Fw: Shatachandi Homa
Prabhakar C L
Namaskar.
One of my known person is doing research on mantras, homa, articles used during ahuti and its significance etc. Now, he wants to confirm will there be Maadiphalam, Dalimbe, and muttidaremuni plants offered as ahuti on each adhyaya during Shatachandi Homa.
Sir, if you have any information regarding the above, can you confirm it please.
With Pranam,
V. Ramadevi.
Dr.BVK Sastry (G-Mail-pop)
Namaste
Thank you Dr. Prabhakar for bringing focus to the question which is a pointer to the handshake of ‘Veda’ and ‘Ayur-Veda’ for the ultimate benefit of ‘Health’, line of thought that exists in traditional schools ever since the source books were composed.
If this line of traditional thinking connecting Veda-Ayurveda- Yoga for Health, present in ‘ Veda (Mantra-) Shaastra as the basis for Yaaga (Karma Kanda) ’ - is understood, then the word ‘Aahuti’ in ‘Agnimukha-Yajna’ is pointer to the way these ‘ vanaspati- phala –kanda –moola’ needs to be administered to the ‘ person having the disease related to ‘ Prana-Shakti imbalance’, the real beneficiary of yajna. What is ‘ Agni-mukha –Svaahaakaara mantra-aahuti’ in yajna is ‘ Vaishvanara –Agni-Praana –agni aahuti inside body, as medicine in Ayurveda.
The physical ‘aahuti’ of materials in yajna is for the purpose of fulfilling a procedure laid down for the Ritviks. Ritviks are implementers of vidhi;. They are not designers of vidhi. The ‘physical burning of the fruits in external fire’ will not cure the disease ( or imbalance) of the ‘ body’.
The ‘ prescribed materials – fruits and other items, from nature, need to be ‘ energized with Prana -rasa, using the Mantras ( of Chandi Patha or other Veda mantras)’. Vanaspati rasodbhuto, gandhaadyo sumanoharah.. is the sloka for contemplation).
This approach of ‘ mantra based health care in Ayurveda’, called ‘Praanaacharya tradition’ seems to be a forgotten technique. The methods provided in texts are for transforming ‘ dravya /drava - padartha’ through a ‘naivedya process’ to become ‘ Prasada’ (Sattva-Shuddha) . The broken skeletons of this practice are noticed in the abuse called energy medicine in current yoga related international health markets and ‘ parihara homam’ in the name of Veda at some other places. A yajna, to give its specific ‘phala’ needs to be done with right kind of ‘mantra –viniyoga’. Dr.Vamkshikrishna Ghanapathi can provide ample details here.
The current practice of Ayur-veda, Yoga and Jytoisha – in India and elsewhere have distanced themselves from each other and embraced new bed partners and models of study and practice. The prescribed tradition of Charaka- Sushruta –Vagbhatta for Ayurveda and Patanjali prescribed guidance for Yoga-Samskrutham studies are at best offered lip sympathy . The original design and thought of unified approach of three disciplines for Total Health Welfare needs a fundamental re-search and course correction, to understand why a tradition like ‘offering specific fruits for each chapter of Chandi patha-Homa’ was originally designed and helped society . This seems to me to be the biggest benefit Samskrit can offer to the current society as next step of ‘ sambhashanam’.
Regards
BVK Sastry
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On Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 3:31:07 AM UTC+7, Clprabhakar wrote: