The life is full of questions & we are here to find the solutions. Some basic questions are: Who is the most powerful person on earth? Why do we marry? Why do we sleep? What is responsible for our birth and death? Is there really any God? If yes, how many? What is the purpose of life? Why do good people have to suffer and bad people win all the time? Is money the only goal of life? What is real wealth? Are you free to make your decisions? What is important, logic or faith? Why? Why should one believe in Vedas? Is it not orthodox thinking? Will there not be any reason for someone taking birth in a rich family and others in the poorest? Whatever decisions you make, you make it based on what? Why should one follow dharma (righteousness)? If our time on earth is limited, there must be a deeper reason for our existence, even if we haven't discovered or don't want to discover it yet. I've seen people with immense wealth still striving for more money, like today's billionaires. Despite having everything, they can't take any of it with them when they die. So, why were they born? Are they just the bodies we see, touch, and spend time with? If not, who are they really? When you dig deeper, you end up with three fundamental questions: Who am I? (the source of existence) Why am I here? (the purpose of life) How can I fulfill that purpose? (achieving liberation) Our life is experienced based on our knowledge, understanding, and observation skills. But humans have been manipulated from the ages to believe in false reality. There are many manipulators and they don't want you to know the real truth. But why? That you will know in this book. This book is the bridge or door to get the knowledge that has been evaluated many times. Many kings renounced their kingdoms and all their wealth or prosperity to find the answers to those three questions. But you do not have to do anything as you are fortunate enough to get this book. I would not insist you buy this book only because I am telling you to buy it. But if you are really having Sattvic quality of your mind, your intuition will definitely tell you to buy it. Because only one in millions can get such opportunity to read the text mentioned in this book.

The life is full of questions & we are here to find the solutions. Some basic questions are: Who is the most powerful person on earth? Why do we marry? Why do we sleep? What is responsible for our birth and death? Is there really any God? If yes, how many? What is the purpose of life? Why do good people have to suffer and bad people win all the time? Is money the only goal of life? What is real wealth? Are you free to make your decisions? What is important, logic or faith? Why? Why should one believe in Vedas? Is it not orthodox thinking? Will there not be any reason for someone taking birth in a rich family and others in the poorest? Whatever decisions you make, you make it based on what? Why should one follow dharma (righteousness)? If our time on earth is limited, there must be a deeper reason for our existence, even if we haven't discovered or don't want to discover it yet. I've seen people with immense wealth still striving for more money, like today's billionaires. Despite having everything, they can't take any of it with them when they die. So, why were they born? Are they just the bodies we see, touch, and spend time with? If not, who are they really? When you dig deeper, you end up with three fundamental questions: Who am I? (the source of existence) Why am I here? (the purpose of life) How can I fulfill that purpose? (achieving liberation) Our life is experienced based on our knowledge, understanding, and observation skills. But humans have been manipulated from the ages to believe in false reality. There are many manipulators and they don't want you to know the real truth. But why? That you will know in this book. This book is the bridge or door to get the knowledge that has been evaluated many times. Many kings renounced their kingdoms and all their wealth or prosperity to find the answers to those three questions. But you do not have to do anything as you are fortunate enough to get this book. I would not insist you buy this book only because I am telling you to buy it. But if you are really having Sattvic quality of your mind, your intuition will definitely tell you to buy it. Because only one in millions can get such opportunity to read the text mentioned in this book.

Treatise on the rituals and doctrines of Vaishnavism.

DEITIES AND WORSHIP Contained in the ALBERT PIKE 1872 19 in THE STA3STDABJ3 PRINTINO CO. Louisville CopyrigU, 1930, by The Supreme Council, 33, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America PREFACE. It. is quite uncertain, now that I have this book finished, whether I shall ever care to publish it. It was not commenced for that purpose and it may always remain a monotype, in manuscript. For it has been written as a study, and not as a teaching for myself and not for others. It is not at all the fruit of a meditated purpose, and was not commenced as a diagnosis of the Deities of the Veda, an attempt to discover the distinctive personality and individuality of each, which it afterwards became, and the fruits of itself to myself have been sufficient to reward me abundantly for the labour it has cost. Nothing has ever so much interested me, as this endeavour to penetrate into the adyta of the ancient Aryan thought, to discover what things, principles or phenomena our remote ancestors worshipped as Gods, what Indra, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, the Agvins, Vayu, Vishnu, SavitJfi and the others really were, in the conception of the composers of the Vedic hymns. It has had a singular charm for me, this inquiry into the true mean ing of the epithets and phrases, often, in appearance, indiscriminately applied to different Deities, often seemingly inappropriate, and the expres sions of a wild and riotous imagination into the true meaning of names and epithets and phrases that became, literally accepted and misunderstood, the sources, seeds or germs of the legendary myths and many of the Deities of the Grecian mythology and theBrahmanic fables and pantheon. And I have felt the most intense satisfaction in deciphering, as it seemed to me I did, these hieroglyphs of ancient Aryan thought in bringing myself into relation en rapport with these old Poets and Philosophers, under standing them in part, and thinking with them in deciphering their hiero glyphics, infinitely better worth the labour than all that are engraved on the monuments of Egypt and Assyria, and in solving one by one the enigmas contained in their figurative and seemingly extravagant language, whose meaning was only to be discovered by beginning with their simplest notions and conceptions, and making the curious processes of their thought my own trying as it were, to be them, intellectually, and to think their thoughts. Thus I satisfied myself that every one of their Deities had for them a perfectly distinct and dear personality and individuality that their ideas were not in the least vague, incoherent or confused that their imagination was perfectly - ell-regulated, and that every epithet and phrase was logically appropriate and correct. So also, upon a partial examination, I found it to be in the ancient Zarathustrian G tMs, which are, I do not doubt, even older than the Vedic hymns. I found in both, the most profound philosophic or metaphysical ideas, which those of every philosophy and religion have merely developed and that, so far from being Barbarians or Savages, the old Aryan herdsmen and husbandmen, in the Indus country under the Himalayan Mountains, on the rivers of Bactria, and, long before, on the Scythic Steppes where they originated, were men of singularly clear and acute intellects, profound thought and an infinite reverence of thebeings whom they worshipped. The inquiry has opened to me an entirely new chapter of the history of human thought, and given me an infinitely higher conception of the Aryan intellect...

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