Paras Ra­moutar

The Hin­du Mon­key God, Lord Hanu­man, is con­sid­ered as the chief ser­vant of mankind, ac­cord­ing to Pun­dit Ramesh Ti­wari. He told the an­nu­al Lord Hanu­man Jayan­ti (Avatar) at the Ed­in­burgh Hin­du Tem­ple, that Lord Hanu­man is the main helper of all mankind and that He has the ears of Lord Ra­ma. Lord Ra­ma is the chief play­er in the Hin­du re­li­gious text, the Ra­mayana. "We pray for rains to come and nour­ish Moth­er Earth so that WASA reser­voirs will?be filled to ca­pac­i­ty and the drought will end, that our food crops and oth­er agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion will be re­gen­er­at­ed," Ti­wari said.

Hun­dreds of devo­tees from all parts of the coun­try, dressed in red, came and joined in de­vo­tion to?Lord Hanu­man. Pun­dit Seereer­am Ma­haraj of the Shi­va Kailash Hin­du Mandir, San­ta Philli­pa Road, Ca­paro, told his over­flow­ing au­di­ence, that,"the whole?is­sue of cli­mate con­trol now faces all mankind and all of us, re­gard­less of our re­li­gions, pray for?our na­tion and the world." "No rains for al­most two months now. We need wa­ter to sur­vive. Man can­not?cre­ate wa­ter. Lord Hanu­man is the Wind God?which brings rain," he said.

In to­day's so­ci­ety of con­vul­sions, in­er­tia, self­ish­ness, moral, so­cial and spir­i­tu­al de­cay, Lord Hanu­man has be­come the stan­dard bear­er and the em­bod­i­ment of courage, self-con­trol, self­less ser­vice, brav­ery, in­tegri­ty and hu­mil­i­ty. Lord Hanu­man Jayan­ti cul­mi­nat­ed the ob­ser­vance of Nau Raa­tri–de­vo­tion to the fem­i­nine form of God: Lak­sh­mi, Dur­ga and Sar­sawati–and Ram Nomwi (Lord Ra­ma's Avatar). The Ra­mayana de­fines Lord Hanu­man as the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of celiba­cy with easy ac­cess to all forms of knowl­edge and wis­dom, and be­cause of this syn­the­sis, He has the unique ca­pac­i­ty to co-or­di­nate thought, word and deed.