Sandhyavandanam
Srivatsa Ramaswami

Sandhyavandana is a structured meditation ritual centered on the profound gayatri mantra. The gayatri is considered the mother of all vedic mantras even as the pranava (Om) is considered the origin of the Vedas.

The Vedas themselves exhort the initiated to worship the Sun every dawn while facing the East with gayatri mantra. This mantra is at the heart of the sandhyavandana ritual. Sandhya means the meeting, or meeting of night and day, and vandana means worship. Sandhyavandana is Sun worship with meditation on the gayatri mantra...

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