[Advaita-l] Gayatri japa

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

Doing just a social event doesn't even need the religious upanayanam
ritual. There are so many reasons one can find to hold a party!

Regards,
Vidyasankar

On Dec 26, 2016 5:06 PM, "Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> If the friend is doing all this Gayatri Japam and Upanayanam of his
> son and his son does not do Sandhya what is the use? People must
> decide why they are doing Upanayanam? Is it to make the son do Sandhya
> regularly OR to do a social event with relatives and enjoy good food
> and forget about Sandhya later? If he is doing it for social purposes
> why take all the trouble of 10,000 Japa? No need. I have seen many
> boys will not do Sandhya after the Upanayanam probably because the
> father is not doing it. After some time they will discard the thread
> also and become modern youth. For them Just do the social event and
> don't worry about Sandhya. If father is doing Upanayanam of his son to
> make him do Sandhya regularly he must do the Japa.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:05 AM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Durga Prasad Janaswamy via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hari Om,
> >> Pranams.
> >>
> >> My relative is performing upanayanam of his son in Feb 2017.
> >> My relative does not do Sandhyavanadanam.
> >> Should my relative do some Gayatri japa before actual upanayanam date?
> If
> >> so, how many?
> >>
> >
> > Since there is enough time left, please ask your friend to do a total of
> > 10,000 gayatri japa over the period completing the number before the
> > upanayanam. In a worst case scenario, your friend can at least ask a good
> > brahmin friend of his or a purohita to perform the above number, by
> giving
> > a sizable dakshina, fee, for the job.
> >
> > regards
> > vs
> >
> >
> >>
> >> thank you and regards
> >> -- durga prasad
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> -Venkatesh
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