Dear Sri Ramachandran, Your write-up on the subject is excellent and I appreciate your time and again stress on sandhyvandanam. It is a mandatory ritual/karma for all the eligible human beings ( for all three varnAs) to do sandhya. Otherwise all other karmas/ritual including temple worship, ArAdhanai etc will not have any effect on the doer. I used to ponder over these lines ( Sooryasya mamanyusya ..., aApa punandu prithiveem ...., Agnisya ... ) as these are all prayers/solutions to get rid of ones sins every sandhya kAlam in a day ( All accumulated sins between two kAlams, goes away by next kAlam Sandhya). Though it seems indirectly allows one to do sins as one knows how to escape from punishments. But the real meaning of this can be construed as one will not indulge or even think of doing any bad act as Gayathri will direct one's buddhi to function in dhArmic lines if sandhya is performed with full faith & sincerity. Om Tat Sat Balaji K [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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