Padmanabhan Janakiraman
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| Atma Pradakshina Mantra: We do this at the end of every pooja: Yani kani cha papani Janmantara kritanicha Tani tani vinashyanti Pradakshinam pade pade While reciting this mantra, we rotate 3 times in front of the deity in the same place. It is an offer of Atma Pradhikshina Are we doing Namaskaram to our own Atma within us? The God which we have seen outwards is also inside us. That is why after 3 pradikshnas we say Atma Pradikshina namaskaaran Samarpayaami (I offer Atma Pradikshina namaskarams) What is the meaning of this mantra? yani kani--whatever; ca--and; papani--sins; Janmantara - this birth and earlier births; kritani - done (by me); ca--also, tani tani--all of them; vinashyanti -- are destroyed; pradaksinam-- (by) the self circumambulation; pade pade--at every step. I (self) rotate in my place to kill all my sins that I may have committed in all of my births! Why do we do Atma Pradhikshina 3 times? Normally in sanatana Dharma, it always runs on a word called TRIPUTI (Three times). We say Aum Shanti, Shanti Shantihi 3 times we have three Bodies 1 Stuula Shareera (Gross body we see) 2 Suukshama Shareera ( Subtle body which dreams and goes to places while we sleep and experience pleasure and pain although we are not conscious) 3. Kaarana Shareera (This body is born for a particular reason in a place) Stuula shareera dies with physical death. Sukshma shareera survives death and then travels to "find" another physical body. Karana Shareera dies with liberation. In Sri Ramayana too it is said, that if we say a Word three times that becomes an OATH. Similarly we have Satva, Rajas and Tamo Gunas. GODS Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra roopams. In Sanatana Dharma Culture all we do three times. So we make three Pradikshinams (Atma) three times This Post is for sharing knowledge only, no intention to violate any copyrights. |
