Happy Birthday, Aupmanyav!

[LuisDantas]

Hope it is a great one, @Aupmanyav !

 

[Aupmanyav]

Thanks, Luis. Entering in my 78th year.
I am going to change one tradition in my family today - 'no non-veg on a birthday'.
Let me initiate the change before - I change my form.
It is, for me, so silly. I belong to a traditionally non-veg. community. No blame if I do that.
We used flesh offerings even on the 'Shiv ratri', the most important religious festival for us.

"Brahmārpañam Brahma Havirh Brahmāgnau Brahmañāhutaṃ,
Brahmaiva Tena Gantavyam
 Brahmakarmā Samādhinah."

 

[crossfire]

Happy Birthday!

 

[stvdv]

Thanks, Luis. Entering in my 78th year.
I am going to change one tradition in my family today - 'no non-veg on a birthday'.
Let me initiate the change before - I change my form.
It is, for me, so silly. I belong to a traditionally non-veg. community. No blame if I do that.
We used flesh offerings even on the 'Shiv ratri', the most important religious festival for us.

"Brahmārpañam Brahma Havirh Brahmāgnau Brahmañāhutaṃ,
Brahmaiva Tena Gantavyam
 Brahmakarmā Samādhinah."

Aupmanyav, I Wish you another good year, with lots of light

"Brahmārpañam Brahma Havirh Brahmāgnau Brahmañāhutaṃ,
Brahmaiva Tena Gantavyam
 Brahmakarmā Samādhinah."

That is starting part of the food prayer I do before all my meals (sometimes 7 times a day)
I love this prayer, the meaning is beautiful

 

[Vinayaka]

May the next 78 be as interesting as the first 78.

 

[Viraja]

Namaste, @Aupmanyav ji, Wish you many happy returns of the day!

 

[Aupmanyav]

That is starting part of the food prayer I do before all my meals (sometimes 7 times a day).

Is that not a little on the higher side? The max I heard was five times prayer of Vedics and Zoroastrians of the house-hold fire (Garhpatya agni) or that of Muslims. I mean do you include this prayer even before you have a cup of tea or coffee? Then I understand it.

Happy Birthday!

Thanks, Crossfire, Viraja, Vinayaka.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[stvdv]

Is that not a little on the higher side? The max I heard was five times prayer of Vedics and Zoroastrians of the house-hold fire (Garhpatya agni) or that of Muslims. I mean do you include this prayer even before you have a cup of tea or coffee? Then I understand it.

Yes, even with water, but I did become a bit lazy recently, so need to get myself up to speed again.
Pacham yannam chatur vidam (from the top of my head; forgive me if misspelled; I am no Sanskrit expert, but I like it a lot)
That is the last line of my prayer, I thought water was included in this.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Pacham yannam chatur vidam

Let us parse it: PachāmyannamChaturvidham
"Pachāmi aham annam chatuh vidham" (Digest I food four kinds = I digest the four kinds of food).
That is a problem that beginners in Sanskrit face - Sandhi, joining of words.

"Sandhi (/ˈsʌndi, ˈsæn-, ˈsɑːn-/; Sanskrit: संधि saṃdhí [sɐndʱi], "joining") is a cover term for a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on nearby sounds or the grammatical function of the adjacent words. Sandhi belongs to morphophonology."
Sandhi - Wikipedia

Parsed, it is not at all daunting. So, the way is try to parse so that one can understand. That happens in English also, e.g., I'm, That's, don't, etc. I suppose English has a connection with North German languages.

"Sandhi occurs in many languages, particularly in the phonology of Indian languages (especially Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Pali, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese, Malayalam), as well as in some North Germanic languages."

 

[Aupmanyav]

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Aw, to others you offer fine things and to me a cake! I was expecting something like this:

 

[stvdv]

Aw, to others you offer fine things and to me a cake! I was expecting something like this:

Thanks, Luis. Entering in my 78th year.
I am going to change one tradition in my family today - 'no non-veg on a birthday'.

Now you confuse me "no non-veg on a birthday" you said
Looks like non-veg to me, but I know that nowadays they can make good non-veg look-a-likes

 

[Aupmanyav]

They can, but that is not going to satisfy me. I do not have a sweet tooth now, that got decayed and lost.
"No non-veg. on a birthday" - that was the rule. I changed it today by consuming non-veg. (and I am a bit surprised. My wife took it coolly. I thought she would make a big fuss, as she used to do earlier. But no, everything went on peacefully).

 

[Revoltingest]

Aw, to others you offer fine things and to me a cake! I was expecting something like this:

I always provide cakes for birthdays.

 

[Quagmire]

Happy Birthday!

 

[Aupmanyav]

Thanks, Quagmire.

 

[ChristineM]

Very happy birthday good sir, enjoy the cake(s)

 

[Harel13]

Happy birthday!

 

[oldbadger]

Many happy returns @Aupmanyav

 

[Revoltingest]

Thanks, Quagmire.

Why doesn't your birthday show up on the members page?
I find this disconcerting!

Anyway.....