Hindu Life Cycle Experience and Way of Life
the sacred texts, prayers and other ritual skills including Brahmin discipline and service to one's guru. Duty, law and morality (i.e., dharma) is the aim at this stage. Leela had her namakarana ritual at a Hindu Monastery on the Kauai Island on New Year's Day, 1991, with her eldest daughter, Anita. They then embarked on a month-long religious pilgrimage to Hindu ashrams and temples across Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and India. This, in her view, was a wonderful spiritual experience which reverberates in her mind to this day. While her husband had not yet converted to Hinduism, their three children (all girls) were christened with Hindu names: Anita,… Continue Reading...