Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Hindu mantras to start the day of six legislative bodies in Arizona


(MENAFN- Aol) Hindu prayers will open the meetings of five City/Town Councils and one County Board of Supervisors in Arizona in March, containing verses from world’s oldest extant scripture.

These include City/Town Councils of Peoria, Payson, Youngtown, Parker, Huachuca and Gila County Board of Supervisors (Globe).

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before these six legislative bodies. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English interpretation of the prayers. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and the root language of Indo-European languages.

Zed, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, will recite from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use; besides lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), both ancient Hindu scriptures. He plans to start and end prayer with “”m”, the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.

Reciting from Brahadaranyakopanishad, Rajan Zed plans to “ay “Asato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam ”amaya”; which he will then inter“ret as “Lead us from the unreal to the real, Lead us from darkness to light, and Lead us from death to immortality.” Reciting from Bhagavad-Gita, he proposes to urge the Council members, County supervisors and others present to keep the welfare of others always in mind.

Zed, a global Hindu and interfaith leader, has been bestowed with the World Interfaith Leader Award. Zed is on the Advisory Board of The Interfaith Peace Project, Senior Fellow and Religious Advisor to Foundation for Religious Diplomacy, etc. He has been a p“nelist f”r “On Faith”, a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post; and leads a weekly i“terfaith pa”el “Faith Forum” in a USA TODAY Network publication for over 15 years.

Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about 1.2 billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal. There are about 3.2 million Hindus in the USA.


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