Dear Swamins:
I appreciate the e-mails. Adiyen has some views on the subject which I
would like to place for your consideration:
First and foremost - anyone aspiring to learn Vedas should be punctual in
doing SANDHYAVANDANAM. He should take a sankalpa to do 108 gayatri Japa
every day.
Secondly, we need to create different levels of learning portions of Vedas
and set up an 'order' to learn them - starting from the most frequently
recited mantrAs to the more difficult ones.
For eg.: Pancha Sooktas may be the basic level. After that, should one
learn Agni-Sandhana MantrAs or Taittiriya Upanishad or Udaka Shanti? I
think one should learn all the Vedic Mantras required for Nitya
Karmanushtanam. For eg.: my acharya was very particular about having me
learn the Punyahavachana mantram, and the agni-sandhana mantrams. Also
those of us living in the USA participate in chanting at temples. Mantras
like Ghosha-Shanti, asheerwada mantrams, general homa-mantrams etc., become
important.
We should discuss these with great achryas and arrive at a syllabus for the
different levels. We can then start "summer-schools" for different levels
identified to train our young Sri Vaishnavites so that when they come abroad
they have a good basic knowledge to participate in the home/temple functions
and make the experience 'divine' and enjoyable for every-one.
We can dedicate ourselves to raising money for the summer schools.
S. Vijayaraghavan
Buffalo/NY
Dear
>From: sudarshan madabushi <mksudarshan2002@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: tiruvenkatam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tiruvenkatam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [t'venkatam] suggestions---invited by "SriKainkarya"
>Soundararajan Desikan
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:42:26 +0100 (BST)
>
>
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