What is "arati"

Usage examples of "arati".

She considers class participation, homework, and test performance as well as general personality and behavior in separating superior students from merely satisfactory ones.

Though he didn’t know it then, the airplane, the bar mitzvah, the church, and his covert research were all preparation for meeting Chali, a meeting that had it occurred any sooner, would have been meaningless.

In a fit of guilt-induced fear, he removed two candles from the Shabbat candle box and lowered the level in the Manischewitz bottle in preparation for Saul’s homecoming.

He has never felt so divided, wonders if Miriam has secretly intended a crash course in mind/body separation.

If Aaron were at ISKCON, he would be chanting japa in preparation for bed so that God’s name would be the last thing on his mind and tongue.

He would not be trapped in a chair, the enforced stillness making him acutely conscious of the body separating him from God.

If someone were to walk into the temple they wouldn’t see Aaron, but a devotee performing arati.

Ever since Chali confided that he once saw ’s arm move at the height of the arati chant, Aaron has felt a pressing urge to sneak behind the curtain that shields the deities between services.

At evening arati, Aaron realizes he hasn’t thought about the outside world since breakfast.

For a brief moment, within the grip of this memory, Eliza can actually feel the original surge of excitement that coursed through her then, a sense of exhilaration spurred entirely by the imaginary trip they are taking.

Her explanation only gets her a note home and an appointment with the school psychologist to discuss her “difficulty separating reality from imagination.

Since September he had been going through the motions of his classes, filling the chairs in the various classrooms and secretly chanting japa until he could return to the temple, staying there for the last arati and then returning home in order to get up the next morning and do it all over again.

This is because your soul is separating itself from your body as a result of the great joy that you experience when you perceive and recognize these things.

Departure was made easier—as far as getting us used to the idea—by the time it took for all the pre-departure preparations.

The stillness in the air, the glory of the light, the feeling of comparative safety—all had made me think so.