EE7.5 - Tree-Planting Ceremony

Tree-Planting Ceremony

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Ananda Marga Caryácarya Part 1

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this version: is the printed Caryácarya Part 1, 6th edition, 2nd printing, version (obvious spelling, punctuation and typographical mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

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Tree-Planting Ceremony

1956, Jamalpur

Plant the tree while mentally reciting guru mantra. Then while pouring some water on the tree, everyone will recite the following with the ácárya/á or a senior person leading:

Oṋḿ madhu vátá rtáyate madhu kśarantu sindhavah;
Mádhviirnah santvośadhiih.
Madhu naktamutośaso madhumat párthivaḿ rajah;
Madhu dyaorastu nah pitá.
Madhumán no vanaspatirmadhumán astu súryah;
Mádhviirgávo bhavantu nah.
Oṋḿ madhu oṋḿ madhu oṋḿ madhu.⁽¹⁾

“May the tree planted today prove felicitous for us with its fruits, flowers, fragrance, floral nectar, leaves and shade. May we ourselves prove helpful to the tree through our regular service in providing manure, water and sunshine to it. Oṋḿ shántih, oṋḿ shantih, oṋḿ shantih.”

You shall lovingly and carefully tend the highly-beneficial trees such as basil, neem [margosa], ashoka [Saraca indica Linn.] and eucalyptus; and also those yielding fruits and shade.

Footnotes

(1) For translation see “Infant’s Játakarma”. –Trans.

1956, Jamalpur

Published in:
Ananda Marga Caryácarya Part 1

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