Weekly page from Hindu Dharma: The Purpose of Sacrifices

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This week's page from Hindu Dharma is "The Purpose of Sacrifices" from "The Vedas" at http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap22.htm, which is attached with this email. Here are the first few lines from this page:

Why is it that religion alone has the rites called yajnas or sacrifices? If a crop grows in surplus in our place we trade it with what is available in plenty in another and is not produced in our own. The carpenter, the blacksmith and other artisans make useful articles and serve us in many ways. In return we give them what they need for their upkeep. We feed the cow grass and it yields us... (see attachment for more)

 

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Hindu Dharma is a translation of two volumes of the well known Tamil Book "Deivatthin Kural", which, in turn, is a book of 6 volumes that contains talks of His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji of Kanchipuram. The entire book is available online at www.kamakoti.org .