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I will definitely need rest after trying to explain to you how amrit ceremony is a ritual.

Anyway, let's begin.

A ritual is

[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1] - any customary observance or practice 

 - of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; "ritual killing"

 - the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies 

 - of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals; "a ritual dance of Haiti"; "sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer

 - stereotyped behavior

Agreed?


[/SIZE][/SIZE]Amrit ceremony is a customary practice. There is a prescribed procedure of how to make and serve amrit. Agreed?


Since amrit ceremony fits into that definition of a ritual, therefore we can call it a ritual.

Now that wasn't too hard to understand, was it? I tried explaining it fully.


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