Benefits of performing Sandhyavanthanam

I accidently listened to Sengalipuram Anantharama Dikshithar's discourse on the importance of Sandhyavandhanam. I'm not going to lecture on the importance of it, for i'm fairly ambivalent on these things.

Why i'm forwarding this is to bring to you the bygone pristine sarcasm of Tamil Brahmins.

Listen to him between 6:44 till 7:00 in the second part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZJlhIrgBE&feature=related

Rip roaring....He goes 'kAla nittindundu thoongarAn, KoopttA kOpchikkarAn, KApinnA vAya pOlakarAn. Krishna oila vittudanamnaen vAyila appO" :-)

And between 7:10 to 7:30 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqLBlJZT0ak&feature=channel

EnnA Aabadh kAlathula kUda pathu Gayathrikku kuraya kUdAdhunnA

Romba AabathA irundhadhu..Aathula yArAvadhu kezhavAlukku izhuthundu irundhadhu

Appo pathu aavarthi pannu porumnnA

Adhukkaaga nithyam 10 aavarthi pannA nithyam yaarukkO izhuthundu irukkunnu artham

I was rolling over. Few joys of a bank holiday weekend:-)

I remembered Appa buying Anantharama Diksithar's cassettes in Namakkal and us listening to it in our old Philips tape recorder. Brought memories back....


The entire series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oy1rYn4PsQ&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZJlhIrgBE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqLBlJZT0ak&feature=channel