NEW DELHI: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) carried out a ‘shanti homam‘ ritual on the Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple complicated in Tirumala on Monday. The ceremony was organised in response to the current controversy surrounding the usage of animal fats within the ghee provided for the preparation of the temple’s well-known Laddu Prasadam.
Government officer of TTD, Shamala Rao, together with different officers and clergymen, participated within the Maha Shanti Homam.The ritual, which concerned the set up of three ‘homagundams’ on the Yagashala throughout the temple premises, was meant to nullify the “sinful results” of utilizing the contaminated substances.
The choice to carry out the ‘shanti homam’ was made after consulting with the Agama adviser and Pedda Jeeyangar, as per the suggestion of chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. This ritual follows the annual ‘pavitrotsavam‘ purificatory ceremony performed on the temple in August, which goals to counteract any unfavourable results of unintentional sins dedicated throughout the temple complicated.
Along with the ‘shanti homam’, Mr. Syamala Rao introduced that ‘panchagavya‘ could be sprinkled all through the shrine to additional purify the realm. “This, we consider, will assist restore religion of the religious Hindus after the unlucky incident,” he acknowledged throughout a media deal with on Sunday.
Earlier, Agama advisors and clergymen on the Tirumala temple unanimously prompt purificatory rituals within the kitchen and a yagam to hunt pardon to be used of alleged animal fat-laced cow ghee in its laddus. Agama advisors are Vedic students who oversee temple rituals.
The suggestion was put ahead on Saturday at a gathering of Agama advisors and clergymen to hunt their recommendation on the purificatory measures in view of the ghee adulteration report. The assembly was referred to as by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which runs the Lord Venkateswara temple. Chief priest A Venugopala Deekshitulu and 4 Agama advisors had been amongst those that met and mentioned varied purificatory strategies.
Sources informed TOI that TTD was suggested to conduct ‘Mahashanti’ and ‘Vaastu’ homams together with recitation of ‘Nalayira Divya Prabhandam’ and ‘Veda Parayanam’, in addition to taking on purification rituals on the temple kitchen (Potu).
In response to sources, the chief priest and different non secular authorities consider that the not too long ago concluded three-day annual ‘Pavitrotsavams’ competition on the hill temple serves as a adequate purificatory ritual to hunt forgiveness for any intentional or unintentional wrongdoings. They preserve that a further purification ceremony is pointless, particularly because the competition was held after the ghee adulteration incident got here to mild.
The laboratory evaluation of samples of cow ghee provided to the temple for making its well-known laddu prasadam through the time period of the YSRCP govt in Andhra revealed presence of international fat together with lard (clarified pig fats), tallow (beef fats) and fish oil. The report was made public by the TDP govt on Thursday.
