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pavan krishnamurthy <pavan71 wrote:

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Veda Adhyayanam & Rituals:

Word Adhyayanam means actually to know Veda & not to recite Veda. Ofcourse in

olden days when there was no printing Veda was also recited. But knowledge of

Veda was discussed & practiced. Veda itself means knowledge. Shastra says that

mere recitation of Veda is worst (Anarthajnah Paathakaadhamah) without knowing

knowledge. At present Vedas are published & computerized & so there is no need

of mere recitation. Please note once again that Adhyayanam means to know

knowledge of Veda & not mere recitation. Veda mocked at person who simply

recites Veda as divine animal (Devaanaam Pasurahaha).

 

Lord Shiva is said to be Pashupati, which means that, He is Lord of animals.

Animal can never understand meaning of any word & it simply follows sound.

Similarly, blind people are just following sound produced on recitation without

knowing meaning of any word. When people are unable to understand even these

ordinary Vedic rituals, how can they grasp essence of climax of Veda (Vedanta)?

 

Overall essence of all rituals is only offering food & money (Dakshina) to

deserving divine person or atleast to beggar. This very essence is lost because

all undeserving priests are benefited, who do not know simple meaning of simple

rituals. You must select deserving divine person by his knowledge & practice,

but not by his external dress. Deservingness is mainly characterized by absence

of desire (Akamahatasya…Veda).

 

Today, there is no correlation between hymn & ritual. You are simply

performing ritual as guided by ignorant priest, who is also your brother in not

knowing any word in hymn. When correlation is lost, you are doing something

unrelated & foolish action, which is irrelevant to meaning & sense of hymns. Ex:

you pour ghee in fire & burning oil in religious lights, which do not bring any

divine fruit & instead brings sin by polluting atmosphere.

 

 

The word fire is a simile for a hungry Satguru or devotee. Ghee and oil mean

the food items prepared by ghee and oil, which are considered to be the best

energetic items. When you offer such best food to a deserving hungry person, the

sacrifice is completed. The fire and light indicate the knowledge that radiates

from the Satguru and devotees after eating such best energetic foods. Even if a

poor man eats such best food, his brain will be energetic to think about God.

The physical fire in the sacrifice is meant for cooking the best food item with

ghee or oil.

 

Similarly, the rituals after death are also done without realizing the spirit.

They become waste and the root-reason for this is lack of understanding and

analysis of the Vedic hymns. All those hymns after death simply mean praying God

to help the departed soul. You can call the best devotees and pray God in your

own mother tongue since God is beyond language and such a prayer has some use

for departed soul. The priest says in the beginning of ritual that by the

ritual, the soul shall go to the abode of God (Brahma Loka). But, at the end, he

is performing the ritual of donation of cow (Godanam), which clearly states that

the departed soul is only going to the hell. If that is the case, what is the

use of all the money spent on the priest and ritual?

 

Normally, any departed soul will definitely go to hell only. In that case,

what happened to all the money that is spent? You must appreciate other

religions in this ritual, who pray God in their own language. Nobody analyzes

anything and the practice is simply blind. Jesus was said to be a Sheppard, who

is the Lord of souls. All the souls are like blind sheep, which simply follow

the other blindly.

 

at lotus feet of swami

surya