Dwelling places of Lakshmi
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Husband checking attractive vocation (5)
Grab bits of guava (ripe) fruit (7)
Partners returning incentives including benefit (7) Second tenor with often best composition (5)
Used my parents' names once at first, created Saral, for example (9)
Troop falsely arresting journalist for explosive (7)
They cover, perhaps home with certain risk initially (7) Careless chap beside blazing ingle (9)
Man driving out large untied animal (5)
Dossier about company director on vacation is returned (6) Restricts drunk son outside empty IIM (6)
Snowman still followed by Indian? (4)
Chairs before teams (8)
Complaint of general (army o
Harry, I've coins for bills (8)
Problems in note by assessors (8)
Yearns for trees (5)
Feeling it induces vomit while circling passage (10)
German maiden decked by fantastic set, one in diamond, say
(8)
Adjust, say ring of intimate friend (5,3)
Blows up old cartel finally with dopes in shambles (8)
Expel European champion missing gold (5)
New marker is thin (6)
Eliminate the German behind drink counter (6)
Score? Zero for wrestler (4) icer) diagnosed at last (6,4)
Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle
Solution to Wednesday’s Sudoku
People can follow the tenets of the Vedas but cannot question them. They have been time-tested and followed by various sages and saints from the days of yore and handed to us. The Vedas teach about dharmas. Because of the Vedas, dharmas are established, and because dharmas are followed, Vedas are fostered.
Sri Anantha Padmanabhachariar Swamy said in a discourse that “Upanyasam” (discourse) means to bring a person nearer to God, like the Upanishads. The common cherished desire of all human beings is to derive wealth (Lakshmikataksham).
Karma yoga includes the performance of yagnas and giving to charity. For all these, wealth is essential. People can earn money to lead a legitimate and pious life. An oftrepeated question is where Goddess Lakshmi (in charge of wealth) will reside. The simple answer is that She dwells in all places where righteous activities and good deeds are undertaken. Rama Himself worshipped Sri Ranganatha, showing that worshipping Kuladevatha (presiding deity) is important.
Goddess Mahalakshmi declares that she will reside in those houses where the following dharmas are practised: guests coming to a house are well received and entertained; poojas are done with sincere devotion.