http://www.chakranews.com/guru-purnima-day-vyas-purnima-aka-teachers-day-july-2013/3997 World Dharma News: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism News and Insight. Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 http://www.chakranews.com/guru-purnima-day-vyas-purnima-aka-teachers-day-july-2013/3997/comment-page-1#comment-28670 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:18:46 +0000 http://www.chakranews.com/?p=3997#comment-28670 The Hindu spiritual Gurus are revered on this day by a remembering their life and teachings. Vyasa Puja is held at various temples, where floral offerings and symbolic gifts are given away in his honour and that of the cosmic satguru . The festivities are usually followed by feast for the disciples, shishya , where the prasad and charnamrita literally nectar of the feet, the symbolic wash of Guru’s feet, which represents his grace, kripa is distributed.

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