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  • Period of study and discipline
  • Students will be sent to Gurukulam and will study under a Guru's guidance.
  • The students will take their Guru as their spiritual father an will serve him with faith and devotion.

Deva Yajna

Rishi Yagna

When the householder sees that his son is able to bear the burdens of his duty, he and his wife should retire from the world and spend time in meditation.

ASHRAMA DHARMA

GURUKUL MID-TERM

  • A householder should earn money by honest means and distribute it in the proper manner
  • He should spend one tenth of his income to charity.
  • A husband and wife should keep Rama and Sita as their ideal.
  • He should acquaint himself with the satras and should always practise Dharma.
  • He must foster and protect his wife and children with the sense of responsibility

Grihasta (Stage 2)

Study of vedas and offering oblations to rishi.

Giving food to guests and honouring them. Hospitality is one of the householders main duty.

Atithi Yagna

Offering oblations to Devas with recitation of vedic mantras.

PANCHA MAHA YAGNA

Bhuta Yagna

Offering food to cows, crows and animals in general.

Offering to departed souls or the annual religious rites performed for the fore fathers

Pitri Yagna

Grihasta Stage is entered at marriage when the student has completed his studentship at the Gurukulam and is ready to take up the duties and responsibilities of a householder life.

  • It is a preparation for the final stage of Sanyasa.
  • After discharging all household duties, he should retire to the forest and begin to meditate in solitude.
  • He is free from social bonds and responsibilities of the life.
  • He gives up all desires and drops all attachment to the world.
  • He studies scriptures and dwells in mantras japa.
  • Moves in company of sages, listens to their teaching and moves on the path of realising God.

Vanaprashta (Stage 3)

  • He renounces all possesions.
  • He lives alone and spends his time in meditation and lives on alms.
  • Does not live in populated place.
  • he is free from desires, ego, anger, greed, and pride.
  • He is ever joyful and happy in the company of the Lord whom he invokes by Dhyana.

1st Stage- Brahmacharya

Sanyasa (Stage 4)

Always engages self in doing services to his Guru.

  • They must rise early, and do daily poojas, Sandhya and Gayathri Japa.
  • Takes food in moderation.

Characteristics of Brahmacharis

A Brahmachari is the one who is immersed in thoughts of God and divinity and should never dwell in the worldly desires and pleasures.

  • Studies scripturs such as Vedas, Upanisads and Sciences.
  • Such a sanyasi is an ideal man.
  • He has attained perfection and freedom.
  • He is brahman himself
  • GLORY TO SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING GODS ON EARTH!!!!!!
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