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There lived a cunnning ritualist in a small Indian town. Ritualist (who is called ‘कर्म-कांडी - ‘Karma-Kaandi’ in Hindi) is a person heavily inclined towards the ritualistic portions of the Vedas.

Vedas are the most fundamental scriptures in Hinduism out of which most of the other Hindu scriptures have branched, as opposed to a Vedantin who emphasises the ‘Upanishadic’ portions of the Vedas (over its ritualist portions), dealing with very deeply spiritual and metaphysical concepts.

Upanishads, being highly egalitarian in nature, are in reality accessible to all the humans around the world, from all walks of life, though in the past certain elite classes and castes of hindus prohibited masses from learning sanskrit or understanding vedic scriptures.

So despite Hindu scriptures warning against creating an occupation or a business out of the Vedic rituals and astrology (or anything else), not only did this ritualist...