1:36nihhatya dhārtarāṣṭrān naḥ kā prītiḥ syāj janārdanapāpam evāśrayed asmān hatvaitān ātatāyinaḥ1:37tasmān nārhā vayaṁ hantuṁ dhārtarāṣṭrān svabāndhavānsvajanaṁ hi kathaṁ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava In Śloka 36 and 37, Arjuna
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Pujya Swamiji… Balama/Pula – how many days has to follow on this. Kindly advise us, as people are telling different days… i.e. 12 / 14 & recently i read from a book that it is to be 16 days. Only close relative has to main these or distant relative also has to follow this… Kindly advise swamiji.. Last one month i have 2 pula & 1 balama, (distant mother relative) and couldn’t read sthothram / sahasranama etc. & can’t go to the nearest temple, as am a dly going to temple in the early morning to see nirmalya darshanam / abhishekam. Kindly advise, so that will follow your guidance swamiji.
Posted by Ravi Nair on August 1, 2009
Dear Ravi Nair,
Kindly excuse us for the delay in replying to your question. Please understand that there are no hard and fast rules for observing these traditions. It varies from caste to caste. Actually when some body dies we feel a vacuum and loneliness. At that time if we go to temples, we can not concentrate on the divinity because of the misery and pain that we undergo. That is why this tradition was observed. But there is no harm in reading holy texts and doing Japam etc. and lighting the lamp in the pooja room. God is not concerned with your physical impurity; HE wants only a pure mind and it’s surrender at HIS feet. And HE says that the mind which carries HIM carries no impurities.
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