Agni Mukham--preparation of the sacred Homa fire.

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Dear Sreeram,> > Can you give the benefits and who are eligible to do this homam and why> did you suddenly upload this. Please help to understand the procedure.> > Thanks in advance> Anand ------------------reply below------------------- Dear Anandji, Jaya Jagadambike' Jaya Rajarajeshwari! Firstly understand that Vedic rishis and seers placed great emphasis on fire worship and also sun worship. Infact, fire was representative of the effulgence of the sun(a sort of gross sun) I had earlier given a posting on Mahaganapathy and Chandi Homam. In

that I mentioned that two forms of Agni-mukhams exist and they are, Vaidiki and Tantreeki. I have filed the Tantreeki version of Agni Mukham for the benefit of members. I found this in the devipuram site(recently uploaded). Agnimukham is not a homam in the strict sense. It is a preparation for the Homam. agnir mukham te 'khila-devatatmaksitim vidur loka-bhavanghri-pankajamkalam gatim te 'khila-devatatmanodisas ca karnau rasanam jalesam O father of all planets, learned scholars know that fire is your mouth, the surface of the globe is your lotus feet, eternal time is your movement, all the directions are your ears, and Varuna, master of the waters, is your tongue. In the sruti-mantras it is said, agnih sarva-devatah: "Fire is the aggregate of all demigods." Agni is the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is through Agni, or fire, that the Lord accepts all sacrificial oblations. The one filed has come mysteriously from Chinacharam and is brief with more power six set

mantras than the Bhargava tradition.So I found it useful.(I really dont know whether the people who have posted in their site clearly understand the power and the origin of the mantras and the Tantreeka agnimukha homam as given in the chinachara pattern). As I have been saying in my earlier postings, I have been impressed and influenced by the traditions of China and Japan(with Taoism being my major interest in this area). It is clear that the chinas have had contact with the Indians over a long period and have imbibed various forms of Hindu thought. It is also well-known that the bauddha influence on the chIna-s was profound from the early phase of the foreign expansion of the bauddha-mata. Especially, the emphasis on the desha-bhasha as against the deva-bhasha in the transmission of the early bauddha doctrine resulted in a profound change amongst the china-s, which corressponded to the shift from the peculiar literary chIna-bhasha to the colloquial chIna-bhaSha, with incorporation of indic terminology in translation. We distinguish the spread of maha-chinachara, from the early layer of

bauddha spread, because unlike that layer, it used samskritam as the main vehicle of transmission. While the china-s and their Indian teachers definitely used Chinese translations for explaining the texts to the native china-s, Sanskrit with its paninian grammar was the principle ritual language. Secondly chinachAra despite being borne in the garb of the nastIka bauddha-mata principally focussed on Hindu deities and ritual beneath this garb. These features along with the biographical allusions regarding chinacharyas from India suggest that they were primarily brahmaNa or kshatriya scholars who had fallen to the nastIka mata and carried their internal tantric tradition relatively unchanged, just like nagarjuna, the nastika savant. This basic pattern lead me to investigate the issue of the earliest texts of maha-chainachara (in the middle China) and the upa-chinachara-s (not of so much of later Tibet, but those of the Turko-Mongol khaganates of Central Asia).(China is

prounounced as Cheena in Sanskrit for your information Anandji From the muni's discussions with the vaiShNava who had journeyed beyond the hallowed oDDiyANa pITha along uttarApatha, I was made aware of one of the earliest texts of mahA-chInAchAra. chInas have reasonably recorded its history, but much still remains shrouded in mystery for the Sanskrit original of the tantric manual has been lost in India. It was composed by brAhmaNa named in chIna-bhASha as Chu Lue-yen. This brahmin was from Ujjain in India, and journeyed to China via the Hun khanate in central Asia in 230 CE; we do not know

his Sanskrit name. He compiled a tantric manual in Sanskrit and also translated into chIna-bhASha for the benefit of his students there. Only this translation/transliteration survives and is known by the chIna name: Mo-teng-ch'ieh ching. A quick examination of this text restored into Sanskrit by the learned vaiShNava showed that it has 2 parts. The first is the nakShatra krama vidhAnaM, which provides a relatively simple vidhi for the worship of the nakShatra devatA-s and some oblations to them. The second part is the ShaD-mahA-mantra vidhAnaM, which describes 6 mantra-s like those found in the uddAmareshvara tantra, begining with the praNava and having agni-jArA as the terminal. It describes the vidhi for a version of the tantrIka agnimukhaM differing in details from the commonly prescribed one as per the bhargava tradition. The 6 mantra-s are used in offering oblations in the prescribed homa. Between 290-300 CE a brAhmaNa, only known by his chIna name, Fo-tu-ch'eng moved from Northern India to the Central Asian khanate of the Huns, early ancestors of the Chingizid Mongols of the later era. It was just at this time that the Shanyue of the Huns, Khan Ruhan (known in chIna translation as Liu Yuan) was uniting his forces for a huge expansionist campaign on the steppes. The brAhmaNa Fo-tu-ch'eng, who was said to be an expert at the bhUta tantras, dUra-dR^iShTi-prayoga and mahendra-jAla tantra, arrived at the khan's camp and was received with much respect and honor. He seems to have left an immense impression on the chInas and hUnas, who describe in amazement how he used mantras-s that deployed various yakShiNi-s, chetaka-s, shAkinis and DAkini-s

as he wished. His dUra-dR^iShTi prayoga has also been described: he is said to have smeared his palm with an A~Njana and with an incantation seen things on it happening several yojana-s away. He is also said to have had a ghaNTa prayoga, where he could use bells sounding in shrines to carry out prashna-s. The china-s and hUna-s declare that there was never any one else who had his mantra siddhi-s ever amongst chInAchArya-s of any later age. He is said to have told the Hun Khan and his son the positions of their enemy armies with his prayoga-s. Most of his compendium of tantric formulae is now lost both in its original Sanskrit and Chinese translation. Agnimukham procedure is given in Rigveda but I think it also has other sources too.(though my research as yet is unsubstantiated by textual or experiential proof..just an ideatory intuition for now). One more interesting thing about Agnimukham is that the yoni melana(union of yoni and linga) of shiva shakthi is done here Tantreekally and is most pleasing to Devi(shakthi in the Agni) Agnijihwe' pramunchathe' dukkhaan sarvam Agnimukhe' sarvasukham pradaasyathi yonimelanadwaram. It is also interesting to note that Agnimukham is done in an expert manner in most samavedi Namboothiri marriages in Kerala. As I broached upon at the outset Tantreeka Mahaganapthy Homam uses Agnimukham as a precursor to the moola mantra homam for the yoni melana reason and also to impart mantra-chaitanya to the fire and make it fit for Homacharam. Anyone who has been initiated into Homachara and Tantrachara can do the homa. Vaideeki Agnimukham is different

and has a set of niyamas imposed by Vaideeki dharmam. Srividya upasakas use it too for srividya Homam and it is done under the guidance of one's preceptor. Hope this helps for now...I will reel out more on this later. O Agni, overcome our enemies and our calamities;Drive away all disease and the Rakshasas--Send down abundance of watersFrom the ocean of the sky. Rigveda, x, 98. 12. Sarvam Gurucharanaaravinde'! Yours yogically, Shreeram Balijepalli

 

 

 

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Dear P.R.K.Prasad Garu,

 

If you read carefully the home page of our group. It says why I have

started the gorup. This group is a dedication to Sri

Swaprakashanandaji(Anakapalli Guruvugaaru). He is my janma-kartha

and my father's guru.

 

I grew up in His lap and used to visit both Anakapalli and

Gopalpatnam often and even stay in his room for days.

 

This being so, I have heard about Sri Prahalad Shastry(Amrita) both

through Guruvgaaru and my father and have been to the temple

once.Prahalad Shastry is a disciple of Sri Swaprakashanandaji(who

has attained mahasamadhi....only I and Datta know how much I cried

that day when I heard the news of His samadhi in Gopalpatnam. I was

in Canada then freezing in Winnipeg winter!(that partiucular day was

even more cold--figuratively speaking too) It was as if the whole

world collapsed around me that day!)

 

In the reply however, I have not mentioned that I have been to

Devipuram recently rather I took the file from their archives(source

of the file).

 

 

Yes, you are right, I waas talking about that Devipuram on

Anakapalli-Sabbavaram route.

 

Jaya Gurudeva Prabhanja Datta-Nayaka!

 

Shreeram Balijepalli

 

 

Smarthrugaami-Dattavibhavam , " P.R.K. Prasad "

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> y dear Sriram garu,

> Namaste.Did you say that went to Devipuram ?.(On Anakapalle-

Sabbavaram route?).Did you meet Dr.N.P.SASTRY garu(GURUJI)?.He is my

brother's father in law.Let me know more abt yr visit to

Devipuram,if it is the same one I mentioned above.Bye

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Also I would like to clarify that even though I have great respect

and adoration for sri Swaprakashanandaji my guru is Sri

Rajagopalaanandanatha of Sarvamangala Rajarajeshwari Peetham(Datta

srividya sampradayam following Guhananda Mandali Padhhathi).

Swaprakashanandaji is my father's guru.

 

Love Shreeram

 

 

Smarthrugaami-Dattavibhavam , " P.R.K. Prasad "

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> y dear Sriram garu,

> Namaste.Did you say that went to Devipuram ?.(On Anakapalle-

Sabbavaram route?).Did you meet Dr.N.P.SASTRY garu(GURUJI)?.He is my

brother's father in law.Let me know more abt yr visit to

Devipuram,if it is the same one I mentioned above.Bye

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