The shared center — held across the tradition
Ritual sustains the order of the world.
The fire altar kept rta — cosmic order — turning; sacrifice was cosmology in practice.
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The gods receive offerings and give in return.
Agni carries the oblation upward; the hymns name thirty-three gods and flatter them beautifully.
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Sound rightly spoken has power.
Mantra — the precisely chanted word — acts on reality; mispronunciation is not a typo but a failure of the rite.
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