Dear Sriman Sukumar and Ramachandran, we are supposed to chant gAyatrI as dvijas. other than that there is no attacehment to it in the sampradAyam. In fact, we are not supposed to do any upAsanAs. participating in laksha/akhaNda gAyatrI japam etc. does not go well with the sampradAyam. gAyatrI is not any female deity and hence not mother of any scripture, as per our sampradAyam. SrImAn SrIbhAshyam appalAchArya swAmI has clarified this in his works. Also there is a beautiful explanation given for the gAyatrI mantra as I said earlier. It is SrIman nArAyaNa, the mother and father of everything ("pitAhamasya jagatah.." bhagavad gItA) we are not supposed to do any upAsanA but involve in kainkaryam. In the temple premises, we have to face the presdiing deity i.e. SrImannAryANa's archA form, and not east or west, while doing sandhyA vandanam. However, sandhyAvandanam can be skipped or postponed when we are busy with kainkaryams. This is what SrImAn TK GopAlAchArya swAmI's sandhyA vandanam book says. It is worth thinking of "naharam aruL purindhu.." pASuram of ALwArs in this context. adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan VinjmaUri SrImahAvishNu SarmA --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sukumar <sukumar@xxxx> wro te: > Sri Krishnaya Namah! > > Thanks a lot for a detailed explanation. I am in the process of getting a > detailed book on Sandhyavandanam from Tulasi Thota, Bangalore. > > In the meanwhile, I still have few queries: > > 1. There is a sloka in the Sandhyavandanam - "dhyeya sada savithramandala > madhyavarthi; narayanaha sarasijasana, sannivishtahaha, keyuravan, > makarakundalavan, kiritihari ............ savithranamaka lakshminarayana > preraneya lakshminaraya prithyartham......" With this, can we deduce > Savithramandala madhyavarthi as Srimannarayana. I could not understand > much with my limited knowledge on Sanskrit. > > 2. Also, you said Savita lies inside Sun. Can you elaborate on Savita. > Is it Lord Srimannarayana. > > 3. Who is the author for this Naimisthika karma. Or is it a part of Karma > Kanda(first part) of Vedas > > 4. There are various types of this karma depending on veda - yajurveda, > rigveda etc., Why is that so. Why can't it be combined as a single capsule > (as you said below) and given to us. > > 5. How do we know our veda. Is it only by our ancestors, or is it dependent > on our Gothra, as you know, same gothras is allocated for different class > of people and this is very complex structure. > > Hope you have time to answer these. Thanks for your time. > > Sukumar > > PS: Last but not the least, elders say in my household that if Gayathri > Manthra chanted daily for a period of 7 years, Gayathri follows you like a > shadow. > > > > Sri Krishnaparabrahmane Namah!
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