{"id":5228,"date":"2005-05-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/05\/02\/2005-05-02-turning-sixty-years-of-age-in-the-hindu-tradition-has-a-special-significance\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T12:00:00","slug":"2005-05-02-turning-sixty-years-of-age-in-the-hindu-tradition-has-a-special-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/05\/02\/2005-05-02-turning-sixty-years-of-age-in-the-hindu-tradition-has-a-special-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Sixty Years of Age in the Hindu Tradition has a Special Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/faith\/ci_2680634\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, April 22, 2005: Turning sixty years of age in the Hindu tradition is considered quite a milestone, the halfway point in a 120-year cycle. For Neele Neelameggham, relatives and friends gathered at the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple in South Jordon to honor the tradition. After attending a homa fire ceremony, Neele and his wife Indra are literally showered with more blessings. Padmanabham Iyer, a friend who came for the ceremony, explains, &#8220;You condition yourself for new spiritual goals and renew your marriage vows so you can continue together on a spiritual path. First, cleansing by fire, then by water. Friends and family collected gold and silver, diamonds and jewels from everyone, put them in a sieve, then took turns pouring water through it onto the couple seated below, with the delighted community chanting in unison an ancient poem called &#8220;The Origins of Man.&#8221; The news release adds, &#8220;Next came the actual wedding ceremony, which included the exchanging of chrysanthemum garlands and the tying of an extra knot in the sacred thread Neale gave to Indra.&#8221; After the ceremony, the priest of the temple spoke and said, &#8220;You should give thanks to the Gods for your health and life. Anything after 60 years is a bonus. Now it&#8217;s time to focus on doing good for all of humanity.&#8221; The festivities ended with a puja honoring Lord Ganesha followed by a traditional Hindu feast and fellowship among devotees.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceSALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, April 22, 2005: Turning sixty years of age in the Hindu tradition is considered quite a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}