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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PURUSHA SUKTHAM
the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety. For our presentable members have no need, but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member having need; that there not be division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. And you are the body of Christ, and members in part.
It may be interesting to note that in the Kingdom of God as preached by Jesus, the world was upside down. When the question of who is the greatest came up at one occasion Jesus makes his point.
Mar 10:36-45 And He said to them, What do you desire that I should do for you? They said to Him, Grant to us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left hand, in Your glory. But Jesus called them and said to them, You know that they who are accounted rulers over the nations exercise lordship over them. And their great ones exercise authority on them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever desires to be great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever of you desires to become first, he shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.
Verse 14
NATURE GODS CAME OUT OF PURUSHA'S BODY
candramA manaso jAta: caksho sooryo ajAyata mukhaadeendrascAgnischa prANAdvAyurajAyata || 14 ||
His mind (manas) formed the moon, from his eye became the sun, from his mouth came Indra and Agni, from his breath Vaayu (wind) was born.
There is the same problem of order of creation here again. Sun, moon and fire were created after the creation of man? However it may be that they were made gods of men after the creation. Men began to worship the natural forces. The purusha is the source of these deities which are worshipped by the Vedics too.
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