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"
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Sandhyavandanam Classes in Atlanta by Sri Anbil Ramaswamy
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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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