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| March 23, 2010 | Historic first Hindu prayer to open both Senate & House of Alaska state of USA | |
Nevada (US): Both Alaska State Senate and House of Representatives in Juneau (USA) will open with Hindu prayers reportedly for the first time on April nine.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu leader, will read the opening prayers from ancient
Sanskrit scriptures before Senators and Representatives on this day. After Sanskrit
delivery, he then will read the English translation of the prayers. Sanskrit is
considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European
languages.
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, will recite from Rig-Veda,
the oldest scripture of the world still in common use, dated from around 1,500
BCE, besides 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 roughly translates as "Lead us from the unreal to the Real, from darkness
to Light, and from death to Immortality." Reciting from Bhagavad-Gita, he proposes
to urge State Senators and Representatives to keep the welfare of others always
in mind. Rajan Zed is one of the panelists for "On Faith", a prestigious interactive
conversation on religion produced jointly by Newsweek and washingtonpost.com.
He has been awarded "World Interfaith Leader Award" by National Association of
Interchurch and Interfaith Families. Alaska Senate is composed of 20 members with
Gary Stevens as the President, while House of Representatives has 40 members with
Mike Chenault as the Speaker. Lonely Planet describes Alaska as "Big, beautiful
and wildly bountiful" and its Mount McKinley is the highest mountain peak in North
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