Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
And I'm going to read another one of the Vedas here from the Rig Veda. And again,
remember the Vedas are the basis of Hinduism. The oldest and most important scriptures
in Hinduism are the Vedas, which are hymns that are chanted or sung in Hindu temples every single
day. Now when people go to these temples, they don't understand Sanskrit. They don't know how
weird they are. Okay, but I've got here an English translation. And I'm going to read for you one
called The Long-Haired Ascetic. This is from the section on using the drug soma. And you know,
I talked more about that in the last video. But let me read you the introduction first.
The long-haired ascetic, an early precursor of the aponeschotic yogi, drinks a drug,
probably some hallucin other than soma, in the company of Rudra, the master of poison,
a god who is excluded from the soma sacrifice. The hallucinations described in the hymn are related to
but not the same as those attributed to soma drinkers and a bunch of other hymns that they
sing about drugs and drug use in Hinduism. Let me just read for you the Veda itself.
Long hair holds the fire, holds the drug, holds sky and earth. Long hair reveals everything
so that everyone can see the sun. Long hair declares the light. These ascetics, swayed
than wind, put dirty red rags on. So up to that point, he's naked. That's why it's talking about
him declaring everything, showing everything to the sun. He's swayed than wind, meaning that his
only garment is the wind or the air around him. But then he puts dirty red rags on. Then it says
when gods enter them, they ride with the rush of the wind. Now the gods that are entering
this long haired ascetic are actually demons that he's getting possessed with under the influence
of these drugs. When gods enter them, they ride with the rush of the wind, crazy with asceticism.
We've mounted the wind. Our bodies are all you mere mortals can see. He sails through the air,
looking down on all shapes below. The ascetic is friend to this god and that god, devoted to what
is well done. And by the way, that's this demon and that demon is what that really is. The stallion
of the wind, friend of gales, lashed on by gods. The ascetic lives in the two seas on the east and
on the west. He moves with the motion of heavenly girls and youths, of wild beasts. Long hair,
reading their minds, is their sweet, their most exciting friend. The wind has churned it up.
Kunam Nama prepared it for him. Long hair, drinks from the cub, sharing the drug with Rudra.
Now Hinduism is based on the Vedas. In fact, Hinduism is known as Vedic Dharma. This is the
basis. But I wonder if the one billion Hindus who constantly are going to these Hindu temples
and listening to these songs chanted and sung really know what it's saying. Because, like I
said, it's in a foreign language. It's in Sanskrit. So when Joe Hindu walks into a temple, he doesn't
know that this is what's being chanted or sung. This bizarre song. I mean, this should explain why
people like the Beatles and the Beach Boys back in the 1960s and 70s. They went over to India and
started practicing Hinduism. And they brought back all these yogis to the United States and
introduced this into our culture. And to this day, we still have this in our culture. It's coming
from these long haired derelict hippies of India, these drug users, these junkies that, you know,
they call a yogi or they call a sadhu or whatever. But these burned out hippies of the 60s. That's
why they fit in so well with these people because they're both just drugged out junkies. I mean,
can you imagine a religion that's based on drug use? It's pagan. And by the way,
pagan religions all over the world use drugs. For example, the Native Americans, they have peyote.
In Southeast Asia, there are all kinds of folk religions where they use drugs to enter the
spirit world and communicate with their dead ancestors, etc. But thank God, the Bible teaches
us to abstain from alcohol and to abstain from drugs. The Bible tells us over and over again to
be sober. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit.
And over and over again, God condemns drunkenness. And he tells us to be sober. And so we as
Christians, we don't believe in using drugs or alcohol at all. And they certainly don't make us
more spiritual. And we certainly wouldn't sing praises to a drug in church, or sing the praises
of the virtue of taking drugs and getting high. But that's exactly what the Rig Veda
has a whole section about. Many of the Vedas praise Soma, which is a different hallucinogenic
drug than this one, and praise the virtues of drug use. So this is a wicked demonic religion.
It's all about getting naked, taking drugs, being demon-possessed, and abusing your body.
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