Q.1. What is the difference between daily Upasana, Anusthan and Purascharan?
Ans. Daily worship is a part of routine day to day living. Anusthan is a worship of a higher order in which the devotee is bound by many restrictions and has to follow specified rules and regulations. Consequently, in the latter case, special benefits accrue. Purascharan, however, is a still higher specialised form of Sadhana. For Purascharan a number of specific Mantras and rituals are to be followed. Thus, only an individual with an advance of training is capable of performing a Purascharan. For a layman, therefore, Anusthans are recommended, which are easy to perform.
Q.2. What are the types of Anusthans? How much time is required for each?
Ans. There are three types of Anusthans small (Laghu) medium (madhyam) and Big (Uchch). The counts are as follows :
1) Small Anusthan: 24000 Japs to be completed in 9 days at the rate of 27 cycles of rosary per day. Time taken: on an average, 3 hours per day (with about 10 to 11 Malas per hour).
2) Medium Anusthan: 1,25000 Japs to be completed in 40 days at the rate of 33 Malas per day. Time taken: 3-4 hours per day.
3) Major Anusthan: 24,00,000 Japs to be completed in a year at the rate of 66 Malas per day. Time taken: about 6 hours per day.
Q.3. What are the pre-requisites for an Anusthan?
Ans. Cleansing of body, clothes and implements of worship; the six rituals; ‘Panchopchar’; Jap; Meditation ; ‘Suryarghdan’; (A small Kalash with water and incense are kept along with a photograph or idol of the deity.) Oblations of : water, ‘Akchat’, ‘Chandan’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Naivedya’. ‘Avahan’ and ‘Visarjan’ at the beginning and end are associated with Gayatri Mantra; Yagya and Brahmbhoj.
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Ans. Daily worship is a part of routine day to day living. Anusthan is a worship of a higher order in which the devotee is bound by many restrictions and has to follow specified rules and regulations. Consequently, in the latter case, special benefits accrue. Purascharan, however, is a still higher specialised form of Sadhana. For Purascharan a number of specific Mantras and rituals are to be followed. Thus, only an individual with an advance of training is capable of performing a Purascharan. For a layman, therefore, Anusthans are recommended, which are easy to perform.
Q.2. What are the types of Anusthans? How much time is required for each?
Ans. There are three types of Anusthans small (Laghu) medium (madhyam) and Big (Uchch). The counts are as follows :
1) Small Anusthan: 24000 Japs to be completed in 9 days at the rate of 27 cycles of rosary per day. Time taken: on an average, 3 hours per day (with about 10 to 11 Malas per hour).
2) Medium Anusthan: 1,25000 Japs to be completed in 40 days at the rate of 33 Malas per day. Time taken: 3-4 hours per day.
3) Major Anusthan: 24,00,000 Japs to be completed in a year at the rate of 66 Malas per day. Time taken: about 6 hours per day.
Q.3. What are the pre-requisites for an Anusthan?
Ans. Cleansing of body, clothes and implements of worship; the six rituals; ‘Panchopchar’; Jap; Meditation ; ‘Suryarghdan’; (A small Kalash with water and incense are kept along with a photograph or idol of the deity.) Oblations of : water, ‘Akchat’, ‘Chandan’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Naivedya’. ‘Avahan’ and ‘Visarjan’ at the beginning and end are associated with Gayatri Mantra; Yagya and Brahmbhoj.
✍ЁЯП╗ Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
ЁЯУЦ Gayatri Sadhna truth and distortions Page 71
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