The Hiranya
sradha that I performed in USA
By
P.R.Ramachander
I had to perform a Sradha
a few days back in USA. I
approached a near by temple. They had
put on their notice board that charges
for performing Hiranya Sradha
was $51. They had also mentioned
that Acharya SAmbhavanai is up
to us. We contacted the temple
and paid $ 51.
In india we used to pay Dakshina
for the priest (around 2000rs)
.Two priests used to come
and apart from DAkshina we used to give the priest
a small amount of rice and
one raw Banana.The sradha used to start
with permission given by my wife .
IN the place
where we are staying in USA, to my great surprise
the priest informed
us top bring
Pooja materials:
Rice 10
lb
Toor Dal 03
lb
Chana Dal 03 lb
Urad Dal 03 lb
5 types of fresh vegetables
Each 1 lb
Sesame seeds black
Mustard seeds black
Methi seeds
Cumins seeds
Asafoetida
Tamarind
Red chilli
Betel leaves
Betel nuts
Flower one bunch
Quarter coins 40
Tulasi leaves few
Temple fee 51$
Guru dakshina it's up to you
I was surprised because these
were needed only if we perform AMA sradha (where all materials needed to cook food for the
priests are given to them) and not needed
for Hiranya sradha.WE did
collect the materials and reached
the temple . The priest who belonged to tamil nadu made two koorchas to represent the
two Brahmins and right from
sankalpa I felt little strange .He read
the manthras from his cell phone and I
knew that I was
chanting not the manthras which I
used to chant for doing hiranya sradha in india nor the kriyas
which I used to do but
having chosen the person as
Acharya , I obeyed him 100%.Ofcourse
we gave him Acharya SAmbhavana.