/namastE.I am somewhat surprised at this. I request that no such posting be posted. A /namaskAram is a personal obeisannce. Ourreligion excels in personal acts and duties. If you say, a/bhi/vAdayE type of /praNAm, you have to make a gesture of touching the feet of the person bowed to, and it becomes obligatory to do the /namaskAram in front of the person irrespective of other conditions.
In this case, one could do a general /namaslAram to all /bhAgavatAs at a determined moment on call for such a move.
But to take away the personal element is to lay the foundations for making the veneration meaningless in course of time. We have lost so many such moves, and we are tryingto rediscover these acts.
It may be considered a noble gesture on the part of /Srimad Andavan to forego the direct obeisasnce. But he really deprived the person of a psychological boost which the person was seeking. I am sorry to write so, but this kind of extreme /nYAsA makes a prayer meaningless.
/vantanam. From: Narasimhan KP To: NARAYANHK@xxxx, srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [SriRangaSri] krishna sahasranamam and others Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Dear Bhagavatas: Forwarded is a reply on the subject of doing Sashtanga namaskaram inside the temple. May I add that such namaskaram should NOT be done between Bhagavaan and His Bhaagavatas (eg) Periya TiruvaDi (GaruDaazhwar Sannidhi) or Siriya TiruvaDi (AnjanEyar Sannidhi) installed facing the main deity in Sri VaishNava temples?. I learned this during the Sathabishekam celebrations of Srimad Andavan of PouNDarikapuram Swami Ashramam. When I did DanDavat praNaamams before him and PerumaaL on the dais at the special pandal, he asked me to do so only at the farther end beyond the groups of Bhagavatas assembled in front of the dais chanting Vedas and Prabandams, saying that it would be a disrespect to the Bhagavatas to do such namaskarams in between. I would suggest temple authorities to put up bill boards to this effect for the guidance of SEvaartis. Dasoham Anbil Ramaswamy =========================================================================== Dear sir,Namaste to all. Saashtanga namaskara inside the temple shall only to the deity and not to any individual.
regards kpnarasimhan NARAYANHK@xxxx wrote: All, I would like to have a clarification. Can any devotee in a Temple do namaskara (touching the feet) to a Priest? That too when the Priest is standing in front of the deity. If this is not correct, should the Priest advise the devotee accordingly? HKNarayan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. KPNarasimhan B-2,"SRINRUHARIPRIYA" New No.23, Kuppiah Street West Mambalam Chennai - 600 033. Ph: 4894668. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] _________________________________________________________________Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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