|
Reach God by SMS
Wired News reports
Once merely a useful tool for keeping in
touch on the go, the mobile phone is fast
finding a new niche as an instrument of
spiritual enlightenment.
For followers of Islam, companies such as LG
Electronics and Dubai-based Ilkone Mobile
Telecommunications make phones that aid Muslims
in their daily practice by indicating the
direction of Mecca, providing the call to prayer
or even incorporating the Quran within the
phone.
The text message, a dominant method of
communication in many parts of the world, has
also become a valuable religious tool. Indian
operator BPLMobile lets customers send prayers by
SMS to a Bombay temple where they are offered to
the Hindu god Ganesh.
In a similar vein, subscribers in the United
States and several European countries can
receive a
daily text message from the pope.
MSN India reportsMauj Telecom, a wireless
content provider, launched a spiritual channel
early this week that will enable mobile users to
perform elaborate prayers using a short code
7077.
If a user wants to perform, say a Ganesh puja,
all he has to do is download the relevant
application from the short code.
At the next stage, he will be able to say a
prayer in the following manner: Key 1 - light
the lamp; key 2 - offer durva (grass); key 3 -
offer garland; key 4 - offer modaks (sweet); key
5 - ring bells; and finally, key 6 - rendition
of the aarti.
BSNL reports
In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da
earth. Da earth waz barren, wit no 4m of life;
it waz unda a roaring ocean cuvred wit dRkness.’
(Genesis, chapter 1, verses 1-2). This is not
garbled text. These are SMS versions of the
verses from the Holy Bible.
The mobile phone industry is now going after
the devout. And the latest development is that
users can SMS their prayers to God Almighty. In
what can be termed as one of its kind, the
Bible, which has been translated into more
languages than any other publication, is now
available in the world’s most modern form of
communication, SMS.
This trend is catching up fast in India also.
Recently, Shree Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai
has tied up with a mobile content provider for a
service where people can send their prayers via
SMS. The SMS prayers will be compiled and kept
in a ‘wish box’ inside the temple. Within a week
of the start of the service, more than 10,000
SMS prayers had flooded the inbox of Lord
Ganesha at the temple. This is perhaps the first
time in the country that technology has been
used to make worshipping convenient. This sort
of SMS prayer is convenient for those who cannot
make it to the temple.
Explore
SMS Jokes
Explore funSMS.net
Explore
Kify
Network
funSMS.net is a part of
Kify
Network
Copyright © 2010
funSMS.NET All rights
reserved.
| 
