Dear swamis, Regarding Gayatri japa, it is said in Agni purana in Tulakaveri mahatmya Adhyaya 14 that japamala should not be used for counting Gayatri mantram. It should only be counted on the parvas or the folds of the right hand fingers. Starting from the middle fold of the ring finger, going down and left and upwards on the little finger and going right on the top folds and down the index finger giving 10 counts. For counting 28 or 108 therefore one has to count in tens on the right hand and note each cycle with the help of chalk markings or pebbles or left fingers. It is said that the lower two folds of the middle finger are called Meru and the counting should be done circumambulating them. It is said that since Gayatri is the root of the Vedas and the Vedas are recited using the above-mentioned method for counting the sooktas, Gayatri should also be counted likewise. The following sloka is quoted in authority. parvabhir gaNayEt sankhyAm nAkshamAlAdibhir nripa; GayatryA vedamUlatwAd vEdah parvasu gIyatE. There are many more do's and dont's quoted therein which are interesting to note and follow. Dasan Ramanuja On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Karthik Ragavan wrote: > > Dear Swamis, > > I have a clarification in the usage of malai during > Gayathri japam. During my daily sandhyavandhanam, I > have the practice of using Rudraksha malai during > Gayathri Japa & Spatika Malai during Ashtakshara japam > and wear the same after the japam is completed. I > remove the malais during my night prayers before going > to bed. > > I heard somebody advising that it is not right to wear > the japa malai and it is supposed to be kept back in > the sannadhi after the japa is over. The malais used > for daily wearing after snanam should not be used for > Japa. > > I am confused on this and seek the stalwarts of this > group to clarify on the same. > > Regards, > > Karthik Ragavan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > click here > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > * To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > -- *********************************************** M. N. Ramanuja Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science Phone: 3092722 (Lab) *********************************************** ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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