TODAY'S PRAYER

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today's prayer
 for inspiration to face
the Sumatra tsunami disaster
sufferers & helpers

---------------om bRH`myae nmH......................

O God,
as Naomi and Ruth journeyed
from one land to another seeking a home,
we ask your blessing upon all who are
 homeless in this world.

You promised to your chosen people
a land flowing with milk and honey;
so inspire us to desire
the accomplishment of your will
that we may work for
the settlement of those who are homeless
 in a place of peace, protection, and nurture,
flowing with opportunity, blessing, and hope.

Amen.


Vienna Cobb Anderson | Source: Adapted from "Prayers of Our Hearts" © 1991



 

..................om tt st......................
---------------om shaaNti shaaNti shaaNti.....................
---------------om  nmH guru bRH`m......................


 

why pray

veD is the knowledge of the entire creation. veD imparts to each and every creation how creation is created, how it is sustained after creation, the purpose of each creation, how each creation has to co-exist with all other creations and the grand scheme and meaning of this creation. In this process of imparting knowledge veD also subtly informs about our creator bRH`m and creator bRH`m's relationship with all creations singly and collectively.

To get all knowledge through the study of veD is a monumental task ...which could not possibly be completed in one life time...in a life time most of us can get only a degree in one field of science or arts or commerce or medicine or engineering....to get all the knowledge of ved will take infinite years as the knowledge itself is infinite....

.....But then our creator bRH`m, knowing our limitation of the life cycles, has given us a small life manual in which the basics of creations, its processes, its relationships and its purpose are outlined in about 700 to 750 aphorism like messages of few words at a time......this manual of life is has been given a name "bhgvD giitaa"....Similarly for those who desire to have detailed knowledge veD has 18 viD`yaa. A viD`yaa is a specific knowledge base similar to what we currently know as engineering, medicine, law, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, grammar......and all the viDyaa is in 4 veD, 6 veDNg aa, 108 upniSH`D and 108 puraaANo, etc......

....We volunteers, at Prajaapati Vishva Aashram Foundation, have a primary mandate to facilitate the entire humankind to acquire knowledge per se...we believe that studying any part of veD is a good start on this path to acquire knowledge...so from today let us begin that study...om tt st...

At present on this planet earth we have various faith systems leading to a Creator...each faith systems has its own name and also a name for whatever it believes as a Creator....but surprisingly all faith systems have one message to all its follower...knowledge shall set you free....let us then get this knowledge....may the Creator bless us to walk on this path no matter how we stumble, fall or sometimes give up....but we are continually blessed by our Creator to have the strength and the means to get up once more and keep walking....in the pursuit of knowledge....

Each message in any text in all 18 viDyaa is called a s`lok. Each s`lok is an answer to a prayer made for knowledge...as if the Creator knew that we will ask the question in the form of a prayer ....and our Creator has already given the answers to our prayers in all viD`yaa.......

One prays to recieve inspiration and one receives inspirations to pray......it is always a repeated cycle....

....om shaaNti shaaNti shaaNti...
.....om tt st....


 

Backgrounder To TODAY'S PRAYER

DAILY INSPIRATION TO PROGRESS AND PROSPER

The word inspiration is derived from the word inspire. The word inspire means to breathe or to infuse life by breathing. Breathing though vital is not enough in life. So to inspire also means to influence, to move, to guide by vaach (speech) or kARm (action) through Daeevik (divine) nimi`tt (agency) or shk`ti (power).

Inspiring thus causes jivan (life) to be animated, enlivened, exalted to perform normal and extraordinary karma in one's daily life.

Inspiring encourages one one's buDH`DHi (intellect) and guno which causes emotions to be encouraged, impelled and motivated to do whatever one wishes in life.

The inspiring happens through infusing or introducing in one's mns (mind) or communicating with one's aat`maa (soul) that arouses and provokes one to perform karma in life.

This inspiring further creates occasion, incitement and fomentation in life. Of these fomentation is vital as it creates nursing of life and kARm to promote growth in life.

To recieve inspiration as noted above is a blessing given by our creator brhmah to everyone. But one must be ready and open to receive this blessing from one's creator.

Through inspiration major inventions have been created. Great writing of prose and poetry has occurred through inspiration. Men such as gaandhiji was inspired to uphold basic human rights in face of oppressive discrimination of human systems. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were inspired to abolish slavery in USA. The third President of USA, Thomas Jefferson, was inspired to say one does not need a "religious" institution to believe in God. Mao was inspired to liberate a billion Chinese from kingly oppression. Through inspiration Albert Einstein could clearly see the Principle of Relativity hidden in the 400 years of science growth preceding his birth and thus led science to a new path of harnessing energy from atoms, adding the dimension of time and space to our physical three dimensional perception, concept of the working laws of this universe and quantum mechanics to understand working of nature at the fundamental levels of creation which can not be seen or observed or understood with normal science of the physical world which can be seen.

All the RUshio and munio of vedik lifestyles were inspired to reveal to humanity all the knowledge of creation, sustenance of creation and absorption of creation back into the sub-creators and ultimately into the creator. This knowledge is called veD which has been forgotten due to the effect of present era of kli-yug. This ved is being revived and remembered through what we call current science.

Our creator bRH`m inspires us continuously when we pray. Our parents inspires us continuously when we stay continually connected with them and serve them with respect, reverence and gratitude. Our teachers inspire us continuously when we offer ourselves as students who wish to have continual, uninterrupted and unending desire to learn. Our spouses inspire us continuously when we stay connected to them continually for mutual respect, reverence, gratitude, love and care and upholding gRUHsth-aaSRm through our married life. Our children inspire us continuously when we stay continually connected to them for parenting and friendship for their nurturing and guiding their life growth.

Everyone in the entire creation inspires us if we continually co-exists in titti`KSH mode based on compliance to RUtt and st`y. Compliance to ritt means living live by abiding by the universal laws which sustains all creation based on DHARm which is the operating and controlling system of creation to sustain itself. Compliance to satya means living life based on what is truth of not hurting anybody anytime through thoughts words and karma (actions). Co-existing in tittksh mode means to co-exist with everyone of the fellow creations respecting the fellow creation as it is with its own characteristics given by creator brhmah and letting it lead its own life in its domain given by creator brhmah. tittksh mode is to live and to let live mutual without mutual interference.

Inspiration is attained through vaach (speech) and kARm (action). Both vaach and kARm are inspired by prayers to our creator bRH`m. Therefore, PVAF, in continuing to implement its mandate of inspiring knowledge in all humans presents every day on this web page a vaach or a kARm or prayer which will inspire every one to pray and pray to get inspired.....All this to have a happy today, happier tomorrow and future of progress, prosperity and well-being......

 

 

pRANaam
TO THOSE WHO
MAKE THIS PRAYER POSSIBLE

This presentation is part of veD presentation on this PVAF web site by SRii chmpklaal Daajibhaai miisTRii as learned from and taught by guru bRH`m, bRHmaa-Daev, viSHANu-Daev, shiv-Daev and all those rushio and munio who kept the veD knowledge alive through yug after yug and kl`p after kl`p for the kl`yaaAN (well-being and welfare) of all creations. 

pRANaam to all contributors of this current kli-yug with texts have been a blessing to humanity...with the sole purushaaARth (life objective) that the above knowledge of praathnaa-yog facilitates acquiring of all the prosperity, growth and glory in life leading to moKSH (breaking the bonds of sNsaar which is cycles of birth and death full of joy followed by pain and sorrow)......The sNskRUt s`lok are expanded with explanatory prose to make the learning and understanding of veD easier but without corrupting the original meaning of the sNskrut text...also additional explanatory prose in included in brackets to give backgrounder ved knowledge to provide supplementary explanation for increasing the depth of our knowledge of life sciences......

The SRuti and smRUti about yog is fundamental to veDik lifestyle. yog means the union of one's aat`maa with one's creator bRH`m who is also known as prmaat`maa, meaning supreme aat`maa = creator bRH`m. When yog happens then all the dvuNdvuN (dualities) one experiences because of maayaa disappears which means one sees bRHmH in everything in this universe. This knowing enables one to treat everybody with the same reverence, bhk`ti and sevaa that one would offer bRH`m-self.

We will be learning about the above st`y (TRUTH) of yog to be attained in our lives as we continue to study veD in the days to come....through bhgvD giitaa and puraaAN.....yog is not what is understood in our present world as just doing meditation or the more current trend of yog exercises...

.. in learning about yog.....it will be beneficial to refresh the teachings about kARm-yog from bhgvD giitaa and also the inspirations to date to understand the depth of today's inspiration ......just click on the end of the line at the top of this page to re-visit the TODAY'S PRAYERS to date.....

 

LEARN sNskRUt LANGUAGE
&
NEW PHONETIC BASED SPELLING OF sNskRUt WORDS

  • All the sNskrut words in the write-ups on this web site are in italics. The meaning of these sanskrit words as transcribed in English language is being continually included in the Sanskrit Glossary on this web site....It is imperative to understand the full meanings of these sanskrit words in order to understand the teachings of veD. So please make an effort to visit the Sanskrit Glossary...the kARm-fl will be eternal aanND (bliss).

  • The sNskrut words are spelled as near as possible to the original sNskrut phonetics. Phonetic based spelling may seem to be different than normal usage but if the sNskrut words are not spelled and pronounced correctly the meanings could change drastically. An alphabet chart of such phonetics spellings is being developed at Prajaapati Vishva Aashram Foundation (PVAF) and will be shared here as soon as it is available. In the meantime think as a veDik bhaartiy (Indian) and your vedik genetics will let you pronounce the sanskrit words in here correctly.



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