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Dear Bhagavathas,

I also have a similar version regarding women reciting
Vedams. 

My Granduncle, Madabushi Gopalan, always used to say that
for vedas the swaras and mainly the OM kaara need to be 
generated from the nAbhi of the person reciting the vedas.
When reciting so, the male hormones are generated more and
this was the reason as to why women were asked not to recite
vedams. But still, we have Gargi and Maitreyi, wives of 
Yagnavalkya, who recited the vedams. Sometimes, through 
generations may some information gets distorted. My granduncle
also used to tell me that women are to recite "am" instead of
"Om" for the same reason too.

Adiyen,
Thuphal vijayaraghava Dasan


-----Original Message-----
From:   Vijaya Raghavan [mailto:svrvan@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Sun 8/8/2004 5:04 PM
To:     narsimhan csl; Mrs.Saroja Chakravarty; SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:     
Subject:        Re: [SriRangaSri] Doubts

Swami,

I have discussed this with my elders also time and
again and the comment of one of my elders in fact
a periyappa who is an acoustics professor that the
creation of these sounds in the proper way as denoted
in the vedas being from the lower abdomen is bad for
women's health due to gynae reasons appealed to us
all.

In case of swamin, differing on this view may please
enlighten me with the reasons, to enable adiyen also
to search for answers.

Dasan/raghavan
--- narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Swami,
>  
> I can neither contest this reasoning nor know pretty
> well if I can buy them for the moment. I also heard
> such reasonings in the past, but I have not come
> across anything definitive on this matter. On the
> contrary there were lady veda pundits in the times
> of yore. 
>  
> All that can be said at this point of time is that
> for some really good reasons recitation of vedas
> have been prohibited for ladies by poorvacharyas and
> is in practise in that form for generations now.
> Hence that should be respected. I would only limit
> my self fto this level for the moment .
> Sajjana padapadma parama renuhu
> Lakshmi Narasimha dasan
>  
> Vijaya Raghavan <svrvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> swamin,
> 
> My learned father and grandfather also were of the
> same view and requested that Vedas are not for the
> females. But this was not because of Gender bias.
> 
> The explanation my Grandfather told me (incidentally
> he was alsovery close to Thirukudathai swami from
> his
> poorvashrama days) was that due to the swara and the
> deergha and haswa tones it is not suitable for
> family
> females as most of the sounds are from the bottom
> of the stomach.
> 
> But ladies can recite the slokas of Desikan and the
> nalayiram and others.
> 
> dasan/raghavan
> --- narsimhan csl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Simple answer to this is Veda Mantras are
> prohibited
> > for Ladies. As ordained by acharyas, vaishnava
> > ladies follow this.
> > 
> > Sajjana padapadma parama renuhu
> > 
> > Lakshmi Narasimhan dasan
> > 
> > s
> > 
> > "Mrs.Saroja Chakravarty" wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > Pranams.
> > We have a religious group here in Jal vayu Vihar
> > Bangalore.At the end of sloka recitation they
> recite
> > Manthra Pushpam. I was not taught this by my
> mother
> > who was a learned lady in Ubhaya Vedanthas and
> also
> > a student of Thirukkudanthai Andavan.I am in a
> > dilemma if I should learn this or not.Kindly guide
> > me.
> > Regards
> > Saroja Chakravarty
> > 
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