... 2) The Vedic Path of Truth. 3) The Gods of the Veda. 4) The Psychology of the Veda. 5) Vedic Terminology 6) The Origins of Aryan Speech. 7) The Rigveda (translated) 8) Vedic Legends. 9) The Aryan Religions. In Poetry. 1) The Trilogy 2) Ilion 3) The Descent of Ahana & other Poems. This is the programme, a vast one but realisable, like that of the Yoga. Karma ...
... statements to show that to them the multiplicity of the gods was not a dividing bar, they hold that all the gods were the names and aspects of the One :' . Legends : The Vedic legends at first sight appear, to be historical or a mixture of myths and history, but on • closer examination they are found to contain symbolic sense. The Angirasa legend, in particular, is one such ...
... to the Vedic legend, as a consequence of the discovery of the seven-headed thought which was born from the Truth. This discovery was made by Ayasya, the companion of the Navagwas. We are told that Ayasya became by this discovery universal, embraced the births in all the worlds and manifested a fourth world or four-fold world, turiyam svid janayad vishwa janyah. 2 The Vedic legend of the cow... cow and of the Angirasa Rishis is important, since if properly understood, it brings out a deeper secret of the Vedic Yoga. The legend is simple. The cows have been lost and the Angirasa Rishis are in search of those lost cows. The sacrifice is to be performed, and the Angirasas have to chant the true word, the mantra. Indra of all the gods is invoked. Indra comes down to help with the thunderbolt... third is the offering of the ghrita, and the fourth is the offering and drinking of the soma-wine. Page 5 (b) We may note that the Vedic sacrifice is symbolic in character, even though it may have also ritualistic significance for the Vedic religion. Just as in the Gita, — the word Yajna, sacrifice, is used in a symbolic sense for all action, whether internal or external, that is c ...
... Aryan civilisation introduced by northern invaders and, secondly, in the interpretation of the Vedic religion as a worship of Nature-powers & Vedic myths as allegorical legends of sun & moon & star & the visible phenomena of Nature. The latter generalisation rests partly on new philological renderings of Vedic words, partly on the Science of Comparative Mythology. The method of this “Science” can be judged... Greek Aswins, Castor & Pollux, is philologically identical with the Vedic Sarama and that of her abductor Paris is not so very different from the Vedic Pani. It may be noted that in the Vedic story Sarama is not the sister of the Aswins and is not abducted by the Panis and that there is no other resemblance between the Vedic legend & the Greek tradition. So by more recent speculation even Yudhishthira... result perhaps of these later conclusions we find a tendency even in philological scholarship towards the rise of new theories which dispute the whole legend of an Aryan invasion, assert an indigenous or even a southern origin for the peoples of the Vedic times and suppose Aryanism to have been a cult and not a racial distinction. These new theories destroy all fixed confidence in the old without themselves ...
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