Comments on: YajnOpaveeta and upAkarma

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 16:22:48 +0000

Hare kRuShNa, Please let me know if the above process is available in Kannada.

-Suresh

By: Vidyarthi

Vidyarthi — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:17:55 +0000

Hello,
It is a good initiative of this website, and this webpage to show the mantras and ritual procedures. The thing to be pointed is, if we can make people believe in the purity, discipline, health, overall clarity that one gets after performing these rituals properly, then people would surely perform or attempt to perform the rituals and chant the mantras. For this, we must really be able to properly perform the rituals with good pronunciation of mantras. Like, pranayamas are not at all performed in rituals, just nose is held. In addition, mantra chanting is not accurate. Also, the meaning of mantras and rituals, if u derstood can also help a lot in preservation of these customs.

By: Anup

Anup — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 05:19:30 +0000

Do we appreciate people when they do it? Our community has been always pointing at wrong things. Please explain rituals so that younger generations get convinced and appreciate younger generation whenever they attempt or try to follow the rituals. This is a request from one of the younger generation guy. Please dont turn into a community which constantly finds fault at younger generation. Please remember older generation is also partly responsible for this.

By: Hari

Hari — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:04:27 +0000

To my knowledge, recital of Gayatri mantra in Sandhyavandanam is to be done by the initiated Traivarnikas – Brahmanas, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas alone. Other castes can also do Sandhyavandanam, but without Gayatri or other Vedic mantras. There is a Pauranika Sandhyavandana mantra starting with ‘ yo devah savitasmakam…’ which could also be uttered. Let me add that I am a humble layman, not a scholar. This is what I heard from the saints.

By: Shashank C

Shashank C — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:48:51 +0000

Dear Mr. Menon,

Gayatri Mantra is traditionally initiated from father to son. The upanayanam is actually the initiation ritual where the father initiates the son into the mantra.
Now a days only the brahmins are maintaining the initiation ritual i.e. the Upanayanam Samskaram.

In your case Sir. Art of Living conducts initiation into Gayatri Mantra by conducting upanayanam samskara for everyone regardless of caste. If you truly desire to get initiation, I would recommend this route. Upanayanam is a must for Sandhyavandana as its literally initiation into the mantra.

I would like to say that I am in no way affiliated with Art of Living or its gurus.

By: RAJESH MENON

RAJESH MENON — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 09:39:30 +0000

I am a 48 yr old single Non- Brahmin living in Bangalore. I am interested in doing Sandhyavandana etc but upanayanam was not done for me. Please let me know what to do? Should I forget about Sandhya altogether?

By: vasudeva bhattat

vasudeva bhattat — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:41:15 +0000

Last year I had an upanayanam of shivally brahmin boy,came from Bombay with parents
while the time of Gayatrimantropadesam i made the boy to sit in the legs of father and covered with a cloth. I spelled the Gayatri word by word and told the father repeat to his son.After completion I removed the cloth,immediately the father told me that he had heard the above said manthra long ago and asked me which is the Mantra………
This is going on nowadays. what to do?

By: Narayanan Embrandiri K

Narayanan Embrandiri K — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:49:40 +0000

description of upakarmam is very excellent.

By: Balachandra

Balachandra — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:13:56 +0000

@Dhayanidhi avare,

The mantras to be chanted during Achamana are given in the above write-up. For more details you can buy the sandhyavandana book published by Madhwa Siddhantha Granthalaya. The book shop is very next to Pejavara maTha Udupi.

Application of mudras vary from maTha to maTha. Chakra mudra on the right shoulder(baahu moola), Shankha mudra on the left shoulder, Padma mudra on the centre of the chest, Gadaa mudra on the centre of forehead, and Narayana mudra over all the gopichandana naamas are important.

Regards

By: Dhayanidhi Rao

Dhayanidhi Rao — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:27:44 +0000

Could any body here can give the detailed achamana procedure with mudras, with picture for doing all the achamana activities. i am a shivalli brahmin.
kindly help me out for doing proper achaman.