Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Suresh Narayan from Gaya (Bihar) performs 'pind-dan' for dead celebrities.He is famous for offering PIND-DAN every year to the people not related to him He believes in vasudev kutumbakam (Sanskrit: वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम. from "vasudha", the earth; "iva" = is as a; and "kutumbakam", family;) is a Sanskrit phrase that means that the whole world is one single family


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A man in this holy town here annually performs religious rituals during the Hindu fortnight of 
'Pitr Paksha' for strangers after reading their death in newspapers.

This year sureh Naryan perform "PIND-DAN" TO THE following eminent personality :

1 Nil-Armstrong- died on 2012,
2 Rajesh khanna  died on 18 july 2012.
3 Dara Sing died on 12 july 2012,
4 Jagjit Singh died on 10 october 2012.
5 Bhupen Hajarika died on 5 Nov,2012.
6 Shammi kapoor died on 15 Aug 2012.
7 Joy Mukharjee died on 9 March 2012.
8 Mehdi Hassan died on 13 june 2012.
9 Dev Aanad died on 3 December 2011
10 Brajesh Mishra died on 28 september 2012 and so on
 
Last year 'Pitr Paksha', Suresh Narayan performed the 'Pind daan' for eminent personalities like late West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S R Reddy.

Narayan, who had in past performed 'pind daan' for personalities like legendary Shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan, explained how he considered it to be a mandatory rite to bring salvation to the departed souls as a devout Hindu.

This small time businessman spends money from his own pocket and has been doing Pinddaan for the salvation of departed for years. According to Hindu tradition, Pindaan is offered for father for the salvation of his soul at the banks of Falgu river in Gaya.

But breaking this tradition he has been offering Pinddaan to so many people in the past. And these people are in no way connected to him, in past, he offered it for 2004 tsunami victims, the victims of Gujarat earthquake of 2001, to the the terrorist attack on the Akshardham temple in 2002 and the 9/11 terror attacks in the US.

Not only that, he has also offered Pinddaan to ladies like, US-based astronaut Kalpana Chawla and Mother Teresa as well. He has also performed the ritual for sehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan, a muslim.

Narayan has even arranged mass 'pind daan' for the victims of Leh cloudburst, flood victims in Pakistan and China, policemen killed in an encounter with Naxalites in Lakhisarai and victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

"I have been performing mass 'Pind daan' since 2001 and I consider it as my duty towards humanity."

On being asked about the rationale behind performing 'pind daan' for people unrelated to him, Narayan says, "I believe that all of them are linked with me in some way."

While talking to media he said, “I organise the ritual irrespective of the dead person’s caste, religion and creed. I have been performing the rituals for the salvation of people with whom I do not have any blood relation or any close proximity.”

Bihar needs more heroes like him, who think beyond their caste creed and religion.

"And I will continue to do the same till I myself die," he added.



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