Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Ayudha Pooja: A unique tradition of love for weapons and machinery
The Ayudha Puja is a worship of whatever implements one may use in one's livelihood. On the preceding evening, it is traditional to place these implements on an altar to the Divine. If one can make a conscious effort to see the divine in the tools and objects one uses each day, it will help one to see one's work as an offering to God.
Though basically it is the pooja done by the farmers and manufacturers who use machinary it has percolated into the other stratas of life like the common people. It has become customary to worship the machinery like vehicles, lathes, earthmoving equipments, common household implements, electrical and electronic devices and computers.
The Hindu fraternity see divine power in most of the in-animate things. That is the why the world looks different to them. They revere stones, trees, rivers medicinal plants, air, space and earth, animals, insects, birds, rodents, creatures of the sea and reptiles and many more. Similarly they see divine power in the machinery also. This is how the Hindu culture is involved in saving the ecological balance of this world and save every creation of god on this earth.
The International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad ElBaradei today hailed India as a "leading advocate" for nuclear disarmament and asked the world to listen to its "voice" on elimination of all nuclear weapons. "India called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons as far back as 1948. It is important that India's voice should continue to be heard as a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament," he said addressing the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy here.
IMO: We should not undermine the importance of people from different faiths working together, and we must give scope for all faiths - and secularists - to celebrate their respective festivals and rejoice together!
Though basically it is the pooja done by the farmers and manufacturers who use machinary it has percolated into the other stratas of life like the common people. It has become customary to worship the machinery like vehicles, lathes, earthmoving equipments, common household implements, electrical and electronic devices and computers.
The Hindu fraternity see divine power in most of the in-animate things. That is the why the world looks different to them. They revere stones, trees, rivers medicinal plants, air, space and earth, animals, insects, birds, rodents, creatures of the sea and reptiles and many more. Similarly they see divine power in the machinery also. This is how the Hindu culture is involved in saving the ecological balance of this world and save every creation of god on this earth.
The International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad ElBaradei today hailed India as a "leading advocate" for nuclear disarmament and asked the world to listen to its "voice" on elimination of all nuclear weapons. "India called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons as far back as 1948. It is important that India's voice should continue to be heard as a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament," he said addressing the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy here.
IMO: We should not undermine the importance of people from different faiths working together, and we must give scope for all faiths - and secularists - to celebrate their respective festivals and rejoice together!
# posted by uv : 4:36 AM
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