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sandhya vandanam & Gayathri Jepam

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During travel we are not permitted to do sandhya vandhanam and gayatri japam. you should not utter. But you utter raamaa, Govibdha, krishna etc.
 
Sir,
In case we cannot perform the sandhyavandhanam in the right time of dawn and dusk due to travel or on outside work can we mutter in mind without being heard outside durig dawn and dusk -- the sandhyavandhanam mantrams and gayathri japam during travel itself .

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Srisimha.

Till about a century ago, when travel was infrequent and was performed on bullock carts, boats, etc., brahmana travellers used to get down before dusk in some Chathram or so and then take bath, perform sandhya, take night meals/food, sleep and start again after performing the morning japams etc. It is not so today and therefore, it is best to avoid performing or muttering the Sandhyavandana/gaayathree japa manthrams.

If someone is very much obsessed with these, he can do gaayathreejapam for increased number of times, like say for three days of absence 324 times additionally all three times on the day he returns home.
 
Srisimha,

About Gayathri:

1.There are totally 52 Gayathri mantras. One of the 52 is the Surya Gayathri which we speak about here.

2. The place where Gayathri japa is to be performed: at house, at the banks of a river, in the cowshed, in the agnihotrashala, kshetras or in the sannidhi of God.

3. Gayatri if chanted sitting the asanas used are: deer skin, tiger skin, a she-elephant's skin, on woollen sheet, on darpasana, or a wooden plank.

4. on sradda day, pradosha time, amavasya,pournami,prathamai, ashtami, chaturdasi etc., gayatri can be chanted not more than 25 times only.
 
Hi Srisimha


If we refer the scriptures, it says that one has to do sandhayavandana regularly. And if at all we are travelling by flight where you don't have an opportunity to do sandhyavandhana, then on the next day during gayatri japa it should be cumilative of previous day. But again the exception is only for three days. If a person do not perform Sandhyavandhana for more than three days, then he needs to follow the procedure laid in the Prayaschitta kanda written in the Smriti. And scriptures give many things on the number of gayatri that has to be repeated, it is said that 1008 is uththama, 108 is madhyama and 10 is adhama paksha. Even in gauna kala or Abath kAla one has to do japa of gayatri for 10 counts.


Thanks


C.R.Bala
Om Namah Shivayah
Om Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswami Charanaaravindhabhyaam Namah
 
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