Guest guest Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 With reference to the question raised if we can do Sandhyavandanam during "theetu" days, as replied by the Stalwarts, we should not leave doing this Nitya Karma anyday. Permitting adiyen to express a point, I have read a scripture on this which says that during Birth / death Theetu days, we have to perform only Gayathri Japa only 10 times and not a complete Ashtothram. May I request the experts to kindly clarify on this point. Dasan, Karthik Ragavan --------------- Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:29:03 -0000 "champakam" <champakam Question related to sandhyAvandnam. Dear Devotees: I have a doubt regarding the rules for performing sandhyAvandanam during ASaucam (teeTTu). For instance if there is death in the family, during this time do we continue to perform nitya karmA-s, or do we perform only some parts of it? Information on the above will be very much appreciated. -dAsan Krishnamachari New and Improved Mail - Send 10MB messages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Dear Bhagavathas, What Ramachandran Swami said is correct. This is "Nithya" Karma. Even if you travel full day and not able to take bath or no water available you have to do sandhyavandham by "Mathra Snanam" and "by air do Achamanam and Arkyam" and do Japam. I didn't find in the book (or) told by our Anchestors, that we have to do Gayathri Japam only 10 times during "Theetu" period. Whatever we do daily japam same thing should continue in those period. Nithya Karma is just like our "Swasham" or "Breath". We will not stop our swasham during "theetu" period. If anybody feels this is wrong pls forgive me and request to provide the clarification. It will help us to update our knowledge. Daasan KLK Thathachari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Dear Sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer, <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Srimaan Krishnamacharya swamin has asked a clarification on performing sandhya vandhanam during the aachoucha kaalam - viz. theettu kaalam - both janana or vrudhdhi as well as maraNa aachoucham - i.e., piRappu, iRappu theettu kaalam. also the reference below. Following is the clarification as spelt in the 'sadhaachaara nirNayam' book by prakrutham srimadh azhagiya singer swamy. Refer page 187 - pirapputh theettilO iRapputh theettilO kooda sandhyaa karmaavai vidak koodaadhu - anushtikka vENdum. Thaai thandhaiyargaLin savak kriyai aayinum sandhyaavai anushtiththa piRaguthaan seyya vENdum. Sudhdhan aayinum asudhdhan aayinum nithya karmaavai oru pOdhum kai vidak koodaadhu enkiradhu dharma saasthram. Just to translate this roughly - the performance of the sandhya karma should not be given up during the period of theettu - even if the theettu is observed for birth or death. Even if it is the death of one's own parents the performance of religious rites to be carried out only after doing the nithya karmaa of sandhyaa. If one is clean or unclean - [does not mean cleanliness of body but theettu] the daily rites of sandhyaa should not be given up - that is what is said in dharma saasthram. As additional points- on the number of gaayathri during the japam - it is said in page 265 - kuRaindha eNNikkaiyil japam sankatamaana kaalaththilO aachoucha kaalaththilO seyyath thakkadhu enRa dharma saasthram vyavasthai seidhu kaattiyuLLadhu. Theettuk kaalangaLil paththu thadavaigaLe gaayathri japam seyya vENdum enbadhai aasvassaayanar enbavar 'aapannachchaasuchi: kalE thishtannapi japEth dhasa:' enRu kooRiyuLLaar. A rough translation of this sentence is - in the unavoidable periods and theettu periods do the gaayathri japam in less number - viz. ten in number says aasvassaayanar . Then a question automatically arises - daily what is the number to be done viz. in normal period? 1008 in the morning, if not possible 108. [less than this is not acceptable to elders or chieftains- periyOr is the word used here]. Then another question arises - what about maadhyaahnikam - it is said 108 - [if possible can be done 1008 also - not wrong]. How about evening - again 108 or 10. [in pradhOsham period 10 only in evening]. Incidentally while referring this book, the word nagnan appears in page 124 - some time back krishnamachcharyaswamin and myself had an exchange of mail as to who or what is this word nagnan - sivan why and how he is called nagnan. The clarification is here. who is a nagnan - the clarification given is - kachcham illaadhavan - puchcha kachcham aNindhvan - iranDe kachcham thariththavan - iduppil vEshtiyaich chuRRik koNdiruppavan - koupeenam maaththiram aNindhavan aagiya aivarum nagnargaL - meaning - one who is not having the pancha kachcham style of dhothi, - puchcham means tail - one who has a kachcham like a tail, - one who has only two folds in the kachcham - one who has just rounded the dhothi in his body - one who has the loin cloth alone is all said to be nagnan - means do not have proper clothing or dhikambaran. Since sivan is having only a tiger skin as a wrap around and not a full fledged kachcham he is called nagnan. Trust this clarifies. Dhaasan Vasudevan m.g. Sundar Raghavan [ksundarjee] Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:15 AM Karthik Ragavan; Re: Re: Question related to sandhyAvandnam Dear Bhagavathas, What Ramachandran Swami said is correct. This is "Nithya" Karma. Even if you travel full day and not able to take bath or no water available you have to do sandhyavandham by "Mathra Snanam" and "by air do Achamanam and Arkyam" and do Japam. I didn't find in the book (or) told by our Anchestors, that we have to do Gayathri Japam only 10 times during "Theetu" period. Whatever we do daily japam same thing should continue in those period. Nithya Karma is just like our "Swasham" or "Breath". We will not stop our swasham during "theetu" period. If anybody feels this is wrong pls forgive me and request to provide the clarification. It will help us to update our knowledge. Daasan KLK Thathachari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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