SrI:
Dear AasthikAs :
Some 200 years ago , there was a scholar by
name Brahma SrI VaidhyanAtha Dheekshithar .
He was a Saastra sampanna . He blessed
the community of AasthikAs with a six part
book on Dharma Saasthrams entitled
Sri Smruthimukthaa Phalam. It is also
known as VaidhyanAtha dheekshitheeyam .
The six chapters of this book are:
1) VarNAsrama dharma KaaNDam dealing with
the dharmams prescribed by the 4 VarNams
2) Ahneeka KaaNDam : Daily Dharmams
3) AaSoucha KaaNDam : Theettu and its limits
4) SrArddha KaaNDam : Pithru Kaaryams
5) Tithi NirNaya KaaNDam : determination of
Tithis , the topic of importance to PanchAngam
constructors .
6) PrAyaschittha KaaNDam : Big Chapter dealing with
various atonements for dhOsha ParihArams .
Somewhere around 1917 , Brahma SrI Keezhavedayal
R. Mutthuswamy Iyer published a clearly written and
valuable summary of Smruthi Muktha Phalam to help
even layman understand the significance of various
Hundu Dharmams and SamskArams from conception to
anthima prayANam . It is known as Dharma Saastra
Sangraham .
These Hindu SamskArAs are fourty in Number .
These are different for different AasramAs and
VarNAs . They also vary from Yugam to Yugam . In Kali
Yugam , there are dharmams that are nishiddham ( not
recommended/forbidden ) .
adiyEn has written a brief summary of these SamskArams
in 1997 that you can browse at Bhakthi archives:
http://www.Ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/sep97/0035.html
http://www.Ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/sep97/0036.html
Hindu SamskAras are for the purification of one's body
and mind in seen and unseen ways . The cleansing process
set in motion by the observance of the SamskArAs leads to
the betterment of one's life and qualities of a person for
spiritual upliftment . It develops the 8 auspicious guNAs
-- Dayaa , KshAnthi , anasooyA , Soucham , anAyAsam ,
MangaLam , KaarpaNyam and aspruham --that chase away
the ills of SamsAram . Thus the performance of the smruthi
sanctioned samskAraas with the utternace of appropriate
Veda MantrAs results in the full blossoming of one's
full spitirtual potential and helps attain Veda PrAyam to
observe various prescribed dharmams .
Sri Vaishnava Kendram DeevaLur Sri NVS Swamy
is a practising Bruhaspathy of the highest order
wished to share the wealth of information assembled
in Brahma SrI Mutthuswamy Iyer with all of us .
Towards that extent , SrI NVS Swamy is releasing
one page each day excerpts from Sri Iyer's book
without commentary or annotation . Sri NVS
Swamy has introduced a numberign scheme to
navigate easily thru this vast array of subjects
covered . It is a great kaimkaryam . adiyEn
offered to translate these Tamil pages into
English to have a wider reach by AasthikAs
spread all over the globe .
The individual chapters of Dharma Saastra
Sangraham of Sri MutthusAmi Iyer have condensed
information from Dheekshitheeyam . There are still
a lot of areas to cover under each of the Six chapters .
Her is a table of content of the First Chapter ( VarNAsrama
Dharma KaanDam) to give us an idea of the range even
under one chapter :
1. The Divisions of the VedAs & the Soothrams
2. VarNam
3. YugAs
4. Kali Yuga Nishiddha Dharmams
5. Dhig Niyamam ( About the Directions)
6. BhrAmaNa Dharmam
7. AgnihOthram
8. Anya VedAdhyayanam
9. UpAkarmaa
10. Adhyayanam
11. BhrAhmaNa Vrutthi
12. BhrAhmaNa SamskArams
13. Ruthu times
14. Pumsavanam
15. Seemantham & other samskArams
16. SamskArams upto Upanayanam
17. When Pathni is a rajasvalai
18. Times not to perform SouLAdhi KarmAs
19. Those who are fit for Upanayanam
20. Jaathakarma Vidhi for YamaLOthbhavar
21.Those who are not fit for NamaskArams
22 KanyA LakshaNam for VivAham
23. KanyakAdhAna KarthA
24. Things to be done during auspicious occasions
As you can see , there are some very important
dos and don'ts prescribed by Dharma Saasthrams .
May we all beneficiaries of these rules intended
to guide us along the right path to get rid of our
Karmic load !
NamO Veda PurushAya ,
Daasan , V.Sadagopan
you an idea of the
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