Respected Dr.,
I read your writings which gives me lot of new information.
Thanks.
With namaskaram,
R.Venkataramani.
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 Dr.Sadagopan wrote :
>SrI:
>
>Dear Members :
>
>This mail would be of interest to many .
>
>V.Sadagopan
>----- Original Message -----
> From: "VARADACHARI SADAGOPAN" <yennappan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <Yennappan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 10:03 PM
>Subject: Fwd: Fw: [Oppiliappan] Fw: [SriRangaSri] Re:Bhattar's sarcasm and
>some Qs thereof
>
>
>--- In vaideekam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dr. Sadagopan" <yennappan@...>
>wrote:
>
>SrI:
>
>Dear Sriman Vaasu VaadhyAr Swamy :
>***
>Dasan,
>***
>Could you please help a number of our readers ,
>who wonder about Sraaddham related matters :
>
>1) Who are pithrus ?
>*** Departed three generation father side parents.
>
>2) What are their links to the departed ?
>*** This is replied from my experience; there may be some
>evidence or may not be:
>While doing the Sapindikarnam, a manthram "ye samaanaaha samanasaha
>yamaraajyea ..... theshaam sri: mayi kalpathaam"
>It is instructed this manthram should be told in
>raising tone i.e, in high pitch at the end.
>
>Pithrus are three type or three positions :
>1. Vasu Roopam 2.Rudra roopam 3. Aadhithya roopam
>
>by the sound produced here the 'anma' is pushed from here
>by the vibrations produced.
>At the same time, the pithrus already who are in the above
>three stages are there to lift this new atma from their positions.
>By which the new atma is getting the Vasu position of Vasu roopam
>the old pithrus are getting shifted to next position.
>The third one is reaching the swargam.
>
>To proove this: (or as an evidence) the manthram told while
>performing the 'Go (cow)' dhaanam, the manthram is like this:
>"mama pithu prethasya / maathru prethayaa: pretha logaadhu pithru
>logam gachchadha: madhya vaitharani nadhi uththaranartham ...."
>
>So it is proved that pretha roopi is getting the pithru roopam.
>
>Then ,
>the manthram told while doing the 'Paadheya dhaanam' (curd rice
>bundle) the sankalpam is like this:
>"mama .......... pithru logaadh swarga logam gachchatha: madhya adhva
>shram nivruthyartham ....."
>So it is proved that the pithru roopi is getting the Swargam.
>
>The difference between prapanna (sharanagathan) and others is:
>The same anma is there in the all three roopams in the case of others
>and some other deputed devada is there in the case of Prapannan.
>
>This is to maintain the link for the future atmas.
>***
>
>3) How does PiNDam and Tilam offered to
>the Pithrus reach them and satisfy them ?
>
>***
>A person who is having a physical body needs some food in the form
>of solid or liquid (physically).
>Pithrus are not in the physical form, so they don't need any physical
>form of food.
>But shastras are made for the convenient of human who are in the
>world with physical bodies.
>When one is doing his duty some other dharmam also to be protected or
>maintained. So, sastram is instructing man to do Pancha yagnam daily.
>The food offered for one or two swamis are coming under manushya
>yagnam.
>Pindams and thilam are going for Bhudha yagnam which will be given to
>some cow or crow and or fishes in the pond.
>
>Pindams are some sort of representation to convince the man by giving
>some physical form to assume and to do with care (shradhai).
>***
>
>4) When some one leaves the body and
>the Jeevan enters into another body ,
>how is the food offered to a departed person
>who was rerelated to you reach the Jeevan
>experiencing its karmAs in another body ?
>
>***
>Jeevas are taking another body is a common verse not for brahmins,
>the facility and speciality given for brahmin is the one that he can
>protect their pithrus from rebirth by performing the pithru karmas.
>
>If he does the karma perfectly then there is no room for this
>question.
>
>Even if the soul got a new body (by chance), to keep the shastram he
>has to perform the karmas.
>***
>5) In the case of the Muktha Jeevan that
>never returns again to the Karma BhUmi
>after SaraNAgathy , what happens to
>the Food offered in their name during
>the Sraaddham ?
>***
>Food offered is not for the pithrus, they are getting only
>satisfcation. By offering the food to a swamin with the physical
>body here in this world is getting a satisfaction, by which the atma
>of that swamin is getting some kind of satisfaction which can be
>conveyed are shared by the pitru atma which is some where else.
>
>It can be prooved, that a person can talk from world with the person
>who is in the moon. It shows, that a sound wave produced here is
>spreading infinitely / endlessly to all places.
>Like that this satisfaction feeling also can be conveyed.
>***
>6) What is the relationship between
>the Pithrus and the Prapanna Jeevan ,
>if at all any ?
>
>***
>Pithrus are the representatives of Prapanna jeevas arranged by
>bhagavan to maintain the shastram for the convenient of future
>atma to get the link.
>
>We are doing all karmas as "Sriman naarayana preethyartham"
>not as "Pithru preethyartham".
>
>"Ekovishu: mahath bhudham .... bhunkthe .... avyaya:"
>Vishnu himself is taking / eating all these things.
>***
>
>Dear Mmebers : I hope I have capyured your
>questions . If there are others left out , please
>ask . Let us focus on this area .
>
>NamO SrI Veda PurushAya ,
>V.Sadagopan
>
>***
>I don't know that I have conveyed the matter clearly or not.
>Now a days, situation is not permitting me to answer questions with
>patience.
>dasan,
>nvs
>Extremely sorry.
>
>--- End forwarded message ---
>
>
>
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