Las Vegas City Council in USA opened with Hindu mantras

[Joanne98]

City Council of Las Vegas (USA), world's entertainment capital, reverberated with Sanskrit mantras from ancient Hindu scriptures on January 19.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered invocation from Sanskrit scriptures before Las Vegas City Council on January 19. After Sanskrit delivery, he then 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, recited 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 started and ended the prayer with "Om", the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.

City Council members, City employees and public stood quietly in prayer mode with heads bowed down during the prayer. Wearing saffron colored attire, a ruddraksh mala (rosary), and traditional sandalpaste tilak (religious mark) on the forehead, Rajan Zed sprinkled few drops of sacred water from river Ganga in India around the podium before the prayer. He presented a copy of Bhagavad-Gita to Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman and Las Vegas Fire Chief Mike Myers.

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Hindia Law??? ON NOESSSSSSSS!

[hobbit709]

1. Cue the outraged howls from the fundies.

[xchrom]

2. recommend -- there's a surprising outdoor hindu shrine

outside of Cesar's palace in vegas. small but quite elaborate.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Actually, the oldest scripture still in common use is...

The Original Instructions. And if you live here on Turtle Island (North America), you should know them, for they are the ancient indigenous tradition of this land that you walk upon. The Original Instructions are not somewhere on paper. They have a more permanent site, in the human soul.

[catabryna]

4. It sounds like a lovely ceremony...

but, I still abhor the idea of prayer, ANY prayer, ANY religion, at an officially sanctioned governmental-type meeting... it just doesn't belong there.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. I'm in favor of diversity, to let the fundies know they don't have a monopoly on morality.

Every xtian I know thinks that Buddha is a god, and is worshipped as a god. WRONG.

Shakyamuni Buddha took all the gods and other assorted extraneous stuff out of Hinduism and distilled it to karma, dharma and reincarnation. Which I think is cool.