[Advaita-l] SrI sUkta for shoDasopachAra

[Ravishankar Venkatraman]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question.

Ravi


>From: vishwanthan Krishnamoorthy <krishvishy at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] SrI sUkta for shoDasopachAra
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
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>
>all kalpokta puja vidhi books uses slokas for the
>upachara puja this may be because vedic riks/yajus may
>not be used by everyone?
>
>Whereas the tantric puja vidhi stresses the use of
>Moola mantra (Moolena nyaset etc...)
>
>My sastrigal uses Purusha sukta for upachara puja
>
>As said earlier, in SiddhiVinayak temple they use
>Purusha Sukta along with slokas
>
>I personally feel using the manasa puja slokas of Adi
>Sankara satisfying as I replace almost all the
>upacharas with akshadhai(abharnarthe akshatham
>samarpayami etc..) so in a manner of speaking it is a
>manasa puja
>
>also interestingly in Maharashtra, for the mantra
>pushpam they do not use "yopam pushpam veda... "
>
>regards
>Viswam
>--- bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com wrote:
>
> >
> > pranams to all
> >
> >   i would like to add that most of the temples here
> > in bangalore too follow
> >   the same procedure of using purusha & sri suktham
> > for the shodashopachara
> >   and this is how i have also been taught the
> > devatarchana vidhi.Also
> >   various  standard books like the
> >   "Rigvedeeya devataarchanam" published by 'shri
> > mutt' , hariharapura
> >   prescribe the same procedure.
> >
> >
> >   praNAms
> >   Hare Krishna
> >
> >   What about mahAgaNapati pUja ??  I have not heard
> > any vEdic maNtra while
> >   doing mahAgaNapati shOdashOpachAra pUja  except at
> > the time of AvAhana
> >   (gaNAnAntvA ganapatiM havamahE etc.), shuddhOdaka
> > snAnaM (normally we use
> >   rigvEdIya sUkta *AtUna idrakshumantam chitraM
> > grAbhaM saMgrubhAya...),
> >   maNtra pushpa (nishusIda gaNaptE ...again part of
> > gaNEsha sUkta or
> >   gaNEshArthavashIrshaM )... Apart from this, for
> > arghyaM, pAdyaM,
> >   AchamanaM, vastra, AbharaNa etc. etc. either  we
> > use some stOtra or
> >   simply say, Sri mahagaNapatayE namaH,
> > arghyamarghyaM samarpayAmi, pAdyaM
> >   pAdyaM samarpayAmi etc...Even in varasiddhi
> > vinAyaka vratam we use
> >   purusha sUktam for pUja...not any *gaNesha*
> > specific maNtra-s...Any info.
> >   on this??
> >
> >   Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> >   bhaskar
> >
> >
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