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Namaskaram to all.

Kudos to Sri Anbil Ramaswamy for taking up this
wonderful initiative. As Sri Ramachandran rightly
says, people have totally forgotten the essentiality
and magnanimity of Sandhyavandanam and are looking up
to many other things. This is like neglecting one's
own parents and doing great service to the society.

I have come across several people professing with
pride about their belonging to the Brahmin community,
but do not perform the Sandhya even for a day, not
even on the day of the upakarma. What is the use of
being a Dwija and not performing the most important
part of it? 

Many more say they have been initiated into this
mantram and that mantram, but without performing the
Sandhya, these are least fruitful.

Many belonging to the priestly class also have given
up this sacred ritual. They adorn themselves with the
eye-catching religious insignia thinking that these
will attract many people. But seldom do they know that
the tejas obtained from performing the Sandhya will be
far more than anything else.

Regards,
Sudarshan Iyer
 

--- s.ramachandran@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Most Respected members:
> 
> ATLANTA IS INDEED BLESSED.
> 
> Very nice to hear of this ultimate initiative by
> Shri Anbil Ramaswamy. This
> is the single most critical requirement for this
> age, especially for us who
> wear  the  Sacred  thread.   As  a Venerated  Sage
> from Kanchi exhorted and
> lamented  long  ago :  non-performance of  the
> Sandhya is the curse of this
> Kali  yuga  when  worship in various forms is given
> undue importance at the
> cost  of the Sandhya which is relegated to a
> mechanical meaningless, casual
> ritual to be rushed thru.
> 
> In  Mumbai  a  small initiative was taken 3 years
> ago by an obscure scholar
> associated  with  the  Bhajana  Samaj.   Every
> Sunday between 3 to 5, free.
> Please  believe  this  writer,  but  except for just
> 4 people there were no
> takers.   He  had  to  ultimately  discontinue the
> class as even this bleak
> number  started  diminishing  and  he  had only this
> writer and his sons as
> students.   He  took  a very reluctant decision to
> call-off the classes and
> blamed  the  parents, especially mothers for
> pampering their boys by urging
> them  to attend the Rudram, Sanskrit, V-Sahasranama,
> Narayaneeyam and other
> chanting  classes  on  weekends conducted by
> professional tutors charging a
> fee,  when  at  the  primary level their eligibility
> itself was in question
> since they were not performing the Sandhya
> regularly. Boys were more regular
> in their Mridangam classes at the Shankmukhananda
> Sabha and would rush from
> their  school  and  the  parents  would  be  very 
> proud  to distribute the
> elaborate  invitation  cards  for  their 'first
> stage performance' of their
> Carnatic  vocal  rendition  or the Mridangam or
> flute performance, but when
> one  discreetly enquired, they simply brushed off
> with typical "street-smart
> rhetoric" - where is the time for Sandhya? we listen
> to the Gaythri Cassette
> or  do  this  with  the  prayer in the morning and
> so on and so forth....."
> Boys  would attend in droves with their fathers to
> the Sanskrit classes run
> by  many mutts here,  and learn by rote the
> Upanasids and other complicated
> Vedic  chantings,  but  when it came to the Sandhya
> they would blindly turn
> away. No one would be chided by their parents.
> 
> Most  of  us  are  aware  of  Shri Anbil Ramaswamy's
> magnum opus 
> "Hindusim
> Re-discovered"  which  is  just  a  book,  but  this
> initiative is the book
> playing out in real-time 3-D action.
> 
> If one may humbly request, one would urge members to
> spread the message far
> and  wide in the winds to all and sundry so that the
> baton is taken up from
> Shri  Anbil  Ramaswamy   and  the  relay continues.
> Let us pray to the Mighty
> Heavens  that  this  initiative becomes a mass
> movement and Sanatana Dharma
> gets a fitting revival.
> 
> Om tat sat
> Tat tvam asi
> 
> 
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>                 Jayam!
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> Bhagavatas   residing   in  or  around  or  passing 
> through  Atlanta  area
> during   the  next  3  Saturdays  at  the  time  of 
> the  classes  (between
> 10.00am  and  11.00n  am)  and  are  desirous  of 
> joining  the classes may
> register                   at                  
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> or        call        on       the       following  
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> While  registering,  you  may  provide  details 
> such  as: whether you have
> had  your  "SamaasrayaNam"  and  the  Achaarya 
> lineage to which you belong
> etc.
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> On  registering,  we  will  give  you  the 
> directions  to  the  venue  and
> instruct   you   on   the   requirements   for  
> attending   the   classes.
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> In  case  this  is  very  short  notice,  please 
> send  an email letting me
> know  if  you  will  be  available  at  a  future
> date.  There will me more
> classes   on  other  topics  and  Bhagavatas  as 
> welcome  to  participate.
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> Om                              Namo                
>              Narayana!
> Rajan                                               
>                Gopalan
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