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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM This is countered by the story of Bhasmasura intended to show that Shiva was a fool and Vishnu saved him from his folly. Bhasmasura having propitiated Shiva asked for a boon. The boon was to be the power to burn any one on whose head Bhasmasura laid his hands. Shiva granted the boon. Bhasmasura tried to use his boon power against Shiva himself. Shiva became terrified and ran to Vishnu for help. Vishnu promised to help him. Vishnu took the form of a beautiful woman and went to Bhasmasura who became completely enamoured of her. Vishnu asked Bhasmasura to agree to obey him in everything as a condition of surrender. Bhasmasura agreed. Vishnu then asked him to place his hands on his own head which Bhasmasura did with the result that Bhasmasura died and Vishnu got the credit of saving Shiva from the consequences of his folly. "Is Isa (Mahadeva) the Cause of causes for any other reasons? We have not heard that the linga (male organ) of any other person is worshipped by the gods. Declare, if thou hast heard, what other being's linga except that of Mahesvara is now worshipped, or has formerly been worshipped, by the gods? He whose linga Brahma and Vishnu, and thou (Indra), with the deities, continually worship, is therefore then most eminent. Since children bear neither the mark of the lotus (Brahma's), nor of the discus (Vishnu's), nor of the thunderbolt (Indra's), but are marked with the male and the female organs,—therefore offspring is derived from Mahesvara. All women produced from the nature of Devi as their cause, are marked with the female organ, and all males are manifestly marked with the linga of Hara. He who asserts any other cause than lsvara (Mahadeva) or (affirms) that there is any (female) not marked by Devi in the three worlds, including all things movable or immovable, let that fool be thrust out. Know everything which is male to be Isara. and all that is female to be Uma: for this whole world, movable and immovable, is pervaded by (these) two bodies." The Greek Philosopher Zenophanes insists that polytheism or plurality of Gods is inconceivable and contradictory. That the only true doctrine was monotheism. Considered from a philosophical point of view, Zenophanes might be right. But from the historical point of view both are natural. Monotheism is natural where society is a single community. Where society is a federation of many communities polytheism is both natural and inevitable. Because every ancient community consisted not merely of men but of men and its Gods it was 79
RIDDLES IN HINDUISM impossible for the various communities to merge and coalesce except on one condition that its God is also accepted by the rest. This is how polytheism has grown. Consequently the existence of many Gods among the Hindus is quite understandable because the Hindu Society has been formed by the conglomeration of many tribes and many communities each of whom had their own separate Gods. What strikes one as a strange phenomenon is the sight of the Hindu Gods. struggling one against the other, their combats and feuds and the ascriptions by one God to the other, all things that are a shame and disgrace to common mortals. This is what requires explanation. 80
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Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambe
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Presenting Dr. Ambedkars, “Riddle
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http://www.ambedkar.org Born April
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Contents PART I - RELIGIOUS Riddle
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM RIDDLE No. 1 TH
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM " Prajapati, wa
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM In another plac
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM This review of
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM historical prod
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM APPENDIX I THE
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM "Vach (speech)
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM which he was in
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM Apart from the
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM the arrangement
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM "Because each s
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM approaches thee
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM IV The first po
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM and the Nakshat
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM And here it is
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM How far do the
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM to all of them;
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RIDDLES IN HINDUISM VI RATHAKAR 1.
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