HV - Bragging Gluttony and Debates - Rigveds

Vaisvamitras hymns also contain remarks on Bragging, Gluttony and unnecessary Debates

Bragging

In an interesting aside, the sage says that those who live to brag continually are not fit to be sages (अण्वीभिस्तना पूतासः, 1.003.4).[1]

Gluttony and Debates

In a verse full of pithy sayings he decries gluttony and empty debates, by posing choices:

समोहे वा य आशत नरस्तोकस्य सनितो | विप्रासो वा धियायवः || (1.008.6)[2]

(Choose): Debates or Union; one who lives for food alone gains an abject existence; (Choose) Be a sage! or be devoted to barley.

Thus, one who eats (glutton), is a man who has an abject existence (आशत नरस्तोकस्य).[3] One must choose between piety and gluttony he says: विप्रासो वा धियायवः,[4]

Another pithy saying is: समोहे वा य:[5] ; i.e., Debate or Yoga, implying that verbal disputation has to be foregone for practicing yoga (1.008.6), or that yoga is not a matter for verbal disputation, presumably for direct experience.

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[1] live brag continually ! (अण्-वीभ्-इस्-तना) sage not he (पूत-अस = पूतासः), इस् being an exclamation of anger, sorrow, etc.

[2] सम् - ऊहे वा य आशत नर – स्तोक - अस्य सनितो | विप्र - असो वा धिया - यवः ||

Together reasoning (सम्-ऊह = समोहे) or (वा) Union (य) one who eats (आश = आशत) man (नर) abject (स्तोक) exists (अस् = अस्य) gained (सनित = सनितौ) | Sage (विप्र) be! (अस्-ओ) or (वा) devotion (धिया) barley (यवः)

[3] one who eats (आश = आशत) man (नर) abject (स्तोक) exists (अस् = अस्य)

[4] Sage (विप्र) be! (अस्-ओ) or (वा) devotion (धिया) barley (यवः)

[5] Together reasoning (सम्-ऊह = समोहे) or (वा) Union (य)