though I am over imagining, but now it has happened too many times for me to ignore it. And this includes the cracking sounds. Every cracking sound corresponds to something or the other. Weird this may seem. Let me give u an example. Last week before I went on a trip, I was doing a homa. While in the middle my thoughts went to how the trip would go. I was excited. Suddenly there was a huge crack in the wood, which brough me back to the present. Same way towards the end of the homa another huge sound. Otherwise it was very good and left a happy feeling. During my trip, in the train while going my money bag was stolen. I landed a pauper in Kasi with not even one rupee on me. Thankfully I had a friend along with me. The trip went very well and made me happy. Again while coming back our trains got delayed due to fog and had to send nine hours waiting in teh train. But trip went beautiful. This corresponded almost hugely to how my homa had gone as I think back. There have been other incidents like this too quite often. But anyway I think all this is ok and all right. I was thinking about this yesterday night when the thought came to me that everything is indeed controlled my Bhairava/Shiva, and it is my imperfection that I do not realise it. Every sound, every act, every movement is through His will.. He is the one who knows best. Thanking you for your time and patience in answering my queries. -Regards Rajarshi The upsurge (of consciousness) is Bhairava - Shiva Sutra--- On Tue, 6/1/09, Narasimha P.V.R. Rao <pvr wrote: Narasimha P.V.R. Rao <pvrRe: Some more questions Date: Tuesday, 6 January, 2009, 10:17 AM  Namaste Rajarshi, Happy new year to you and others too. Cracking can be because of air or moisture trapped in wood. Don't worry about it. Offering clothes to gods is like offering clothes to your mother and father. But remember one thing. If you give expensive clothes as opposed to simple clothes, human beings may be happier. But gods do not care much about the value placed on clothes by human beings. A simple 1 ft x 1ft cotton cloth offered with devotion, sincerity and surrender may please Her much more than a 9 ft x 4 ft silk saree with elaborate silver embroidery work offered with pomp and pride. Gods do not think like normal human beings. One should offer what is reasonable based on one's finances and time and maintain a humble attitude of surrender. A child who is proud and pompous does not impress his mother as much as an innocent child does. When you do a homam, think and behave like a small child who plays a game with his mother in which he feeds small bites of food to mother. One's mother may be big and be able to take care of herself. But she may like to play a game with the child and say "I am hungry my son. Can you please give me some food?" Even if the child gives very small bites, she may say "oh thank you. I am full now." Just as in the allegory, we are children and gods we worship in fire (or elsewhere) are parents who have everything and do not really need anything from us. Yet, for their pastime, they engage in a play with us. Be an innocent child in that play rather than being a pompous and proud kid. We are feeding little bites to playful parents who do not really need anything from us and who actually own everything that we consider ours. Esoterically, clothes represent the gunas that condition us. Regarding burning good and bad karmas: Suppose a great saint visits you and you serve him and offer him something nice. Suppose he blesses you. His blessings may either enhance good results or decrease bad results. Both are possible. With fire and homam also, both are possible. Fire may burn a bad karma and relieve you from having to experience its fruit. Fire may also receive a good karma and give its fruit immediately. Fire is intelligent and you do not have to worry. Best regards,Narasimha------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------Do a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAst rologer.org/ homamDo Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAst rologer.org/ tarpanaSpirituality: http://groups. / group/vedic- wisdomFree Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro. home.comcast. netFree Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAst rologer.orgSri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagan nath.org------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - rajarshi nandy Monday, January 05, 2009 1:51 AM Re: Some more questions One more question I had, the homa Agni burns away the karmas which are represented by the wood and the offerings we give. Now is this only the negative karmas it burns or also the once we call good karmas? The upsurge (of consciousness) is Bhairava - Shiva Sutra--- On Mon, 5/1/09, rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 (AT) (DOT) co.in> wrote: rajarshi14 <rajarshi14 (AT) (DOT) co.in> Some more questionsMonday, 5 January, 2009, 12:03 PM Dear MembersWish you all a very happy new year.I had a few questions to people who use wood for homa. Sometimes the wood bursts in the fire with a loud crack. Is it because of trapped air in teh wood? If so, is there anything that can be done to reduce this cracking. Sometimes I have seen people offering pieces of cloth in fire during poornahuti. What does cloth indicate?-RegardsRajarshi Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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