[Advaita-l] Chanting Gayatri overseas

[V Subrahmanian]

Here is a book, by a Madhva who is settled abroad, on the justification of
foreign travel (and perhaps stay there):

https://sites.google.com/site/madhwaprameyaqa/akarmanyavadakhandanam

Madhvas are known to be a practicing orthodox community and a lot of stigma
is attached to foreign travel. One can recall the incidents that took
place, court cases, divided opinion among the eight mathas, etc. when the
Puttige pontiff got his paryaya chance. The above book was released by this
seer.

regards
vs


On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Santosh Rao via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the responses,
>
> Yes Jaldhar, that was the exact term he used - Karmabhoomi...I had
> mentioned to him that I was looking for someone to teach me how to perform
> sandhyavandanam properly since I do not have any elders or family members
> to consult about these things, but he said that that only India is
> Karmabhoomi, it isn't advised to perform those duties or chant Gayatri in
> "Mleccha-bhoomi."
>
> He also said that since I was born in NY I would have to have my upanayanam
> re-done in India, even though I had it done (in India) when I was 15 years
> old.
>
> I have been performing my fathers shraddha rites for past 2 years since he
> passed. He said that I should perform those in India only.
>
> I understand these are one persons opinions, but he is very knowledgeable
> overall and I ask him questions from time to time and he always has
> satisfying answers. I would ask them hear to get wider responses, but not
> all of my questions are focused on Advaita Vedanta so I don't want to get
> off-topic and annoy other members.
>
> Namaskara,
>
> Santosh
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Shashi via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr. Santosh,
> >
> > I would second Mr Vyas's point.
> > In addition there are some smriti texts that
> > seem absolute in their exhortation for dvijas to perform nityakarmas. For
> > example,
> > the Daksha smriti says that one who neglects sandhyavandana becomes
> > unclean and unfit to perform any ritual, and it makes no exception to
> those
> > who are overseas.
> >
> > Shashi
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 4:18 PM, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Santosh Rao via Advaita-l wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Namaskara,
> > >>
> > >> I was recently advised that chanting Gayatri outside of India is not
> > >> proper. Is there a basis for this, even for those born overseas? How
> > would
> > >> this affect duties such as sandhyavandanam?
> > >
> > > There is a theory in dharmashastra that only bharatavarsha is the
> > karmabhumi (but what are the limits of Bharata?  The current Republic of
> > India is considerably smaller than its historical extent.) and therefore
> > mantras do not have any efficacy outside its limits.
> > >
> > > For myself and my son, we do sandhyavandana and Gayatri japa without
> > fail despite living in America.  Bhagavan can decide if it has merit or
> > not; we shall continue doing our duty without expecting any particular
> > phala.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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