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Banyan Tree

Banyan Tree
According to Hinduism, worshipping divinity includes worshipping a few plants and trees which are considered holy. These trees boast of a lot of religious significance. Our ancient scriptures also indicate that worshipping plants and trees is indeed an ancient Indian practice. Several Hindu traditions are connected to them. Today also, the modern Indian traditions have an elementary place for worshipping plants and trees as they symbolize life, fertility, prosperity, growth, purity, and divinity.

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. . . The human condition is a precarious one, and ceremonies involving the presentation of food and drink to the spirits are believed to prevent accidents, cure disease, help women in childbirth, and contribute to the fertility of the earth. ~ ~ “Uncorking the past” ~ Author Patrick McGovern
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By tradition the Sakiyans were sun worshippers. Their folk religion also involved the propitiation and supplication of local spirits (yakkha) and moundlike shrines (cetiya) and the veneration of trees enclosed by wooden railings. They would have taken for granted the widespread belief in cycle of rebirth driven by the force of former acts (karma), which formed part of the indigenous beliefs of the people in the eastern Gangetic basin. Their notion of rebirth would have been more the intuitive reflex of agricultralists whose lives were tied to the cycles of rural existence than the kind of elaborate theory found in Jain, Hindu, and Buddhist literature that developed in sub sequent centuries. At Mahanama’s time such ideas would have served more as a broad framework that provided a sense of continuity between past and future. The belief might also have encouraged fatalism, causing individuals to feel themselves subject to forces over which they ultimately had no control. ~ Page 33

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