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PRAYERS, BANYAN TREE & WISHES COMING TRUE........ Posted by Vishva News Reporter on June 7, 2005 |
The second largest Banyan Tree in the world grows on the
Edison Estate of Thomas Edison Winter Home and Museum in Fort Myers,
Florida, USA. This Banyan Tree - Ficus benghalensis - is the second
largest of its kind in the world. It is 400 FEET around the base of this
tree! This tree is botanically famous for sending down prop roots to support
its wide-spreading branches, and the result is a single tree that looks more
like a grove of trees. The only bigger one in the world grows near Calcutta,
India, and this is one is monstrous indeed; the one tree covers more than 40
ACRES by itself! Banyan trees are closely related to common Rubber Trees, or
Rubber Plants, that you may have in your living room right now
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PRAYING TO A
250-YEAR OLD BANYAN TREE
MAKES WISHES COME TRUE! |
PRAYING TO A
250-YEAR OLD BANYAN TREE
SPREAD OVER 2 ACRES
MAKES WISHES COME TRUE FOR
People suffering from all kinds of
life troubles or problems,
even childless couples....
WEBINDIA123.COM: Etaunja (UP) | May 28,
2005 1:34:44 PM IST
In today's jet age when one hears of things like people
praying to a banyan tree, it is believed as superstition.
But to the villagers of Etaunja, some 40 kilometres from Lucknow, things
certainly are different. The residents of this village have been praying to
a 250-year-old banyan tree for generations. They believe that whosoever
comes and prays here, gets his or her wish fulfilled. People suffering from
all kinds of trouble or problem, even childless couples come and pray here,
say the villagers. And if that is not all, they have also built a small
temple near the tree. The tree is spread over an area of 72,000 square feet
between mango trees.
"Whoever comes here Harbans baba blesses them and fulfils all their wish.
Everybody believes in this. People come and pray here", said Raghuram, a
local.
There is also a belief among people that nobody can cut this tree. Once a
man tried to cut it but he died. So people are even more afraid of it.
Villagers however, say that praying the tree is not superstition and cannot
be termed so, as Banyan tree has its own significance in Hindu mythology.
"Nobody says that it is superstitious. When people who are highly educated
come here they say that praying to a banyan tree is mere superstition. But
if people sit here and observe they will come to know that there is nothing
superstitious about this tree. Banyan tree has its own place in the Hindu
mythology", said Sumitra Devi, another local.
The Indian fig tree or Ficus bengalensis, is a tree whose branches root
themselves like new trees over a large area. The roots then give rise to
more trunks and branches. Because of this characteristic and its longevity,
this tree is considered immortal and is an integral part of the myths and
legends of India.
Even today, the banyan tree is the focal point of village life and the
village council or the panchayat, meets under the shade of this tree. (ANI)
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MEANING AND FRUITS OF
PRAYERS
Humanity always prays regardless of whom it
believes in as a Creator or a higher power which controls life or even when
it does not have this belief . The non-believers just need a life
threatening or destructive incident when they feel humanly helpless and
instantly they resort to praying in their own way..
WHAT IS A
PRAYER:
As per Merriam Webster's Third International
Dictionary the word PRAYER means the
following divinity meanings:
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a solemn and humble approach to Divinity in
word or thought usually involving beseeching, petition, confession,
praise, or thanksgiving as in "devoted a moment to silent prayer before
beginning his task"
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prayers - plural : earnest good wishes as
in "whatever you decide you have my prayers"
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the act or practice of praying : the
addressing of words or thought to Divinity in petition, confession,
praise, or thanksgiving as in "public prayer was then an accepted custom"
or "friends and neighbors gathered in prayer for the dead"
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a religious service consisting chiefly of
prayers often used in plural as in "had regular family prayers "
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a set form of words used in praying : a
formula of supplication, confession, praise, or thanksgiving addressed to
God or an object of worship as in "a book of prayers for different
occasions"
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something prayed for : a subject of prayer
as in "God granted their prayer"
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a slight or minimal chance (as to succeed
or survive)
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PRAYER
implies that the request is made to one in authority or power and usually
suggests humility and fervor as in "a very long distance between what the
Department of Justice asks for in its prayer for relief and what the
courts will grant in the form of a remedy"
This knowledge in this column has been shared
by SRii Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry from
his vED library....Please
continue getting the vEDik knowledge =
sciences of life and creation on
vEDIK importance of
PRAYERS and
banyan tree on the next page.... |
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vEDIK
IMPORTANCE OF
BANYAN TREE IN CREATION
(from veDik texts)
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Prior to the start of creation cylce of
4.32 billion years called klp in vEDik
time reference, Creator bRH`m
manifests HIMSELF in the form of a child called
mHaa-viSH`ANu.
This child is seen resting on a leaf of banyan
tree on the surface of the deluge which empowered all the
creations of the previous creation cylce to be absorbed back into
pRjaapti bRHmaa. Why the leaf of
banyan tree?
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siD`DHARth GOUtm, who is known as
BuDH`DH BHgvaan and ninth
avtaar of
viSHANu-DEv, roamed in search of the understanding of
sorrow and suffering in this sNsaar (worldly life of birth-death cycles).
At gyaa, a village on the banks
of the river nirnjN, he sat in
smaaDHi (mediation on Creator bRH`m)
under a banyan tree for 49 days.
He performed this smaaDHi and attained enlightenment there, and became
known as the buDH`DH. The spot
began to be referred to as the throne of wisdom, and the
banyan tree is now known as the
eternal wisdom tree, the aKSHy bODHivRUKSH.
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In vaalmiki
raamaayAN, in the fifty-third chapter in the
aayoDH` KHND: On the first day of
SHRii raam's exile to 14-year
vnvaas (stay in the
forest) demanded by his step-mother
kEEkEyi-raaANi, it is evening.
SHRii raam, his wife
sitaa-DEvii and his brother
lKSHmAN are resting for the night under a
n`ygRODH tree ( a banyan tree), in
the jungle, on their way to BHrDvaaj aaSHRm
at pRyaag. The two brothers had
hunted earlier during the day, killing four kinds of deer, and at sunset
have sought whatever comforts the banyan tree
could offer for the night. After finishing their
sNDH`yaa (one of the 3 daily worships at dawn,
mid-afternoon and evening), SRii raam
reminds his brother lKSHmAN
that it is his first night alone, without his wife
sumNTRaa, away from
aYODH`yaa. And then, he tells him
he should not worry about that because all the happening was due to
himself. Why was SRii raam telling
his brother not to worry about anything when raam
knew that their father would be dead simply because
raam followed rules and regulations of
DHARm in the relation between a mother and a son?
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With the
kRUpaa
of Creator bRH`m,
PVAF will present more on this topic of
PRAYERS
in the coming news posting....
with a PRAYER
that from this
GNaan
(TRUE knowledge of Creator bRH`m
and yourself )
YOU
WILL MAKE YOUR TOMORROW
HAPPIER THAN TODAY
because you would start understanding
WHO YOU ARE?
and
WHO OTHERS AROUND YOU ARE?....
in the same way as s`vEtkEtu
was explained above..... |
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