{"id":800,"date":"2020-09-14T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:02:50","slug":"whether-foreigners-can-follow-the-vedic-tradition-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Whether foreigners can follow the Vedic tradition or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As to whether a foreigner can follow something Indian or not. To clarify this, I will quote from the <em>Yajurveda<\/em>. I specifically take the <em>Veda<\/em>, since there is an opinion that one can receive initiation only in Tantrism, the <em>Bhakti<\/em> or the <em>N\u0101tha<\/em> traditions, but not in the <em>Vedic one<\/em>, etc. Here is a\u00a0<em>\u015bloka\u00a0<\/em>from the\u00a0<em>\u015aukla<\/em>\u00a0<em>Yajurveda<\/em> (<em>V\u0101jasaney\u012b Sa\u1e43hit\u0101<\/em>), from which follows that there is no absolute radicalism towards foreigners even in Vedism:<\/p>\n<p>\u092f\u0925\u0947\u0952\u092e\u093e\u0902 \u0935\u093e\u091a\u0902\u0951 \u0915\u0932\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0952\u0923\u0940\u092e\u093e\u0952\u0935\u0926\u093e\u0951\u0928\u093f\u0952 \u091c\u0928\u0947\u0951\u092d\u094d\u092f\u0903\u0964<br \/>\n\u092c\u094d\u0930\u0951\u0939\u094d\u092e\u0930\u093e\u091c\u0952\u0928\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0951\u092d\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0901 \u0936\u0942\u0952\u0926\u094d\u0930\u093e\u092f\u0952 \u091a\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0951\u092f \u091a\u0952 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u093e\u092f\u0952 \u091a\u093e\u0930\u0951\u0923\u093e\u092f\u0964 (\u092f\u091c\u0941 \u0966 \u0968\u096c\u0964 \u0968)<\/p>\n<p><em>I have transmitted the auspicious words of the Vedas for people like\u00a0br\u0101hma\u1e47as, for k\u1e63atriyas, vai\u015byas,\u00a0\u015b\u016bdras\u00a0and for ara\u1e47\u0101yas\u00a0(foreigners).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As to whether a foreigner can follow something Indian or not. To clarify this, I will quote from the Yajurveda. I specifically take the Veda, since there is an opinion that one can receive initiation only in Tantrism, the Bhakti &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[235,234,236],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vedas","tag-sukla-yajurveda","tag-vajasaneyi-sahita","tag-vedism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}