Respected elders,
Very recently I read in one of our Srivaishnava magaziens (I recall it
is Nrushimhapriya) that all persons belonging to three varnams shall
have yagknowpaveedam (Poonool) and the brahmopadesam has to be done for
a Brahmin boy before his 16th age. Brahmopadesam done beyond that age
for a brahmin boy is a waste. I had mine when I was 18. I know scores
of boys getting the brahmopadesam, even in the samashti upanayanams
conducted by mutts, past the age of 16. If the brahmopadesam conducted
to us beyond the age of 16 is a waste then every cermony/vedic rituals
we perform is also a waste. Then what is the use of we,persons, who had
their brahmopadesam beyond the age of 16 perfoming any rituals? Insted
of doing riutals which will have no utility as we are anyway
ineligible, we can as well say Om Namo Narayana and be done with
everything. Making such absoulte statements that brhamodesam conducted
beyond 16 years for a brahmin boy leaves a permanent doubt in our minds
what use of our doing any rituals honestly when we are unfit to perform
them. Is there any praychitham for those unfortunates who had the
brhamopadesam beyond age 16?
Dasan,
Kochappaa
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