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 | | Monotheistic religions are defined by the veneration or worship of one and only one Deity. | | | Hinduism is a faith at whose very core lies this pluralist and inclusivistic idea, and a well-known Rig Vedic hymn claims that "Truth is One, though the sages know it variously." Pluralists and inclusivists may borrow from more than one faith system for their own religious practice. | | | Some historically Christian Western countries, particularly in Europe, show declining recruitment for priesthoods and monasteries, and studies in the UK show a fast-diminishing attendance at churches, synagogues, etc. The demographic group that is "losing faith" the most rapidly is the most-educated classes. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/religion
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| | In the Vedic hymns, Mitra is always invoked together with Varuna, so that the two are combined as 'Mitravaruna': Varuna is lord of the cosmic rhythm of the celestial spheres, while Mitra brings forth the light at dawn, which was covered by Varuna. | | | In the India Vedic mythology, it is Indra, not Mithra, who slays the chthonic bull. | | | The Hurrians, it appears, were being led by an aristocratic warrior caste worshipping these gods. |
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http://www.informationgenius.com/encyclopedia/m/mi/mitra.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Priesthood |
| | The origin of the universal priesthood extends back, as is known, to St. Peter, who declares the faithful, in their character of Christians, "a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices", and "a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood" (I Peter, ii, 5, 9). | | | The high-priest was for the Jews the highest embodiment of theocracy, the monarch of the whole priesthood, the special mediator between God and the People of the Covenant, and the spiritual head of the synagogue. | | | The south-Semitic religion of the ancient pagan Arabians was a plain religion of the desert without a distinct priesthood: modern Islam or Mohammedanism has a clergy (muezzin, announcer of the hours of prayer; imâm, leader of the prayers; khâtib, preacher), but no real priesthood. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12409a.htm
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| | A Vedic Reader (Excerpts) |
| | The conclusion from the Vedic evidence that Mitra was a solar deity, is corroborated by the Avesta and by Persian religion in general, where Mithra is undoubtedly a sun-god or a god of light specially connected with the sun. | | | The Vedic gods may most conveniently be classified as deities of heaven, air, and earth, according to the threefold division suggested by the RV. | | | In their structure the Vedic metres thus come half way between the metres of the Indo-Iranian period, in which, as the Avesta shows, the principle is the number of syllables only, and) those of Classical Sanskrit, in which (except the sloka) the quantity of every single syllable in the line is fixed. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vedaread.htm
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| | priesthood -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Priesthood in the religions of the world > Jainism and Buddhism | | | In Jainism and Buddhism, arising within Brahmanism as nontheistic sectarian movements, the Brahman priesthood was sublimated and the Vedic caste and sacrifice eliminated. | | | Provides information on Mormon Articles of Faith, Word of Wisdom, priesthood, the importance of family history and temples, premortal existence, and afterlife. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=38743
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| | VWH Europe |
| | Vedic God of fire is Agni, meaning fire. | | | For history suggests that while Vedic religion and culture were patriarchal, yet Celtic culture and religion, though not matriarchal, was in no way as male dominated as it's Vedic equivalent. | | | These are the Druids and the Brahmins, Gods and Goddesses, Danu in Celtic and Vedic Myth, Places of Worship and Celtic and Vedic Fairies. |
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http://www.salagram.net/VWHEurope.html
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| | A new look at Vedic India |
| | Wild rice is the offering for Brhaspati, the priest of the gods and the prototype for the Brahmin priesthood. | | | After claiming that the Vedic priests were nearly fanatical in maintaining the sanctity and integrity of the Rgveda, a complete turnaround occurs with the other writings including other Vedic literature. | | | The Rgveda is limited in scope as it is a book of hymns dedicated to certain gods, who might not even have comprised the entire pantheon of the people of Rgvedic times. |
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http://asiapacificuniverse.com/pkm/vedicindia.html
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| | Perhaps the greatest extraneous influence in the eastward spread of the Salem religion was exerted by the Indian teachers of the Vedic faith, who injected their conception of the Brahman--the Absolute--into the salvationistic thought of the Salemites. | | | The Salem missionaries had contributed much to the loss of faith in all the ancient Vedic gods, but the leaders, the priests of Vedism, refused to accept the Melchizedek teaching of one God and one simple faith. | | | THE SALEM TEACHINGS IN VEDIC INDIA In the days of Melchizedek, India was a cosmopolitan country which had recently come under the political and religious dominance of the Aryan-Andite invaders from the north and west. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/occult/URANTIA/p094.txt
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| | Hinduism Today Kerala January/February/March, 2002 |
| | Though some of the other castes have learned the Vedic scriptures and Tantric texts to become priests, they were not openly accepted by the upper caste people because of the feeling that only the brahmins could do the job. | | | It is widely accepted in Kerala that the priesthood is the birthright of the brahmin caste only, a system which has ensured the preservation of Hinduism for thousands of years. | | | In 1987, experts on the Vedas and the Tantric system of Kerala met and decided to pursue the concept that the priesthood should be open to anyone who learns Vedic scriptures, other religious texts and leads the required pious life. |
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http://www.hinduism-today.com/archives/2002/1-3/51_kerala.shtml
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| | Hinduism - The Age Of Brahmanas And Upanishads |
| | They, moreover, have maintained the knowledge of the ancient Vedic language in which the sacred hymns of their forefathers were composed, of the traditions associated with them., and of the priestly lore of Vedic ritual. | | | And if our priesthood in the Brahmanas feel themselves in the pride of spiritual power lifted above the rules of moral law, they are not in practice indifferent to it. | | | With the rise of the kingdom an Estblished Church has come into existence, and the Brahman priesthood works out its principles to the bitterest end of logic. |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles25/hindu-19.shtml
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| | Hinduism Information on Hinduism. Believersweb.org |
| | Their polytheistic religion, a sort of proto-Hinduism, was in some ways a form of witchcraft. The pre-Vedic Hindus especially worshipped a MOTHER GODDESS and a horned god in the posture of a yogi. They offered sacrifices to the various gods, but did not maintain any temples. | | |   The Aryans developed an elaborate system of sacrifices which later led to the formation of a priesthood (the Brahmins). They also absorbed the Dravidian gods and concepts into their religion, and this assimilation resulted in a complicated array of gods and goddesses. |
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http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=627
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| | India in Al-Qadim |
| | In the early days of the Vedic Age, Tvashtri was a priest of such power that he dared to create a son whom he hoped would deprive Indra of his position as king of the gods. | | | The importance of this concept to Indian culture cannot be underestimated, for it allowed the Vedic priests to exert their influence over the worshipers of (literally) millions of different gods. | | | Indra, also known in earlier Vedic times as Parjanya, is the god of the atmosphere, storms, and battle. |
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/sandyxavier/emirates/india.html
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| | VNN Editorial - Hebrews And Vedic Brahmins |
| | Shukla 1976: "Hebrews and Vedic Aryans" by Madan Mohan Shukla, (47, Kumar Bhavan, opp. | | | It would also appear that Jehova is also related to a Sanskrit word: "This word [Jehova] could, however, be equated with the Vedic word jahvuh, which may be considered, grammatically, both as an adjective and a proper noun. | | | This leads us to the conclusion that the Hebrews can be identified unhesitatingly with these Indian Brahmins who had migrated from India in the very early dawn of the Vedic period." (Shukla 1979, p.54) |
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http://www.vnn.org/editorials/ET0307/ET14-8222.html
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| | ZARATHUSHTRA THE PRIEST: by Sarosh Manekshaw |
| | Thus, although the priesthood might not have been hereditary, most of the priests would have made every effort to teach the necessary prayers and rituals to their sons, in order to pass their knowledge on to the next generation, and preserve the continuity of their religious beliefs. | | | These kindred people are the Indo-Aryans, who migrated from the steppes of Central Asia to the plains of India, and who followed the Vedic religion. | | | In Iran, such hymns are represented by the 'Yashts'; and (3) 'religious poetry', represented by in Iran by the 'Gathas', and composed by 'zaotar-s' who had undergone intensive training in order to master the complex intricacies of composing this type of verse. |
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http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/priest33.html
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| | Women priests for the jet age |
| | Not only are women being trained in priesthood in large numbers, the long-lost tradition of performing the sacred thread ceremony for girls to give them the right to perform all religious rituals in the family has also been evolved. | | | In Kerala — God’s own country — till a few years ago, anything related to Vedic hymns and sacred ceremonies was considered the domain of the Namboodiris and the Pottis — the two classes of the brahminical order. | | | The pantheon of the Hindu deities may have grown in numbers over the centuries, electric lamps may have replaced oil lamps and Vedic chants may have given way to filmi bhajans, but one element has weathered the changing times — the male priest. |
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http://www.hvk.org/articles/0702/45.html.31990.VINCLUDEFIX
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| | Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 6 Chapter 7 |
| | SB 6.7.29-30 : The ācārya, the spiritual master who teaches all the Vedic knowledge and gives initiation by offering the sacred thread, is the personification of all the Vedas. | | | Therefore although accepting priesthood is sometimes reproachable, I cannot refuse even a small request from you. | | | By this means, householder brāhmaṇas who actually abide by the principles of austerity and penance maintain themselves and their families and perform all necessary pious activities. |
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http://srimadbhagavatam.com/6/7
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| | Brahmanism - Network Live |
| | The great problems of the origin and existence of man and the universe had early begun to engage the Hindu mind; and in celebrating the praises of the gods the poet was frequently led by his religious, and not wholly disinterested, zeal to attribute to them cosmical functions of the very highest order. | | | It is a nature worship purer than that met with in any polytheistic form of belief we are acquainted with, a mythology still comparatively little affected by those systematising tendencies which, in a less simple and primitive state of thought, lead to the construction of a well-ordered pantheon and a regular organisation of divine government. | | | In different localities the principal share of their affection may have been bestowed on one or another of the old gods who was thereby raised to the dignity of chief deity; or new forms and objects of belief may have sprung up with the intellectual growth of the people. |
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http://brahminism.networklive.org
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| | Hinduism |
| | Indra is the of the gods he was supreme during the Vedic period. | | | Later a professional priesthood took ownership of the rituals and the number of gods and the complexity of those rituals increased. | | | Dyaus Pitar is the original supreme sky god although he has lost significance. |
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http://www.souldevice.org/hinduism.html
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| | Canaanite Religion, Israelite Religion, Islam, Hinduism Some Thoughts |
| | Superficially, Vedic Religion and popular Hinduism have many apparent similarities with Canaanite religion as we know it. | | | Illustration 2 - Descendants of Ancient Vedic Religion | | | Old Iranian Polytheism, Vedic and then popular (not philosophic) Hindu Polytheism as reflected in |
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http://www.houseofdavid.ca/Can_isr_isl_hind_bud.htm
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| | heterdox essay Direct Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports available for direct access! |
| | In Jainism and Buddhism, arising within Brahmanism as non-theistic sectarian movements, the Brahman priesthood and the Vedic caste and sacrifice eliminated. | | | The exclusion of certain Vedic authority such as the worship to the Vedic idea of the Brahman allowed Jainist and Buddhist to secure faith and support in the common people. | | | Both Buddhism and Jainism not only have similarities in that they reject the testimony of the Vedas, but other metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical ideals as well. |
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http://www.directessays.com/viewpaper.php?request=31973
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| | Lycaeum > Leda > Soma of the Aryans: an ancient hallucinogen? by Gordon Wasson |
| | The text is settled and has been available for study for the past 120 years, but the meanings of the verses are often obscure, and, as is natural in hymns impregnated with religious terminology and beliefs strange to us, filled with allusions that evade and challenge the Vedic scholar. | | | The language that these priests spoke is known as "Vedic", which a thousand years later developed into the Sanskrit tongue. | | | They arrived on the scene with a fully developed religion, elaborate rituals performed by a tightly organized priesthood, a well-rounded complement of gods and goddesses in their pantheon, and a rich mythology telling of the doings of these divinities. |
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http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16578
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| | CHAPTER FOURTEEN: VEDIC YOGA, SETH AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL COSMOLOGY |
| | 85, we see the connection between the Sun and the energy of the universe that is referred to as "Prana" in the Vedic tradition. | | | Richard Thompson ’s book Alien Identities, there are a number of connections made between various celestial beings as seen in the Vedic texts and modern extraterrestrial reports, establishing a clear link between the two. | | | In this book we are trying to be more well-rounded and have our arguments more firmly supported. |
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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_oneness_14.htm
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| | A Pledge For All of Us |
| | The seers who saw the Vedas found that the only language to express their knowledge satisfactorily is the highly codified Vedic Ritual; and we lost the key to understand the ritual sometime through the ages. | | | That key, in my opinion, was forgotten even by the time of bhagvAn buddhA to whom the Vedic scholars could not give a satisfactory reply as to why they practice the rituals. | | | Even some common misbeliefs of the post Vedic period had also contributed to the neglect of Vedas and sanskrit language. |
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http://www.geocities.com/vaidix/general1.htm
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| | rediff.com: Namboodiris give up religious monopoly in Kerala |
| | Acting on a petition from a low caste, as to why he should not be allowed to become a temple priest, the court had decreed that priesthood in temples cannot and should not be the monopoly of Namboodiris. | | | The apex authority of the Namboodiris (the most orthodox Malayalee Brahmins) was forced into the move due to depleting strength of the community and an acute shortage of priests in temples across Kerala. | | | Orthodox Namboodiris in Kerala have given up their monopoly on priesthood in temples. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/oct/24iype.htm
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| | Aryan race originated from ancient tamil race |
| | were usurped by the indigenous "borrowed" priesthood; their Aryan religion, gods and customs mostly | | | Brahmins blessed by their god Brahma in the Puranic "creation myth" was updated under neo-Brahmanism | | | who collectively form 7% of "Hindus" (Mandal Commission), are the superior "Vedic Aryans" and "kshatriyas" |
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http://forumhub.com/tnhistory/8218.17856.02.51.04.html
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| | Vedic priesthood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Vedic priesthood is the collective term for the priests of the | | | Known as purohita, the priests are divided into several types: | | | The division of the Agnihotra among the Hotar, the Udgatar and the Adhvaryu is directly comparable to the Celtic priesthood as reported by |
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| | AskWhy! Zoroastrian Influences on Judaism and Christianity 3 - Jewiah Mythology |
| | The priesthood were the Magi, a class rather than a profession, just as the Brahmins were a caste and the Jewish priesthood were a caste. | | | The Sanskrit adjective which yields “magi” is used mostly in honour of Indira, the Rig Vedic god of clouds and rains, who brought riches to the Vedic Aryans by driving away drought. | | | The Vedic word “maghá” is a gift, suggesting a conception like the Christian idea of the “gift” of the Holy Spirit. |
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http://www.askwhy.co.uk/judaism/0275Zoroastrianism.html
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| | Do We All Worship the Same God? Text |
| | Shinto is a nonexclusive religion, that is, people may practice Shinto along with a second or even third religion. | | | Shinto has no real founder, no written scriptures, no body or religious law, and only a very loosely organized priesthood. | | | MacDonell, A. A., Vedic Mythology, (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1974) p. |
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http://www.bibletoday.com/booklets/samegod_text.htm
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| | Vedic Backgrounds |
| | Brahma (creator) the main god, as distinguished from Brahman (the life spirit in all living things) and Brahmin (priesthood) | | | Holy Trinity of god Brahman (indivisible essence of all spiritual reality, creator, perserver, destroyer), later separated into three: | | | Vishnu (preserver) Krishna is an incarnation of Vishnu, the cosmic force of goodness, benevolence, forgiveness, love; his consort is Lakshmi. |
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~jacquies/vedic-civ.htm
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| | Heritage |
| | Vedic tradition is still a driving force for millions of Hindus | | | To be worthy for this honor, the Brahmin became devoted to his calling, set and lived by high standards, shunned worldly honor, spoke the truth, led a virtuous life, and kept himself pure in mind and body. | | | This, he did with admirable dignity and honor. |
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http://www.brahminworld.com/bw3.htm
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| | Stupa |
| | The head monks, however hard they tried, were having difficulty ordaining him, since tradition decreed that a prospective candidate for priesthood need to have performed at least one good deed. | | | Mobilizing all their clairvoyant powers and searching even his former lives, they could find no good deed. | | | Nevertheless, he wanted to become a monk for good luck. |
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http://www.exoticindianart.com/read/stupa.htm
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| | Paleopaganism Clergy Musical Worship Teams |
| | The translation of this material, along with some of the writings of Dumezil (and others) that are not yet in English, is going to be an important part of the research work of ADF for the first few years. | | | This material, when combined with the Vedic and Old Irish sources, may give us most of the missing links necessary to reconstruct Paleo-pagan European Druidism. | | | Most of this research has been published in a variety of Soviet academic books and journals, and has never been translated into English. |
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http://www.piney.com/Paleoclergy.html
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| | Community Mission Schemes |
| | 1.To follow and propagate the authentic practice of our Vedic culture as prescribed in the scriptures and guided by the unbroken tradition of the Sringeri Sankaracharya Mutt. | | | To sponsor any of the schemes, please send us the completed sponsorship form along with the check or Money order, payable to SVBF and send to: | | | 3.To support Veda Patasalas and encourage Vedic priesthood. |
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| | CIR Detailed Faculty Information |
| | "Changes in the Vedic Priesthood," Ritual, State and Historyin South Asia: Essays in honour of J. Heesterman, ed. |
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