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 "rajangopalan23" <rajangopalan23@ To: SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx yahoo.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: [SriRangaSri] Sandhyavandanam Classes in Atlanta by Sri Anbil Ramaswamy SriRangaSri@yaho ogroups.com 02/04/06 03:02 AM 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 http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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