For Rig Vedis, Pournami is not important but Sravana star is important. Yajur Vedis do upakarma on the Pournami day of the Sravana month.
Because of this I have not been giving the Vedas in English script. The Chanting of the Vedas should be done under guidance of a Guru who has learned to chant Vedas, definitely not by reading it but hearing and repeating it properly. This is followed by a Vedic procedure which aims to satisfy the Devas, Rishis and Pithrus by giving them Arghyam.After this the Brahmin starts reading the Vedas. Once the Yagnopavita is changed, the Brahmin prays God to pardon all the minor and major sins that he has done during the previous one year. The Change of Poonal is only a purificatory ceremony which is a prelude to the Upakarma procedure.
Since such eventuality would mostly occur in case of people living abroad, along with Sankalpa I have been giving the duration of the Thithi and Nakshatra and the time when it changes so that according to time difference from India, they can modify their Sankalpas.Īvani avittam or Upakarma is definitely not the change of Poonal. I have been giving every year the Upakarma procedure for the past 16 years for the use of people who are not able to get a priest for guiding them in the procedure. Please donate generously on this day as sambhavanai.AVani Avitta (Upakarma) Manthras for Yajur, Rig and Samaveda in the year 2016. To understand about the significance of doing sandhya vandanam please go through this link An interesting fact to note here is this ritual is celebrated on the same day by dwijas belonging to different vedams where as upakarma is observed on different days for different vedams. Gayathri japam prayaschita(Gayathri mantra chanted 1008 times) is performed to get rid of the sins committed between the previous upakarma and the current upakarma. So it becomes mandatory for a man to perform upakarma and if he doesn’t do upakarma then the power of mantras that his wife chants will be lost.
This crops up a question in our mind like how to get this done for ladies who have the power of strotras,panchakshari mantras etc.Sastram says that a women is half of man and when man performs upakarma, mantras linked to his wife will get purified. Human body does not have the capacity to hold the power of mantra japams done like (Gayathri, pariseshanam, sandhyavandanam, Rudram etc) for more than a year and the power will be lost on this day similar to expiry date for medicines.Hence to rejenuvate this power, sastram says those who practice Rig vedam should perform upakarma / avani avittam on Sravana Nakshatram.In a way upakarma is done to restore all the mantras belonging to 3 vedams after doing shuddhi to these mantras. Upakarma means Karma that converts old to new. Now let’s understand the significance of these rituals. Taking this into consideration we have consolidated list of areas in Bangalore where Upakarma for Rig Vedam for the year 2015 is being conducted along with the timings Upakarma / Avani avittam is an important ritual for most of the Tamil and Kerala Brahmin communities.In this Manmadha varusham it falls on for those who practice Rig vedam.