Upanayan -sanskar...is one of the 16 sanskars Currently this ceremony is mostly outdated,.

. or just done nominally as a ritual, 

  truly, in the initiation process one should be able to experience the glimpse of the self at least for a second, that makes the sense of the word dvija..Chithrasen sang

mere to mana me bahathee hai ganga

jamunaa yahaa, kaaveree yahaa

evolved souls referred to the internal temple , all along thru the ages

ignorant followers are queueing up at temples,

waiting for hours days, to have a darshan of the great gods

 in the temples

Gurus and moreover Followers who believe that Without visit to Such chaar dham, seekers don't attain moksha..----are all mistaken miserably, they are ignorant , innocent, poor souls , in delusion and illusion ,

 they do not know they have to take a dip in the inner gyan sathganga , the pure consciousness,

it is the inner holy sacred theerath one has to visit

adi shankara lamented just exactly on the ways of the ignorant in his verse

Gabheeram kaasare vimsathi vijane ghora vapine, 

Vishale shaile cha brahmathi kusumartha jada mathi 

Samarpaikam chetha sarasijamumanatha bhavathe, 

Sukhenawasthathum jana iha na janathi kimaho.     9 

 

Searches and hunts the dim witted one, 

In the deep dark lake, 

In the lonely dangerous forest, 

And in  the broad high mountains 

For a flower to worship thee. 

It is a wonder, 

That these people do not know, 

To offer to you the single lotus, 

From the lake of ones own mind, 

Oh God who is the consort of Uma, 

And be happy at ones own place.. 

this experience,  is really an experience of life beyond,

.a new life after the death of old identity 

there is utter need of reviving these in purity , not as ritual, ...to bring in a much needed transformation in the life around,, .............one of the evil is increase in the suicides

 instead of suicide, one should learn this ''art of dying'' and become reborn