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  • The Rigveda’s 29th Sukta

    Yes, I know. My headlines are rather perfunctory, but we’re all about substance over flash here at the Holy Meeting Place dot com. Today, as the utilitarian heading suggests, we’ll be studying the Rigveda’s 29th Sukta. Only 9,987 to go, so we’re making progress! Snail-like progress, to be sure, but progress nevertheless. What is the…

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  • The Rigveda’s 17th Sukta

    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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