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The Word, verily, is greater than name. The Word, in fact, makes known
the Rig Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda, the Atharva Veda as the
fourth, and the ancient lore as the fifth: the Veda of Vedas, the ritual
for ancestors, calculus, the augural sciences, the knowledge of the
signs of the times, ethics, political science, sacred knowledge,
theology, knowledge of the spirits, military science, astrology, the
science of snakes and of celestial beings. The Word also makes known
heaven, earth, wind, space, the waters, fire, the Gods, men, animals,
birds, grass and trees, all animals down to worms, insects and ants. It
also makes known what is right and wrong, truth and untruth, good and
evil, what is pleasing and what is unpleasing. Verily, if there were no
Word, there would be knowledge neither of right and wrong, nor of truth
and untruth, nor of the pleasing and unpleasing. The Word makes all this
known. Meditate on the Word.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishads 7.2.1. Vedic Experience, pg. 111
Only by a tranquil mind does one destroy all action, good or bad. Once
the self is pacified, one abides in the Self and attains everlasting
bliss. If the mind becomes as firmly established in Brahman as it is
usually attached to the sense objects, who, then, will not be released
from bondage?
Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.34. Vedic Experience, pg. 422
Even as water becomes one with water, fire with fire, and air with air,
so the mind becomes one with the Infinite Mind and thus attains final
freedom.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.34.11. TU, 103
He who knows this becomes a knower of the One and of duality, he who has
attained to the oneness of the One, to the self-same nature.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.35. Vedic Experience, pg. 741
For the sake of experiencing the true and the false, the great Self has
a dual nature. Yea, the great Self has a dual nature. Yea, the great
Self has a dual nature!
Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 7.11.8. Thirteen Principal
Upanishads, 458
Know that as from a fire laid with green wood, when kindled, clouds of
smoke separately issue forth, so, verily, from this great being has been
breathed forth that which is the Rig Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama
Veda, the Atharvans and the Angirasas, legend (itihasa), ancient lore
(purana), sciences (vidya), mystic doctrines (upanishad), verses
(sloka), aphorisms (sutra), explanations (anuvyakhyana) and commentaries
(vyakhyana).
Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitri Upanishad 6.32, Radhakrishnan
When a man, having made his mind perfectly stable, free from attachment
and confusion, enters upon the mindless state, then he attains the
supreme abode.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitri Upanishad 6.34, Vedic Experience p. 422
Nonviolence is all the offerings. Renunciation is the priestly
honorarium. The final purification is death. Thus all the Divinities are
established in this body.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Pranagnihotra Upanishads 46 Vedic Experience, pg. 413
The God who is in fire, who is in water, who has entered into the whole
world, who is in plants, who is in trees; to that God be adoration! Yea,
be adoration!
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishad 3.17
There where there is no darkness, nor night, nor day, nor Being, nor
Nonbeing, there is the Auspicious one alone, absolute and eternal; there
is the glorious splendor of that light from whom in the beginning sprang
ancient wisdom.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishad 4.18, Vedic Experience p.
83-84
Without beginning art thou, beyond time, beyond space, thou art He from
whom sprang the three worlds.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishad 4.4, Essays on Hinduism p. 5
By the power of inner harmony and by the grace of God Svetasvatara had
the vision of Brahman. He then spoke to his nearest hermit-students
about the supreme purification, about Brahman whom the seers adore.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishad 6.21, The Poems of Tukaram p.
97
He is the God of light, immortal in his glory, pure consciousness,
omnipresent, the loving protector of all. He is the everlasting ruler of
the world: could there be any ruler but he?
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishad 7.17, The Poems of Tukaram p.
96
Theologians ask: What is the cause? Is it Brahma? Whence are we born?
Whereby do we live? And on what are we established?
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 1.1. bo Thirteen Principal
Upanishads, 394
Perishable is matter. Immortal, imperishable the Lord, who, the One,
controls the perishable and also the soul. Meditating on Him, uniting
with Him, becoming more and more like Him, one is freed at the last from
the world illusion.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 1.10. Vedic Experience, pg.
762
When a man knows God, he is free: his sorrows have an end, and birth and
death are no more. When in inner union he is beyond the world of the
body, then the third world, the world of the Spirit, is found, where the
power of the All is, and man has all; for he is one with the One.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 1.11. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 86
The atman pervades all like butter hidden in milk. He is the source of
Self-knowledge and ascetic fervor. This is the Brahman teaching, the
highest goal! This is the Brahman teaching, the highest goal!
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 1.16. Vedic Experience, pg.
711
Find a quiet retreat for the practice of yoga, sheltered from the wind,
level and clean, free from rubbish, smoldering fires and ugliness, and
where the sound of waters and the beauty of the place help thought and
contemplation.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 2.10. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 88
Even as a mirror covered with dust shines brightly when cleaned, so the
embodied soul, seeing the truth of atman, realizes oneness, attains the
goal of life and becomes free from sorrow.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 2.14. bo Thirteen Principal
Upanishads, 399
With earnest effort hold the senses in check. Controlling the breath,
regulate the vital activities. As a charioteer holds back his restive
horses, so does a persevering aspirant restrain his mind.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 2.9. The Upanishads, Breath
of the Eternal, 192
By His divine power He holds dominion over all the worlds. At the
periods of creation and dissolution of the universe, He alone exists.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 3.1. The Upanishads, Breath
of the Eternal, 193
God is, in truth, the whole universe: what was, what is and what beyond
shall ever be. He is the God of life immortal and of all life that lives
by food. His hands and feet are everywhere. He has heads and mouths
everywhere. He sees all, He hears all. He is in all, and He Is.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 3.15 The Upanishads,
Juan Mascaro, 90
Subtlest of the subtle, greatest of the great, the atman is hidden in
the cave of the heart of all beings. He who, free from all urges,
beholds Him overcomes sorrow, seeing by grace of the Creator, the Lord
and His glory.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 3.20. Vedic Experience, pg.
735
He who is source and origin of the Gods, the Lord of all, Rudra, the
Mighty Sage who produced in ancient days the Golden Germ; may He endow us
with purity of mind!
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 3.4. Vedic Experience, pg.
156
Come down to us, Rudra, who art in the high mountains. Come and let the
light of thy face, free from fear and evil, shine upon us. Come to us
with thy love.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 3.5. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 89
May God - who, in the mystery of His vision and power, transforms His
white radiance into His many-colored creation, from whom all things come
and into whom they all return - grant us the grace of pure vision.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.1. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 91
He is the God of forms infinite, in whose glory all things are, smaller
than the smallest atom, and yet the creator of all, ever living in the
mystery of His creation. In the vision of this God of love there is
everlasting peace.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.14. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 92
He is Brahma. He is Siva. He is Indra. He is the immutable, the supreme,
the self-luminous. He is Vishnu. He is life. He is time. He is the fire,
and He is the moon.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.16. bo The Principal
Upanishads, 736
There, where there is no darkness, nor night, nor day, nor being, nor
nonbeing, there is the Auspicious One, alone, absolute and eternal.
There is the glorious splendor of that Light from whom in the beginning
sprang ancient wisdom.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.18. Vedic Experience, pg.
83
A man comes to Thee in fearful wonder and says: Thou art God who never
was born. Let thy face, Rudra, shine upon me, and let thy love be my
eternal protection.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.21. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 93
Without beginning art thou, beyond time, beyond space; thou art He from
whom sprang the three worlds.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.4, Essays on Hinduism,
Karan Singh, 5
All the sacred books, all holy sacrifice and ritual and prayers, all the
words of the Vedas, and the whole past and present and future, come from
the Spirit. With maya, His power of wonder, He made all things, and by
maya the human soul is bound. Know, therefore, that nature is maya, but
that God is the ruler of maya, and that all beings in our universe are
parts of His infinite splendor.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.9 The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 92
The soul is born and unfolds in a body, with dreams and desires and the
food of life. And then it is reborn in new bodies, in accordance with
its former works. The quality of the soul determines its future body;
earthly or airy, heavy or light.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 5.11 The Upanishads,
Juan Mascaro, 94
Him who is without beginning and without end, in the midst of confusion,
the Creator of all, of manifold form, the One embracer of the
universe by knowing God, one is released from all fetters.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 5.13. Thirteen Principal
Upanishads, 407
Even as the radiance of the sun enlightens all regions, above, below,
and slantwise, so that only God, glorious and worthy of worship, rules
over all His creation.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 5.4. Vedic Experience, pg.
335
By the power of inner harmony and by the grace of God, Shvetashvatara
had the vision of Brahman. He then spoke to his nearest hermit-students
about the supreme purification, about Brahman, whom the seers adore.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 6.21. The Upanishads, Juan
Mascaro, 97
The supreme mystery in the Veda end, which has been declared in former
times, should not be given to one not tranquil, nor again to one who is
not a son or a pupil. To one who has the highest devotion for God, and
for his spiritual teacher even as for God, to him these matters which
have been declared become manifest if he be a great soul - yea, become
manifest if he be a great soul!
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 6.22 Thirteen Principal
Upanishads, 411
Higher and other than the world-tree, time and forms is He from whom
this expanse proceeds the bringer of dharma, the remover of evil, the
lord of prosperity. Know Him as in one's own Self, as the immortal abode
of all.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 6.6. Thirteen Principal
Upanishads, 409
In Him exists neither action nor organ of action; no one is found His
equal or superior to Him. His supreme power is revealed in manifold
forms; inherent to His nature is the working of His strength and wisdom.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 6.8. Vedic Experience, pg.
156
One should not be negligent of truth. One should not be negligent of
virtue. One should not be negligent of welfare. One should not be
negligent of prosperity. One should not be negligent of study and
teaching.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Upanishad 1.11.1
You are in truth the visible Brahman. I will proclaim you as the visible
Brahman. I will speak the right. I will speak the truth. May this
protect me. May it protect my teacher! May this protect me. May it
protect my teacher! Aum, peace, peace, peace!
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads 1.1.1. Vedic Experience, pg.
757
Let there be no neglect of the duties to the Gods and the fathers. Be
one to whom the mother is a God. Be one to whom the father is a God. Be
one to whom the teacher is a God. Be one to whom the guest is a God.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads 1.11.1 The Principal
Upanishads, 537
Let there be no neglect of Truth. Let there be no neglect of dharma. Let
there be no neglect of welfare. Let there be no neglect of prosperity.
Let there be no neglect of study and teaching. Let there be no neglect
of the duties to the Gods and the ancestors.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads 1.11.1. bo The Principal
Upanishads, 537
If you have doubt concerning conduct, follow the example of high souls
who are competent to judge, devout, not led by others, not harsh, but
lovers of virtue.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads 1.11.4. bo The Principal
Upanishads, 539
May He protect us both. May He be pleased with us both. May we work
together with vigor; may our study make us illumined. May there be no
dislike between us. Aum, peace, peace.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads 2.1. Invocation, The Principal
Upanishads, 541
Homage to the source of health, and to the source of delight. Homage to
the maker of health and to the maker of delight. Homage to the
Auspicious and to the more Auspicious.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads Samhita 4.5.8. The Veda of the
Black Yajurs School, 359
If a man first takes firm hold on faith and then offers his sacrifice,
then in that man's sacrifice both Gods and men place confidence.
Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittriya Upanishads Samhita, 1.6.8.1. Vedic
Experience, pg. 401
Great are the Gods who were born from Nonbeing. Yet men aver this
Nonbeing to be the single limb of the Support, the great Beyond.
Atharva Veda 10.7.25. Vedic Experience, pg. 65
In the Support the worlds consist; in him Creative Fervor and Order have
their ground. You I have known, O Support face to face, in Indra wholly
concentrated.
Atharva Veda 10.7.29 Vedic Experience p.65
High truth, unyielding order, consecration, ardor and prayer and holy
ritual uphold the earth; may she, the ruling mistress of what has been
and what will come to be, for us spread wide a limitless domain.
Atharva Veda 12.1.1, Vedic Experience p.123
Whatever I dig up of you, O Earth, may you of that have quick
replenishment! O purifying One, may my thrust never reach right unto
your vital points, your heart!
Atharva Veda 12.1.35, Vedic Experience p.126
With this peace the dreadful I now appease, with this peace the cruel I
now appease, with this peace all evil I now appease, so that peace may
prevail, happiness prevail! May everything for us be peaceful!
Atharva Veda 19.9.14, Vedic Experience p.306
Even as this mighty Earth hath borne and bears the mountains and the
hills, so may the germ of life be borne in thee that thou mayst bear a
son.
Atharva Veda 6.17.3
Render. O Grace, our sacrifice today acceptable to the Gods. May Agni
convey the oblation of my worship!
Atharva Veda 7.20.1, Vedic Experience p. 835