Dear Swami, I can neither contest this reasoning nor know pretty well if I can buy them for the moment. I also heard such reasonings in the past, but I have not come across anything definitive on this matter. On the contrary there were lady veda pundits in the times of yore. All that can be said at this point of time is that for some really good reasons recitation of vedas have been prohibited for ladies by poorvacharyas and is in practise in that form for generations now. Hence that should be respected. I would only limit my self fto this level for the moment . Sajjana padapadma parama renuhu Lakshmi Narasimha dasan Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: swamin, My learned father and grandfather also were of the same view and requested that Vedas are not for the females. But this was not because of Gender bias. The explanation my Grandfather told me (incidentally he was alsovery close to Thirukudathai swami from his poorvashrama days) was that due to the swara and the deergha and haswa tones it is not suitable for family females as most of the sounds are from the bottom of the stomach. But ladies can recite the slokas of Desikan and the nalayiram and others. dasan/raghavan --- narsimhan csl wrote: > > Simple answer to this is Veda Mantras are prohibited > for Ladies. As ordained by acharyas, vaishnava > ladies follow this. > > Sajjana padapadma parama renuhu > > Lakshmi Narasimhan dasan > > s > > "Mrs.Saroja Chakravarty" wrote: > Dear All, > Pranams. > We have a religious group here in Jal vayu Vihar > Bangalore.At the end of sloka recitation they recite > Manthra Pushpam. I was not taught this by my mother > who was a learned lady in Ubhaya Vedanthas and also > a student of Thirukkudanthai Andavan.I am in a > dilemma if I should learn this or not.Kindly guide > me. > Regards > Saroja Chakravarty > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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