Post by Demi on Feb 5, 2013 22:55:05 GMT -5
Amazing... I just read this and posting for all of you to see. The ancient Hindu ceremonies named "yagyas" could be called a "scientific" kind of prayer because they are able to influence something directly. Yagyas are also used as a remedy measure in the Jyotish astrology system, to shield from karmic situations which are on its way to an individual.
BTW In the Vedic tradition, the Sun represents the quality of administration and government, which was a quality that needed improvement back then!
Near the end of World War II, 2000 Hindu priests and ten thousand of their followers gathered outside New Delhi by the sacred river Jumna to pray for world peace. For 10 days, the murmur of their prayers and the smoke of their fires rose like incense from the great thatch-and-bamboo pandal build on the plain. For ten days, austere Brahmins under the leadership of His Holiness Shri Jagadguru Shankaracharya chanted a master verse from the 3000 year old Vedas: “The sun is the centre of the entire universe; all intelligence, all energy, all health are derived from the sun.” In all, during this Mahayagya or great sacrifice, more than 10,000,000 prayers of praise and supplication were recited. It was probably the greatest demonstration of mass praying in modern times, and, as reverend Hindus believe, helped to defeat the Axis powers. -Life Magazine, 1944
All the best,
Demi
BTW In the Vedic tradition, the Sun represents the quality of administration and government, which was a quality that needed improvement back then!
Near the end of World War II, 2000 Hindu priests and ten thousand of their followers gathered outside New Delhi by the sacred river Jumna to pray for world peace. For 10 days, the murmur of their prayers and the smoke of their fires rose like incense from the great thatch-and-bamboo pandal build on the plain. For ten days, austere Brahmins under the leadership of His Holiness Shri Jagadguru Shankaracharya chanted a master verse from the 3000 year old Vedas: “The sun is the centre of the entire universe; all intelligence, all energy, all health are derived from the sun.” In all, during this Mahayagya or great sacrifice, more than 10,000,000 prayers of praise and supplication were recited. It was probably the greatest demonstration of mass praying in modern times, and, as reverend Hindus believe, helped to defeat the Axis powers. -Life Magazine, 1944
All the best,
Demi
