Vedic Verses for 4/23/18

Reap, you workers, one hundred hands, garner, you workers, one thousand hands! Gather in the bounteous corn that is cut or still waits on the stalk.

Atharva Veda III, 24, 5

Three measures I apportion to the Spirits, four measures to the mistress of the house, while you I touch with the amplest measure (of all that the field has yielded).

Atharva Veda III, 24, 6

Reaper and Garnerer are your two distributors, O Lord of creation. May they convey hither an ample store of riches never decreasing!

Atharva Veda III, 24, 7

Now, the light which shines above this heaven, above all the worlds, above everything, in the highest worlds not excelled by any other worlds, that is the same light which is within man. There is this visible of this light: when we thus perceive by touch the warmth in the body. And of it we have this audible proof: when we thus hear, by covering the ears, what is like the rumbling of a carriage, or the bellowing of an ox, or the sound of a blazing fire. One should worship as Brahman that inner light which is seen and heard. He who knows becomes conspicuous and celebrated, yea, he becomes celebrated.

Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, XIII – Meditation on the Door-Keepers, 7-8

All this is Brahman. From It the universe comes forth, in It the universe merges and in It the universe breathes. Therefore a man should meditate on Brahman with a calm mind. Now, verily, a man consists of will. As he wills in this world, so does he become when he has departed hence. Let him with this knowledge in mind form his will.

Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, XIV – The Sandilya Doctrine, 1

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