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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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Rahul Gandhi’s one-nigh-stands at Dalit Houses

If there were any previous benchmarks in political hypocrisy, Rahul G, the crown prince of Nehru dynasty has surpassed all and he seems to have set one of his own. In one of his recent comments, he says he doesn’t believe in caste system. And he says he doesn’t visit dalit homes but he only visits poor humans. But the truth is very different. He has been making one-night-stands at Dalit homes since long and under provocation from the so called dalit-queen Mayawati who had ridiculed him by saying he washed his hands with a particular brand of soap after meeting dalits! If we scrutinize any media report, one fact is obvious that he visits villages and hamlets which are predominantly housed by dalit castes exclusively. I have checked it myself by searching news reports. Did you find any single media report where he made a one-night-stand at a poor Brahmin’s house for example? This realization makes me wonder at two things: Why hasn’t Rahul Gandhi got the guts to say that he does visit dal...
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Shashi Tharoor on Hinduism

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"Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that I am embarked upon a "true path" that they have missed. This dogma lies at the core of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism - "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father [God], but by me" (John 14:6), says the Bible; "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Prophet," declares the Koran - denying unbelievers all possibility of redemption, let alone of salvation or paradise. Hinduism, however, asserts that all ways of belief are equally valid, and Hindus readily venerate the saints, and the sacred objects, of other faiths." Ref: Page 56, India: From midnight to millennium and beyond, by Shashi Tharoor
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