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On pranava japam and so on: 
As everyone is too well aware of, this is very difficult to learn from
books. 
Pranayamam, as far as sandhyavandanam is concerned, consists of the
following:
An inhalation through one nostril
Holding
an exhalation through the other nostril. 
This makes up one pranayanamam. 


Before proceeding further, the info that we are about to give is
according to Shri T. Krishnamacharaya of yoga fame. He was a staunch
shrivaishnava who led his life according to the rules laid down by
Shri Ramanuja and  Shri Vedanatha Desika.He has given extensive info
as to how sandhyavandanam used to be performed and how it has been
condensed for the sake of convenience for the modern times. He has
studied siksha, vyakaranam,chhandas, etc, was an expert on puranam and
upanishads and also an expert in Vedam, just to give an indication of
'who' he was!
We will attempt to give as much of the info we have as possible. He
has also given references from Upanishads and so on and so forth. 
He has given details of how the pranayamam should be performed along
with the manthra japam, and we will try to give this info as clearly
as possible to thosee who are interested in knowing this - 
Our request:
Interested bhagavathas, please do adequate research on
Krishnamacharya, if you intend to read and think about what we say. 
We will take it and do it privately. So we request of those who want
this info to send us a private email at venkatesan.subha@xxxxxxxxx, so
that this can be circulated to only those who are interested.  
We do not want to start a separate group; however, since this may be a
little too much for the purpose of this group and a lot of work for
the moderators, we can do it in private mailings. And this will be
only for the purpose of pranayamam and dhyanam in the context of
sandhyavandanam. 
As much of the info as possible will be accompanied by the examples
and references he has given from upanishads and so on. It will be very
evident that this comes from a eminent authority, and not from us. We
will also try to send audio clips when we can, for those who can
understand Tamil and Sanskrit. 
We invite interested ladies to also join in because dhyanam is common
to women also and they can understand and help their children to do
this after their upanayanam.   

The postings will be long, since the explanations are extensive. Once
again, all who are interested send an email to venkatesan.subha@xxxxxxxxx

Subhangan (I'm doing this with the help of Subha Venkatesan, my mother
and Venkatesan, my father.)



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