Weekly page from Hindu Dharma: Rites for Celestials and Rites for Fathers

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This week's page from Hindu Dharma is " Rites for

Celestials and Rites for Fathers " from " The

Vedas " at

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap21.htm

, which is attached with this email.

Here are the first few lines from this page:

The rites meant for the deities must be performed

with devotion and those meant for the pitrs or

fathers must be performed with faith. What is done

with devotion is yajna and what is done with faith

is sraddha. While performing the former, the sikha

must be gathered into a knot and the sacred thread

must rest on the left shoulder, and while

performing the latter the sikha must be worn loose

and the sacred thread must rest on the right

shoulder.... (see attachment for more)

 

Next week we will send you the page " The Purpose

of Sacrifices " from " The Vedas " .

 

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Hindu Dharma is a translation of two volumes of

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which, in turn, is a book of 6 volumes that

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