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Prayer or worship is considered to be an integral part of the Hindu religion. The chanting of ''mantras'' is the most popular form of worship in Hinduism. Yoga and meditation are also considered as a form of devotional service towards the Lord. The Picture to the right represents the Aum sign, which is a sound of peace. The Vedas are a collection of liturgy (mantras, hymns) The Hindu devotional Bhakti movements emphasizes repetitive prayer. Stemming from the universal Soul or ''Brahman'', prayer is focused on the personal forms of God, such as Shiva, Vishnu, or Vishnu's Avatars, Rama and Krishna. Before the process of ritual, before the invoking of different deities for the fulfillment of various needs, came the human aspiration to the highest truth, the foundational monism of Hinduism, pertaining ultimately to the one Brahman. Brahman, which summarily can be called the unknowable, true, infinite and blissful Divine Ground, is the source and being of all existence from which the cosmos springs. This is the essence of the Vedic system. The following prayer was part and parcel of all the Vedic ceremonies and continues to be invoked even today in Hindu temples all over India and other countries around the world, and exemplifies this essence: ==Mantras== (詳細はSanskrit about 1500b - 2500 years ago, and by some reports, the mantra may have been chanted for many generations before that. :''Om Bhur Bhuva Svah :''Tat Savitur Varenyam :''Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi :''Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat :On the absolute reality and its planes, :On that finest spiritual light, :We meditate, as remover of obstacles :That it may inspire and enlighten us. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prayer in Hinduism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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