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Monday, December 7, 2020

Utatthya

Lomas’a said :-- O Munis! Utatthya, the son of Devadatta, was quite ignorant of anything of the 
  1. Vedas, Japam (muttering of mantra), 
  2. meditation of the deity, 
  3. worship of the Devas, 
  4. Âsana (Posture), 
  5. Prânâyâma (withholding the breath by way of religious austerity), 
  6. Pratyâhâra (restraint of mind), Bhûtas’uddhi (purification of the elements of the body by respiratory attraction and replacement), 
  7. mantra (a mystical formula regarding some deity), 
  8. Kîlaka (chanting of a mantra to serve as a pin of protection), 
  9. Gâyattrî (the famous mantra of the Brâhmins), 
  10. Saucha (cleanliness, external and internal), rules how to bathe, Âchamana (sipping of water and reciting mantrams before worship), Prânâgnihotra (offering of oblations to the fire of Prâna or to the fire of life), 
  11. the offering of a sacrifice, 
  12. hospitality, 
  13. Sandhyâ (the morning, mid-day or evening prayer), 
  14. collecting fuels for oblations, and 
  15. offering of oblations.

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