gRuhasthas can wear even 3 or 4 yajnOpavItas, one representing the uttareeya and the other for shrEyas. (The 2nd one is required since the wife cannot wear a yajnOpaveeta and the husband wears one for her, since the husband is the guru of the wife.).
The second one represents the extra duty a householder has to perform. It has to be changed every year on the upAkarma day and also after any ashaucha (mailige).īachelors should wear one yajnOpaveeta, where as a minimum of two is compulsory for gRuhasthas. The yajnOpaveeta should not go either below or above the navel. NavamaH sarvadEvatyaH ityEtA nava dEvatAH || SaptamO vasudEvatyO dharmashchAshTamaM Evacha
PaMchamaH pitRudEvatyaH ShaShThachaiva prajApatiH TRuteeyO bhagadEvatyachaturthaH sOmadEvataH OMkAraprathamastaMturdviteeyO agnisthataivacha The 9 strands (of a single yajnOpaveeta having three threads) have the following deities: Tat graMthyagram cha sAvitrI vEdamAtA shivAj~jayA ||Įach of the three threads of the yajnOpaveeta in turn is made of 3 fine strands, totally numbering to 9 strands for one yajnOpaveeta. Tat graMthimAshrayattArAstrimAtO nAdasmyutaH TAvallOkAstrayO varNAstrivRut sUtram samAshrayan The three threads that form the yajnOpaveeta represent the 3 guNas, 3 vEdas, 3 varNas and the 3 lOkas.īy the order of the Lord the abhimAni dEvatas of these (3 gunas, 3 vEdas, 3 varNas and the 3 lOkas) reside in the three threads. The yajnOpaveeta comprises of three threads, and each thread is in turn made up of three fine threads (strands). UpaveetaM tatO AsEdyam tasmAdyaj~jOpaveetikam ||ĭetails of yajnOpaveeta (the sacred thread) Yaj~jAkhyaH paramAtmAya uchyate chaiva hOtRubhiH The thread that gives the eligibility to perform yajna kAryas is the yajnOpaveeta YEnAmsE dhRutamAtrENa brahmasUtrENa tE dvijAHīhavaMti brAhmaNa nAma vEdArhAshcha trayastviH || The yajnOpaveeta is said to have been created by Sri chaturmukha brahma himself for this very purpose:īrahmAgrE kalpayAmAsa vEdArhAnAmanuttamam Even when a person does not wear a yajnOpaveeta regularly, priests insist upon it during such rituals. Similarly, shrAddha karma is not valid unless the kartRu has first undergone the yajnOpaveeta samskAra. One must undergo yajnOpaveeta samskAra before the vivAha (wedding) samskAra. Nobody is entitled to perform any samskAra without having gone through the yajnOpaveeta samskAra according to ManusmRuti. The pre-requisite to all this is the formal initiation called upanayana where the boy’s father gives the yajnOpaveeta and brahmOpadEsha to his son initiating him into vEdic rites. He can perform sandhyAvandana, gAyatri japa, agni kArya and the like and can also perform vEdAdhyayana. Man belonging to the first three varNas (brAhmaNa, kShatriya and vaishya) has vEdAdhikAra. YajnOpaveeta is the sacred thread that represents deeksha to perform vEdic rituals.
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