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Namaste, my brother in Christ, and welcome (or welcome back) to my latest adhyayana posting. We’re studying the Rigveda, Hinduism’s oldest and most sacred scriptural text, which has never before (to my knowledge) been accurately translated. But then, neither have the Bible or the Quran, because the Ego Mind (Satan) weaves fear, guilt, divine wrath,…
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Namaste, my brother in Christ, and welcome (or welcome back) to my latest adhyayana posting. We’ve come to the Rigveda’s 19th Sukta, which, for the past 4,000 years, has been misperceived as a hymn calling upon Agni to invite the Maruts to the the yajna ritual. As established in our previous discussions 1) Agni is the…
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Namaste, my brother, and welcome (or welcome back) to my latest adhyayana posting. We’ve reached the Rigveda’s 17th Sukta, a supposed hymn invoking Indra (the Red Ray of the Soul’s eternal life) and Varuna (the mind-healing water of oneness). Like the first sixteen Suktas, the 17th is, in fact, a prose wisdom teaching for Brahmins…
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Translating the Rigveda’s Eight Sukta was no small feat. Not only were Max Muller’s “preserved meters” way off, correct definitions for the majority of words also were exceedingly hard to come by. The first of these elusive words came at the outset. That word was endra, which is almost universally misinterpreted as another form of…
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Let’s start our discussion of the Rigveda’s Seventh Sukta with a relevant quote from the Course — a quote so central to the process of awakening, I added it to my blogger profile to serve as a constant reminder. Because, as Jesus explains somewhere in the Text, we can not be too often reminded of…
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I don’t yet have all the answers, because I’m still walking and, therefore, still learning how to remember what I’ve forgotten. Had I not ventured into Hinduism and Kundalini Yoga a few years back, I would know even less than I do at present. And now, it would seem, the journey’s taking me to Egypt,…
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Let’s continue our conversation about the Rigveda’s Sixth Sukta by reviewing the verse we ended on last time. That verse is Rv 1.6.5, rather than Rv 1.6.6, as per Max Muller, the 19th-century Oxford orientalist credited with restoring the Rigveda to its original metric form. In so doing, he divided Rv. 1.6.4 into two lines,…
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About a year ago, my husband and I were shopping at our favorite Indian market — something we used to do once a month or so to restock the larder. While we were perusing the frozen-food cases on the final aisle, an elderly Indian gentleman stopped his cart behind us. “Do you like Indian food?”…
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Working out the true meaning of the three Greek letters generally mistranslated as “666” made me curious about all the other strange numbers sprinkled through the Book of Revelation. Are they also ciphers? We find, for example, the spelled-out numbers 42 and 1,260 in the following verse, wherein neither number has any useful meaning. The…
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Today, we’re back to the seven trumpets and the three woes from the Book of Revelation, following a brief-but-productive detour into cherubim-hunting. For those not keeping track, we’ve reached Revelation 11, which describes the second “woe” foretold to occur in the final ays before the dream-world disappears. To recap: The first “woe” was the “plague…
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