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Mumbai
priests perform Yajna to appease rain gods
New
Delhi: Immersed in bust deep water, priests of Mumbai's Sri
Sankara Mattham temple chanted mantras and performed Yajna to
appease rain Gods. The 'Yajna' was conducted in the Vedic manner
to particularly appease Varuna, the rain God. A.N Seshan, president,
Sri Sankara Matam, said that the ritual was performed to seek
divine intervention in resolving people's woes in the face of
a poor monsoon. "Today's programme of the 'Praganya Shanti', a
Vedic ritual, is performed by this institution to propitiate the
God 'Varuna' rain god, who is the 'Adhipati' of the rain. We are
all aware that we are not getting enough monsoon this year and
we are facing a very high shortage, so we need water, which is
the life of everybody," he said. The temple reverberated with
rhythmic chants of mantras and shlokas recited by ten priests
who also performed 'Yajna' in Vedic manner. "For getting rain
we have selected 10 Vedic pundits standing in waist deep water
for getting rain in Mumbai," said Venkatraman, manager of Sankara
Matam. The country this year has had to face a poor monsoon feared
to effect farm produce and general well being. The monsoon rains
have been 29 percent below average between June 1 and August 11.
-Aug 26, 2009
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