Why do brahmins wear poonal

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why do some of the Hindu "Brahmins" wear a sacred thread? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 4 months ago. Active 5 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 23k times. Also, when they go to the washroom, they wear that thread on their ears.

Why do they wear that thread? Improve this question. Kedarnath 4, 12 12 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 67 67 bronze badges. Just code Just code 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Related What is the significance of the janeva sacred thread? AnkitSharma exactly. But i need more description over this — Just code.

Can't help to answer in any more details. Just retracting my close vote for now. Lets see if anyone can answer it. Vaishyas and kshtriyas wear it too. The thread is a symbol of initiation into a varna or being 'born again' into a varna. I heard many scholars on TV and in pravachan saying that the right ear is considered auspicious and hence one should wear it around the right ear during any asoucha like while passing urine etc. Show 1 more comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. These are all blogs do you have any scriptural justification? Significance of Upanayanam.

The strands of the thread also stand for purity of words, thoughts and deeds of the wearer. Through the Upanayanam ceremony, the boy is introduced to the concept of Brahman and therefore, becomes qualified to lead the life of a Brahmachari according to the rules of the Manusmriti. Rohit Kumar 7 September at Unknown 1 October at Unknown 11 November at Unknown 18 March at Unknown 25 April at Unknown 18 May at Jan Sasek 2 July at Unknown 26 September at Anonymous 22 December at Sharon Wayne 9 May at Popular posts from this blog Why do married Bengali women wear shakha pola?

August 20, This custom is most popular and accepted in the eastern part of India. Before the actual bengali marriage day in the wee hours of very day, married women perform ceremony referred as Dodhi Mangal in which they soak bangles made with conch shells and pola the red bangles in turmeric mixed water. It symbolizes as seven forms of Goddess. The bride has to wear Pola red bangle between iron metal bangles or Shankha. It is also believed said that the iron bangle provides fi.

Read more. In many instances Upanayanam is just performed just to satisfy some elders or to meet some family obligation and with no underlying faith. After all what we preach and practise, that will be so with offsprings. A good friend of mine who has a a daughter working in MNC as software engineer hailing from from orthodox religious respecting family; he is looking for a boy who does thrilkala sandhyavandhanam. Myself with others have been advising him to loosen his regidity looking for thrikala but once a day atleast.

He is still getting such a boy despite one and half years search. Now with pain he has understod he has to compromise his standards. Last edited: Nov 3, Thanks Mr. Swaminatha sarma and Dr Sundaram for your views.

SuryaKasyapa Active member. Namaskaarams, First I offer my apologies in writing something personal. But I thought that is the best way to explain the point. My son's upanayanam was conducted in the 8th-9 th yr of age vaadhyaar said that was the right time. I sourced out possible material on Upanayanam.

As there were NBs and NHs attending the ceremony, it was welcomed by everybody,and spurred some interest in then recently -had-upanayanam boys also. This is only a small hint from personal experience.

I must compliment you Shri Suryakasyapa for the way you conducted the Upanayanam. It is a good effort worthy of emulation. Keep it up. Do you have a copy of that book with you? Click to expand Me too wonder how and why did threads come to be used for religious purposes. Threads are used for upanayanam, kankanam during wedding , raksha-bandhan, threads are worn around the waist and so on..

All pics of baby Krishna portray him with a thread around his wait -- the zorasthrians too use a sacred thread girdle kusti around waist -- but i have not heard of north indians putting threads around a baby boy's waist. Dear Sir, From what i hear hearsay only , attaching the krishNAjina skin to the thread was started by the atharva-vedis.

Is that true? So wonder what are the brahmins of assam, and those areas using today.. Brahmanyan Well-known member. Is Poonal only ornamental Without going into merits or demerits of wearing Poonul , I wish to state, in today's context Poonul has only symbolic value for Brahmins , who have left their Varnasrama Dharma altogether.

When we have left other symbols like Panchakacham , Udhariyam , Kudumi, even applying Vibhudi or Tirumann on the body, I do not understand why we stick on to Poonul alone.

Regards, Brahmanyan. Brahmanyan said:. Without going into merits or demerits of wearing Poonul , I wish to state, in today's context Poonul has only symbolic value for Brahmins , who have left their Varnasrama Dharma altogether. Shri Brahmanyan Sir, A very good point.

I wear it simply out of habit.