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MIT graduation amidst Sanskrit chants
Amid chants of Sanskrit prayers on a bright and sunny morning, some 2,300 students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received their graduate and undergraduate degrees in Cambridge.
Swami Tyagananda, the institution`s Hindu chaplain, offered an invocation in the language of the gods to reflect the large international crowd`s spirit of unity and goodwill at one of the best-known educational campuses in the US.
May we come together for a common purpose - common be our prayer, common our goal, Tyagananda, who also quoted from Swami Vivekananda`s works, told the institution`s 139th commencement exercise.
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, non-violence, harmony and peace, he said.
Peace. Peace. Peace be unto all.