SWEDEN, September 18, 2014 (source): I was just passing by the Kings Garden on August 30 and saw a wonderfully ornate scene surrounding the garden pool. It was my longtime friends “young Swedish Dharmis and Ashavaner ([Zoroastrians]” in Stockholm, who had organized a festival to demonstrate how Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Zoroastrian religions operate in the world.
“Dharma” is a concept in several Indian thought systems, with varying significance. It is about the religious, ritual, secular and economic duties under the Vedas, which is famous age-old Indian scriptures.
The Royal Garden was bustling with people in colorful costumes on this sunny day and the program was impressive. A “Sanatana Dharmish” (a Hindu fire ceremony, known as the Ganga Arti) for “World Peace and Non-violence” and for a more equitable society was done on the steps of the long garden pool which had been consecrated with a few drops of Himalayan water from the Ganges in India! Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Zoroastrian chants for world peace were made and ten women blew the conch shells before and after the ceremony.