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whether the attributes mentioned with reference to the diverse gods and goddesses were or were not the true components or constituents of divinity. Indra committed adultery with his preceptor's spouse, Brihaspati, the deva guru (preceptor of gods), seduced his elder brother's wife during her pregnacy, and Soma, also known Moon, begat a son on the better half of the deva guru himself. But the Sanatan-dharmist has no eyes for these and other similar escapades of the gods.
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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
The strangest thing about these strange deities is that they are no longer making history. Their deeds were all finished and accomplished, so to speak, prior to the composition of the scriptures. How is this possible with living beings especially with actors such as those who cannot live peacefully for a moment without thinking of running away with their neighbours' wives? This one peculiarity of the gods should have sufficed by itself to open the eyes of any seeker after the truth; but, unfortunately, the majority are content to follow blindly in the wake of usage !
What, then, is the true explanation of Vedicism, and what the secret of the divers gods mentioned in the hymns? But before I undertake to answer that I should tell you something about the reason why all these three kinds of Vedic scholars, the superstitious Sanatanist, the Darwinised European, and the half-Darwinised Indian, have failed in getting at the truth. This reason lay in the fact that the Vedas are not written in Sanskrit, just as the Holy Bible is not written in
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