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adding Psycho-spiritual significance
According to psychology theories, performing a certain activity, exhibiting a certain behaviour or response repeatedly makes it a habit. A student is taught Gayatri mantra and asked to repeat it. Similarly he should perform Sandhyavandana and Samidadhana daily in the morning and evening. Such activities done over a long time turn into habits and the pupil continues the same attitudes and habits in his future life also. Worshiping the higher sources of energies such as devatas turns into a habit. In many mantras the boy asks for radiance (varchasv and tejas), intelligence (medhas) and memory, speech etc. This step to improve and develop his personality will ultimately impact his conduct in the society.<ref name=":1" />
According to psychology theories, performing a certain activity, exhibiting a certain behaviour or response repeatedly makes it a habit. A student is taught Gayatri mantra and asked to repeat it. Similarly he should perform Sandhyavandana and Samidadhana daily in the morning and evening. Such activities done over a long time turn into habits and the pupil continues the same attitudes and habits in his future life also. Worshiping the higher sources of energies such as devatas turns into a habit. In many mantras the boy asks for radiance (varchasv and tejas), intelligence (medhas) and memory, speech etc. This step to improve and develop his personality will ultimately impact his conduct in the society.<ref name=":1" />
== Psycho-spiritual Significance ==
Upanayana ceremony is performed at a time when the person moves from early childhood to later childhood. Psychologists describe the childhood in two stages viz., early childhood, from the age of 3 to 6 years and later childhood, from the age of 7 to 12 years. A child develops mentally and physically in these stages rapidly. As a child grows, both quantitative and qualitative changes are taking place within him. The beginnings of good study habits can and should be learned at this stage. This age is the time when vision and hearing as well as any speech difficulties become evident if present. These senses develop rapidly and are put to use by the child in these later years; the training of the senses starts at this age with the Upanayana ceremony. Psychologists also mention that the thinking and reasoning capacity in a child grows manifold between the ages of eight to eleven.<ref name=":1" />
== Upanayana for Girls ==
== Upanayana for Girls ==