Guest guest Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Namaste, Great questions! > And I would not question the family purohit for fear of appearing > arrogant or causing any offence to them It is possible to ask humbly also. But, if you are not comfortable, it may be difficult to ask. > because aren't priests after-all, micro-Gods... That is the theory. That used to be true in practice too... If any person does a good amount of sadhana and makes spiritual progress, the divine forces are stronger and active in that person. Remember one thing. An elevated soul with no ego would care little about others pointing out his mistakes. You have nothing to fear when you point out a mistake to such a person. An egoistic person without much spiritual progress will be offended, but again you have nothing fear with such a person. It is somebody who made some progress and yet has a strong ego, that you have to fear! Such a person has accumulated some shakti, but keeps wasting it now and then due to ego. You don't want to be the target of such a wasting exercise. Thus, your attitude of not questioning is pragmatic. > 1. one has to accept this is one's karma for getting a 'wrong' mantra? Getting a wrong mantra may be the fruit of one's previous karma. But one can use one's free will to get out of this situation. You are, after all, not forced to do the wrong mantra. > 2. even if the mantra were to be incorrect, does the fact that it was > heard out of the mouth of a pious and pure purohit automatically > correct any blemishes of the mantra? If the purohit is pure and pious and has some shakti, yes, it is the best to just do it. Even if that is not the case, if you *firmly believe* that to be the case and do it, it will still do good to you. However, in this age, such blind faith in somebody is very difficult. But, if you have such blind faith, nothing like it. In fact, a sishya seeing guru as Shiva (or Krishna) with the full force of mind and a firm unshakable belief will make much progress and his faith may even end up making his guru as Shiva! > 3. or should one trust one's own judgement and auto-correct the mantra > without informing the purohit about it? If you do not have 100% blind faith in the purity and piety of the purohit, the best course of action is to use your own judgment and correct it based on available literature. Best regards, Narasimha Do a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homam Do Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpana Spirituality: Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.net Free Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.org Sri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagannath.org - " waspieswaspies " <waspieswaspies Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:42 AM Can the words of a purohit ever be bad? > Namaste Narasimhaji and all friends, > > First of all I would like to say a big thank you and how fortunate I feel > to have come across this amazing , where I find the answers to > the questions which I've had for a long time but was afraid to ask! > > :-) > > I have a situation where the family purohit-cum-jyotish has advised for > the japam of the Ketu beeja mantra, which he has given thus - " Om Sah Prom > Prim Pram Om Ketave Namah " . > > From the little that I know, I have only come across the " prom prim pram " > beeja for the Shani mantra and the Ketu mantra being thus " Om shram shreem > shroum sah ketave namah " . > > Now unless this is a NEW practice of mixing and merging of the Navgraha > beejas or a practice/tradition which I have not heard of so far, I have > doubts regarding its correctness. And I would not question the family > purohit for fear of appearing arrogant or causing any offence to them > because aren't priests after-all, micro-Gods...in such a case should one > continue doing a mantra which one doubts because: > > 1. one has to accept this is one's karma for getting a 'wrong' mantra? > 2. even if the mantra were to be incorrect, does the fact that it was > heard out of the mouth of a pious and pure purohit automatically correct > any blemishes of the mantra? > 3. or should one trust one's own judgement and auto-correct the mantra > without informing the purohit about it? > > I will be grateful for any input on this one as always. > > Many thanks, > Somanathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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