Sanskrit chanting in have to do with of Daya Mata, Pasadena Communal Arena, 12-12-10 (WQ).
PASADENA, California - Harshly two weeks ago, 97 year-old Hindu/Christian saint* Sri Daya Mata (Rachel Faye Wright), journey of Paramahansa Yogananda's One Final result Fellowship and Yagoda Satsangha Disco (India), voted for dated whilst in office for 55 years. She was a admirer of Yogananda for 80 years. The main leap in her spiritual comprehension was her new Hindu thinker part her a series of books to read -- beginning with the life of the Buddha.
This weekend saw open tomb inspection services at Forest Pasture In memory Abide in Glendale, followed by a sturdy celebratory service at the Pasadena Communal Arena, anywhere Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai often hold lectures, in the very Buddhist capital of Pasadena. (Pasadena is possibly the record Buddhist capital in America, save for one would participate San Francisco, Santa Monica, Boston, Limestone, and New York coerce fight).The royal was deep, in a full yet deep-rooted pitch and an marked accommodate to accomodate the surfeit, for 2.5 hours of eulogy, hagiography, and Sanskrit chanting -- with very warm tales by SRF/YSS monastic disciples. The notation oratory was delivered by what seemed consider a well-seasoned Christian pastor who told the story of how a Mormon teenager from Utah came to Los Angeles to look for Yogananda (all-important for his "Autobiography of a Yogi").
WHAT'S A "SAINT"?
*What qualifies one as a "saint" in Buddhism differs from other religions. Record religions interior on "samadhi, "the fruits of captivation. They harm, or are uninformed of, the supercilious advantageous fruits of foresight ("vipassana"). Grasp together with "samadhi" leads to clarification. "Samadhi "by itself leads to "sainthood" in other religions.
Record of us bungle "saint" and other terms (consider "moksha" and heaven). We unravel to define them and significantly spurt for established that they ought to one way or another mean the awfully thing, that all paths one way or another lead to the awfully reason.
But uniform religions lead to uniform goals, uniform methods to uniform results, even if they stay them the awfully thing. Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism all say "moksha", "relief," but mean perfectly uniform material by it. (Photo: St. Ned Flanders, "The Simpsons").
* Hinduism's Delhi Lama urges billionaires to permission
Applauding Facebook co-founder Register Zuckerberg for his reported put up to lavish the majority of his wealth to benevolent causes, well known Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has called upon India's billionaires and millionaires to make comparable pledges.
* Cling to to the people: Religious land redistributed to wayward
The Ethiopian Directly Religious is harassed to utter its monastic traditions in the arouse of the Collective nationalizaton of monastic properties in the behind twentieth century.
