APPENDIX -1
There are many types of offenses like Nama aparadha, Seva aparadha, Vaisnava aparadha, Dham aparadha. We request everyone to read them carefully and follow them as much as possible in order to grow in this process of Bhakti. These are very high temple standards in the Vaidi Bhakti process. Gradually our ability to follow them will increase by the mercy of Srila Gurudeva.
NAMA APARADHA
(Offences to the Holy Name)
1. To blaspheme devotees who have dedicated their lives to chanting the Holy Name and broadcasting the glories of the Lord is the greatest offence. The Holy Name, who is identical with Krsna, will never tolerate such blasphemous activities.
2. One who considers the name of Lord Siva to be equal to the Holy Name of Lord Vishnu or thinks that Nama and Nami are different is an offender to Sri Harinama.
3 To disobey the orders of Guru or to consider Him as an ordinary person (i.e. to consider his body material)
4. To blaspheme the Vedic literatures or literatures in pursuance of the Vedic version.
5. To consider the exalted glories of Lord described in Sastra to be exaggeration.
6. To give a concocted interpretation of the Holy Name of the Lord.
7. To think that the Hare Krsna mantra can counteract all sinful reactions and one may therefore go on with his sinful activities and at the same time chant the Hare Krsna mantra to neutralize them is the greatest offense at the lotus feet of Harinama . There is no way for such a person to be purified through practicing austerities.
8. To consider that the results achieved through auspicious pious activities such as religious vows, renunciation, offering oblation in the sacrificial fire etc, are comparable to the chanting of the divine names of Sri Hari.
9. It is an offence to preach the confidential glories of all-auspicious name of the Lord to a person in whose heart sraddha (faith) has not arisen or to the inimical.
10. That person who, inspite of hearing the astonishing glories of Sri Nama, maintains the conciousness of: “ aham mama adi “ ( I am this body and things related to this body are mine.) and who displays no persistence in or love for chanting the Holy Name , is an offender at the feet of Sri Nama.
Pramada, which means being negligent and inattentive while uttering Sri Radha Krsna’s name is also highly offensive to Sri Nama (Inattentive chanting devoid of absorption is the root cause of all offences).
(Sri Slokamrtam)
SEVA APARADHA
(Offences towards the service of the deities)
It is an offense:
1. to enter the temple wearing shoes or being carried on a palanquin.
2. to not observe the prescribed festival days and procession for the pleasure of Sri Bhagvan.
3. to avoid offering obeisances in front of the Deity
4. to offer obeisances with one hand.
5. to show one’s back to the Deities while circumambulating.
6. to spread one’s leg before the Deities.
7. to sit before the Deity with hands binding one’s raised knees.
8. to lie down before the Deity.
9. to eat before the Deity.
10. to speak lies before the Deity.
11. to speak loudly before the Deity.
12. to speak something other than Hari Katha before the Deity.
13. to cry before the deity.
14. to argue or quarrel before the Deity.
15. to chastise or favor someone before the Deity.
16. to rebuke anyone or use harsh words before the Deity.
17. to blaspheme someone before the Deity.
18. to glorify someone before the Deity.
19. to use vulgar language before the Deity.
20. to pass air before the Deity.
21. to offer respect or obeisances to anyone besides the guru before the Deity.
22. to sit with one’s back to the Deity.
23. to chew pana (betel-leaves) or tobacco before the Deity.
24 to offer obeisances or prayers to the Deity with an impure or contaminated body.
25. to wear a woolen shawl or blanket while worshiping the Deity.
26. to avoid opulent worship of the Deity, even though one is capable of performing it.
27. to eat something which is not offered to the Deity.
28. to avoid offering seasonal fruits and other ingredients to the Deity.
29. to offer food to the Deity which has already been partially consumed (in other words, food should not be distributed to anyone until it has been offered to the Deity.
30. to sit silently or not recite prayers before the Guru.
31. to praise oneself before the Guru.
32. to blaspheme the demigods.
A bhakti-sadhaka and especially those engaged in the worship of the Deity should become completely free from Seva-Aparadha and Nama-Aparadha. They should remain extremely careful at all times to not commit these offenses.
(Arcana-Dipika)
DHAM APARADHA
(Offences towards the Holy Dham)
1. Contempt and disrespect towards the Sri Guru who is the revealer of the Dham to his disciples.
2. To think that the Holy Dham is temporary.
3. To commit violence towards any residents of the Holy Dham or to any of the pilgrims or to think that they are ordinary mundane people.
4. Performing mundane activities while living in the Holy Dham.
5. Earning money by and making a business of deity worship and the chanting of the Holy Name.
6. To think that the Holy Dham belongs to some mundane country or province such as Bengal. To think that the Dham of the Lord is equal to the holy place connected with some demigod, or to attempt to measure the area of the Dham
7. To commit sinful acts while residing in the Dham
8. To consider Vrindavan and Navadvip to be different.
9. To blaspheme the Sastras, which glorify the Dham
10.To be faithless and think that the glories of the Dham are imaginary.
(Arcana-Dipika)
VAISNAVA APARADHA
(Offences towards a Vaisnava)
It is an offence:
1. to beat a Vaisnava
2. to slander him
3. to bear envy or malice against him
4. to fail to welcome or please him
5. not to feel pleasure upon seeing him.
6. to consider a pure Vaisnava as an ordinary person. (Sri Slokamrta)
APPENDIX - 2
In order to call the holy rivers in your pancapatra cup you utter the following sloka.
Gange ca Yamuna caiva
Godavari Saraswati
Narmade Sindho Kaveri
jale smin sannidhim kuru
The exact procedure is written in the book Arcana-Dipika.
Oh Ganga , Oh Yamuna , Oh Godavari, Oh Saraswati, Oh Narmada, Oh Sindhu, Oh Kaveri please become present in this water.
Now you perform acman as described in Arcana Dipika.
Also the proper procedure of applying Tilak to the twelve part of the body can be found in the same book Arcana-Dipika. Here are the following mantras to apply your tilak.
On the forehead:
Om Kesavaya namah
On the belly:
Om Narayanaya namah
On the chest:
Om Madhavaya namah
On the hollow of the neck:
Om Govindaya namah
On the right side of the abdomen:
Om Visnave namah
On the right arm:
Om Madhusudanaya namah
On the right shoulder:
Om Trivikramaya namah
On the left side of the abdomen:
Om Vamanaya namah
On the left arm:
Om Sridharaya namh
On the left shoulder:
Om Hrsikesaya namah
On the upper back:
Om Padmnabhaya namah
On the lower back:
Om Damodaraya namah
(Arcana-Dipika)
Senior devotees can guide you with this application if required.