GARUDA PURANA - The cleanser of sins of dead persons

It has been said that traditional Hindu families arrange for a recital of the most auspicious and revered GARUDA PURANA when a death happens in a Hindu household. 

Traditional, religious and Vedic Hindu families arrange for a complete recital of the Garuda Purana (garuda purana comprises of around 19,000 slokas) by a learned Vedic scholar. The recital starts from the day of the death and is continued till the 13th day, when all funeral/ death related religious rituals are completed.

The scriptures state that the recital helps the dead person to get rid of all the sins committed in their life time. In addition the person performing the recital and all the persons who listen to the recital are absolved of all their sins.

A special benefit of this vedic recital is that the recital blesses the continuation of the family tree through creation of a progeny for the dead person's children and grand children.

Divorcees, widows, widowers who want to get remarried and men whose marriage has been delayed for a long time, they should .................

Eligible bachelor men whose marriage has been delayed for a long time and divorcees, widows and widowers who want to get remarried, they should pray with complete sincerity, faith and utmost devotion to Goddess Raja Kali Amman. 

Goddess Raja Kali Amman's temple is located at 2 places, (1) Thethupatti, Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu and also at (2) Sri Seshadri Swamigal Brindavanam (also called as 18 Siddhar Koil), located at Madambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

It is highly beneficial if this worship is offered by lighting 7 lamps for the Goddess, on the coming Friday, the 11th April, 2014, which is also the sacred Thirumangalya Bagya Day.

For those persons who are afflicted with Saturn (Shani) in their 8th house,  a simple remedy ................

Persons who are afflicted with Saturn (Shani) in their 8th house, a simple remedy is to feed the crow on all Saturdays with curd rice sprinkled with Black Sesame (Til) Seeds. In Tamil language Til is called as Yellu (Ellu). This process can be supplemented by worshiping Lord Shaniswara.

Persons who are suffering from advanced diseases and who are suffering from a variety of ailments, they should .......................................

Persons who are in very advanced stages of life threatening diseases and suffering for a long time from a variety of ailments, they should visit Lord Vaidhyanadhaswamy Temple - Consort Goddess Thaiyyal Nayaki (the name of the place is Vaitheeswaran Koil) located at Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu, South India and offer sincere worship.

The worship procedure is have a dip in the temple tank Sitha Amirtha Theertham, then worship Goddess Thaiyyal Nayaki and then Lord Vidhyanathaswamy and offer sincere and devoted prayers. A temple prasad by the name of Thiruchaandu Urundai is available for consumption, which is said to offer miraculous cure for many life threatening and incurable diseases.

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Persons who are suffering from serious illnesses who want to get cured and those who want to attain Mukthi & Moksha, they should .................

Persons who are suffering for a long time from serious life threatening illnesses and who want to get cured and persons who want to attain Mukthi and Moksha at the end of their life time, they should visit the most sacred and famous Chidambaram Sri Nataraja Temple, which is located in Chidambaram Town, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu. 

They should visit the temple and offer a type of worship called as Sri Kunjithapadam. During Sri Kunjithapadam, a collection of rare and special herbal mixture is offered as worship to Lord Sri Nataraja. The pooja vidhis, process and methods of offering may

be enquired from the Dikshidars who are the custodians of the temple. This type of Parihara has been graciously offered to the world by the most revered saint of our time, Kanchi Paramacharya, Sri Chandrasekara Saraswathi Swamigal.

In addition the Sri Nataraja Temple is famous also for the following specialities.
(1) Maragatha (Emerald) Lingam - The temple is in possession of a small but extremely powerful Maragatha (Emerald) Lingam, whose darshan is allowed for public and devotees only on Monday during Brahma Muhurtha time (early mornings around 5.00AM).
(2) Temple Bell "SIGANDI POORANAM" - Sigandi Pooranam is the official temple bell present in Sri Nataraja Temple, which is the most sacred and most auspicious temple bell in the whole world. It is the only one in this whole world, where it is said that if a person hears the bell ringing sound continuously for 1 minute with complete faith, devotion and bhakthi, it will increase the person's life span by a few seconds.
(3) There is also a very sacred Mukthi Lingam installed in the Sri Nataraja Temple by the foremost saivate saint, Bhagwan Sri Adi Shankara

For giving relief and good status to persons who died in unnatural circumstances and those who are on their death bed due to illness, disease etc., they should ..............

Persons who are on their death bed for a long time and who are suffering due to illness, disease etc. and for providing relief and giving good status to persons who had an unnatural death, their children should visit Sri Pathanjali Manoharar (Lord Shiva) Temple at Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, South India. This temple is located at a distance of 2 kms from Thiruvarur Bus Stand on the Thanjavur-Thiruvarur Road.

It is said the principal deity Lord Shiva is a Swayambu Linga made out of mud. People who require relief for their near and dear ones should visit this temple and offer sincere prayers with utmost devotion, faith and single minded focus. The speciality of this temple is that on each Amavasa (New Moon) day, people perform Annabisheka to Lord Shiva and perform Pitru worship.

The procedure to be followed is to take a bath in the Sacred Theertha (Pitru Ghat) of the Thiruvarur Thyagaraja Swamy temple located nearby and then take bath in the Agni Theertha of the Pathanjali Manoharar temple and then worship Goddess Mathurabashini Amman, then worship Lord Pathanjali Manoharar, then do Annabisheka to the Lord and then light the Moksha Deepa and complete the worship procedures as advised by the vedic pundits available at the temple.

   

For couples to prevent divorce, get united and sustain their mutual understanding and maintain mutual love and affection and to sustain familial ties, they should................

Couples who are facing problems in their married life, those who are on the verge of divorce and those who are intending to file for their divorce application, they should visit Sri Lalithambika Samedha Sri Meganatha Swamy Temple and pray with complete sincerity, devotion, faith and self belief. 

It is preferable that those who are undergoing family and marriage related problems should visit this temple as a couple and offer their sincere prayers, do Kumkuma Archana and offer Vastra (Saree) to the Goddess. In addition it will be highly beneficial if the couple together face the goddess and read the Sri Lalitha Sahasranama Stothra at least 12 times continuously.

This temple is located in a place called Thirumeeyacchur, near Peralam, Nannilam Taluk, Thiruvarur District, Tamil Nadu, South India.

A very significant point to note here is that Sri Lalitha Sahasranama Stothra was brought to this world by the Vak Devatas which came out of the mouth of the goddess at this place.  An additional highlight is that the Great Sage Agastya created a set of Stothras called as "Navaratnamala" at this place.

At this temple Sri Lalithambika sits in a Raja Simhasan on a Lotus Pedestal (Peetam) and in an Abhaya, Varada Hasta Mudra, which is a speciality.