6-5-4-3 Practising
srEvaishNavites of ThirukkaNNankuDi
The Super Six
-6
(Six Components of
VEdham-s)
i. shEkshA; ii. vyAkaraNam; iii. chandhas;
iv. niruktham; v.jOthisham ; vi. kalpam.
The Big
5
(The five yagjyam)
1. brahma-yagjyam -Vedhic recitations
;
2.dhEva yagjyam -performing
yAgam;
3.bhUdha yagyam- offering
sacrifices;
4. pithru yagjyam - rituals -tharpaNam
performed for ancestors and
5. manushya yagjyam - honouring the guests
with hospitality -virundhOmbal.
The Great
4
(The Four vEdham-s)
rig, yajur, samam and
atharvaNam.
The Three
Fires
The inmates of ThirukkaNNankuDi follow the
aformentioned practices religiously and also master the idhihAsa purANangaL
-described by thirumangai mannan as arum-kalai
-
After all this, do they think that these
practices are the means to attain Him ? No.They are with conviction that
indeed EmeprumAn is the means and practice these with clear
mind.
All these are narrated by kalaiyan in the
final two lines of the first pAsuram of the first thirumozhi of hte ninth
ten
'...
angm-ARu-aindhu vEALvi -nAl
vEdham arum-kalai payinRu-eri mUnRum
sen-kaiyAl vaLarkkum
thuLakkamil manathOAr -ThirukkaNNankuDiyuL ninRAnEA' 9-1-1
dAsan
vanamamalai
;padmanabhan
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