{"id":17201,"date":"2018-11-10T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=17201"},"modified":"2018-11-10T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:39:25","slug":"vedic-verses-for-11-10-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/vedic-verses\/vedic-verses-for-11-10-18","title":{"rendered":"Vedic Verses for 11\/10\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14274 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>[The Chorus or the Poet:] To the meeting place the gambler hastens. shall I win? he asks himself, hoping and trembling. But the throws of the dice ruin his hopes, giving the highest scores to his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Rig Veda X, 34, 6<\/p>\n<p>Dice, believe me, are barbed: they prick and they trip, they hurt and torment and cause grievous harm. To the gambler they are like children&#8217;s gifts, sweet as honey, but they turn on the winner in rage and destroy him.<\/p>\n<p>Rig Veda X, 34, 7<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three strong, this band jumps playfully, like Savitri, the God whose statutes are true. They pay no heed to the anger of the powerful; the king himself pays heed to them.<\/p>\n<p>Rig Veda X, 34, 8<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance; into a greater darkness than that, as it were, enter those who are devoted to knowledge.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV, IV-Death and the Hereafter, 10<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;Cheerless indeed are those worlds covered with blinding darkness. To them after death go those people who are ignorant and unwise.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV, IV-Death and the Hereafter, 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> To the meeting place the gambler hastens. shall I win? he asks himself, hoping and trembling. But the throws of the dice ruin his hopes, giving the highest scores to his opponent. Rig Veda X, 34, 6 Dice, believe me, are barbed: they prick and they trip, they hurt and torment and cause grievous harm. To the gambler they are like children&#8217;s gifts, sweet as honey, but they turn on the winner in rage and destroy him. Rig Veda X, 34, 7 Fifty-three strong, this band jumps playfully, like Savitri, the God whose statutes are <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17201","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\/17201","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=17201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}