With your sturdy oxen, sharp-horned and swift, transport us safely over every danger!
Atharva Veda XIX, 50, 2
Keep far from us the thief and the stealer of cattle and him who would stealthily lead off our horses!
Atharva Veda XIX, 50, 5
When you come with your favors, O Night, well proportioned, give us our due share. Do not pass us by!
Atharva Veda XIX, 50, 6
The wind is without body; the cloud, lightning and thunder are without body. Now, as these, arising from yonder akasa and reaching the highest light, appear in their own forms, So does this serene Being, arising from this body and reaching the Highest Light, appear in His own form. In that state He is the Highest Person. There He moves about, laughing, playing, rejoicing-be it with women, chariots, or relatives, never thinking of the body into which he was born. As an animal is attached to a cart, so is the prana (i.e. the conscious self) attached to the body.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VIII, XII – The Incorporeal Self, 2-3
When the person in the eye resides in the body, he resides where the organ of sight has entered into the akasa (i.e. the pupil of the eye); the eye is the instrument of seeing. He who is aware of the thought: ’Let me smell this,’ he is the Self; the nose is the instrument of smelling. He who is aware of the thought: ’Let me speak,’ he is the Self; the tongue is the instrument of speaking. He who is aware of the thought: ’Let me hear,’ he is the Self; the ear is the instrument of hearing.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VIII, XII – The Incorporeal Self, 4
