GREETINGS

Pranams Swamiji! I used to go to houses to chant narayaneeyam during occasions as birthday, for puja etc. Some people want mini narayaneeyam, some want the entire 100 dashakam with keertanam. Recently I visited a house where they had kept narayeenayam chanting. The team started at 8.30am and by 1.15 they finished the entire 100 dashkam, with some small slokas and keertanam. I was not able to chant at that speed so I slowly recited. After finishing I asked them why so much speed. They told they are practicing for chanting at Guruvayoor as they have only 5 hours to finish the entire dashkam. They were omitting so many words. Is completing the entire dashkam somehow the main motto? What should I do at similar situation? 2. They insisted that they should keep rukmini also and when we chant they should do the marriage part. The house owner should do all that part. Most of the time the house owner’s do not know what to do and without telling anything the people chant at full speed, Then the owner comes and asks what to do. That time they tell to do something which looks very irrelevant. Is it necessary we should keep rukumini and do all that which we do during saptaham. 3. Sometimes I feel we have so much to chant that we create so much confusion also. One teacher tells we should first chant vinayaka, guru then saraswathi, other teacher says no first vinayaka, guru then saraswathi. Everything is bhagavan so what differenence it should make if you chant first or last. Only thing if we are in a group we should chant identically to avoid chaos, and there should be a pattern or discipline isn’t it swamiji? 4. Swamiji there is a person in our family who has very foul mouth. We can’t predict for what reason she will burst at whom. So we all are very careful. Recently at a function she was busy with other relatives and we try to avoid her. So one relative came and asked us are we not in talking terms with her was there any arguments etc. I told no, no.. just for some or other reasons she flares and incurs “Pappam” by hurting us so atleast by keeping safe distance we are helping her from accumulating more pappam. But they were not satisfied anyway. All these unwanted questions swamiji. please excuse if unwanted. “Namaskaram”