--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<shempmcgurk@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I'll bet (no pun intended) that alot of readers of FFL will
> remember
> > > that reference in Rig Veda about not playing with dice.
> > >
> > > I remember it from my 6-month course in which we read the Rig
> Veda for
> > > hours upon hours.
> > >
> > > Well, I just happened to be reading about "problem gambling"
in
> > > Wikipedia and on that page a reference is made to that very
part
> of Rig
> > > Veda as an early reference to the problems associated with
> gambling!
> > >
> > > Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/yprkhk
> >
> > Interesting, the story of the gambling Pandu's and Kuru's in the
> Gita
> > allegorically have to do with the decent of Man from his
awareness
> of
> > Spirit (garden of Eden) to his identification with the senses,
that
> > was the 'gamble' man took and as a result he was 'banished from
the
> > kingdom' (of Spirit awareness) and held incognito (wandering in
the
> > realm of the senses) for 12 years, symbolically.
> >
> > Rig Ved: "Downward they roll, and then spring quickly upward,
and,
> > handless, force the man with hands to serve them."
I guess that's worth reading in the original Vedic saMskRtam
("saMskRtam"), too:
niicaa vartanta, upari sphuranti
ahastaaso hastavantaM sahante.
niicaa (downward) vartanta (they roll), upari (upward)
sphuranti(spring quickly) ahastaaso (handless)
hastavantaM ("handed") sahante ([they]overcome).
The rest of that shloka(?) goes like this:
divyaa an.gaaraa iriNe niuptaaH,
shiitaaH santo, hRdayaM nir dahanti.
A.A.Macdonell's translation:
Divine coals thrown down upon the gaming-board,
being cold, they burn up the heart.
