Hindu mantras to open both Nevada Senate & Assembly daily for the whole week

CARSON CITY, Nev. - May 26, 2025 - PRLog -- Both Nevada State Senate and Assembly sessions in capital Carson City are scheduled to start their day with ancient Hindu prayers for the entire week of May 26-30, containing verses from world's oldest extant scripture.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the daily invocations from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the Senate and Assembly. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English interpretation of the prayers. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and the root language of Indo-European languages.

Zed, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, will recite from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use; besides lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), both ancient Hindu scriptures. He plans to start and end the prayers with "Om", the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.

Reciting from Brahadaranyakopanishad, Rajan Zed plans to say "Asato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya", which he will then interpret as "Lead us from the unreal to the real, Lead us from darkness to light, and Lead us from death to immortality." Reading from Bhagavad-Gita, he proposes to urge Senators, Assembly Members and others present to keep the welfare of others always in mind.

In the state of Nevada, Zed has already delivered Hindu invocations at City Councils of Boulder City, Ely, Henderson, Las Vegas, Mesquite, North Las Vegas, Sparks; in addition to Board of Commissioners of Clark, Douglas, Elko, Lincoln, Lyon, Nye, Washoe counties and Carson City Board of Supervisors. Besides Nevada, he has also read opening prayers in the United States Senate, US House of Representatives, various state senates and houses of representatives, county boards and city/town councils all over the USA.

Rajan Zed, a global Hindu and interfaith leader, has been bestowed with the World Interfaith Leader Award. Zed is on the Advisory Board of The Interfaith Peace Project, Senior Fellow and Religious Advisor to Foundation for Religious Diplomacy, etc. He has been a panelist for "On Faith", a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post; and leads a weekly interfaith panel "Faith Forum" in a Gannett publication for over 14 years.

Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about 1.2 billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal. There are about 3.2 million Hindus in the USA.