6-5-4-3 Practising srEvaishNavites of ThirukkaNNankuDi
The Super Six -6
(Six Components of VEdham-s)
i. shEkshA; ii. vyAkaraNam; iii. chandhas; iv. niruktham; v.jOthisham ; vi.
kalpam.
The Big 5
(The five yagjyam)
1. brahma-yagjyam -Vedhic recitations ;
2.dhEva yagjyam -performing yAgam;
3.bhUdha yagyam- offering sacrifices;
4. pithru yagjyam - rituals -tharpaNam performed for ancestors and
5. manushya yagjyam - honouring the guests with hospitality -virundhOmbal.
The Great 4
(The Four vEdham-s)
rig, yajur, samam and atharvaNam.
The Three Fires
The inmates of ThirukkaNNankuDi follow the aformentioned practices religiously
and also master the idhihAsa purANangaL -described by thirumangai mannan as
arum-kalai -
After all this, do they think that these practices are the means to attain Him
? No.They are with conviction that indeed EmeprumAn is the means and practice
these with clear mind.
All these are narrated by kalaiyan in the final two lines of the first pAsuram
of the first thirumozhi of hte ninth ten
'...
angm-ARu-aindhu vEALvi -nAl vEdham arum-kalai payinRu-eri mUnRum
sen-kaiyAl vaLarkkum thuLakkamil manathOAr -ThirukkaNNankuDiyuL ninRAnEA' 9-1-1
dAsan
vanamamalai ;padmanabhan
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