Pallav
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A closing phrase appended to a mantra, addressed to a deity, that completes its formal recitation structure.
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Why must a sadhak hear the leela katha at all?
Until the feeling of bhakti remains in the mind, the speaker says, mantra, shastra and purana will not be understood. And if you do not understand the purana, then whatever mantra japa you are doing, and whichever devi or devata you are attached and drawn to, your samarpan will not become complete. If you do not perform shravan of the leela katha, how will the contemplation running in your mind bear fruit and come into full leaf?
How is the Dashami visarjan of Ma Durga's murti done?
Asked whether the murti of Ma Durga with the open-mouthed lion should be given visarjan before Navratra or on Dashami, he says do it on Dashami, do not do the visarjan earlier. Her pujan will go on until Navami; on Dashami, with the proper vidhi, bring a red cloth — the shalu cloth, at least a sava metre — and place Ma upon it. First bathe her again that day, and having bathed her and done her shringar well, seat her upon it, keep an offering of a coconut and the like before her, and do the whole vidhi of what is given in the aanchal at the time of farewell — what we call the filling of the khoincha.
Five, seven or nine mango leaves marked with sindoor go over the kalash, and the purna patra is a plate of unbroken rice.
After that the panch pallav are put in the kalash: mango leaves, five, seven or nine of them, marked with sindoor and then placed over the kalash. This is the ordinary vidhi of kalash sthapana, told here without any mantra so that everyone can do it. The purna patra is a plate filled with rice — it should be unbroken rice; the speaker says he is showing with what was available, and asks people to use good rice that is not broken.
Panch pallav or mango leaves on top of the kalash
The speaker says that once all the initial items are inside the Kalash, panch Pallav or mango leaves are placed on top. Panch pallav means the leaves of five different kinds of tree; or else a sprig of mango with at least five and at most eleven leaves. The leaves are decorated well with Sindoor, given the sindoor mark, and then placed.
No panch pallav means daridrata, and no purna patra means loss of ayu
On the kalash they have even said, he reports, that you should keep a standing kalash and there is no need of leaves — at which he said, stop it. If panch pallav is never kept upon a kalash, if leaves are not kept, then it becomes an indicator of daridrata; daridrata comes. At least a pan leaf should certainly be kept. If we do not keep a purna patra, then there is destruction of ayu. And he adds that misguidance carries its own weight: if punya is to come to us from your doing deep daan, then if we tell you a wrong thing we will be a sharer in the paap too — that dosha will certainly attach to us.
When may a standing coconut be kept without a purna patra?
If the pujan of Chandika is happening, if the pujan of Prachanda Chandika is happening, or if Trinetra is your kuldevi and you know it a hundred per cent — only then is a standing kalash without a purna patra to be kept, he says. Otherwise all this arranging of the kalash from one's own mind and will — keep a standing kalash, keep a standing coconut without a purna patra — leads toward destruction. There comes loss to the vansh; further, it happens in the kul that people's marriages do not even take place, and the bones of the body begin to wear. These are its ill effects.
How should women cover the head for darshan?
Women, mothers and sisters should go with the pallu kept over the head; they should not go bare-headed. For a man, covering the head with a gamcha is a separate matter and is also not necessary everywhere. But no kind of crown or such article, and no hat, should be worn.
How should the kulavadhu perform the chaukhat pujan?
Having done the prescribed vidhan, then bathed and put on that kind of vastra, and with the pallu placed over her head and forehead, she performs the pujan of the chaukhat. The speaker says great effect is obtained from this, and that the devi-devatas of the house are extremely pleased by the kulavadhu's pujan. If she does not do it, then whichever son or member of the house does it — that, he says, is a separate matter.
What should the dhwaja be mounted on if there is no land to plant it?
If your land is not large enough to plant a flag, he says, then tie it somewhere — and certainly use bamboo. People fix it into a rod, into steel, into iron, into a chhad; use a rod if you must, but tie the bamboo to that rod. If bamboo can be had from the market or cut from anywhere, then however large the flag, the flag will be pure only on bamboo. Bamboo and mango pallav must certainly be there — the mango pallav tied above, bamboo below, the flag mounted on bamboo and put up there on bamboo itself.
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