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Respected elders,
Very recently I read in one of our Srivaishnava magaziens (I recall it 
is Nrushimhapriya) that all persons belonging to three varnams shall 
have yagknowpaveedam (Poonool) and the brahmopadesam has to be done for 
a Brahmin boy before his 16th age. Brahmopadesam done beyond that age 
for a brahmin boy is a waste. I had mine when I was 18. I know scores 
of boys getting the brahmopadesam, even in the samashti upanayanams 
conducted by mutts, past the age of 16. If the brahmopadesam conducted 
to us beyond the age of 16 is a waste then every cermony/vedic rituals 
we perform is also a waste. Then what is the use of we,persons, who had 
their brahmopadesam beyond the age of 16 perfoming any rituals? Insted 
of doing riutals which will have no utility as we are anyway 
ineligible, we can as well say Om Namo Narayana and be done with 
everything. Making such absoulte statements that brhamodesam conducted 
beyond 16 years for a brahmin boy leaves a permanent doubt in our minds 
what use of our doing any rituals honestly when we are unfit to perform 
them. Is there any praychitham for those unfortunates who had the 
brhamopadesam beyond age 16?
Dasan,
Kochappaa







 
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