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hierarchy: Mahābhārata - Retold by Kṛṣṇa Dharma dasa
hierarchy: Appendix 4
Appendix 4
Questions Posed by Dharma to Yudhiṣṭhira The following questions and answers are not included in the main text: “What makes …
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
Questions Posed by Dharma to Yudhiṣṭhira
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
The following questions and answers are not included in the main text:
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“What makes one learned? How does one attain an exalted status? What is one’s second self and by what does …
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“By study of the Vedas one becomes learned. Asceticism raises one to an exalted status. Intelligence is his second self, …
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“What is the Brahmins’ divine attribute? What is their virtuous practice resembling that of the pious, what is their human …
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“Study of the Vedas is the Brahmins’ divine attribute. Their asceticism is like the virtuous practice of the pious, death …
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“What is the divine attribute of kṣatriyas, what is their piety and impiety, and what is their human failing?”
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“Arrows and weapons constitute their divinity, sacrifice is their piety and abandoning the distressed their impiety. Fear is their human …
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“What is the Sāma of sacrifice, what is its Yajur and what can it not do without?”
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
“Life is the sacrificial Sāma, mind is its Yajur and it is the Ṛg which it cannot do without.”
Mahābhārata - retold by kṛṣṇa dharma dasa Appendix 4
Yudhiṣṭhira understood his actual meaning. By sacrifice he meant the spiritual sacrifice for obtaining pure knowledge. In the objective sacrifice …