Atharva Veda
Atharva Veda
The Atharvavedais the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life". The text is the fourth Veda, but has been a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism...
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Agony and anxiety have not softened his heart; adventure and achievement have not made him humble. He is proud of his advance in the path of hatred and haughtiness. He revels in cruelty and sin. He displays an unholy satisfaction in immorality and untruth. He has reduced himself to a level lower than that of beasts.
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A story from 'Last Barrier' aptly illustrates it. The Turkish Sufi Master tells his Christians devotee that every morning he sends a message of love to no one particular; whoever is ready, listens to it, responds.
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Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.
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Money comes and... goes! But morality? It comes and grows! Morality has to be grown in the heart by feeding it with Love; then only we can have justice, security, law and order.
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For a married woman, detachment from the father's clan is natural because she begins a totally new life with her husband, which is literally her second birth.
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Do not go about proclaiming that you are a sect, distinct and separate from those who adore God in other Forms and Names; thereby, you are limiting the very God whom you are extolling.
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If, what is learned is not put into practice, the student is like a cow that does not yield milk; a fruit lacking in taste, a book bereft of wisdom.
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For their own purposes, they enshrine the Lord in the heart; all pain, suffering and disease are taken away.
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Sickness afflicts those who commit sins; God Himself sits as the Judge.
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May we befriend only those who are kind and polite.
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Slowly and steadily cleanse the mind; sharpen the intellect, purify the senses, and win grace.
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My soul is embellished with knowledge and is the one which, contemplates in the minds of men... it dwells in the heart.
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Do not long after the departed, who conduct (men) afar! Ascend from the darkness, come to the light! We lay hold of thy hands.
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In thought, word and deed, seek the Support of the Lord of the Universe; thus you shall be saved from the poisonous world-ocean.