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THOUGHTS ON KARDAMA.
[Devahuti means offering to Devas, which is universal service.
She is the progenitor of those forms of life which have a spiritual
influence over the whole Trailokya.
"Kala" is part, a digit of the Moon.
"Anasuya" means absence of envy. From the proverbial
chastity of Atri's wife the word also means the highest type of
chastity and wifely devotion.
"Sraddha " means faith.
"Havirbhu " means born of sacrificial oblation.
"Gati " means course, path.
"Kriya " means performance (of Yajna) and action.
"Khyati " means fame, praise and also proper discrimination.
"Arundhati " would perhaps mean one that does not stop or
hinder. Probably the word means a wife who helps her husband
in the performance of duties and does not stop or prevent him.
It is for this reason that the Star Arundhati is pointed out to
the bride at the nuptial ceremony.
"Setnti " is peace, the well known invocation of the Vedas at
the end of a Mantra.
"Kardama " means clay. He was born of Brahma's Chh ??ya"
or shadow.
Devahuti, being wedded to the materialised shadow of the
whole Universe, gave rise to certain female types which in their turn
on being wedded to the Rishis, the highest Planetory Intelligences,
became the progenitors of all the life forms of the Universe. Kapila
was one of the earliest Rishis. The word Kapila means tawny
or brown coloured.]
X. KAPILA'S INSTRUCTION TO HIS MOTHER
DEVAHUTI.
SKANDHA III., CHAP. 25-33.
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We now come to an important part of the Bhagavata Purina,
the teachings of Kapila to his mother in the Yoga philosophy of
the Bhagavat Purana. They adapt the Sankhya and the Yoga systems
to Bhakti or devotion. For a full knowledge of the teachings I
refer my readers to the Purana itself, I shall only give the salient
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