{"id":5327,"date":"2005-06-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/06\/17\/2005-06-17-sanskrit-chanting-part-of-mit-s-graduation-ceremonies\/"},"modified":"2005-06-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T12:00:00","slug":"2005-06-17-sanskrit-chanting-part-of-mit-s-graduation-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/06\/17\/2005-06-17-sanskrit-chanting-part-of-mit-s-graduation-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit Chanting Part of MIT&#8217;s Graduation Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/autofeed.msn.co.in\/pandorav3\/output\/NRI\/43a0e7ce-7c9b-428b- \">autofeed.msn.co.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA, June 13, 2005: Amid chants of Sanskrit prayers, some 2,300 students of the Massachusetts Institute  of Technology (MIT) received their graduate and undergraduate  degrees in Cambridge. Swami Tyagananda, the institution&#8217;s Hindu chaplain, offered an  invocation in the language of the Gods to reflect the large  international crowd&#8217;s spirit of unity and goodwill. &#8220;May we come together for a common purpose &#8211; common be our prayer, common our goal,&#8221; Tyagananda, told the institution&#8217;s 139th commencement  exercise. &#8220;May the one and the same divine reality lead us. May we be granted  clear understanding and the courage to pursue the goals of social  justice, nonviolence, harmony and peace,&#8221; he said.  MIT has 2,724 international students registered for the current academic year, with a bulk of them from India and China. Among the international students, 45 percent of the students and 41 percent of the scholars are from Asia. The institution has a vibrant Vedanta Society, which even holds a  satsang and discourses every Tuesday including guided meditation, study and  discussion. Even though the program is primarily designed for the MIT community, students from other campuses also attend.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>autofeed.msn.co.in BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA, June 13, 2005: Amid chants of Sanskrit prayers, some 2,300 students of the Massachusetts Institute of,&#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-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","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=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}