The Panchayatana - we are in Srividya - we worship the Five forces of Lords in the name of PANCHAYATANA.
Lord Ganapathi, Lord Sun, Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva, and Goddess - are the five deities we worship every day. Thus for any program it has been my practice to worship in a specialized manner all the five Lords basing on the occasion and the length of the program.
It has also been my practice and my respect to Lord Ganapathi to offer 1000 modak laddus every time. All most twice in a month we do it to overcome obstacles in the life. In the earlier days we were making the laddus and distributing them to the devotees and this has become a very tough task since we were not able to procure 1000 people for this purpose. Thus I changed the program in such a manner where we make out 1100 laddus and offer to the Lord a 1000 through the fire Sacrifice - Havan when the remaining 100 are distributed amongst us as a Prasad. This has become more convinient and most respectful to the procedural aspect. In a very big program like Shri Aswamedhayaagam - we offered 21000 modak laddus through havan since the havan kund was very big and it could accommodate the entire lot.
This time too we made out 1000 modak havan for Lord Ganesh each day on 12th and 13th also. For Lord Sun, I invited a special personality by name Shri Jagannadh Sastry from Tenali specifically for the purpose of offering prayers in the name of "Shri Surya Namaskarams" and this is really a very tough task and one in a lakh perhaps dare to do this. One has to stand on a single leg and lay down and get up atleat few hundred times only on a single leg. The next one Shri Rudra Abhishekam - when Mahanyasam is chanted and eleven times Shri Rudra Namaka and Chamaka Path is used to Abhishek Lord Shiva. Shri Vishnu Sahasra Naama Paaraayana for Lord Vishnu, Kunkumaarchana for Goddess while Shri Satyanarayana Vratam for the Navagrahas etc has taken place. All those who attended the function engaged themselves in each of these activities of their choice. When simultaneously the havan program commenced in two different havan Kunds. In one of the Kunds, people who came from different places, started offering the holy items in the name of fire sacrifice for the health and longivity of myself and also alround prosperity of those who attended. The other kund being the main kund, where only myself and my wife sat and offered the holy items as fire sacrifice. It has been my practice since quite a long time - may be for the past thirty years or so, to perform Shri Sundara Kanda Paarayana in all the programs. One of the learned scholars - Dr Achary - specially was invited to do this and it was an excellent opportunity for all of us those who gathered there to see him totally involved in this activity most religiously.
We gave a break in the afternoon and took light food to regain the strength. Lunch arragements were made to all those who attended excepting for those ritwiks and those who are in the Poojas. Lunch included both Southern Indian and North Indian dishes as many people from North, East and West of India were also present in honor of my Shashti Poorthi.
At the sun set time, the program came to a halt with the routine MANTRAPUSHPAM and there on dinner was arranged. AT the dinner time, cultural programs and honoring of different personalities took place.
Myself, mywife and my son desired to make a Dampati Pooja - honoring of the couples who completed their sixties and other personalities who excell in different fields.
A good number of photographs are bieng uploaded for the viewers purpose.
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