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SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA.

 

My humble pranams to all bhagavathas.

 

After reading the mails on eclipses, darbhai and tarpanam, I thought  I can share with you some insights on all these and even related ones, as I can see from different perspectives, including science. Any additions, corrections and modifications are welcome as I am sure many scientists and vedhiks of this forum will have something to say or comment on. The mistakes, if any, in these mails are entirely due to my lack of understanding and I may be pardoned and corrected for the same.

 

The importance of darbhai.

 

By Bhagavan?s Thiru-uLLam, I have often  been blessed with the bhagyam of doing sankalpam and initiation along with my husband  for different types of Homas whose scope, depth and extant are far beyond any individual?s cause and beyond the financial capacity of any individual. Those occasions have been treasured by me as occasions which  Bhagavan authorized me as His ?karuvi? and also opportunities to closely watch the homas, their import and most important of all, getting to offer my namaskaarams many times to outstanding VaidihAs and learn from them the relevance of many of the rituals followed in the homas. The importance of darbhai is one which I learnt from them.

 

Doing sankalpa is an occasion when darbhai?s role is inevitable. When the man is taking the sankalpa as to for what purpose, by whom and at which point of time in the grand scale of creation, his wife, as personification of His manas (please recollect my earlier mail on maattu-p-peN in which I have given the purusha ?sthree relevance as two in one) will have to pass a command to the Purusha ?the in- dweller as a doer, to do the sankalpa. At that time she will have to stand behind him at his right side (see the same mail for reasons for right side), hold one end of a bunch of darbahi and touch his shoulder with the other end of the bunch. This has to continue till he completes the sankalpam, offer his namaskaram as ?namah? and declare then ?na mama? (not mine ? all these that are to offered to such and such  a deva for such and such a result in such and such a time are for THEM only, they are not mine.)

 

This 4-fold part (3+1) of sankalpam is very important (to be discussed in another mail) ( the time > the doer > the purpose + to whom ) and  is  to be stated very clearly, without any hindrance and obstruction. The protection from any obstruction is given by darbahai.

 

The darbahai possesses  some supreme capacity to thwart any dosham - be it with reference to (1) lack of  austerity or ?madi?, or (2) pollution, in spite of the sthala-suddhi done at and around homa ?kundam, (3) negative vibrations and thoughts of any one present there or (4)  the invasion of such energies including harmful radiation from any source.

 

In all japas, the doer is supposed to hold the darbhai in his hand till the japa is over. The bunch of darbhai held during the sankalpa is kept in front of the man in such a way that he, as doer  is protected from any debilitating energy. The darbhai spread on homa kundam serves the  purpose. The darbhai used in pavithram serves the same  purpose. (are the ends of pavithram shooting away from the body , antennas to attract such harmful  radiation and diffuse them?)

 

Darbhai is used in all actions that are done to communicate, transfer, or invoke some results from beings of non-earthly nature. That is how their relevance comes in tarpanam. If some one discards darbhai, it means he is without protection and can not guarantee that his offerings or prayers are being sent to or received by those to whom they are intended, in their fullest intent or import. Since we can not know or perceive the kind of obstructions taking place unseen and in subtle forms around us, darbhai is used to thwart such obstructions. I have not been told of any substitute for darbhai and it never occurred to me that I must ask them about it. But the fact is that darbhai is the best protection.

 

The same darbhai used during eclipses to protect food stuffs brings this discussion to another level of what happens in an eclipse.

 

(continued)

 

Jayasree saranathan.

 

PS : The only time women folk like me get to handle darbhai is when the husband does sankalpam. Invoking the Pranava, the woman offers the Agni in the Homa-kundam. Invoking the Pranava, she holds the darbhai on his shoulder and concentrates on the sankalpa done. From then onwards, it is the man whose obligation in any karma done becomes  stupendous. By consciously invoking the blessings of Darbhai as a protector, let the man proceed with the karma to be done without any obstruction.

 

 

 



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