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Yajurveda 13.42

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Someone asked me to refer to Yajurveda 13.42. It meant 42nd Mantra in 13th Adhyay / chapter. I tried searching for the same. I found the verse as this: Vatasya jutim varunasya nabhimashwam jagyanam sarirasya madhye. shishum nadinaam harim-adribudhnam agne ma hinsih parame vyoman. (Sorry if some spelling is wrong; I copied this from Sanskrit) While searching on the net, I found one site where someone had written that Yajurveda 13.42 says this: "Do not kill the horse." And hence the person claimed that this verse proves that Hindus used to kill horses in the Yajurveda period! But the actual meaning of this verse is this: He (Agne) Tejaswin vidwan! Aap (parme vyomen) sarva vyapt uttam akash me (vatasya) vayu ke (madhye) madhya me (jutim) veg roop (ashwam) ashwa ko (Sarirasya) jalmay (varunasya) uttam samudra ke (nabhim) bandhan ko aur (nadinam) nadiyon ke prabhav se (jagyanam) prakat hue (shishum) balak ke tulya vartmaan (rahim) neel varn yukt (adribuddhnam) sukshm megh ko (ma) ...
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Science, Religion and Jainism – a Quick Review

‘Science and Religion’ By Muni Shri Chandrashekhar Vijayji Translated into English by SR Falnikar Kamal Prakashan Trust, Ahmedabad. First Edition, 1st Oct 1978 I read the book ‘Science and Religion’ which mainly deals with the concepts, beliefs and philosophies in Jainism and tries to test them in the light of scientific discoveries. The book was written in 1978, or at least this was the edition of the copy which I received, and hence many scientific discoveries are not covered and some others are quickly judged without going into their depth. For example, theory of gravitation by Newton has been discarded in the book as an ‘intellectual fallacy’ and many concepts like presence of life in fire are explained with logic based on weak grounds. I don’t know if the author was qualified enough to understand modern science at the micro as well as macro levels, though he appeared to be well read. For example, the author feels elated when some scientists say that scientific words are ‘not final...
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Seeing Conversion as an Isolated Incident with Personal Choice

A lot of religious conversions are being done by Christian Missionaries all over India. It has been going on since centuries and we can find mentions of its evils in the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda too. But every time you say something against it, there would be some people who would ask, “What is your problem if someone converts into Christianity? After all, it is one’s personal choice to follow whichever religion one wishes to?” Well, if one converts due to personal choice as an isolated event, obviously no one will oppose or say anything. But there are people who want to say that hundreds of people just happen to gather at one church to convert; just it happens that they start getting a monetary assistance from next week onwards; just it happens by chance so that in the same Church another hundred converts every 3 months or so; it just happens by coincidence that the church is receiving foreign funds; and it just happens by chance that all these conver...
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