[Fwd: [bm_usa] R^igvedic Prayer for establishing Unity]
Ravi Kant
'Those who condemn politics to be the last resort of a scoundrel are bound
to be ruled by scoundrels' - Plato
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The rise of a Great Nation."
Dear Brother and sisters,
Vandemaatram!
I am forwarding one of the posts by our senior member of BM USA. He has done some good work in understanding Vedas in light of modern science and technologies. hope! we shall be benefited by his writings. jai hind
with truth...
Ravi
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Subject: [bm_usa] R^igvedic Prayer for establishing Unity
From: "ymoharir" <ymoh...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, July 10, 2006 6:20 pm
To: bm_...@yahoogroups.com
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Dear List:
I would like to share a wonderful prayer that is found in R^igveda
and I believe it still applies and can function well if we try to
understand the significance behind it. This especially applies to
BM, which being a young organization, sometimes, ego's, objectives,
priorities (personal, local, National,....etc., pet projects often
do not get visibility.
As per aitareya brahmaNa (23.1) this prayer is invoked in order to
bring about unity within a group for the abhyudayaa of the country.
Associated story in taittariya samhitaa (2.1.11) helps us understand
the purpose of this prayer. This particular vidhi is known
as "sa.nj~naanii iSHTii".
Now the story:
When Gods and asuraa were at war, there was a division and debate
between Gods for who should take the leadership role? Everybody
wanted to be the leader, which was creating a rift amongst them.
Agni separated with vasu; rudra & soma formed savataa subhaa. indra
sided with marutgaNa and expected all the God's to recognize him as
the leader. He then goes to prajaapati to ask for a possible
solution. That is when prajaapati performed "sa.nj~naanii iSHTii"
which dissolved the jalousies between various Gods as they realized
the importance of indraa's role for confronting asuura. This
resulted in acceptance of indra as the leader of Gods. In this
yaj~naa four oblations are combined into one and then offered to
agni, soma, indra and varuNa respectively.
|| sa.nj~naana suukta ||
R^iShii - sa.mvanana a.ngirasa\, devataa - agni
saM\-sam id yuvase vR^iShann agne vishvaany arya aa |
iLas pade sam idhyase sa no vasuuny aa bhara || 10.191.1||
sa.n gachchhadhvaM sa.n vadadhvaM sa.n vo manaa.nsi jaanataam.h .
devaa bhaaga.n yathaa puurve sa.njaanaanaa upaasate || 10.191.2 ||
Meaning: Dear assembled worshippers, let your thoughts become
alike, united with one voice and knowledge; just like ancient Gods
(ancestors) accepted their portions of sacrifices and performed
their work unanimously.
samaano mantraH samitiH samaanii
samaanaM manaH saha chittameshhaam.h .
samaanaM mantramabhimantraye vaH
samaanena vo havishhaa juhomi || 10.191.3 ||
Meaning - Dear assembled worshippers, let our desires be one, for a
common purpose with common objectives by oblation this common payer.
When say vande maataram to a person then we automatically recognize
the common connection to the mother-land of that individual.
With best wishes for the unity.
Dr. Yadu