There once lived a king named Janasruti, who was a great-grandson of Janasruta. He bestowed his gifts with respect, gave away liberally and cooked much food for the hungry. He built rest-houses every-where with the thought that people everywhere would eat his food.<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, I – The Story of Janasruti and Raikva, 1<\/p>\n
One night some flamingos were flying along. One flamingo said to another: Hey! Ho! Short-sighted, Short-sighted! The radiance of Janasruti, the great-grandson of Janasruta, has spread to the sky. Do not touch it, lest it should burn you.<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, I – The Story of Janasruti and Raikva, 2<\/p>\n
The other replied: Say, who is this person about whom you have spoken as though he were like Raikva, the man with the cart? What sort of person is this Raikva, the man with the cart?<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, I – The Story of Janasruti and Raikva, 3<\/p>\n
The short-sighted flamingo replied: As in a game of dice, when the krita is won, the lower ones also are won, so whatever merits people acquire all accrue to that Raikva. As Raikva I describe him, too, who knows what Raikva knows.<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, I – The Story of Janasruti and Raikva, 4<\/p>\n
Janasruti the great-grandson of Janasruta overheard this conversation. Immediately after getting out of bed, he said to his attendant: Friend, did you speak of me as though I were Raikva, the man with the cart? What sort of person is Raikva, the man with the cart? As in a game of dice, when the krita is won, the lower ones also are won, so whatever merits people acquire all accrue to that Raikva. As Raikva I describe him, too, who knows what Raikva knows.<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, I – The Story of Janasruti and Raikva, 5-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There once lived a king named Janasruti, who was a great-grandson of Janasruta. He bestowed his gifts with respect, gave away liberally and cooked much food for the hungry. He built rest-houses every-where with the thought that people everywhere would eat his food. Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, I – The Story of Janasruti and Raikva, 1 One night some flamingos were flying along. One flamingo said to another: Hey! Ho! Short-sighted, Short-sighted! The radiance of Janasruti, the great-grandson of Janasruta, has spread to the sky. Do not touch it, lest it should burn you. Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vedic-verses","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}