Shrine photos & advice on pujas please

[Sahasranama]

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By the way I carried out a Radha puja tonight including Asan suddhi, Achaman and Ahavana, very purifying indeed.

Very nice, if you are interested I have encoded some Radha stotras at the Sanskrit documents site: http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_dei...ties_misc.html

[Sean]

Wow, you're a scholar to be sure. Is there a particular link you'd recommend?!

[Sahasranama]

I am no scholar, it's a volunteer based site, I have just contributed some stotras for Radha and Durga and a few puja texts for Tulasi and panchadeva.

What kind a link are you looking for?

You can find more puja texts here: http://satsangh.tripod.com/pujatexts/index.html

[Sean]

Thanks; I'm not familiar with stotra hymns but I'll try and find out more about them.

[Sahasranama]

The best way to get familiar to stotras is to listen to them. There are many audio files of stotras at www.raaga.com

Also, on youtube you can find a lot of stotra chanting, for example a very beautiful stotra is the Shiva Mahimna Stotra. This is one is maybe too difficult to chant at first, a simpler stotra for Shiva is the Shiva Panchakshara Stotra

You can chant these after you have offered the upacharas to the deities.

[Sean]

The best way to get familiar to stotras is to listen to them. There are many audio files of stotras at www.raaga.com

Also, on youtube you can find a lot of stotra chanting, for example a very beautiful stotra is the Shiva Mahimna Stotra. This is one is maybe too difficult to chant at first, a simpler stotra for Shiva is the Shiva Panchakshara Stotra

You can chant these after you have offered the upacharas to the deities.

Good, that's great & I'll look them up forthwith.

One question I'll run by you: once when I was in Pushkar and once on a train in India I heard this rapid hypnotic chant whose genre I'd like to identify. It's a rapidly changing, ceaseless and virtuosic melodic line sung in unison by girls- really great stuff...

[NayaSurya]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwMyiDbQrjY

Shiva Tandava Stotram?

<3

[Sahasranama]

If it was one line then it was probably some form of kirtana, but I can't say. Do you remember some of the words?

[Sean]

No, indeed not: I suspect it was Sanskrit but may have been Hindi. I know a bit about music and this is quite unique, seemingly endlessly varied and ongoing without pause, at a steady rate. I'd take a great deal of practice I'm sure, and the girls sound like they really enjoy it- it's manic stuff.

It's the sort of thing influencing the development of musical minimalism in America and Britain from the 1960s on, and also has similar possessed onward character of the popular music.

[Sean]

I'm wondering if there are any thoughts on me offering an alcoholic drink at my shrine. I've been doing this for a few months and quite pleased with it even if it's considered by some as impure (it's a rather pure Chinese white spirit). I guess I'd rather like to set up a Varuni shrine, the Vedic goddess who rides of course in an endless sea of inebriation, counterpart to Varuna a god of order.