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But there is no such
hope for a Brahmin in whose family Gayatri has not been chanted for
three generations. A member of such a family ceases altogether to be
a Brahmin and cannot be made one again. He is just a "Brahmana- bandhu",
a kin or a friend of Brahmins. The same rule applies to Ksatriyas and Vaisyas
with regard to the Gayatri mantra; they become "ksatriya-bandhus" and
"Vaisya-bandhus" respectively.

You can also read this in the website : Kanchi Periva Forum

Balasubramanian

That means being a Sudra is the best!

Cos you see there is no compulsion for anything.

Brahmins/Kshatriyas/Vaisyas have to maintain their caste by adhering to Gayatri Japam...too much tension yaar.

Wonder why no one likes to be called Sudra when its more relaxing to be one.
 
That means being a Sudra is the best!

Cos you see there is no compulsion for anything.

Brahmins/Kshatriyas/Vaisyas have to maintain their caste by adhering to Gayatri Japam...too much tension yaar.

Wonder why no one likes to be called Sudra when its more relaxing to be one.

Sri Renuka madam,

I beg to differ here. When a person is called brahmin? A person who realises the brahmam or self is called brahmin. Till that time he might be called as vaidika or iyer or iyengar or sastrigal or etc., It applies to everyone. remember the story of sage vishwamitra he was a kshatriya, the moment the gave up everything and started the quest for realising self. Eventhough he realised he was not accepted by all especially sage vasishta. Once he gave up the final shatru called ahankaara he was accepted as a brahma rishi by everyone. So my humble request here. Constantly chanting gayatri mantra by visualizing the iconography of gayatri devi will slowly takes the person towards the brahma vidya or realising the brahma or self.

Thanks
C.R.Bala
Om Namah Shivayah
Sri Sacchidananda shiva abhinava sri nrsimha bharti thirtha charanaara vindhabhyaam namah
Sri Chandrasekhara saraswathi mahaswami charanaara vindhabhyaam namah
Sri Chandrasekhara bharti thirtha charanaara vindhabhyaam namah
 
Dear Brahmins,

I am Prasanna Venkatesan from Bangalore and working for Semiconductor Company. I am basically from Chennai, Mylapore Peyalwar avatharasthalam.
Proud be a Brahmin.

Regards
Prasanna.
 
As regards performance of Upanayanam for brothers on the same
day at the same Muhurtham is not advisable, if the performer is
same person. Besides, Muhurtham should suit both the child from
the point of view of Stars. Normally, Utharayanam is preferred
for Upanayanam, i.e. the period between Jan 15 and July 15.
There should not be chandrashtamam on that day. You may still
consult an Astrologer from the point of suitability of time for both.

Balasubramanian
 
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Thank you Mr.Balasubramanian. Clarification: Upanayanam is for my son and my brother's son. Performer is not the same person. I will do for my son and my brother will do for his son.
 
in fact if the upanayanam for two boys (who are brothers) is performed simultaneously, appa and periyappa, or thatha and appa ...preferably two persons belonging to the same gothram as the Vadus will give brahmopadesham to the two boys.. these are all very standard aacharams.
 
Hi Everyone,

I came across about this site just yesterday, anyways, better late then ever.

This is a wonderful thing, who so ever has started this forum.

Keep it going.

thanks & Regards,
Prasad.
 
Heartiest welcome Mr Prasad. The forum spreads good message
to every well wisher besides interesting inputs to those who are
in need. Please do participate and share your views too, so that
you can have an interaction on various issues of mythological
and rituals, etc.

Balasubramanian
 
Namaskaram to elders and hello to youngsters.

I am Kumar Vaidyanathan, working with L&T Group of Companies in Chennai. I am 50 years young. My wife is a homemaker and AMWAY products distributor. Unfortunately, we were not blessed with a child. My mother is living with me. Just 11 months ago my father expired. We belong to Palamaneri near Tirukkattuppali in Thanjavur District.
 
Heartiest welcome to Mr Kumar. If one is energetic in true spirits
and activities, one will be always young. I had been to Tirukkattuppali
quite a few times but not to your village so far. I am also from Tanjore
District. Nice to see you in this forum. Have a nice day and participate
as and when you are free.

Balasubramanian
 
Namasthe to All the Elders in our community,

To follow Brahmanism one has to possess self control and Peace loving. But to-day most of the brahmins are diverted from their actual spiritual goal, Instead they are just living like others, So iam very thank full to TAMIL BRAHMINS & it's members for uniting all of us for a purposeful Spiritual goals. God will easily bless others but for a Brahmin to realize god within requires more patience and continueous practice.

Iam B.S.Narahari & my parents are staying with me, Iam married with 5 years daughter and one year old son. I belong to Smartha sect in our community. To-day the Brahmins should get united and respect all the god created creatures on this Planet.

A facility has to be setup for Office going Brahmins to revive our Vedic & Sanskrit learning which is ceasing nowadays.

Cheers
Narahari
09620380944
Bangalore
 
Dear all,
Namaskaram. I just came across this website while searching for shlokams. I am glad to have discovered this place and am grateful to belong here. Hope to learn and contribute here.

Regards
Savitha
 
Namasthe to All the Elders in our community,

To follow Brahmanism one has to possess self control and Peace loving. But to-day most of the brahmins are diverted from their actual spiritual goal, Instead they are just living like others, So iam very thank full to TAMIL BRAHMINS & it's members for uniting all of us for a purposeful Spiritual goals. God will easily bless others but for a Brahmin to realize god within requires more patience and continueous practice.

Iam B.S.Narahari & my parents are staying with me, Iam married with 5 years daughter and one year old son. I belong to Smartha sect in our community. To-day the Brahmins should get united and respect all the god created creatures on this Planet.

A facility has to be setup for Office going Brahmins to revive our Vedic & Sanskrit learning which is ceasing nowadays.

Cheers
Narahari
09620380944
Bangalore

Heartiest Welcome. It indeed gives great pleasure to know that
you are keen to learn Sanskrit. Facility is available at Bangalore itself.
Kindly contact the following address. You can also learn through
correspondence.

Samskrita Bharati
“Aksharam”
8th cross, 2nd Main,
Giri Nagar, Bangalore India – 560085
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080-26721052 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting, 26722576, 26421152
Email :[email protected]
 

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In every group only a few gifted(?) ones receive the limelight. Once the renowned scholar Appayya Deekshithar was visiting the village of his wife. The scholar was indeed very famous and was known to all in the circle of the learned. But in the Villages, while Deekshitar was walking towards the bathing ghat, ladies of the locality where whispering to one another.. " Here goes the husband of Aachaal.." The scholar overheard the whisper and just told his companion...अस्मिन ग्रामे आच्चा नाम प्रशस्तिः .. "in this village the name of Aachaa alone is famous." As said by poet E V Lucas "JackEvery village has its Jack, but no village ever had quite so fine a Jack as ours:
So picturesque,
Versatile,
Irresponsible,
Powerful,
Hedonistic,
And lovable a Jack as ours.

How Jack lived none knew, for he rarely did any work.
True, he set nightlines for eels, and invariably caught one,
Often two,
Sometimes three;
While very occasionally he had a day's harvesting or hay-making.
And yet he always found enough money for tobacco,
With a little over for beer, though he was no soaker.

Jack had a wife.
A soulless, savage woman she was, who disapproved voluably of his idle ways.
But the only result was to make him stay out longer.
(Like Rip Van Winkle).

Jack had a big, black beard, and a red shirt, which was made for another.
And no waistcoat.
His boots were somebody else's;
He wore the Doctor's coat,
And the Vicar's trousers.
Personally, I gave him a hat, but it was too small.

Everybody liked Jack.
The Vicar liked him, although he never went to church.
Indeed, he was a cheerful Pagan, with no temptation to break more than the Eighth Commandment, and no ambition as a sinner.
The Curate liked him, although he had no simpering daughters.
The Doctor liked him, although he was never ill.
I liked him too - chiefly because of his perpetual good temper, and his intimacy with Nature, and his capacity for colouring cutties.
The girls liked him, because he brought them the first wild roses and the sweetest honeysuckle;
Also, because he could flatter so outrageously.

But the boys loved him.
They followed him in little bands:
Jack was their hero.
And no wonder, for he could hit a running rabbit with a stone.
And cut them long, straight fishing-poles and equilateral catty forks;
And he always knew of a fresh nest.
Besides, he could make a thousand things with his old pocket-knife.

How good he was a cricket too!
On the long summer evenings he would saunter to the green and watch the lads at play, and by and by someone would offer him a few knocks.
Then the Doctor's coat would be carefully detached, and Jack would spit on his hands, and brandish the bat, and away the ball would go, north and south and east and west, and sometimes bang into the zenith.
For Jack had little science:
Upon each ball he made the same terrific and magnificent onslaught,
Whether half volley, or full pitch, or long hop, or leg break, or off break, or shooter, or yorker.
And when the stumps fell he would cheerfully set them up again, while his white teeth flashed in the recesses of his beard.

The only persons who were not conspicuously fond of Jack were his wife, and the schoolmaster, and the head-keeper.
The schoolmaster had an idea that if Jack were hanged there would be no more truants; His wife would attend the funeral without an extraordinary show of grief; And the head-keeper would mutter, "There's one poacher less."

Jack was quite as much a part of the village as the church spire;
And if any of us lazied along by the river in the dusk of the evening - Waving aside nebulae of gnats,
Turning head quickly at the splash of a jumping fish, Peering where the water chucked over a vanishing water-rat - And saw not Jack's familiar form bending over his lines,
And smelt not his vile shag,
We should feel a loneliness, a vague impression that something is wrong.

For ten years Jack was always the same,
Never growing older,
Or richer,
Or tidier,
Never knowing that we had a certain pride in possessing him.
Then there came a tempter with tales of easily acquired wealth, and Jack went away in his company.

He has never come back,
And now the village is like a man who has lost an eye.
In the gloaming, no slouching figure, with colossal idleness in every line, leans against my garden wall, with prophecies of the morrow's weather;
And those who reviled Jack most wonder now what it was they found fault with.
We feel our bereavement deeply.

The Vicar, I believe, would like to offer public prayer for the return of the wanderer.
And the Doctor, I know, is a little unhinged, and curing people out of pure absence of mind.
For my part, I have hope; and the trousers I discarded last week will not be given away just yet.

Hopefully nice jacks may also be considered at least once in a while..
 

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