Saptapadi *********** The Sacred Seven Steps In Hindu marriage through the ages Seven Sacred Steps along with Seven Mantras are performed around the Ceremonial Fire : II Bridegroom II 1) My beloved, our love became firm by your walking one step with me. You will offer me for food and be helpful in every way. I will cherish you and provide for the welfare and happiness of you and our children. II Bride II 1)This is my humble submission to you my lord. You kindly give me the responsibility of the home, food and taking care of the finance. I promise you that I shall discharge all responsibilities for welfare of the family and children. II Bridegroom II 2) My beloved, now you have walked the second step with me, fill my heart will strength and courage and together we shall protect the household and children. II Bride II 2) My lord, in your grief, I shall fill your heart with courage and strength. In your happiness, I shall rejoice, I promise you that I will please you always with sweet words and take care of the family and children. And you shall love me and me alone as you wife. II Bridegroom II 3) My beloved, now you have walked three steps with me. By virtue of this, our wealth and prosperity is going to grow. I shall look upon all other women as my sisters. To gether, we will educate our children and may they live long. II Bride II 3) My lord, I will love you with single minded devotion as my husband. I will treat all other men as my brothers. My devotion to you is of a chaste wife and you are my joy. This is my commitment and my pledge to you. II Bridegroom II 4) My beloved, it is a great blessing that you, have walked four steps with me. You have brought auspiciousness and sacredness into my life. May we be blessed with obedient and noble children. May they live long. II Bride II 4) My lord, I will decorate you from your feet to your head with flowers, garlands and ornaments and anoint you with sandal wood past and fragrance. I will serve you and please you in every way I can. II Bridegroom II 5) My beloved, now you have walked five steps with me. You have enriched my life. May God bless you. May our loved one live long and share in our prosperity. II Bride II 5) My lord, I share both in your joy and sorrows. You love will make me trust and honour you. I will carry out your wishes. II Bridegroom II 6) My beloved, you have filled my heart with happiness by walking six step with me. May you be filled with peace for all time. II Bride II 6) My lord in all acts of righteousness, in every form of enjoyment and divine acts, I promise you I shall participate and I shall always be with you. II Bridegroom II 7) My beloved, as you walked the seven steps with me, our love and friendship become eternal. We experience spiritual union in God. Now you have become completely mine and I offer my life to you. Our marriage will be forever. II Bride II 7) My lords, as God and the Holy Scriptures, I have become your spouse. Whatever promises we gave, we have spoken in pure mind. New will be truthful to each other in all things. We will love each other forever. II Saptapadi II The seven steps. During a Hindu marriage ceremony the couple have to go around the vedi (sacrificial fire) seven times, representing the seven days of the week. The five squares on the four sides of the vedi symbolize the basic elements, the five basic senses, the five organs of action, the five intellectual faculties (vision, mind, ego, action and the subconscious) and the five qualities : anand (bliss); divya (divinity)l; visarga (renunciation); dan . (charity) and bhaya (fear)
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