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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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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. This time, we’re studying the 25th Sukta of the Rigveda’s first Mandala, which Google describes as a 21-verse hymn dedicated to Varuna, the guardian of cosmic order (Rta), composed by the sage Śunaḥśepa. Is this an accurate summary? Probably not,…
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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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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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We now come to the Rig Veda’s fourth Sukta, the first of many presumably addressed to Indra, the king of the Hindu devas. As explained earlier, Indra personifies the Red Ray of the Father’s Will to make earth like Heaven. As such, Indra represents the most powerful force in the universe — the reason he…
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