India Post News Service
CHICAGO: Hindu prayers will open the St. Petersburg City Council (Florida) meeting on August seven, containing verses from world’s oldest extant scripture.
Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the St. Petersburg City Council. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English interpretation of the prayers. .
Zed, 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 books
Reciting from Brahadaranyakopanishad, Rajan Zed plans to say “Asato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya”; which he will then interpret as “Lead us from the unreal to the real, Lead us from darkness to light, and Lead us from death to immortality.”
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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