Answers to FAQ's on Sanatana Dharma / Hindu Principles Part 31

FAQ's are nothing but Frequently Asked Questions.
Please do ask a priest or elders, if you have any doubts in below, who knows very well about our customs and practices and clarify the same.

To get rid of day to day life problems and to get success in your life follow any of these procedures.

• Offer two bananas to any cow near your home every Monday and Thursdays.
  
  
  
• Take an vessel, ask every family member to put one plam of rice in that vessel and they can leave for work. The Female head of the family should add one block of jaggery (achu bella in kannada) powdered in the vessel. She should also add powdered Chickpea (Kadale Kaalu in Kannada ; Konda Kadalai in Tamil) or Chana dal (Kadale bele in Kannada ; Kaḍalai paruppu in Tamil i.e split Chickpeas without seedcoat). This mixture can be offered as it is or it can be offered after preparing Tambittu (Rice Flour Balls mixed with Jaggery).
  This has to be followed everyday if possible or it can be offered every Mondays and Thursdays. This procedure has to be carried out before sunset. If you are not able to find the cow, you should go in search of cow and finish this procedure before sunset.
  
  
• If you have cows near your home, get hasi halu (milk) from the cow in the evening and offer it as Naivedya to Tulsi. Before offering the milk to Tulsi, lightly dip the cow's tail in it and add pinch of Gomutra (cow's urine) in it. After offering to Tulsi ask the people who have speech and throat problems to drink it.
  
  
  
• Everyday you should keep 21 Bermuda grass (Garike hullu in Kannada ; Arugampul in Tamil) to Lord Ganesha. Next day morning take this Garike hullu and boil it with water and anyone can drink this water with milk. It will clear all unknown diseases inside the body. You should keep it on Wednesdays only. You should follow this for 21 Wednesdays and you should offer Garike hullu for 21 different Ganeshas. You can offer Garike hullu to Lord Ganesha in mornings or evenings.
  
  
• Keeping the rope tied to ox's nose behind main door will bring good fortune. The rope must be used one. Before leaving home offer namaskara to the rope. This will not bring unnatural deaths.