Vedic Verses for 8/13/18

To you, dispeller of the night, we come with daily prayer offering to you our reverence.

Rig Veda I, 1, 7

For you are Lord of sacrifice, enlightener, shepherd of the world, who wax mighty in your own abode.

Rig Veda I, 1, 8

So, like a father to his sons, be to us easy of entreaty. Stay with us, O Lord, for our joy.

Rig Veda I, 1, 9

The day is dark and also bright. These two hemispheres, thanks to their own intelligence, revolve. Once born, the Universal Lord, the Monarch, thrust back by his own light the encroaching darkness.

Rig Veda VI, 9, 1

I know not how to stretch the threads or weave or discern the pattern of those who weave in the contest. Whose son will be the one to speak so well as to surpass, advancing from below, his father?

Rig Veda VI, 9, 2

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