Yajurveda Apastamba Trikala Sandyavandanam - Sanskrit-English

* Trikala Sandhyavadanam is performed at dawn, prior to sunrise, at noon, and just before sunset.
* Though the main mantra is the Gayatri Mantra, the actual practise involves preliminary rituals and invocations using water and subsequent rituals involving meditation and prayers.
* The efficiency of the mantra for Sandhyavadanam in Sanskrit Language is enhanced when due attention is paid to the enunciation, tone, clarity and meaning.
* This Yajurveda Apastamba Trikala Sandhyavadanam book by Giri aims to incorporate the mantras and prayers in not only Devanagiri, but in every possible Indian language.
* This Tamil transliterated edition carries accuracy and clear explanations, with no significance left behind.
* This will help create awareness in a wide spectrum of society about the necessity for taking up the essential practice of Sandhyavadanam by family members, to propagate maximum benefits.

SandhyAvandanam” is a “nitya karmA”, a daily obligatory duty of the dwijas. (those who wear the sacred thread)
“sandhyA” means ‘twilight’ and “vandanam” means ‘worship’.
sandhyAvandanam is the worship performed at dawn and dusk to the supreme Lord who is the indweller of the disc of the sun. The meditative repetition of the gAyatri mantrA and the offerings of water called “arghyam” are central to the “sandhyAvandanam” procedure.

sandhyAvandanam or sandhyOpasanA procedures should be learnt from your guru/pandit officially at the time of “upanayanA”, the initiation ceremony of the sacred thread because they contain mantrAs from the VedAs and have swarAs. Thereafter, it can be practised with the help of your elders or through other medias.
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In the morning we do “PrAtah sandhyAvandanam” or “PrAtah sandhyOpAsanA”
In the afternoon we do “MAdhyAhnikam”
In the evening we do “SAyam sandhyAvandanam” or “SAyam sandhyOpAsanA”
The traditional sandhyAvandanam procedure has 2 parts.
1) poorva bhAgam and 2) uttara bhAgam
1) poorva bhAgam has those basic purificatory karmAs like Achamanam, angavandanam, praNAyAmam, sankalpam, prOkshaNam, prAshanam, punar mArjanam, arghya pradhAnam, Atma anusandhAnam, Navagraha/keshavAdi tarpaNam.
2) uttara bhAgam has the main gAyatri japa sankalpa, gAyatri AvAhanam, gAyatri japa nyAsam, gAyatri dhyAnam, gAyatri japa, upasthAnam, digdEvatA vandanam, dig vandanam, soorya nArAyaNa vandanam, kshamA prArthanA and abhivAdanam.
Some sections of the sandhyAvandanam mantrAs differ according to castes and sub-castes.

One need these basic tools to perform thi daily ritual

Panchapatra

Udhrani/Achamani

Plate

Water

Asan to sit and perform.