These NRI sisters recite 700 Gita slokas from memory

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August 6, 2017

Rajamahendravaram, Aug 6: Two NRI sisters — Sindhu Vagdevi Vipparthy (12) and Shruti Vagdevi Vipparthy (9) — won appreciation from one and all when they recited 700 slokas in Bhagavad Gita from memory at Datta Mukthi Kshetram, on the banks of the Godavari, here on Saturday.

Devotees from Iskcon temple, near Datta Mukthi Kshetram, also were mesmerised by the recitation. The Krishnashtami celebrations are also going to begin from Monday at the Iskcon temple.

Naresh Kumar Bhavaraju, manager of Datta Mukthi Kshetram, said that it was commendable for children born and brought up in USA to learn Bhagavad Gita slokas.

Both Sindhu and Shruti completed their 7 and 3 Grades respectively from California, USA. Their parents Anand Murthy and Vijayalakshmi hailed from Rajamahendravaram and Secunderabad. Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji blessed the children when they were born and named them. Both of them participated in 24-hour Hanuman Chalisa chanting event conducted in Texas (USA) which was a Guinness World Record.

With this motivation they memorised all 700 slokas of Bhagavad Gita. On July16 this year, they chanted Sampoorna Gita Parayana, Gita Mahatyam, Gita Dhyanam, Gita Sara and Gita Aarti in four hours from memory in the presence of Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji in Mysuru. They are part of Tataji Sena (a group formed by the seer for children).

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Cheddis claim that many muslims were HIndus... We accept that and we thank ALLAH for showing our forefathers the right path of following NA TASYA PRATIMA ASTI (there is no image of GOD) - We thank ALLAH, the lord of the universe for keeping our faith in him and worshiping him alone.

Worshiping ALLAH alone takes us out of the DARKNESS,

Takes us out of worshiping the created things,

Takes us out of superstitious,

Takes us out of animal worhsip,

Takes us out of worshiping idols (which is lifeless)

Takes us out of human worship.

Takes us out of Worshiping Money.

ALHaMdullillah (Thanks and praise be to ALLAH) who showed us LIGHT of LIFE to cope with any situation in our LIFE that he has given us.

I request the NON MUSLIMS to look for the divine message (The QURAN) once in your life time.U will be suprised to know who is hiding the TRUTH from reaching the TRUE GOD.

"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by MATERIAL DESIRES surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures."
[Bhagavad Gita 7:20]

The Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. �gods� besides the True God .

Worship the TRUE GOD, U will get content in this world and the life after death.

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Reopening of mosques in Turkey creates spectacular scenes

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May 30,2020

Istanbul: Mosques in Turkey reopened on Friday for mass prayers after more than two months as the government further eased strict restrictions to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.

Turkey has been shifting since May to a "new normal" by easing lockdown measures and opening shopping malls, barbershops and hair salons.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said many other sites -- restaurants and cafes as well as libraries, parks and beaches -- will reopen from Monday.

Hundreds of worshippers wearing protective masks performed mass prayers outside Istanbul's historic Blue Mosque for the first time since mosques were shut down in March.

In the Ottoman-era Fatih mosque, worshippers prayed both inside and outside, with the municipality handing out disinfectants and disposable carpets.

"I have waited a lot for this, I have prayed a lot. I can say it's like a new birth, thanks to God, he has brought us back here," he said.

Another worshipper, Asum Tekif, 50, said: "It has a been a long time... we missed the mosques."

Turkey, a country of 83 million, has so far recorded 4,489 coronavirus-related deaths and 162,120 confirmed cases.

Prayers in Hagia Sophia

Muslim clerics on Friday recited prayers in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous Istanbul landmark which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque.

The prayers were held to celebrate the anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople, today's Istanbul, by the Ottomans in 1453.

"It is very important to commemorate the 567th anniversary of the conquest ... through prayers in the Hagia Sophia," said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who attended the ceremony via videoconference.

The stunning edifice was first built as a church in the sixth century under the Byzantine Empire as the centrepiece of its capital Constantinople.

After the Ottoman conquest, it was converted into a mosque before being turned into a museum during the rule of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the 1930s.

But there have been hints about reconverting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Last year, Erdogan himself mooted the possibility of turning Hagia Sofia museum into a mosque.

Such calls have sparked anger among Christians and raised tensions with neighbouring Greece.

In 2015, a Muslim cleric recited the Koran in the Hagia Sophia for the first time in 85 years to mark the opening of an exhibition.

After Friday prayers at the Blue Mosque, a small group of Muslim worshippers shouted: "Let the chains break and let the Hagia Sophia open".

The group was later dispersed by the police who stopped them from protesting near Hagia Sophia that sits immediately opposite the Blue Mosque.

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