the-miracle-cow
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Namaste, my brother in Christ, and welcome (or welcome back) to my latest adhyayana posting. Today, we’re discussing the Rigveda’s 26th Sukta, which is blessedly shorter than the previous two. What’s it about? Miracle-working, more or less. Let’s dig right in with Rv 1.26:1, which reads: Abiding in spiritual perception sends forth the meditative offering clothing…
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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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