Mahalaya amavasya tarpanam

Mahālaya amāvāsya or the new moon 🌑 of the Bhādrapādā (Aug-Sep) month is from this Wednesday 🕖 evening to Thursday 🕔 evening. 

And this whole waning fortnight 🌌 <Krśna pakshā> culminating in Mahālaya is pitru pakśā, dedicated 🙏 not just to 💀 deceased 👩 parents 👨 & 👴🏻 ancestors 👵 but our very source 🕳 of existence over all of our lives, not just as humans but in all other forms of our 🦔 evolution 🌱 too. 

This fortnight is a time to 🧐recognise 🤔 the following fact: all that we’re today & all that we possess now wouldn’t have been possible, but for our source. These possessions for which we owe gratitude 🙏to our source, symbolically through our 👩parents👨, whether still around us or not, includes whatever we wrongly consider as ourselves, namely our body, mind & 🧠 intellect, leave alone the technologies, processes, methods, techniques & all other material & non-material inheritances from Mother Nature 🌬 through our parents. 

So please don’t miss out on this phenomenal opportunity to transform ourselves into all-inclusivity 🤗 through the performance of an extremely-simple ancient procedure called tarpanam to scientifically invoke & satisfy our common outer & inner source simultaneously. 

This simple technique can be performed by anyone, irrespective of gender, race, caste, creed, religion, language, nationality & any other artificial differences that we’ve created in our ignorance. The wordings have been carefully scripted 📝 to be applicable even to those whose parents in the current life are still alive. 

It can be taken up as a daily practice, even beyond Mahālaya Amāvāsya & the pitru pakshā, to clear our relationship entanglements & genetic 🧬 loans, thereby releasing our kārmic bondage & liberating ourselves from the cycle of birth 🤱, death 💀 & rebirth 🤰🏻, into mukti & mokshā. 

If possible, please keep some clean drinking water 💧 in a pancha-pātram or a glass with a small spoon 🥄.  Also, keep a plate into which you can offer the water 💦 one spoon at a time, when requested. In case you have some ▪️black▪️ (for 👦 boys/men) or ▫️white ▫️(for 👧 girls/women) sesame seeds, you may add it & akshata (uncooked rice grains tossed in turmeric & ghee) to the water 💧 pot when instructed. If not, just water 💦 is also good enough. If you’ve some darbha grass, soak three of them per person overnight in water 💦 &  three more dry ones for the ceremony. 

I strongly encourage your invaluable time to practically, or at least virtually, perform the tarpanam & shrāddha to all of our ancestors in various lives who have been so dear to all of us. Pranām.