Mahalaya Paksham---Courtesy-from Email

From: iyersrinivas .
Subject: importances of Mahalayapaksham a debate and lecture
To: USbrahmins@egroups.com, "S. Seshadri"
Date: Monday, 12 September, 2011, 12:44 PM

respected brahmana bandhus

 i happend to attend  a meeting in P.S.HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL DAKSHINAMURTHY AUDITORIOUM.

The follwoing main speakers shared the importance of Mahalaya Paksham  to the hindu audience present.

Sri T.S.Raghvan- Former CMD of Indian Bank & Bank of Maharashtra and presnt chairman of Giri trading agency private limited spoke about why we must do mahalaya tarpanam, importance of dharbai, kinds of dharbai usage of ellu, what is mangalam and amangalam etc. he quoted some emminent people who inspite of their proffession in big organisationa nd govenment officail perform sandhyavandanam, tarpanam sradham etc.

prema krishnamurthy - w/o SRI SRI KRISHNAMURTHI SHASTRIGAL SANSKRIT COLLEGE, spoke on wether womer can chant vedic mantras and what are the duties of brahmin women,

the wasy she spoke, i must say that all the present women would have revisited their daily duities after mami's speech. she said that women need not waste in learning vedas, while they can chant slokas there are so many slokas that will bring glory to their family and in paicular the husband who are the karma karta., she also insisted all the brahmin women to insist in making their husband, son/s in perfoming sa ndyavandanam, tarpanam ,mahalaya paksham etc which brings prosperity to their family.

shri Prakash Koushik- Teacher of sanskrit and who conducts vedic and hindu spiritaul classes spoke on mahalaya paksham quoting examples from the gita, ramayana, raguvamsam and garuda puranam. he insisted that it is we who need to perform the nitya karma and do tarpana whether vadyar comes or not we must from our depth of the heart perform the karma be it snadyavandanam, tarpanam or mahalayapaksha tarpanam.

Vaidika sri rajagopala ganapadigal- showed his knowledge in dharmas shastra and said that how one must respect shastram. he said that during th mahalaya paksham all our fore fathers come to our house and bless us and we attain prosperity  he gave several quoteds from dharma shatram

advocate and astroleger sri mani (blind man) he quoted examples from astrological science and said that how the nine planets influence our body and mind. he said that darba  can remove the guru, kethu dosha, ellu can remove our shani dosha, usage of navaratnam etc to gift the purohits means  your sins are wahed off during the mahalaya paksh

Mrs chandramouli, who is the author of mahalayapakshamahimai spoke about her experiences in coming out with the book.

 the meeting started at 5.30 pm and ended at 9.15 pm.

 the credit of the meeting goes to Mrs Meenakshi balu of MB CHARITIES& EDUCATIONAL TRUST. who have an aim of creating music school for blind and offer jobs for physically challenged people.

regards

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