{"id":7204,"date":"2008-11-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/08\/sacred-prayer-beads-a-common-denominator-of-many-faiths\/"},"modified":"2008-11-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T12:00:00","slug":"sacred-prayer-beads-a-common-denominator-of-many-faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/08\/sacred-prayer-beads-a-common-denominator-of-many-faiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Prayer Beads, A Common Denominator of Many Faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/221\/v-printerfriendly\/story\/962167.html\">www.fresnobee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 24, 2008: Hindus use special prayer beads called mala. They help Hindus to focus their minds as they meditate, pray and chant mantras twice daily &#8212; usually in the morning and at night, just before going to bed. &#8220;Mala usually is something Hindus do in private,&#8221; says Ann Berliner, professor of philosophy and religion at California State University, Fresno. &#8220;It is a way to discipline the mind to go inward. This is to help you bring your mind to focus &#8212; to bring your mind inward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But few hindus know that the use of prayer beads is common among various religious traditions, often as a means to keep count while reciting specific prayers. Buddhists use juzu beads, Muslims pray with misbaha beads and Roman Catholics recite prayers with rosary beads.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.fresnobee.com FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 24, 2008: Hindus use special prayer beads called mala. They help Hindus to focus their minds,&#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-7204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204","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=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}