Carson City Board of Supervisors to open with Hindu prayers
The Carson City Board of Supervisors will start their day on Feb. 15 with Sanskrit mantras, containing verses from the world’s oldest existing scripture.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the Board. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English translation of the prayer.
Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages.
Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, will recite from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use, as well as lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), both ancient Hindu scriptures.
He plans to start and end the prayer with “Om,” the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.
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.”
Reciting from Bhagavad-Gita, he proposes to urge the Supervisors to keep the welfare of others always in mind.
Zed is a global Hindu and interfaith leader, who, besides taking up the cause of religion worldwide, has also raised a huge voice against the apartheid faced by about 15-million Roma (Gypsies) in Europe.
Bestowed with World Interfaith Leader Award, Zed is Senior Fellow and Religious Advisor to the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy; Spiritual Advisor to the National Association of Interchurch and Interfaith Families; on the Advisory Board of The Interfaith Peace Project, etc.
He has been panelist for “On Faith,” a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post; and he leads a weekly interfaith panel, “Faith Forum,” in the Reno Gazette-Journal for over six years.
Hinduism, the oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about 1.1 billion adherents. Moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal. There are about three million Hindus in the United States.
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