The Dharma
of Brahmins
Translated by
P.R.Ramachander
(the original tamil text is in the blog https://ramakrishnan6002.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/brahmana-dharmam/.My
thanks to the author)
1.All
Brahmins have to understand their Dharma and follow it to the best of their ability.
2,A
Brahmin should not sleep at dawn and
dusk
3.We
should definitely do SAndhya
Vandhanam which is a daily ritual
4.Men
should do rituals wearing a white
dhothi and white upper cloth.They should not wear coloured
cloth at that time
5.Ladies
should not chant Veda Manthras
6.When
doing rituals , men should wear Pancha
Kacham and Uthareeyam
7.Married
Women when they light the lamp should
wear 9 yards Sari(madi saar)
8.The cloth
, slippers , meals plate , bed
and garland worn by a
person should not be used by others.
9.Except at times when after death rituals
dictate wearing wet cloths, it should
not be worn.
10.No
lady should keep the tip of her hair not
tied unless the priest tell.
11.Every
individual should keep a separate water pot
12.All
rituals should be done on land never
upstairs
13.There
are two types of Karmas
-Nithya(daily) and Naimithika(
due to some reason)
14.If
we do not do sandhya vandhanam , it is a sin
15.If
a person does not do Sandhya Vandanam , all the other rituals he does , does
not have any use.
16.Sradha
should be performed bysons individually
17.While performing any ritual , in the middle you
should not talk
18.The
Sradha of Father and mother
should be done as per rules
19.From
childhood, children should be taught
rules of religion as well as
rituals of day today life
20,
We should avoid living a life of Luxury
21.No
ritual would give results without our
physical involvement
22,We
have to follow our Dharma and
protect it
23.From
the temple we should not bring
Prasada except things like sacred ash, kumkum, Thulasi
and Vilwa leaf
24.Grahasthas should do Oupasana atleast in two pakshas of the year.They should do Sthaleepaka on Prathama
25.Since
we are descendents of sages, we should
follow the smrithis found out by them
26.We do not have power to alter
Sruthi or Sastra
27.
Dharma sastras are there separately
for men, women , children
, sick people as well those who are not Brahmins,
28.Our
religion prohibits Divorce of men and
women under all circumstances
29.If
a man realizes that the wife he has
married as per Dharma has a defect or disease , the person can marry again but
look after her in his home.
30.
After doing after death rites of mother
and father or observing ten day taint for our Dhayadhi(Paternal relations) ,
men should shave on the tenth day.
31.The
rituals as per sasthras can only be done at the ground floors
32.Only
after she shaves the head after her husband dies, the death traint of her
husband leaves her.When they are like this
they are prohibited from going to temple, chant manthras etc
33.
Cremating a dead body of orphan , worshipping Shiva linga which has no body to worship it and helping
the poor and blind destroys all the
sins you might have committed
34.Any
house where no sound of chanting of
Vedas are heard . where no rituals are performed and which is not visited by Vedic Scholars is equal to cremation ground
35.
If we wash the cloths after bath and dry it
and wearit next day, only Nithya
Karmas can be performed
36.For
other Karmas specially Sradha , we have to take bath , wash cloth , dry it and wear the same day
37.A
dried cloth which has seen two suns.,
should not be used for doing Karmas
38.We
should never find fault with those who have learnt Vedas
39.Gas
stove should not be used for rituals
40.WE
should understand the ritual we are doing and perform it with full faith and attention
41.
The priests should learn Dharma
Sastras well and then only help
in conducting it
42.When
a priest gets done a ritual against
Dharma Sastras , the sin would come to him via DAkshina which they take
43.A
person only doing Nithya Karmas is
better than those who learn Vedas and Sastras but never use it.
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