Raje’s dream project: Mantra recitation centre inaugurated

JAIPUR: After becoming the first state to boast of a Gopalan department, Rajasthan has now rustled up another innovation– a centre for recitation of mantras. The Rajasthan Mantra Pratisthan (recitation of verses) was on Monday inaugurated by HRD minister Prakash Javadekar digitally from a private hotel in the city.
The research institute will study the effect of reciting ancient Hindu texts - Vedas, Puranas, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Tantra Shastra, Smriti Granth etc on the human body and the universe.

During her previous tenure as CM, Vasundhara Raje had announced the establishment of the centre in 2007-08 budget. The centre comes under the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University, Jaipur. The centre’s long -term goal is to find the correct pronunciation and meaning of hundreds of Sanskrit words, which have been in memory of people from the past 3000 years.

‘Our main aim is to revive the ancient science’

Dr Narayan Hosmane, director of the centre, who learnt about the inauguration of the centre through media persons, told TOI, “The practice of reciting verses in its correct form has been lost over the centuries. Our main aim is to revive the ancient science by building a recorded repository of these verses through Sanskrit academicians for welfare of the present and coming generations.” Underlining the importance, former consulting member of RMP Rajendra Prasad Mishra said during Vedic period reciting the verses correctly was the only solution to all the human problems.

Explaining how these verses work, Hosmane said, "Energy emitted out of reciting verses is absorbed by humans and the universe. These energy (verses) effects the mind and the body along with the surroundings which all work together to cure even the deadliest of the disease like cancer. Similarly, a set of verses produces immense amount of energy that regulate the natural cycle of all natural occurrences like rain, summer, winter, sunlight, harmful rays etc."

The pronunciation of these matras has been passed on from generations orally and therefore has seen some changes that need to be corrected. The centre has a circular open area and two rectangular open surfaces for reciting. It has 12 rooms, which will converted into two medical rooms for experiments on humans, labs, sound proof rooms and theory rooms.