Development of Hinduism

SR No.: 007303
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M M Ninan
Publisher: M M Ninan
Total Pages: 582
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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6. MONOTHEISM & REINCARNATION
Purusha Suktha Rig Veda X
The Purusha has thousand heads, He has thousand eyes,
He has thousand feet,
He is spread all overthe universe, And is beyond the count with ten fingers.
This Purusha is all the past, All the future and the present, He is the lord of deathlessness,
And he rises from hiding, From this universe of food.
This Purusha is much greater, Than all his greatness in what all we see, And all that we see inthis universe is but his quarter,
And the rest three quarters which is beyond destruction,
Is safely in the worlds beyond.
Above this world is three quarters of Purusha, But the quarter, which is in this world, Appears again and again,
And from that is bom the beings that take food, And those inanimate ones that don't take food. And all these appeared for every one of us to
see.
From that Purusha was bom,
The scintillating, ever shining universe, And from that was bom the Purusha called Braluna,
And he spread himself everywhere, And created the earth and then, The bodies of all beings
The spring was the ghee,
The summer was the holy wooden sticks, And the winter the sacrificial offering, Used or the sacrifice conducted by Devas through thought,
In which they also sacrificed the ever-shining Purusha.
I know that great Purusha, Who shines like the sun, And is beyond darkness,
And the one who knows him thus, Attains salvation even in this birth, And there is no other method of salvation
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