Purnima / Mahalaya Pitru Paksha !!

Jai Sriman Narayana !!

 

Jaya Jaya Sankara Hara Hara Sankara !!

Mahalaya Pitru Paksha is considered as one of the most propitious period to offer homage to ancestors.   During these days offerings in the form of food and clothes to a Brahmin treated as most rewarding act.   The strict following of austerities for the performance of Shraddha / Tharpan all these days of Mahalaya Pitru Paksha pays gratifying results in the form of perpetual Happiness, Good Health, Prosperity, Intelligence and inexhaustible blessings from Pitrus to their respective family.   Recitals of ‘Garuda Puranam’ and ‘Ganga Mahathmyam’ are treated as auspicious on these days.   Whatever we offer to our ancestors with utmost faith and strict austerities on these sixteen days have got intrinsic worth.  Usually, offerings are made in the form cooked rice,  lapsi,  Kheer  (rice, milk and Sugar), Dal,  Yellow Pumpkin etc.. It is one of most important occasion should not skip unless and until a person is bedridden or unable to perform any rituals and it is compulsory that every son should pay reverence to their deceased parents.  The lasting blessing of Pitrus leads to ‘Salvation’ from the cycles of Birth and Death.

 

Prathyabhdhika Shraddha is one of primary ritual performed as a homage to the Pithrus followed with various other rite to invoke the deities to attain propitious reward from Vishwadevas who accompanies Pithrus, Lord Agni in the form of fire sacrifice, deities who get pleased at the service of offering food to Vedic Brahmins, offering clothes, etc..  A Mahalaya Paksha ritual does not requires any of the above said rite.

 

 

Pithru’s curse can cause irreparable damages to the family, humiliation of Vedic scholars/priest, irregular practice of the performance of the rituals of Shraddha can cause irrevocable curse that causes prolonged unhappiness and various inauspicious signs in the family.  Mahalaya Pithru Paksha and performance of homage to ancestors continues for fifteen days which precedes Sarada Navaratri.

Jaya Jaya Sankara Hara Hara Sankara !!

Jai Sriman Narayana !!