Tilak and Acamana

Take full bath and then sit down facing north, wearing beads and gamsha. Offer obeisances to your spiritual master and to the Lord. Wash the right and left hands with water from the camana-ptra. Chanting o astrya pha, (This is a spiritual weapon) sprinkle water on the camana-ptra. Call the holy rivers to the camana-ptra by showing the akua-mudr and chanting: gage ca yamune caiva godvari sarasvati narmade sindho kveri jale smin sannidhi kuru May water from the holy rivers Gag, Yamun, Godvar, Sarasvat, Narmad, Sindhu, and Kver kindly be present. Now invoke the bja-syllable o into the water, chanting it eight times silently while holding the bjkara-mudr over the camana-ptra. Then show the matsya-mudr over the camana-ptra.

Apply tilak
lale keava dhyyen nryaam athodare vaka-sthale mdhava tu govinda kaha-kpake viu ca dakie kakau bhau ca madhusdanam trivikrama kandhare tu vmana vma-prvake rdhara vma-bhau tu hkea tu kandhare phe ca padmanbha ca ktya dmodara nyaset

Clear space
o keavya nama o nryaya nama o mdhavya nama o govindya nama o viave nama o madhusdanya nama o trivikramya nama o vmanya nama o rdharya nama o hkeya nama o padmanbhya nama o dmodarya nama
forehead stomach chest

Location

hollow of the throat right side right upper arm right shoulder left side left upper arm left shoulder upper back lower back

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Now perform full camana as follows:

Chant
o keavya nama o nryaya nama o mdhavya nama o govindya nama o viave nama o madhusdanya nama o trivikramya nama o vmanya nama o rdharya nama o hkeya nama o padmanbhya nama o dmodarya nama o vsudevya nama o sakaraya nama o pradyumnya nama om aniruddhya nama o puruottamya nama om adhokajya nama o nsihya nama om acyutya nama o janrdanya nama o upendrya nama o haraye nama o kya nama o apavitra pavitro v sarvvasth gato pi v ya smaret puarkka sa bahybhyantara uci r-viu r-viu r-viu

Action
sip water from the brhma-trtha of your right hand sip water from the brhma-trtha of your right hand sip water from the brhma-trtha of your right hand sprinkle water on your right hand sprinkle water on your left hand touch your right cheek with the fingers of your right hand touch your left cheek with the fingers of your right hand wipe above your upper lip with the base of your right thumb wipe below your lower lip with the base of your right thumb sprinkle water on both hands sprinkle water on your feet sprinkle water on the top of your head touch your upper and lower lips with the tips of the fingers of your right hand touch your right nostril with your right thumb and forefinger touch your left nostril with your right thumb and forefinger touch your right eye with your right thumb and ring finger touch your left eye with your right thumb and ring finger touch your right ear with your right thumb and forefinger touch your left ear with your right thumb and forefinger touch your navel with your right thumb and little finger touch your heart with the palm of your right hand touch your head with all the finger tips of your right hand touch your right upper arm with the fingertips of your left hand touch your left upper arm with the fingertips of your right hand show the prama-mudr (palms together in front of your heart) Unpurified or purified, or even having passed through all situations, one who remembers the lotus-eyed Supreme Personality of Godhead is cleansed without and within.

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