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Khasi: Ai ba kane ka khuri ding kaba rhem kan isng namar ka jingieit
Pronounced: I baa kaa-nay kaa khoo-ree ding kaa-ba r(i)hem kahn yeng naa-marr kaa jing-aid
Khasi: bad ka jingsngew jan iwei bad iwei pat parabangeit ha ki lai ki
Pronounced: bad kaa jing-sing-ehw jan ee-wey bad ee-wey pat par-raa baa-nged haa kee li
Khasi: tylli ki balang kiba don ha ki bynta bapher jong ka pyrthei
Pronounced: til-lee key baa-lang kee-baa don haa key bintaa baafair jong kaa pir-they.
“May this flaming chalice symbolize the love and caring for one another by members of three congregations situated in different parts of the Globe.”
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At the end of the Khasi Hills annual conference of 3,000 people held recently, all stood including the children, and recovenanted with this pledge:
“We pledge to remove selfishness, jealousy, stupidity, misgiving and enmity among ourselves, so that we may build the holy religion of one God in the spirit of compassion, love and trust…. We pledge to respect other religious groups…We pledge to take care of our environment… and all forms of life in it. We pledge to respect the conscience and free thinking of all… and to support each other to uphold justice, righteousness and truth.” And then they said, “Khublei”.
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HK Singh believed that God would not lead us into temptation, so he changed the words of the prayer. The Lord’s Prayer is recited at every Khasi Unitarian service.
Prayer (Khasi)
Ko Kpa jong ngi Uba ha bneng,
Long bakhuid ka kyrteng jong Phi
Wan ka hima jong Phi.
Long ka mon jong Phi,
hangne ha ngi kumba ha bneng.
Ai ia ngi mynta ka jingbam kaba ha la ka sngi.
To map ia ngi, ia ki ryngkang jong ngi.
Pynlong ruh ia ngi kiba map ia kiba leh sniew ia ngi.
Pynlait ia ngi na ki jingpynshoi ka pop.
Bad sumar ruh ia ngi na kaba sniew.
Naba ka jong PHI long ka hima, bad ka bor,
bad ka burom ruh, mynta bad junom la junom, Amen.
(English which shows what it actually says in Khasi)
Hi (calling) Father of ours in heaven
May your name be holy
May your kingdom come
May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Give us today our daily food.
Please forgive us and the wrongs we have done
Make us forgive the wrongs others have done to us.
Free us from the temptations of sin.
For yours is the Kingdom, and the power and the glory too, now and forever. Amen.
Responses:—
Leader: O God, open our eyes.
Resp: So that we may see your holy religion is more precious than anything else of this world.
Leader: O God, open our mouth.
Resp: So that we may glorify your holy name, here and now, in our homes, in all places and in all times.
Leader: Holy, Holy, Holy, be your name O God, the Lord of all, who is from eternity, who is now and here, and who will ever more be the same without end.
Resp: Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and goodwill to all people.
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Let us be thankful for being able to be here together,
And may we hold in our thoughts those who are not.
Let us attend to the words we sing and speak and hear,
That they may help us to live better lives.
And in the spaces and the stillness
Let us feel the Divine Presence –
With us and in us always.
- taken from ICUU website
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“What is your religion?” “Unitarianism” I say.
“Never heard of it!” I brief the questioner this way:
It’s been here long before Buddha and Jesus and Mohammed.
Even before people could name it.
It’s the religious concept of human conscience.
The lives and teachings of the Prophets
have been privatized in religious cages;
Humanity has been divided to fight and lose.
Unitarians are on pilgrimage to free conscience and reason.
Unitarians stand for the freedom and progress of all.
We march ahead with the changing times.
K.B. Mukhim, Unitarian, Khasi Hills, India
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