Chandi Path

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Dear Sir,

It is said that Chandi Path can be done only after bathing. In this regard I have some questions Sir.

1.Can I recite Chandi path at evening or at night after just washing my hands and feet? Or Bath is necessary?

2.If somebody is coming at home and I have to attend him for half an hour, can I continue the Chandi path from that completed chapter Or should I start from the first chapter again?

3.I am doing Chandi Homam with Kshir ( Boiled milk with Rice) in Navratri but sometimes after offering Kshir, the fire is going off. After reading your articles, now I will not offer kshir as this is not good if fire goes off due to milk. Sir, Kshir offering is necessary for mother? I had read somewhere so I was doing this.

4.Generally now a days the Deepak is enlighted in Stainless Steel. Is it Ok or we should use copper or Brass for Deepak?

Once we read something, our mind is questioning for what we are doing. This is why I have written this mail.

With regards

Dr.Ashwin Rawal

 

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Namaste Sir,

 

1. The vibrations produced by the subtle body are far more important than the vibrations produced by the gross body. Thus, mantra is more of a subtle body activity than a gross body activity. Thus, purity and cleanliness of the subtle body is more important than that of gross body. However, people cannot perceive the subtle body and its purity. Maintaining the purity of subtle body and mind is far more difficult than taking bath, wearing clean clothes and being in pleasant surroundings. Thus, people shoot for the easier external thing (which is a symbol), in the hope that it eventually brings the desired internal end result. If one takes bath, wears clean clothes, keeps one's surroundings clean and pleasant, it will make the mind feel clean. It eventually can bring purity to the mind. Thus, even while maintaining external purity, remember that what matters is the internal purity and that external purity is being maintained only to promote internal purity in the long run.

 

Let me now answer your specific question. Please remember that the goal of the external practices is to bring forth the desired internal transformation. If there is any amount of guilt or fear or feeling of impurity in the mind when chanting something without taking bath, it is disruptive. These feelings slow down internal transformation. Then it is a good idea to take bath or do whatever is needed to remove those disruptive feelings. On the other hand, if one feels peaceful, clean and calm internally even in unclean external circumstances, the external conditions do not matter. One can then read without taking bath also.

 

So it all depends on your state of mind, for which you are the best judge. If you are unsure and have any concern at all, then be conservative, i.e. take bath and wear clean clothes.

 

2. I personally give priority to my ritual and not receive anyone in the middle of my rituals, i.e. I make them wait. If you must interrupt your pooja, then I see nothing wrong in continuing where you left off.

 

3. That is a good offering, but the fire has to be sufficient. Laddus may be a fine sweet, but we cannot feed them to a two month old baby. Similarly, you cannot offer much kshir to a small fire.

 

I do my daily Chandi homam with a log of wood and there is a big fire. I can pretty much burn anything. I can offer kshir, I can offer laddus or any other sweets. If you also have a big enough fire, you can offer anything without troubling fire. When your fire is small, you have to exert discretion.

 

BTW, ancient greco-Roman civilizations had a fire ritual where entire bodies of killed animals were offered to gods in firepit and reduced to ashes by next morning.

 

If the fire is big, any amount of materials can be offered.

 

4. I am surprised that stainless steel lamps are used. In Andhra Pradesh (where I am from), we mostly use silver or copper lamps. Even in US (where I live), we use silver lamps mostly. I have actually never seen steel lamps. For my daily homam, I prefer a clay lamp to a silver lamp and use it.

 

If you are at a stage where external things are just used as symbols based on the momentum of previous karmas and do not mean much to you, then all this is irrelavent. Otherwise, I suggest using silver, brass, bronze, copper, clay etc instead of steel.

 

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Ashwin Rawal

Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:03 PM

Chandi Path

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Sir,

It is said that Chandi Path can be done only after bathing. In this regard I have some questions Sir.

1.Can I recite Chandi path at evening or at night after just washing my hands and feet? Or Bath is necessary?

2.If somebody is coming at home and I have to attend him for half an hour, can I continue the Chandi path from that completed chapter Or should I start from the first chapter again?

3.I am doing Chandi Homam with Kshir ( Boiled milk with Rice) in Navratri but sometimes after offering Kshir, the fire is going off. After reading your articles, now I will not offer kshir as this is not good if fire goes off due to milk. Sir, Kshir offering is necessary for mother? I had read somewhere so I was doing this.

4.Generally now a days the Deepak is enlighted in Stainless Steel. Is it Ok or we should use copper or Brass for Deepak?

Once we read something, our mind is questioning for what we are doing. This is why I have written this mail.

With regards

Dr.Ashwin Rawal