Lectures On the Origin And Growth of Religion As Illustrated By the Religions of
Lectures On the Origin And Growth of Religion As Illustrated By the Religions of
F Max Friedrich Max Mller
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What more could human language achieve, in trying to express the idea of a divine and supreme power, than what our poet says of Varuna, ' Thou art lord of all, of heaven and earth' (I, 25, 20); or, as it is said in another hymn (II, 27, 10), 'Thou art the king of all, of those who are gods, and of those who are men % ' Nor is Varuna represented as the lord of nature only ; he knows the order of nature, and upholds it, for this is what is meant by his epithet dhntavrata. The vratas, or laws of n...ature, are not to be shaken ; they rest on Varuna, as on a rock. Varuna therefore knows the twelve months, and even the thirteenth ; he knows the course of the wind, the birds in the air, and the ships on the sea. He knows all the wondrous works of nature, and he looks not only into the past, but into the future also. But more than all this, Varuna watches also over the order of the moral world. Thus in one hymn the poet begins with a confession that he has neglected the works of Varuna, that he has offended against his laws.
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