Vedic Verses for 7/22/18

May this word of Truth guard me on all sides, while earth and heaven and days endure. To its rest goes all else that moves, but never do the waters cease flowing or the sun rising.

Rig Veda X, 37, 2

From ancient days no godless man obstructs your path when you drive the winged sun-horse. Your one dark side is turned eastward; with the other, the light-filled side, you arise, O Sun.

Rig Veda X, 37, 3

And verily this Self is the Ruler of all beings, the King of all beings. Just as all the spokes are fixed in the nave and the felloe of a chariot wheel, so are all beings, all gods, all worlds, all organs, and all these individual creatures fixed in this Self.

Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad II, V-The Interdependence of Created Objects, 15

This, verily, is the honey (madhu-doctrine) which Dadhyach, versed in the Atharva-Veda, taught the Asvins. The Mantra (rishi) perceived this and said: He (the Lord) made bodies with two feet; He made bodies with four feet. Having first become a bird (the subtle body), He, the Supreme Person, entered the bodies. On account of His dwelling in all bodies (pur), He is called the Person (Purusha). There is nothing that is not covered by Him, nothing that is not pervaded by Him.

Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad II, V-The Interdependence of Created Objects, 18

The deadly disease that invades the thighs and reaches also to the groin, disease that spreads from the inner parts, expel we by our prayer.

Atharva Veda IX, 8, 7

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