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...
attending cleansing courage depend discourage grace laugh learning meanwhile mind needs others personal start work
COURAGE comes out of the grace of the Lord, it needs generations of learning and struggle. Meanwhile you must start with the first step, the cleansing of the mind and the cultivation of virtue. Even if you do not start with that step, at least do not laugh at those who do and discourage them. Do at least this much!Then, do not depend upon others for doing your work like attending to your personal wants. Do it yourself; that is real freedom.
bereft book cow fruit lacking learned student yield
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.
admires challenge child cruelty future great learns money rather rise school society sympathy worship
The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land.
enjoy future learning mistakes past peace plan present
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
experience learn
Things that I could get done, I do not entrust to others; I do them myself, so that they may learn self-reliance and get experience thereby.
clever deluded learned
I am not a learned Pandit, I am not clever or wise. I do not wander; I am not deluded by doubt.
among catch challenged dare desire form gang human learn lord move officer police task
THE Lord has to take the Form that is suitable for the task He has to fulfill. To catch a gang of decadents, the Police Officer has to move among them as a decadent. That is why the Human Form has been taken. But who, challenged with impurity by their own wives, dare challenge the Avatar and ask for proof! Of course, if you desire to understand, you are welcome; be near, watch, learn and believe.
acquires becomes company knowledge learned living man souls
By living in the company of learned souls a man acquires knowledge and becomes well cultured.
duty ensure guidance keeps learned means noble people proper tribe
It is the duty of learned ones to ensure that the tribe of noble people keeps on growing. This they can do by means of proper guidance and tutelage.
birth conquest deal escaping eternal grief highest leads learning living means path pleasure realm since studies study type
THE study of the Vedas is the highest type of learning since it leads to the conquest of Death. All other studies deal with the means of living or the surroundings which you have to live; they deal with earning and spending, deriving a little pleasure by this trick, escaping a little grief by that trick. The Vedas show the path to the Realm of Eternal Bliss, where there is no Birth or Death.
bird buffalo cannot feed fly help itch learn lesson serve
Learn a lesson from the birds. They feed those who cannot fly far. The bird relieves the itch of the buffalo by scratching it with its beak; they help and serve each other with no thought of reward.
cannot god learnt seen service social society universe
THE Universe is seen; it can be learnt about; it can be experienced and enjoyed. But God is unseen. He has to be inferred through His handiwork. So too, Society to which social service is rendered, cannot be seen as such.
delusion false handicraft happiness housing hugging hypothesis leaders means people present pure skills urgent wealth
IT is urgent that every one should inquire into the true, the pure and the permanent; for there is at present a delusion about values. Even the leaders of people are hugging the false hypothesis that happiness can be had by means of wealth or health, housing or clothing, or the cultivation of skills in handicraft and manufacture.
liver tear thy
From thy heart, thy lungs, viscera, and sides; from thy kidneys, spleen, and liver we do tear out the disease.