SrI:
kamapyAham Gurum vandhE
Kamalaagruha-mEdhinam
pravakthA chandhasAm vakthaa
PaancharAthrasya yassvayam
Dear Vaideekaas and BrahmOthsava sEvA abhimAnis
:
On behalf of the Board of Sri Ranganathaa Temple
,
adiyEn invites you all to have the BhAgyam of
enjoying Lord RanganAthan's BrahmOthsavam
.
The activities for the individual days are
at:
In this posting adiyEn will
focus on
the right places and ways to
ring
the sacred bell in Bhagavath
sannidhAnam
to ward off all
inauspiciousness .
Both for house AarAdhanam and Temple AarAdhanam
,
GhantA Sevai during the different stages of
AarAdhanam
is absolutely essential .Without this ringing of
the bell ,
the AarAdhanam is incomplete .House holders can
start
AarAdhanam after Pancha SamskAram . This is
the Householder's Dheekshaa for performing
AarAdhanam
at Home . The householder does not need
Prapatthi
( BharanyAsam ) for performing daily
AarAdhanam .
Ditto for ArchakAs involved in PaacharAtra
worship.
For Vigraha
AarAdhanam at the temple , the
dheeksha
is of a different
kind known as "CharAbhja MaNDala
Dheekshaa" or
Paanacha Raathra Dheekshaa in contrast
to Householders
doing AarAdhanam for Aatthu PerumAL .
VaikAnasa
archakaas have the tradition that
their pancha
SamskAram is done , when they stay
in the womb
itself by Viganasa Guru and hence they
do not have any
need for dheekshaa thereafter .
You have to be
born in a VaikAnasa archakaa family
to do AarAdhanam
at Temples following VaikAnasa
Aagama
( Thirumala ,
Oppiliappan Sannidhi , Thiruvaheendhrapuram et al)
.
Those with Paacha
Raathra Dheeksha can not however
perfrom AarAdhanam at VaikAnasa Temple . If some one
from
VaikAnasa
tradition consecrates the Murthy according
to
VaikAnasa reethi
, then subsequent AarAdhanam has
to be done by
VaikAnasa Vithi . One can not
switch
that Aaradhanam
with those having Paancha Raathra
Dheeksha . This
happens in some U.S Temples
and is overlooked
for number of operational reasons
.
At
Pomona Sri Ranganatha
Temple , archakAs perform
AarAdhanam with
Paancha Raathra Dheeksha since
Paancha Raathra
Jayaakhya Samhitha ( as at Lord
VaradrAja Temple
at Kaanchi) was used during the time of
SamprOkshaNam (
consecration ) .
Knowledge of Sanskrit would be helpful for ArchakAs
to offer the UpachArams to the DevathAs and the
Dhivya
Dampathis . Full time study at one of the Aagamic
Schools in
Thirumala , Kaanchi , MadhurAnthakam , Srirangam
and Melkote is needed and it will take 2 to 3 years
to get the authentic training .Many ArchakAs have crash
courses to keep up their livelihood and remember PrayOgams
by rote learning .
SampradhAya Parisuddhi is attainable only
through many years of practise . BrahmOthsavam is a
complicated ,
with many steps just like PavithrOthsavam .
Full training and experience
is needed for authentic execution . Monographs like
those of
KoothappAkkam RaghavAcchAr Swamy ( Archakar ThuNaivan)
released by HH
Srimath SrimushNam Andavan are very valuable
as reference sources
for practising ArchakAs .
Let us now revert to
Ghantaa SEvai coverage
during Bhagavath
AarAdhanam and
Vaideeka KarmAs
at the Temple
.
The PramANam for GaNDaa Sevai
comes from
SrI VaasudEva Samhithai (
Fourth Chapter).
The key slOkams identified
for us by KootthapAkkam
swamy are
:
kavADOdhaddhaDanE homE
poojanE Bali karmaNi
argyE snapana AachAmE VivAhE
dhoopa dheepayO:
thADyEth yEka PaarsvEna taTaa
Aavaahana karmaNi
neerAjane yavanikaa
samuddhADE nivEdhanE
PaarsvAbhyAm thADanam kuryAth
upachAntharEshu cha
This in essence is the way to
ring the bell with its
tongue touching one or both
sides of the inner walls
of the consecrated
bell .
A. Ringing of the Tongue on
one side of the Bell
************************************************************
1. Before opening the door of
Koil AazhwAr at Home
2. During the occasion of the
performance of Homams
3.During the time of
performance of AarAdhanams
4. Presentation (SamarpaNam)
of Bali
5. Arghya SamarpaNam
6. Aachmana
SamarpaNam
7. During the time , when
Thirumanjanam takes place
8. During the conductance of
KalyANOthsavam
9. DhUpa
SamarpaNam
10. Dheepa
SamarpaNam
B. Ringing of the Tongue on
both sides of the Bell
**************************************************************
1. During the Aavaahanam of
the Lord for AarAdhanam
2. During the upachAram
offering of Camphor, GaDa
dheepam ,
adukku Aaratthi ( Multilayer dheepam)
3. Opening of curtain after
yEkAntha Aaradhanam
and
Thirumanjana alankAram
4. During the time of
NaivEdhya ( nivEdhanam)
samarpaNam
.
5. During the time of
VaasudEva PuNyAha PrOkshaNam
6. During the travel from
temple to the ThEr ( RaTam).
In the next posting adiyEn
will cover the BhEri TaaDanam
and the DEvathAs and others
invited for attending
the BrahmOthsavam , Nava
Sandhi Geetha-TaaLa
Nruthyams .
NamO SrI RanganAthAya
,
V.Sadagopan
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