[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Maha Rudra Yajnam in California, USA

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

A small addendum - You had mentioned that both husband and wife offer the
havis. If that degree of improvisation  (wife too offering havis) is
permitted, then, that may as well be extended to all communities. It is
incongruous for the 'couples' of only one community to offer havis. That
does breed alienation and should be avoided. And i am happy your temple
heeded your suggestion.

Recently in Ramanasramam, i witnessed an atirudram with a similar number of
ritwiks etc. The offering of havis was done only by the vaidikas
(ghanapathis and their students who follow all the niyamas), who were part
of the vedic gurukulas in various parts of India. The ritual was not done
by 'part-timers' who know the rudram and do sandhya but follow laukika
lifestyle working in corporates etc.. All such people are not given any
access to the yajna area. The distinction was based on strict adherence to
niyama and not based on the accident of birth.

Om


On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:48 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <
raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Aravinda ji
> I largely agree with you and thanks for bringing this up. One detail i may
> add is as follows.. If those who are offering the havis are
> shiShTas following a truly vaidika lifestyle associated with vedic
> gurukulas with the niyamas like pancha-kaccha, trikaala sandhya, not going
> abroad etc., and also restricting themselves to only veda raxaNa and
> adhyayanam,teaching and study of the cedas etc., none would complain about
> any restrictions in those offering the havis. All others, like the laukika
> brahmins and other communities can be safely excluded from sitting at the
> homa kunda but can participate in every other way and get the blessings and
> benefit from the ritual.
>
> But if NRI software engineers and businessmen etc following a non-vaidika
> lifestyle claim brahmin privileges without following any vaidika niyamas
> like pancha-kaccha, not crossing the seas etc., (and maybe only do the
> sandhya due to the upanayanam), that's not at all good enough  at least in
> today's milieu, to claim the right to offer havis (in spite of not
> following vaidika lifestyle) if at the same time, they are denying it to
> other communities. In the present context, the performance of a vedic
> ritual in the US is a welcome initiative to inculcate bhakti towards
> Ishvara and familiarity with vedic culture.  But in the case of
> American yajnas, it is insane to restrict offering havis to only one
> community living in the US, keeping in view the  view of the smritis about
> vedic rituals outside bhaaratvarsha.
>
> Om
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:59 AM Aravinda Rao via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaskars,
>>
>> Great news. Great to see that so many ritwiks are available.
>>
>> A small suggestion may be considered. Usually at the time of havanam
>> several families (husband and wife) would be sitting, offering oblation
>> into the homa-kunda. Some temples restrict this to one community only,
>> leaving a bad taste in others. I persuaded my local temple authorities (in
>> Hyderabad) to allow people from all sections so that such discontent is
>> avoided. And also the temple gets more resources. This may be particularly
>> important in view of the discrimination laws which are promoted in the
>> state of California. Someone can even deliberately create a situation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aravinda Rao
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 12:26 AM 'S Jayanarayanan' via advaitin <
>> advaitin at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> > A Maha Rudra Yajnam is planned to be conducted on April 15th, Saturday,
>> by
>> > the Vaidica Vidhya Ganapathi Center
>> > at Sri Vallabha Maha Ganapathi Temple in San Martin, California, USA.
>> This
>> > involves 121 Ritwiks reciting
>> > the Sri Rudram 11 times for a total of 1,331 times along with Rudra
>> > Abishekam with eleven kinds of Dravyams.
>> >
>> > Schedule:
>> > ---------
>> >
>> > 7:00AM    Ritwik Registration & Vastram Distribution
>> > 7:30AM    Mahaganapathy Pooja
>> > 8:00AM    Maha Sankalpam, Mahanyasam, Kalasa Sthapana
>> > 9:00AM    Breakfast
>> > 9:15AM    Ekadashavara Rudra Parayanam and Ekadasa Dravya Rudra
>> Abhishekam
>> > 11:00AM    Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam Parayanam by Women
>> > 12:00PM    Rudra Homam
>> > 1:00PM    Maha Poornahuthi
>> > 1:30PM    Maha Aarthi and Maha Prasadam
>> >
>> > _________________________________________________________
>> >
>> > Event Flyer:
>> >
>> > https://vvgc.org/SanMartin/flyer/Maharudram_2023.jpeg
>> >
>> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OTJCitgeTyGH66wg81RXPaa2_DI2vBDi/view
>> >
>> > Donations for the Yajnam:
>> >
>> > https://paybee.io/quickpay.html?handle=vvgc&ppid=1#optionList
>> >
>> > VVGC Maharudram Ritwik Registration:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5DYVjzTAiwY7fy5yc1yoSt2h9mdkxPig6XOovvIrCIMT4NQ/viewform
>> >
>> > VVGC Homepage:
>> >
>> > https://vvgc.org/SanMartin/
>> >
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