Dear sir, I am a male brahmin of 88 yrs old as told in earlier post. Due to advanced age and health with comorbidities it has become difficult to carry on as before. I want to keep it to minimum (Gayathri only) till the end. I hope Gayathri mantra cannot be offered back to mantra devathai thru Cow (Kamadhenu) which is supposed to contain all mantras in it. Of course, it can only be relinquished at the time of SANYAS (Apath sanyasam). Nowadays it is difficult to take Apath sanyasam due to so many hurdles. My forefathers had taken Apath sanyasam in the village where environment was conducive. That was the reason to start this post.
What you have written in Tamil is absolutely correct. Since Bhagwan says "SARVA DHARMAN PARITHYAJYA maamegam charanam vraja" I thought to leave all mantras and recitation of slokas and only chant the name of God (Narayana... Govinda.. etc and pass on the days. What is your opinion about leaving Gayathri mantra and start chanting God's name. Regards. H Sankaranarayanan
Dear Sir,
The
sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śharaṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣhayiṣhyāmi mā śhuchaḥ
Is a concept of total surrender where one fully submits to the will of God and empties himself of all preconceived notions that he has adhered to or stood for in life.
The word Dharma is from the root word dhr which means to stand.
So here Shree Krishna is telling us to delete all preconceived notions about everything we thought we knew.
It does not mean just giving up something to adhere to another self created path of worship.
The deeper meaning is when we surrender to God and stand as a blank clean slate, He will guide us towards what He feels is most conducive for us.
Some type of message will reach us either as a flash of inspiration message in our brain or someone might convey a message to us or we could even see the message somewhere on any place or through any medium.
When the message is the one meant for us, we would know it by our heart and not through our mind.
Also we have no idea how long it takes for us to receive the message.
You may feel like reciting mantras of your liking or your nithya karma procedure till your message arrives.
The message could be different from what we expect and it constantly gets updated too when we surrender to God.
Its very much like how we get updates from Microsoft.
It just appears from time to time to update our system.
Also most important fact is in the state of surrender even our Guru cant stand in between us and God.
So seeking opinions from anyone wont work at this stage, its up to us to allow our own system to update.
Ask God " Guide me, what should I do"
Best of luck.