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The Science of Kingship in Ancient India, Part 13
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 17, CANADA (SUN) — The religious dictates that influenced kingship in Vedic culture.
CHAPTER VII. – Part Two
[Regarding a ruler who proved tyrannical] It does not seem necessary to explain these facts 238) by the hypothesis that this was the outcome of a different view of king-ship 239). As a rule the opinion prevailed that only good kings were truly devas 240). Only incidentally the view is pronounced that whatever a king does is right 241), that is to say that even a wicked monarch is inviolable because of his sanctity.
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Satapatha-Brahmana, Part 72
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 17, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of the Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Julius Eggeling in 1882.
Second Kânda - The Agnyâdhâna, The Agnihotra, The Pindapitriyagña, The Âgrayaneshti, And The Kâturmâsyâni - I. The Agnyâdhâna Or Establishment Of The Sacred Fires - Second Adhyâya – First Brâhmana - The Oblations, Part One
2:2:1:1 - 1. When he has taken out the Âhavanîya fire [1], he performs the Full-offering [2]. The reason why he performs the full-offering is that he thereby causes that Agni to become an eater of food for his own self; that he thereby offers food to him. Even as (a mother or cow) would offer the breast to a new-born child or calf, so does he thereby offer food to him.
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Prabhupada Padma-vakya
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 17,
CANADA (SUN)
Audio files with transcripts recorded on this day.
July 17, 1973, London
Bhagavad-gita 1.20
" So anyone who is declaring himself God, immediately you should
know he is the greatest sinful man. And if you study his private life,
you will see that he is number one sinful man. This is the test."
July 17, 1975, San Francisco
Morning Walk
" This is your religion, this is your science, philosophy --
everything. And for this, you have created so many big, big buildings
to create some less than animals. Civilization is finished unless you
take to Krsna conscious."
July 17, 1975, San Francisco
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.32
" The so-called scientists, thinker, they are thinking that "We are
everything. We can create, and we can control over the nature." These
are all mad thinking. It is not possible. Nobody has ever been able to
control over the nature, what to speak of understanding God."
July 17, 1976, New York
Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 20.110
" The sun planet is very, very big, fourteen hundred thousand times
bigger than this earth. So it is all congested with population. And
because they are all fiery, everything made there fiery, therefore it
is a blazing fire, and the illumination is coming all over the
universe."
 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
The Science of Kingship in Ancient India, Part 12
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 13, CANADA (SUN) — The religious dictates that influenced kingship in Vedic culture.
CHAPTER VII. – Part One
Good and bad kings; morality and majesty
Being a deva who walks amongst mankind the king is not infallible 228). Like the devas in general he is not above good and evil. Morality is not necessarily a feature in a power or powerful being denoted by the term of deva. Devas may work for good or evil, they may be feared or adored, they are not always patterns of virtue.
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Satapatha-Brahmana, Part 71
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 13, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of the Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Julius Eggeling in 1882.
Second Kânda - The Agnyâdhâna, The Agnihotra, The Pindapitriyagña, The Âgrayaneshti, And The Kâturmâsyâni - I. The Agnyâdhâna Or Establishment Of The Sacred Fires - First Adhyâya – Fourth Brâhmana, Part Three
2:1:4:23 - 23. He (the Adhvaryu) then makes the horse step on (the Âhavanîya fire-place) [2]. When he has made it step on it, he leads it out towards the east, makes it turn round again (from left to right) and lets it stand there facing the west. The horse doubtless represents strength: hence he makes it turn round again in order that this strength shall not turn away from him (the sacrificer).
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The Science of Kingship in Ancient India, Part 11
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 11, CANADA (SUN) — The religious dictates that influenced kingship in Vedic culture.
CHAPTER VI. – Part Three
That Indra is among the eight divinities whose particles constitute the king is self-evident. Indra's concern with growth, vitality, rainfall, vegetation and fertility is too well known to be in need of comment. Energetic action is characteristic of him. Representing, in the belief of Vedic man, force, energy and vitality in nature, he was believed to be intimately connected with atmospheric phenomena and with various forms of fertility and vegetative life. 196) He is the bestower of wives, sons and riches I97). Like other gods of this character, Indra was also credited with a warlike temperament, and with a natural bent for the annihilation of evil powers and enemies of gods and mankind.
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Satapatha-Brahmana, Part 70
BY: SUN STAFF
Jul 11, CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of the Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Julius Eggeling in 1882.
Second Kânda - The Agnyâdhâna, The Agnihotra, The Pindapitriyagña, The Âgrayaneshti, And The Kâturmâsyâni - I. The Agnyâdhâna Or Establishment Of The Sacred Fires - First Adhyâya – Fourth Brâhmana, Part Two
2:1:4:10 - 10. Here now they say, 'If the fire is not setup with either a rik-verse, or a sâman, or a yagus, wherewith then is it set up?' Verily, that (fire) is of the brahman: with the brahman it is set up. The brahman is speech: of that speech it is. The brahman is the truth, and the truth consists in those same (three) mystic utterances: hence his (fire) is established by means of the truth.
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— In the backdrop of the nationwide buzz over the Supreme Court's recent proposal to allow people of all faiths into Jagannath Temple and put a curb on servitors from collecting dakshina from devotees, the Deities of the 12th century shrine are all set to start their annual sojourn to Gundicha Temple, believed to be their birthplace, marking Rath Yatra
on Saturday.
