Parashar has mentioned six daily duties. Such as bathing, sandhya, chanting, homa, self-study, offering to ancestors, and worship of deities, these six duties should be performed daily. For us, sandhya means evening praise, prayer. We do not perform sandhya, but the scriptures say it should be done. But Maharaj has included everything in worship. When one worships God, it is considered a divine duty. Everything is included in worship. So mostly in our sampraday, the custom from the beginning is that if Maharaj's worship is done properly, then sandhya and everything else is included in it. Shraddh and pitru karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → The food and other offerings given with the intention of reaching the ancestors, the faith in which this is done, that pitru karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → When people perform shraddh, they look at what their father liked. So they offer that in shraddh. Whatever the father liked, especially what he ate in old age, like shiro or dudhpak, they offer what the father liked. It is called dear food. He receives it there. It is said so. Offering with faith the food most dear to oneself, with the intention of reaching the deceased person or one's ancestors, that pitru karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → 96, 96 shraddh are to be performed in a year. They are called daily duties. Everyone should do them, they are compulsory. It will list which ones they are. They won't get any free time. Two come in a week. Two come in a week. There are 52 weeks and 96 shraddh. In Nirnayasindhu, 96 shraddh are mentioned as daily duties. Such as, 12 Amavasya, 14 Manvantara beginnings, 4 Yuga beginnings, 12 Rashi Sankranti, 13 Vaidhriti and other yogas, 13 Vyatipat, 16 Mahalaya, 4 Ashtaka in Margashirsha, Mahalaya means the shraddh of the Bhadarva month, they are called Mahalaya shraddh. 16 Mahalaya, 4 Ashtaka in Margashirsha, Pausha, Maha, and Phalguna, the eighth day of the dark fortnight of these four months are the four Ashtaka, 4 Anvashtaka, the ninth day of the dark fortnight of the four months mentioned before, 4 Purvadin, the day before the four eighth days mentioned above, 4 the seventh day of the dark fortnight. According to one's own Grihyasutra, all these make 96 shraddh. These listed ones. Those 96 shraddh are to be performed daily. Concessions will be given further in this. According to one's own Grihyasutra, there is such a phrase in the original verse, the Grihyasutras mentioned therein are many. To maintain the unity of the principles of different Vedic Vedic From the Veds. Tap to open in glossary → Vedic Vedic From the Veds. Tap to open in glossary → They are all beneficiaries. They are called beneficiaries, right? Stakeholders too, not stakeholders, just beneficiaries. Claimants, all these are called claimants. What is the meaning of the word Grihya in Grihya Sangraha? Wives, sons, and daughters, and then future sons and daughters, all these are the heirs, inheritors, takers of inheritance of the host householder, therefore they are called Grihya, debtors. To perform the samskaras of that Grihya and in peace rituals and other actions, what is done by the said acharyas is called kalpa, is called grihya. What has been decided is called kalpa. Sages have conceived this. For whom? Sages have decided this to benefit the debtors, that you have to do this much to benefit the debtors. To perform such samskaras for them, birth samskaras. So that the child's intellect becomes good, to perform charity when born. So when a son is born, a resolution of charity is to be made, right? So to perform charity for him. The wife's lap is filled, these other marriage samskaras, all these samskaras, so that their spiritual welfare is achieved and their intellect becomes good, for that, sages have conceived doing this much in this way in the scriptures, meaning they have made a rule. And grihya means all these beneficiaries, and the rules for their benefit are called Grihyasutra. To perform the samskaras of that Grihya and in peace rituals and other actions, what is done by the said acharyas is called kalpa, is called grihya. And the text explaining it is called Kalpasutra or Grihyasutra. In the original, there is such a phrase as 'according to the proper time and occasion', which means that the time to perform those duties is before noon for divine duties, at noon for human duties, and after noon for ancestral duties. So it means that in the morning, worship God. At noon, human duties mean feeding guests. And in the evening, pitru karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → And divine duties should be performed in the forenoon, ancestral duties in the afternoon, there is also such a smriti, therefore those duties should be performed at those times. 'Yatha dhana', according to one's wealth, this means not to be greedy. Performing samskaras according to the rules leads to the success of all purposes. It is said in the Grihya Parishishta that, whatever duty, much or little, is prescribed in one's Grihyasutra, if performed according to the scriptures, all become fulfilled. If the reading is 'yatha bala' instead of 'yatha dhana', then its meaning should be taken as 'according to one's strength'. Its implication is that if all samskaras like conception could not be performed at the proper time, then at the time of tonsure or sacred thread ceremony, all those samskaras should be performed together. All the samskaras of Shri Krishna Krishna 1) An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a cowherd. This is considered to be a greater avatãr than the others, as Shree Krishna possessed all of the powers of Bhagvãn, whereas other avatãrs possessed less power. Shree Krishna conveyed the message of love and humanity to the world. Also, He recited the epic poem, the Bhagvad Geetã, to Arjun in which He stated: ‘Whenever dharma declines and adharma increases, I shall incarnate myself as a human to save the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, and to establish dharma. I come into being from yug to yug’. 2) In the Vachanãmrut, Shreeji Mahãrãj also uses the name “Shree Krishna” to describe Bhagvãn Purushottam Nãrãyan. Tap to open in glossary → ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → In this way, if one does not have the strength to perform bathing, sandhya, worship, etc., three times a day, Do not gather everything at the time of cremation. At least when marriage comes, everyone spends, so do a little then. Otherwise, if it is said to gather, we will do everything at the time of cremation. In this way, if one does not have the strength to perform bathing, sandhya, worship, etc., three times a day, then perform the noon duty in the morning. Even at that time, if one does not have the strength to perform complete sandhya, worship, etc., then perform only achamana, pranayama, offering of water, and chanting of the Gayatri mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → We are told that, see, worship is to be performed three times. Worship is to be performed three times, if three times is not possible, then perform it twice. If twice is not possible, then perform it once, so we perform it once, but we should include all three in it. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. 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