--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> Sacrifice gains spiritual favor and ascendancy in divinity.
> The Ribhus gained immortality through their zealous
> sacrificing (Rig 1.110.4). Sacrifice was to enbue the
> sacrificer with power and wealth from the gods (Rig 1.111.2).
>
When reading the [translated] Veda, it is like the Bible, not to be
read literally, but rather as descriptions of inner states. Just as
Christian fundamentalists misinterpret the knowledge of the Bible when
reading it literally, so do Vedic fundamentalists misintepret the
Veda, as you have done, when reading it literally.
