Hindu w88 sports betting app Service (Dikshant Utsav), held for the first time in Western USA at University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in May 2008, enters third year.
Organized by Indo-American leader Rajan Zed in collaboration with Indian Student Organization and South Asian Association of University of Nevada, Reno, it will bless graduating class in the traditional w88 sports betting app style according to ancient scriptures, complete with applying tilak (religious mark) on the foreheads of graduates.
Besides keynote address by a w88 sports betting app monk, it will also include blessing prayers by Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha’i, Confucian, and Native American religious leaders. Well known musician Jim Eaglesmith will chant a kirtan number in Sanskrit with audience following him in the chant.
Starting with ‘Gayatri Mantra’ (the most sacred verse from oldest scripture Rig-Veda dated around 1,500 BCE) recitation by Rajan Zed and traditional lamp lighting before the statue of goddess Saraswati, patron of learning and the arts; it will include blessing the upcoming graduates with wisdom from Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita — all ancient w88 sports betting app scriptures.
Special certificates will be given to graduates on the occasion with the parting advice as –satyam vada (speak the truth), dharma chara (practice righteousness), matrudevo bhava (treat your mother with great respect), pitrudevo bhava (treat your father with great respect), etc.
Washoe County issued a special Resolution to mark the significance of First Annual Hindu w88 sports betting app Service of UNR. This “Third Annual Hindu w88 sports betting app Service of UNR” will be held on April 11 in its campus. Various religious, political, and educational leaders are expected to attend this Service.
Education in Hindu tradition has been deep rooted; Zed says and adds that after many important universities in ancient India, like Taxila, Nalanda, Sarnath, Amaravati, Banaras, Kanchi and Ujjain; great Indian universities also flourished in medieval period, like Odantapura (745 AD), Vikramasila (810 AD), Somapura (480 AD), Jagaddala (1090 AD). The purpose of this w88 sports betting app Service is to root the graduating class in divine spiritual and cultural tradition so that they have a spiritually meaningful life in addition to material success, Zed stresses.
The flagship institution of the state established in 1864, theUniversity of Nevada, Reno is one of the top 120 universities in America for funded research, which spans issues relating to the environment, renewable energy resources, the life sciences and plasma physics. The w88 sports betting app competes in 19 men's and women’s sports. Dr. Milton D. Glick is the President.
Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.
