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goddess of wealth. must be considered a
man with an man with animal his side the god
was not
right is the animal head propensities, therefore he has by dess of wealth. On the left the negative side is represented, the spiritual part, and the human form is perfect. The goddess on this side is the goddess of wisdom. She has no necessity for wealth. Even this picture connected with material ideas, in certain ways is a beautiful picture. Later on when people forget the real truth and become engrossed in the external world they thought the energy of the world an abstract idea bul it was a person they wanted to propitiate those energies, and so they sacrificed animals to the goddess that represented distructive energy. It is continued there. It is a great blot on the peaceful and humane character of the Hindu. The truth has been forgotten by them. Fven the sacred writings have been mutilated by them. Many passages are altogether new. The Sattee, burning of widows on the funeral pile of their husbands, came to be sanctioned by a passage that has been changed by substitufing one letter for writings are inter
another. In this way the sacred preted as sanctioning those rights. reds of thousands of people who interpret the Vedas in the most exoteric sense.
There are hund
All the different sects and communities of India have different marks on their foreheads. They make those marks with some kind of paste
that is fra
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