Today is a very auspicious day in the Hindu Calender as it marks the beginning of Dakshinaayana Parva kaalam.
After performing daily Sandhyavandhanam, Deva Pooja etc., brahmin men offer tharpanam to their departed parents and ancestors.
As Brahmins, I and my gentlemanly landlord also performed the ritual in our houses.
My landlord's wife, a kind lady, provides food cooked by her on amaavaasya and auspicious days so that I don't need to order via Swiggy (food which may not be cooked by any Brahmin).
As I mentioned in a previous post, my landlord and his wife are highly educated engineers and kind people.
While I was performing the tharpanam ritual, there was a problem: A mud pot seller set up his collection at the pavement just near my residence and carried on his announcement using a loudspeaker (like many street vendors) with sound level exceeding the limit set by the Government. This went on for about four hours. Because of the noise, I couldn't concentrate on my ritual to satisfactory extent.
I think that our Government officials, politicians and people such as the local MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) should be given severe punishment for letting such atrocities happen.
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