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... Guru S'eva , or Guru Worship ......... The Commentary of Gokulnathji on tan , man , and dhan The Doctrine of Adulterous Intercourse The Rasabhávaná ( Love Faith ) The Story of Ganga Kshatriáni , a Female Devotee ............ ib . 83 84 ...
... Guru S'eva , or Guru Worship ......... The Commentary of Gokulnathji on tan , man , and dhan The Doctrine of Adulterous Intercourse The Rasabhávaná ( Love Faith ) The Story of Ganga Kshatriáni , a Female Devotee ............ ib . 83 84 ...
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... guru , under whose care he is to study the sacred writings . ... It is only after he has served his apprenticeship and grown up to manhood that he is allowed to marry , to light the sacrificial fire for himself , to choose his priests ...
... guru , under whose care he is to study the sacred writings . ... It is only after he has served his apprenticeship and grown up to manhood that he is allowed to marry , to light the sacrificial fire for himself , to choose his priests ...
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... Guru . At the close of the usual rites , the male worshippers take each a vest from the box , and the female to whom the garment appertains , be she ever so nearly of kin to him , is the partner for the time of his licentious pleasures ...
... Guru . At the close of the usual rites , the male worshippers take each a vest from the box , and the female to whom the garment appertains , be she ever so nearly of kin to him , is the partner for the time of his licentious pleasures ...
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... Guru , Máh Prabhu , etc .; but the name for which they have the greatest respect appears to be that of Gausvámi , which signifies Lord of Cows , applicable also to Krishna . The heads of this division of the sect are usually called ...
... Guru , Máh Prabhu , etc .; but the name for which they have the greatest respect appears to be that of Gausvámi , which signifies Lord of Cows , applicable also to Krishna . The heads of this division of the sect are usually called ...
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... Guru , as the direct mediator . In the next extract we give will be found the punishments awarded by the doctrines of this sect to those who neglect due respect to their spiritual teachers , which is enforced as a para- mount duty , the ...
... Guru , as the direct mediator . In the next extract we give will be found the punishments awarded by the doctrines of this sect to those who neglect due respect to their spiritual teachers , which is enforced as a para- mount duty , the ...
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Page 12 - He who by His might looked even over the water-clouds, the clouds which gave strength and lit the sacrifice ; He who is God above all gods; — Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " ' May He not destroy us, He the creator of the earth ; or He, the righteous, who created the heaven; He who also created the bright and mighty waters. — Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice...
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Page 5 - Did the luminous ray of these (creative acts) expand in the middle? or above ? or below? That productive seed at once became providence (or sentient souls) and matter (or the elements) : she, who is sustained within himself, was inferior; and he, who heeds, was superior.
Page 12 - Wherever the mighty water-clouds went, where they placed * Miiller's Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 567. it c the seed and lit the fire, thence arose He who is the only life of the bright gods ; — Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice...
Page 9 - The deities invoked appear, on a cursory inspection of the Veda, to be as various as the authors of the prayers addressed to them : but, according to the most ancient annotations on the Indian scripture, those numerous names of persons and things are all resolvable into different titles of three deities, and ultimately of one god.
Page 11 - He who gives life, he who gives strength ; whose command all the Bright Gods revere ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?