Kaah Nehth'uir
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Kaah Nehth'uir
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Madhu (Honey) being offered to the child. Madhuparka-- is the elixir of life. Instilling of energy with Madhu/Honey at the time of KAAH NETH'UIR (Jaata Karma), by the Pitri Deva --father helps the child to taste the sweetness of parental love. The parents infuse the Sanskar of spiritual feelings through the gentle hug given to the child reciting the mantra OM.
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The followers of the Vedic religion, popularly known as the Hindus consider performing of the Sanaskaars to be of the highest merit for developing the human personality for mental health and spiritual awakening. The word Sanskaar is a Vedic word, with a deep meaning, as described in the Vedic Vision. It bears a psychological impact on the personality of a child from the very beginning.
Literally, Sanaskaara means cultural preparation,consecration, purity and making pure, through the impressions on mind. The main Sanskaaras as recommended by the Manu Smriti are: Garbhaadaan, Pumasvana, Siimantonnayana, Though there is a reference of sixteen Sanakaaras as well, in the sacred texts dealing with the Smritis.. The word Sanskaara comes in the Rigveda, which says:----
It suggests that the Sanskaara makes a human being perfect. it gives him/her the strength which makes him/her physically strong, mentally alert and spiritually evolved. Sanaskaars help in keeping good memory, recognition of the Atman/soul.
The father says : O my child, I give you the Sanskaars of the Rishi that have been inherited by me under the Gotra system. Now I pass on these to you , which runs as:
O child! The Divinity may grant you the full span of hundred years of meaningful life. You consume the honey--the elixir of life and later the clarified butter for developing your physical growth and mental outlook to serve the Divine through your wonderful deeds. |
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-Netra. Here Kaah Nethar means a Sacrament performed on the eleventh day of the birth of male or female child, in a family. It should be done on the eleventh day after birth, within the religious norms and tradition.
sutaka or 
---ho?cha/ HONTCHA for ten days, after the baby is born.Therefore, in order to put the new born baby in the family fold on the eleventh day, a special Homa is performed to purify the child in particular and the mother in general, within the Vedic injunction.
-Fire oblations given to the Devatas on the elenth day of the new born baby is the Kaah Neth'uir for a Kashmiri Hindu boy/girl. The following Veda Mantra is recited by the father, while writing ? OM/AUM, on the tongue of the new born baby :
