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Chambersburg Town Council in Pennsylvania opening with Hindu prayer 1st time in 212 years
Chambersburg Town Council In Pennsylvania Opening With Hindu Prayer 1st Time In 212 years. Borough of Chambersburg Town Council in Pennsylvania (USA), incorporated in 1803, will have its first historic Hindu opening prayer on April 13, containing verses from world’s oldest existing scripture.
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Borough of Chambersburg Town Council in Pennsylvania (USA), incorporated in 1803, will have its first historic Hindu opening prayer on April 13, containing verses from world’s oldest existing scripture.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the Town Council. 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, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, will recite from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use, 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 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 councilmembers to keep the welfare of others always in mind.
Bestowed with World Interfaith Leader Award, Zed is a global Hindu and interfaith leader, who besides taking up the cause of religion worldwide, has also raised huge voice against the apartheid faced by about 15-million Roma (Gypsies) in Europe.
Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal. There are about three million Hindus in USA.
Allen B. Coffman and Heath E. Talhelm are President and Vice President respectively of the Town Council; while Darren Brown and Jeffrey M. Stonehill are Mayor and Manager respectively of the Borough of Chambersburg which was founded in 1764 and whose mission includes "make Chambersburg the model for Pennsylvania communities". Prominent people associated with Chambersburg include baseball players Nellie Fox and Tom Brookens, educator John Grier Hibben and journalist Gwen Ifill.
