{"id":632492,"date":"2022-11-15T00:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=632492"},"modified":"2022-11-15T00:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:41:05","slug":"hindu-mantras-opened-albany-town-council-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/632492\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu mantras opened Albany Town Council in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-632493 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Albany-La.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"286\" \/>Hindu prayer started the day of Albany Town Council (Louisiana) on November 14, containing verses from world\u2019s oldest extant scripture.<\/p>\n<div>Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures remotely before Albany Town Council. After Sanskrit delivery, he then read the English interpretation of the prayers. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and the root language of Indo-European languages.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Zed, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, recited from\u00a0<i>Rig-Veda<\/i>, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use; besides lines from\u00a0<i>Upanishads<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Bhagavad-Gita<\/i>\u00a0(Song of the Lord), both ancient Hindu scriptures. He started and ended the prayer with \u201cOm\u201d, the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.<\/p>\n<p>Reciting from\u00a0<i>Brahadaranyakopanishad<\/i>, Rajan Zed said \u201cAsato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya\u201d; which he then interpreted as \u201cLead us from the unreal to the real, Lead us from darkness to light, and Lead us from death to immortality.\u201d Reciting from\u00a0<i>Bhagavad-Gita<\/i>, he urged councilmembers and others present to keep the welfare of others always in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Zed, a global Hindu and interfaith leader, has been bestowed with the World Interfaith Leader Award. Zed is Senior Fellow and Religious Advisor to Foundation for Religious Diplomacy,\u00a0on the Advisory Board of The Interfaith Peace Project, etc. He has been panelist for \u201cOn Faith\u201d, a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post; and produces a weekly multi-faith panel \u201cFaith Forum\u201d in a Gannett publication for over 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>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 three million Hindus in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Railroad established Albany in 1907-08, but it was incorporated in 1953. Taglines of Albany include: &#8220;Small town with a big heart&#8221;, &#8220;One red light and a whole lot of love&#8221;. Eileen Bates-McCarroll is the mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu prayer started the day of Albany Town Council (Louisiana) on November 14, containing verses from world\u2019s oldest extant scripture. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures remotely before Albany Town Council. After Sanskrit delivery, he then 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, recited from\u00a0Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use; besides lines from\u00a0Upanishads\u00a0and\u00a0Bhagavad-Gita\u00a0(Song of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":632493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}