May the wind blow us joy, may the sun shine down joy on us, may our days
pass with joy, may the night be a gift of joyful peace! May the dawn
bring us joy at its coming!
Atharva Veda 7.69, Vedic Experience p. 302
In whose one limb all the Gods, three and thirty in number, are
affixed - tell me of that Support - who may He be?
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.7.13. Vedic Experience, pg. 64
In whom are set firm the firstborn seers, the hymns, the songs and the
sacrificial formulas, in whom is established the single seer - tell me of
that support - who may He be?
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.7.14. Vedic Experience, pg. 64
He who knows the fine-drawn thread of which the creatures that we see
are spun, who knows the thread of that same thread - he also knows
Brahman, the Ultimate.
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.8.37. Vedic Experience, pg. 828
Desireless, wise, immortal, self-existent, full of bliss, lacking in
nothing, is the one who knows the wise, unaging, youthful atman. He
fears not death!
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.8.44. Vedic Experience, pg. 538
The brahmachari moves, strengthening both the worlds. In him the devas
meet in concord; he upholds earth and heaven.
Atharva Veda Samhita 11.5.1. Hymns of the Atharva Veda, 55
Love, children, happiness and wealth will come to answer your hopes.
Devoted to your husband's needs, be girded for immortality!
Atharva Veda Samhita 14.1.42. Vedic Experience, pg. 258
Unite, O Lord, this couple like a pair of lovebirds. May they surrounded
by children be, living both long and happily.
Atharva Veda Samhita 14.2.64. Vedic Experience, pg. 259
I am he, you are she, I am song, you are verse, I am heaven, you are
earth. We two shall here together dwell, becoming parents of children.
Atharva Veda Samhita 14.2.71. Vedic Experience, pg. 260
Brahman is the priest, Brahman the sacrifice; by Brahman the posts are
erected. From Brahman the officiating priest was born; in Brahman is
concealed the oblation.
Atharva Veda Samhita 19.42.1. Vedic Experience, pg. 360
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
May the wind blow us joy, may the sun shine down joy on us, may our days
pass with joy, may the night be a gift of joyful peace! May the dawn
bring us joy at its coming!
Atharva Veda 7.69, Vedic Experience p. 302
In whose one limb all the Gods, three and thirty in number, are
affixed - tell me of that Support - who may He be?
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.7.13. Vedic Experience, pg. 64
In whom are set firm the firstborn seers, the hymns, the songs and the
sacrificial formulas, in whom is established the single seer - tell me of
that support - who may He be?
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.7.14. Vedic Experience, pg. 64
He who knows the fine-drawn thread of which the creatures that we see
are spun, who knows the thread of that same thread - he also knows
Brahman, the Ultimate.
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.8.37. Vedic Experience, pg. 828
Desireless, wise, immortal, self-existent, full of bliss, lacking in
nothing, is the one who knows the wise, unaging, youthful atman. He
fears not death!
Atharva Veda Samhita 10.8.44. Vedic Experience, pg. 538
The brahmachari moves, strengthening both the worlds. In him the devas
meet in concord; he upholds earth and heaven.
Atharva Veda Samhita 11.5.1. Hymns of the Atharva Veda, 55
Love, children, happiness and wealth will come to answer your hopes.
Devoted to your husband's needs, be girded for immortality!
Atharva Veda Samhita 14.1.42. Vedic Experience, pg. 258
Unite, O Lord, this couple like a pair of lovebirds. May they surrounded
by children be, living both long and happily.
Atharva Veda Samhita 14.2.64. Vedic Experience, pg. 259
I am he, you are she, I am song, you are verse, I am heaven, you are
earth. We two shall here together dwell, becoming parents of children.
Atharva Veda Samhita 14.2.71. Vedic Experience, pg. 260
Brahman is the priest, Brahman the sacrifice; by Brahman the posts are
erected. From Brahman the officiating priest was born; in Brahman is
concealed the oblation.
Atharva Veda Samhita 19.42.1. Vedic Experience, pg. 360
Peaceful for us be the planets and the moon, peaceful the sun and rahu.
Atharva Veda Samhita 19.9.10. Gods, Sages and Kings, Vedic Secrets of
Ancient Civilizations, 161
Peace be to the earth and to airy spaces! Peace be to heaven, peace to
the waters, peace to the plants and peace to the trees! May all the Gods
grant to me peace! By this invocation of peace may peace be diffused!
Atharva Veda Samhita 19.9.14. Vedic Experience, pg. 306
To you, O Lord, the Priest, beloved of all men, we bring our praise with
reverence. Keep watch over our children and ourselves, we pray. Guard
both our lives and our cattle.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.15.7. Vedic Experience, pg. 295
Thus steadfast and firm as a horse, we shall offer our praises,
Omniscient Lord, forever. Replete with food and with riches, being close
to you always, may we never suffer reverses!
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.15.8. Vedic Experience, pg. 295
That splendor that resides in an elephant, in a king, among men, or
within the waters, with which the Gods in the beginning came to Godhood,
with that same splendor make me splendid, O Lord.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.22.3. Vedic Experience, pg. 344
Of one heart and mind I make you, devoid of hate. Love one another as a
cow loves the calf she has borne. Let the son be courteous to his
father, of one mind with his mother. Let the wife speak words that are
gentle and sweet to her husband.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.30.1 Vedic Experience, pg. 857
Never may brother hate brother or sister hurt sister. United in heart
and in purpose, commune sweetly together.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.30.3. Vedic Experience, pg. 857
I will utter a prayer for such concord among family members as binds
together the Gods, among whom is no hatred.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.30.4. Vedic Experience, pg. 857
Be courteous, planning and working in harness together. Approach,
conversing pleasantly, like-minded, united.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.30.5. Vedic Experience, pg. 857
Have your eating and drinking in common. I bind you together. Assemble
for worship of the Lord, like spokes around a hub.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.30.6. Vedic Experience, pg. 857
Of one mind and one purpose I make you, following one leader. Be like
the Gods, ever deathless! Never stop loving.
Atharva Veda Samhita 3.30.7. Vedic Experience, pg. 857
Just as the luminous day is born from light, so may the radiant singers
shine far and wide! Truly, the poet's wisdom enhances the glory of the
Ordinance decreed by God, the Powerful, the Ancient.
Atharva Veda Samhita 4.1.5 Vedic Experience, pg. 105
May the forefathers of ancient days protect me in this my prayer, in
this my act, in this my priestly duty, in this my performance, in this
my thought, in this my purpose and desire, in this my calling on the
Gods! All Hail!
Atharva Veda Samhita 5.24.15. Vedic Experience, pg. 860
If we have injured space, the earth or heaven, or if we have offended
mother or father, from that may Agni, fire of the house, absolve us and
guide us safely to the world of goodness.
Atharva Veda Samhita 6.120.1. Vedic Experience, pg. 636
Sin of the mind, depart far away! Why do you utter improper suggestions?
Depart from this place! I do not want you! Go to the trees and the
forests! My mind will remain here along with our homes and our cattle.
Atharva Veda Samhita 6.45.1. Vedic Experience, pg. 489
Through this oblation, which invokes prosperity, may this bridegroom
flourish anew; may he, with his manly energies, flourish the wife they
have brought to him. May he excel in strength, excel in royalty! May
this couple be inexhaustible in wealth that bestows luster a thousand
fold!
Atharva Veda Samhita 6.78.1 bo Atharva Veda Samhita, Witney, 339
Let this man be again bedewed with this presented sacrifice, and comfort
with the sap of life the bride whom they have brought to him.
Atharva Veda Samhita 6.78.1. Hymns of the Atharva Veda, 236
May this our Lord of cloudy sky, bedewed with liquid drops preserve
unequalled riches in our homes. Lord of the cloudy sky, bestow vigor and
strength on our abodes. Let wealth and treasure come to us.
Atharva Veda Samhita 6.79.1 Hymns of the Atharva Veda vol 1, 236
May the Lord of the clouds protect our stores, piled high in our homes!
May the Lord of the clouds give us vitality in our homes, granting goods
and riches!
Atharva Veda Samhita 6.79.1 Vedic Experience, pg. 274
Assemble all, with prayer to the Lord of Heaven, He is the One, the
all-pervading, the guest of men. He, the ancient of days, abides in the
present. Him, the One, the many follow on their path.
Atharva Veda Samhita 7.21. Vedic Experience, pg. 661
Sweet be the glances we exchange, our faces showing true concord.
Enshrine me in your heart and let one spirit dwell with us.
Atharva Veda Samhita 7.36. Vedic Experience, pg. 259
Let us have concord with our own people, and concord with people who are
strangers to us. Ashvins, create between us and the strangers a unity of
hearts.
Atharva Veda Samhita 7.52.1
From all knowledge, yoga practice and meditation, all that relates to
the Aum sound is to be meditated on as the only blissful (Siva). Indeed,
the Aum sound is Siva.
Atharva Veda, Arthavasika Upanishads 2. Sixty Upanishads of the Veda,
Bedekar and Palsule, 782
Meditate on the Lord as the object of meditation, for by the Lord the
whole world is set to activity. Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra and Indra have
been brought forth by Him; similarly, all faculties along with
creatures. His divine majesty has become the Cause, the Universe, the
Blissful, as the ether standing unshaken in the mid-air.
Atharva Veda, Arthavasika Upanishads 2. Sixty Upanishads of the Veda,
Bedekar and Palsule, 782
When the yogin unites his breath with OM or is united with the all in
manifold ways, it is called yoga. This oneness of breath, mind, and
senses, the renunciation of all existenceÑthis is termed yoga.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishad 11
The ascetics who have well understood the end of the Vedas have become
pure by the practice or renunciation. At the end of time they dwell in
the worlds of Braman and, having overcome death, they are all liberated.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishad 4, Vedic Experience p. 442
He is all, what has been and what shall be, eternal. Having realized
him, one overcomes death. No other path leads to liberation.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishad 9, Vedic Experience p.764
He is the Supreme Brahman, the Self of all, the chief foundation of this
world, subtler than the subtle, eternal. That thou art; thou art That.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishads 16. Thirteen Principal Upanishads, 930
Having reached the last order of life, one should sit in a solitary
place in a relaxed posture, with pure heart, with head, neck and body
straight, controlling all the sense organs, having bowed with devotion
to the master.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishads 5. Vedic Experience, pg. 442
Contemplating Him who has neither beginning, middle, nor end - the One,
the all-pervading, who is wisdom and bliss, the formless, the wonderful,
whose consort is Uma, the highest Lord, the ruler, having three eyes and
a blue throat, the peaceful - the silent sage reaches the source of Being,
the universal witness, on the other shore of darkness.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishads 7. Vedic Experience, pg. 764
By knowing Siva, the Auspicious One who is hidden in all things,
exceedingly fine, like film arising from clarified butter, the One
embracer of the universe - by realizing God, one is released from all
fetters.
Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishads 8. bo The Principal Upanishads, 928
That which is neither conscious nor unconscious, which is invisible,
impalpable, indefinable, unthinkable, unnameable, whose very essence
consists of the experience of its own self, which absorbs all diversity,
is tranquil and benign, without a second, which is what they call the
fourth state: that is the atman. This it is which should be known.
Atharva Veda, Mandukya Upanishads 7. Vedic Experience, pg. 723
Those who in penance and faith dwell in the forest, peaceful and wise,
living a mendicant's life, free from passion depart through the door of
the sun to the place of the immortal Person, the imperishable Self.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 1.2.11, Vedic Experience p. 415
Revealed and yet dwelling hidden in the cave is that which is called the
great Abode. Whatever moves and breathes and blinks is fixed therein.
Know this as being and also nonbeing, the desire of all hearts,
transcending knowledge, best beloved of every creature.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.1, Vedic Experience p. 685
Where the arteries merge like spokes in the hub of a wheel, there the
atman moves within in manifold forms. By the saying of OM meditate
upon the atman. May you succeed in crossing to the father shore of
darkness!
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.6, Vedic Experience p. 711
In the highest golden sheath is the Godhead, unsullied, indivisible;
pure is it, the Light of lights. He who knows the Self knows it. Neither
sun nor moon nor stars shine there. Neither lightning nor fire finds
there a place. With the radiance of that Light alone all things shine.
That radiance illumines all this world.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.9 Vedic Experience p. 335
Whatever world the man of purified mind desires, whatever desires he
wishes to fulfill, all these he attains. Therefore, let whoever is
desirous of property worship the man of Self-realization.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.10, Essays on Hinduism p.178
Truth alone conquers, not untruth. By truth is laid out the path leading
to the Gods by which the rishis who have their desires fulfilled travel
to where is that supreme abode of truth.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6
Eye cannot see him, nor words reveal him; by the senses, austerity, or
works he is not known. When the mind is cleansed by the grace of wisdom,
he is seen by contemplation - the One without parts.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.8, Vedic Experience p. 667
Firmly established in the Vedantic wisdom through the yoga of
renunciation, their consciousness purified, these seers at the end of
time achieve immortality and liberation in the world of Brahman.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.6, Essays on Hinduism p. 182
As a spider spins and withdraws its web, as herbs grow on the earth, as
hair grows on the head and body of a person, so also from the
Imperishable arises this universe.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishads 1.1.7. bo The Principal Upanishads, 673
The rites of oblation, O lovers of truth, which the sages divined from
the sacred verses, were variously expounded in the threefold Veda.
Perform them with constant care. This is your path to the world of holy
action.
Atharva Veda, Mundaka Upanishads 1.2.1. Vedic Experience, pg. 414