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Re: UPANAYANAM - what is it?
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Subject: Re: UPANAYANAM - what is it?
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From: sista@ecn.purdue.edu (Srinivas Sista)
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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 02:15:40 GMT
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Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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References: <2vsndu$bok@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
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Sender: Srinivas.Sista@ecn.purdue.edu
In article <2vsndu$bok@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Jaldhar Vyas <jvyas@ritz.mordor.com> writes:
>In article <2vi76d$rn7@ucunix.san.uc.edu> bnv@po.cwru.edu <Boddu N.
>Venkatesh>
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>: I was just wondering if someone could post the exact significance
>: of upanaynam (thread ceremony).
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>The Upanayana sanskara is the second birth of a Brahmana. (Which is why
>we are called dwija or twice-born.) After this ceremony, a boy is ready
>to begin study of the Vedas.
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>-- Jaldhar
Upa-nayanam sounds like `auxillary eye'. Any connections to the third
eye or the mystic eye? Could it be the procedure meant to open it?
Just wondering!
Sista.