{"id":641503,"date":"2023-04-28T05:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=641503"},"modified":"2023-04-28T05:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:48:47","slug":"hindu-mantras-to-start-the-day-of-delaware-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/641503\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu mantras to start the day of Delaware Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-641504 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Delaware.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"276\" \/>Hindu invocation is scheduled to be read in Delaware State Senate on May nine, containing verses from world\u2019s oldest extant scripture.<\/p>\n<div>Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will 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, will recite 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 plans to start and end 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 plans to say \u201cAsato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya\u201d; which he will then interpret 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 proposes to urge Senators 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 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 12 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 USA.<\/p>\n<p>Delaware State Senate in Dover is composed of 21 Senators and Lieutenant Governor Dr. Bethany Hall-Long is its President. \u201cThe First State\u201d Delaware often describes itself as &#8220;The Nation&#8217;s Summer Capital&#8221;. John Carney is the Governor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu invocation is scheduled to be read in Delaware State Senate on May nine, containing verses from world\u2019s oldest extant scripture. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will 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, will recite from\u00a0Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use; besides lines from\u00a0Upanishads\u00a0and\u00a0Bhagavad-Gita\u00a0(Song of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":641504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641503","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\/641503","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641505,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641503\/revisions\/641505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}