[Advaita-l] Chanting Gayatri overseas

[H S Chandramouli]

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> Namaste all.
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> While I
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>  not keen to continue with participation in the thread, recent spate of
> posts concerning the views of Shankaracharyas  persuaded me to point out
> the following. I am just quoting here from the book “ Hindu Dharma “
> comprising the discourses of Sri Paramacharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.
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> Quotes from Chapter 2 “ The Universal Religion “.
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> << In the dim past what we call Hinduism today was prevalent all over the
> world  >>
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> << In the Western hemisphere too  there is evidence of Hinduism having
> once flourished there  >>
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> << You may know that the Sagaras went on digging the earth down to the
> nether world in search of their sacrificial horse. An ocean came into being
> in this way and it was called sAgara after the king Sagara.
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> The Sagaras, at last, found the horse near the hermitage of Kapila
> maharshi. Thinking that he
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> must be the man who had stolen the animal and hidden it in the nether
> world they laid violent hands on him. Whereupon the sage reduced them to
> ashes with a mere glance of his eye. Such is the story according to the
> RAmAyana.  America, which is at the antipodes, may be taken to be the
> PAtAla or the nether world. Kapil
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> aranya ( the forest in which Kapila had his hermitage ), we
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> y further take it, was situated there. It is likely that Kapil
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> aranya changed to California in the same manner as Madurai is sometimes
> altered to “ Marudai “. Also noteworthy is the fact that there is a Horse
> Island near California as well as an Ash Island . >>
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>  My own comments. This will also mean Bhagiratha led the Ganga directly
> from the Heavens, via the knotted hair on the head of Lord Shiva himself,
>  to this place to submerge the ashes of his forefathers. On the lighter
> side, Potomac could well be the Ganga of the yore. This should also answer
> some of the questions raised as to which Rishis lived in those places.
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> There are many more such  references
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> in the article
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> to support the very first quote cited above.
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> Regards
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