Vedic Rituals -5

                               Ancestor Worship

 Ancestor worship is done in all cultures of the World and also in Vedic culture. 

  Einstein brought the revolutionary concept of time and light travel to the Western World, where he showed through his famous  E=MC² equation  that Energy level in relative to speed of light changes the time scale.

     This amazing concept of Energy and Time was perceived thousands of years back  in our Vedic tradition.  Brahma, the creator  is at high energy level and so Brahma's time scale  is different from our time scale. Pitru's single day is equal to one month of Human time on earth.

Pitrus: After death of a person, the body is destroyed. But the mind, the intellect and the Awareness that activated  the body does not die, but exist as energy thought vibrations. This energy is called as "Pretha-Atma" and is energized by offering rice and sesame seeds  on all new moon days of the month. The "Pretha-Atma" time scale of one day is equal to human 30 days. The Pretha-Atma will have emotional bonding for 365 days or their 12 days. Only if their emotional bonding is shredded they get into a energy level called "Pitru". This is why for one year "Thithi" ritual is done by the family of the diseased person. After 365 days, there is no more emotional connection. After one year of transforming to Pitru, they  will accept offering from any human in the world.  After attaining the Pitru state, the energy vibration becomes fit to be identified with a new human body.

     To be qualified for a human body of choice, "Punya" or meritorious debit should be available.  If not done any merits while living as a human, at Pitru level atleast they can achieve merits by doing a Selfless act. The only Selfless act is to bestow "Energy"  to Human beings on earth, who are not related to them. This action bestows merit for Pitru to attain a human birth.

     So Pitru wait to bestow Energy (blessings) to those who do the ancestory Pitru Bali worship.

     Those who have Energy debits for Materialistic and Spiritual progress are benefitted by "Pitru's" blessing.

     Men, women, children can do this Pitru worship or darpan. This is not done for dead parents. Even when parents are alive, this Pitru Tharpanam can be done. One should not thithi worship when parents are alive. That is done only after their death. Doing this every month on New moon day removes many Materialistic problems in life and help us to progress spiritually. This is of immense value. For details please read these links.

 External Purpose of doing pithrukarma

     Indian culture and civilization  which survived for the last not less than 10,000 years and it is due exclusively to the family relation, and social bondage we maintained during this period. Pithru karma is not merely for the deceased ancestral parents.   It is paying homage to all those who are associated with us in this Life (Janma) and in our past many lives (Janmas) directly and indirectly. What we offer to our forefathers and  all those who were responsible for our existence on this earth cannot be  explained  but merely physical words. We  remember many heroes, including Krishna, Jesus, Prophet , and  conduct many ritual on their birth day and  anniversary, not thinking that they are seeing all these and taking our offerings, but it is our homage to them  as they are responsible in many ways for us  in getting a  useful experience in our life.

     Performing ancestral rituals is not a superstitious action, but an important integral part of all ancient cultures of the world.  Ancestral rituals makes more sense in the light of Quantum Physics. We now understand that  Energy not only manifest as matter in this universe but also all actions including our thoughts are also energetic vibrations. Doing these rituals create positive (favorable) vibrations that affect our materialistic and spiritual life.  This ritual is done for dead people and not for anyone who is alive. So when if our parents are alive we should do this ritual for our ancestors.

     These rituals connect us to the lineage of vibrations which we call as ancestors. So ancestor worship is like modern scientists connecting to light emitted from the very beginning of solar system. Their purpose is to know the secrets of origins of universe and transform our life on earth. Same way Ancestor worship help us connect to our origin and bring an inner transformation in life to improve our quality of life.

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Click here to read the instructions (English PDF Brochure) to do  Pitru pooja (Ancestor worship rituals).

Click here to read the instructions (English doc Brochure) to do  Pitru pooja (Ancestor worship rituals).

Click here to hear audio (MP3) of the ancestor ritual while you do it. (Ancestor worship rituals).

Click here for another vedic detailed method of ancestor ritual . (Ancestor worship rituals).

 Details of New moon for the year 2010 for USA and India.