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30/09/2026

Sixteen days a year when the offering reaches further than at any other time.

Guruvugaru's way of putting it stayed with us. If you knew in advance that the market goes down for fifteen days every year, would you not plan for it and commit your whole fund then?

That is Mahalaya Paksham. The sixteen days of Bhadrapada bahula paksham, ending on Mahalaya Amavasya.

And the map widens during these days. Greater realms open. You offer pinda pradanam not only to your own pitru devatas but to your acharyas, to the guru who gave you mantropadesha, and to your friends.

If you have never done any of this, or you do not know your tithi, or years have gone by, this is the fortnight to begin. Nothing is late here.

Tell us your questions in the comments and we will try to take them into the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

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29/09/2026

You are not barred from the temple for a year.

So many families believe this. Somebody dies, and for twelve months nobody sets foot inside, at exactly the time they most need to.

The first year is called eti sutakam, and the instruction was never don't go. It was don't commission special pujas and big sankalpas, because for that year the pitru devatas are dependent on you and your attention belongs with them.

Devatarchana stops only for the thirteen days of maila. After purification you resume as usual, and some households do a Satyanarayana vratam and a Vedic ashirvachanam at that point.

If you have been keeping away, or someone told your family to keep away, this is the one to watch.

Chapter 7 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Tell us your questions in the comments and we will try to take them into the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

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27/09/2026

Ninety-five percent of families do none of this and seem perfectly fine. Other cultures have no such practice at all and are thriving. So what is the claim really worth?

1. The lens. Without the rnatraya framework you see only material things. Look with the eyes of the skin and you see a body, a house, a smile, and you conclude the man is doing well. Ask instead whether he has elevated himself, and how far along that road he is, and the surface answer stops being an answer.

2. Karma across births. What you are experiencing now is not necessarily the fruit of what you did in this life. Skip this now, and the difficulty may simply arrive in the next one.

3. The other cultures. From a distance a hill looks perfectly smooth. Only up close do you see the folds, and how hard it is to climb. Look closely at the marriage system, at children, at kinship, at support structures and emotional support, and the deficits appear. Successes are visible from far away. Failures only when you go near.

This is Chapter 6 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Tell us your questions in the comments and we will try to take them up in the sessions ahead.

We are GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program. We bring the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions, and we want dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

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[pitru devatas, pitru devathas, pitru karma, pitru runa, three runas, deva runa, rishi runa, pitru anugraham, taddinam, abdikam, masikam, samvatsarikam, shraddham, tarpanam, pinda pradanam, parampara, grihastha dharma, sanatana dharma, telugu dharma podcast, GAP grihastha awareness program]

26/09/2026

The bhokta is not a guest being fed. He is invoked as the pitru devata himself.

That is why the family eats only after he has eaten, as prasadam.

And the rules on him are real. He must not eat the previous evening, and fasts through the morning, because Shraddham begins in the aparahna, after midday. Devatas are worshipped in the morning, pitru devatas after. He is served more generously than usual precisely because he has fasted. The next day he must do extra japa, to come back from the pitru devata position into the human one.

Bhoktas belong only to Anna Shraddham. Aama Shraddham has none at all.

And for families outside the Brahmana varna: Aama Shraddham, or brahmana cooks preparing the food and serving the bhoktas, or Hiranya Shraddham if neither is possible. Something must be done. And the nitya practice alongside it.

Chapter 5 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Leave your questions in the comments and we will try to answer them in the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

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26/09/2026

Can any purohita perform pitru karmas?

Anyone can see the difference between a purohita who conducts weddings and one who conducts antyeshti. Guruvugaru confirms the difference is real, and explains what it actually costs the man doing it.

Nothing in the shastra says a purohita must touch the body, but in practice these lapses happen. For an upasaka who does sandhyavandanam and japa daily, going to the shmashanam does throw things out of order.

But if he returns with a resolve, that much Gayatri, that much japa, and purifies the money that came from the karma. What he is doing is establishing the finest possible communication line for the yajamana with his Pitru Devathas.

Chapter 5 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Leave your questions in the comments and we will try to answer them in the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

Full episode on YouTube. Link in bio.

πŸ“ž Call or WhatsApp Karishye: +91 81210 07481



[pitru devatas, pitru devathas, pitru karma, pitru runa, three runas, deva runa, rishi runa, pitru anugraham, taddinam, abdikam, masikam, samvatsarikam, shraddham, tarpanam, pinda pradanam, parampara, grihastha dharma, sanatana dharma, telugu dharma podcast, GAP grihastha awareness program]

25/09/2026

Every other devata is common to everyone. The Pitru Devatas alone are yours.

That is what makes this different, and it is also what we are quietly losing. Strip the personalisation out and something beautiful goes with it: the curiosity about who your own people actually were.

Many families have narrowed the whole thing down to posting in memory of my father on an English calendar date. The intention is real. Nobody has told them how it actually reaches.

Communicating with a cow, Guruvugaru points out, requires establishing a relationship first. You cannot sprint at it. The same applies here.

So where do you start? Nitya tarpanam, daily. Not once a year, not only when grief brings it to mind, but a steady connection kept up to that source.

Chapter 4 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Leave your questions in the comments and we will try to answer them in the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

Full episode on YouTube. Link in bio.

πŸ“ž Call or WhatsApp Karishye: +91 81210 07481



[pitru devatas, pitru devathas, pitru karma, pitru runa, three runas, deva runa, rishi runa, pitru anugraham, taddinam, abdikam, masikam, samvatsarikam, shraddham, tarpanam, pinda pradanam, parampara, grihastha dharma, sanatana dharma, telugu dharma podcast, GAP grihastha awareness program]

24/09/2026

Nitya tarpanam is the daily practice, and you do it yourself. A purohita is for the occasions you want performed grandly, with people gathered. This is not one of them.

It is called nitya because it is meant to be regular. Not once a year, not only when grief brings it to mind, but a steady connection maintained to that source. Water offered through the pitru tirtham on your own hand, with black tilas, is the whole of it.

And one correction that catches most people: if your parents are still living, you do this too. Without black sesame, and without naming anyone. You address the entire pitru mandala, along with their wives, sons and grandsons, and the Rishis and Devatas as well. No personal names at all.

Chapter 3 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Leave your questions in the comments and we will try to answer them in the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

Full episode on YouTube. Link in bio.

πŸ“ž Call or WhatsApp Karishye: +91 81210 07481



[pitru devatas, pitru devathas, pitru karma, pitru runa, three runas, deva runa, rishi runa, pitru anugraham, taddinam, abdikam, masikam, samvatsarikam, shraddham, tarpanam, pinda pradanam, parampara, grihastha dharma, sanatana dharma, telugu dharma podcast, GAP grihastha awareness program]

24/09/2026

Science says we all came from apes. So do your Pitru Devata offerings go to apes?

Dinesh garu put that question to Guruvugaru directly. The answer is not about biology. It is about pramana, what counts as valid knowledge and who gets to decide.

- The evidence based framework is one pramana. It is not the only pramana.
- That from which everything arises, by which everything is sustained, into which everything dissolves. How far does science actually agree with this definition?
- The ape came from something too. The Rishis followed that chain all the way back.
- Denisovans, quantum entanglement. Things we did not know twenty years ago are now surfacing from within science itself.
- The child's view and the parent's view. Synergy has to come from both sides.

Chapter 2 of Unpacking the Pitru Karmas. Leave your questions in the comments and we will try to answer them in the sessions ahead.

GAP, the Grihastha Awareness Program, brings the shastras directly to the samajam through workshops, podcasts and live sessions. Dharma made accessible and practicable in modern life, without gatekeeping. Presented under the dharmic guidance of Sri Kameshwari Foundation.

Full episode on YouTube. Link in bio.

πŸ“ž Call or WhatsApp Karishye: +91 81210 07481



[pitru devatas, pitru devathas, pitru karma, pitru runa, three runas, deva runa, rishi runa, pitru anugraham, taddinam, abdikam, masikam, samvatsarikam, shraddham, tarpanam, pinda pradanam, parampara, grihastha dharma, sanatana dharma, telugu dharma podcast, GAP grihastha awareness program]

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