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Most Respected members:

ATLANTA IS INDEED BLESSED.

Very nice to hear of this ultimate initiative by Shri Anbil Ramaswamy. This
is the single most critical requirement for this age, especially for us who
wear  the  Sacred  thread.   As  a Venerated  Sage from Kanchi exhorted and
lamented  long  ago :  non-performance of  the Sandhya is the curse of this
Kali  yuga  when  worship in various forms is given undue importance at the
cost  of the Sandhya which is relegated to a mechanical meaningless, casual
ritual to be rushed thru.

In  Mumbai  a  small initiative was taken 3 years ago by an obscure scholar
associated  with  the  Bhajana  Samaj.   Every Sunday between 3 to 5, free.
Please  believe  this  writer,  but  except for just 4 people there were no
takers.   He  had  to  ultimately  discontinue the class as even this bleak
number  started  diminishing  and  he  had only this writer and his sons as
students.   He  took  a very reluctant decision to call-off the classes and
blamed  the  parents, especially mothers for pampering their boys by urging
them  to attend the Rudram, Sanskrit, V-Sahasranama, Narayaneeyam and other
chanting  classes  on  weekends conducted by professional tutors charging a
fee,  when  at  the  primary level their eligibility itself was in question
since they were not performing the Sandhya regularly. Boys were more regular
in their Mridangam classes at the Shankmukhananda Sabha and would rush from
their  school  and  the  parents  would  be  very  proud  to distribute the
elaborate  invitation  cards  for  their 'first stage performance' of their
Carnatic  vocal  rendition  or the Mridangam or flute performance, but when
one  discreetly enquired, they simply brushed off with typical "street-smart
rhetoric" - where is the time for Sandhya? we listen to the Gaythri Cassette
or  do  this  with  the  prayer in the morning and so on and so forth....."
Boys  would attend in droves with their fathers to the Sanskrit classes run
by  many mutts here,  and learn by rote the Upanasids and other complicated
Vedic  chantings,  but  when it came to the Sandhya they would blindly turn
away. No one would be chided by their parents.

Most  of  us  are  aware  of  Shri Anbil Ramaswamy's magnum opus 
"Hindusim
Re-discovered"  which  is  just  a  book,  but  this initiative is the book
playing out in real-time 3-D action.

If one may humbly request, one would urge members to spread the message far
and  wide in the winds to all and sundry so that the baton is taken up from
Shri  Anbil  Ramaswamy   and  the  relay continues. Let us pray to the Mighty
Heavens  that  this  initiative becomes a mass movement and Sanatana Dharma
gets a fitting revival.

Om tat sat
Tat tvam asi



                                                                                
                                                       
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Sri                               Rama                               Jayam!

Bhagavatas   residing   in  or  around  or  passing  through  Atlanta  area
during   the  next  3  Saturdays  at  the  time  of  the  classes  (between
10.00am  and  11.00n  am)  and  are  desirous  of  joining  the classes may
register                   at                   email                   id:
rajangopalan23@xxxxxxxxx
or        call        on       the       following       Phone       number
(c)                                                            404-421-7567

While  registering,  you  may  provide  details  such  as: whether you have
had  your  "SamaasrayaNam"  and  the  Achaarya  lineage to which you belong
etc.

On  registering,  we  will  give  you  the  directions  to  the  venue  and
instruct   you   on   the   requirements   for   attending   the   classes.

In  case  this  is  very  short  notice,  please  send  an email letting me
know  if  you  will  be  available  at  a  future date.  There will me more
classes   on  other  topics  and  Bhagavatas  as  welcome  to  participate.

Om                              Namo                              Narayana!
Rajan                                                               Gopalan

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