Indra
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We’ve now come to the Rig Veda’s Ninth Sukta — and I wish I could say the translation process is getting easier. But that wouldn’t be wholly truthful. What I can say — in complete honesty — is that I’m still learning and expanding my understanding of the labyrinthian morass that is Hindu theology. I’m…
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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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At last, we reach the Fifth Sukta of the Rigveda, the most ancient and sacred of the Hindu scriptures. This one also concerns King Indra, but it’s neither a hymn nor a metered poem. Like the first four Riks, the fifth is a spiritual teaching aimed at “Brahmins.” Contrary to popular egoic belief, Brahmin is…
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According to Google, the word Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) appears between 2,500 and 2,700 time in the Hebrew Bible — the original form of the Judeo-Christian Old Testament. Google, among many other sources, also suggests that Elohim is a plural form of the Hebrew words Eloah and/or El, all three of which translate as “God.” As stated in my…
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The Spiritual Truths we’ve explored so far are bound to provoke some compelling questions. One of these might be, “What possessed us to leave Heaven in the first place?” The simplest answer is that we yearned to experience what Course-Jesus calls “specialness.” Bored with the egalitarian grind of Oneness, some of the Souls belonging to…
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Get comfortable, because this post is lengthy, but also chock-a-block full of insightful information – as will be most of my future postings about Spiritual Truth. Originally, I published this as a four-part series called “What is God?,” which made it less daunting to read, but looked awkward in the browser. So, here we are…
The Holy Meeting Place 