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Purification of a house and a body
Purification of a house
and a body
Sivananda Lahari Verse 36 speaks about the purification of a house
and a body and it reads as under:
भक्तो भक्तिगुणवृते मुदमृतापूर्णे प्रसन्ने मन:
कुंभे सांब तवांघ्रिपल्लवयुगं संस्थाप्य संवित्फलम् ।
सत्वं मन्त्र-मुदीरय-न्निजशरीरागार-शुद्धिं वहन्
पुण्याहं प्रकटीकरोमि रुचिरं कल्याण-मापादयन् ॥ ३६ ॥
Bakto BaktiguNavRRute mudamRutApUrNe prasan^ne mana:
kuMBe sAMba tavAMghripallavayugaM saMsthApya saMvitphalam |
satvaM mantra-mudIraya-n^nijaSarIrAgAra-SuddhiM vahan
puNyAhaM prakaTIkaromi ruchiraM kalyANa-mApAdayan || 36 ||
MEANING :
Oh God who is with Goddess Parvati, I am your devotee, bound by the thread of Bhakti, with the vessel of my mind full of water of happiness and brightness, with your two holy feet as the Mango leaves on the vessel, with the coconut of GyAna (the ultimate truth) placed over the leaves, meditating on the Panchakshari (five letter) mantra which grows the Satva Guna and thus I do the Punyahavachanam (purification) with a view to cleansing the house of my mind and yearning for all the good.
EXPLANATION :
He! SambO! as your bhaktha I wish to clean my body of impurities; I wish to get sukham to my frittering mind and I wish to prepare myself to enjoy mokshasukham so I am doing this karma called 'punyaaham' with due deligence. That is, Hey! Sarveswara! I have made my nirmala manas as a pot which I have filled with the water that is Aananda. The mango leaves that is half submerged in the water are your lotus feet along with the coconut called gnaanam sitting on it. I have tied it with the thread called bhakthi. I am doing this karma called 'punyaaham' chanting the panchaakshari manthra 'Aum Nama: Sivaaya'. Hey! PrabhO! I have no doubt that by doing this karma I will get nithyamoksham.
NOTE :
Punyahavachanam is a ceremony of purification, time at the time
of a new festival, for a new house, or for a mother and new born baby,
after a period of ten days from the baby's birth. The house is cleaned,
and a pot is kept with pure water, with rounds of threads around it,
with two mango leaves over water and a cocnonut at the top. Sri
Sankara says that the purification of mind is done, through devotion,
eating sattvic pure food, and chanting Panchakshara.
Sage of Kanchi
C V Sathya Narayan
Sivananda Lahari
Purification of a house
and a body
Sivananda Lahari Verse 36 speaks about the purification of a house
and a body and it reads as under:
भक्तो भक्तिगुणवृते मुदमृतापूर्णे प्रसन्ने मन:
कुंभे सांब तवांघ्रिपल्लवयुगं संस्थाप्य संवित्फलम् ।
सत्वं मन्त्र-मुदीरय-न्निजशरीरागार-शुद्धिं वहन्
पुण्याहं प्रकटीकरोमि रुचिरं कल्याण-मापादयन् ॥ ३६ ॥
Bakto BaktiguNavRRute mudamRutApUrNe prasan^ne mana:
kuMBe sAMba tavAMghripallavayugaM saMsthApya saMvitphalam |
satvaM mantra-mudIraya-n^nijaSarIrAgAra-SuddhiM vahan
puNyAhaM prakaTIkaromi ruchiraM kalyANa-mApAdayan || 36 ||
MEANING :
Oh God who is with Goddess Parvati, I am your devotee, bound by the thread of Bhakti, with the vessel of my mind full of water of happiness and brightness, with your two holy feet as the Mango leaves on the vessel, with the coconut of GyAna (the ultimate truth) placed over the leaves, meditating on the Panchakshari (five letter) mantra which grows the Satva Guna and thus I do the Punyahavachanam (purification) with a view to cleansing the house of my mind and yearning for all the good.
EXPLANATION :
He! SambO! as your bhaktha I wish to clean my body of impurities; I wish to get sukham to my frittering mind and I wish to prepare myself to enjoy mokshasukham so I am doing this karma called 'punyaaham' with due deligence. That is, Hey! Sarveswara! I have made my nirmala manas as a pot which I have filled with the water that is Aananda. The mango leaves that is half submerged in the water are your lotus feet along with the coconut called gnaanam sitting on it. I have tied it with the thread called bhakthi. I am doing this karma called 'punyaaham' chanting the panchaakshari manthra 'Aum Nama: Sivaaya'. Hey! PrabhO! I have no doubt that by doing this karma I will get nithyamoksham.
NOTE :
Punyahavachanam is a ceremony of purification, time at the time
of a new festival, for a new house, or for a mother and new born baby,
after a period of ten days from the baby's birth. The house is cleaned,
and a pot is kept with pure water, with rounds of threads around it,
with two mango leaves over water and a cocnonut at the top. Sri
Sankara says that the purification of mind is done, through devotion,
eating sattvic pure food, and chanting Panchakshara.
Sage of Kanchi
C V Sathya Narayan
Sivananda Lahari