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...
act assigned designed duty enjoys lord remember
Remember that the whole thing is just a play and the Lord has assigned to you a part; act well your part; there all your duty ends. He has designed the play and He enjoys it.
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Please, God, give me the Support of Your Hand; lift me up and pull me out of this pit, O Lord of the World.
clever dark deep lift lord please seek tricks
Please be kind and compassionate, O Lord of my life; I am helpless, and I seek Your Sanctuary, God. Please, give me Your Hand, and lift me up, out of the deep dark pit. I have no clever tricks at all.
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Wherever I look, there You are; I am totally convinced of this. Unto whom should I pray? The Lord Himself hears all.
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Such is my love for the Lord of the Universe; through perfect good destiny, I have been united with Him.
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My mind yearns to behold the Lord in meditation. I think of Him, I hope and thirst for Him, day and night; is there any Saint who may bring Him near me?
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When they are out and about, they keep Him enshrined in their hearts; returning home, the Lord of the Universe is still with them.
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The Perfect Lord is All-pervading everywhere; He destroys the poison of Maya. I am rid of the three-phased Maya, dwelling in the Pure Lord.
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HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must elevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.
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Those, unto whom You give Your consolation, God - pain does not even approach them. Says Nanak, I have found that Guru, who has shown me the Perfect, Supreme Lord God. This human body is so difficult to obtain; it is only obtained by great good fortune.
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You have wasted the precious jewel of this human life; you do not know the Way of the Lord of the Universe.
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Bring hither by thy shouts, O lord of wealth, the suitor, bend his mind towards her; turn thou the right side of every agreeable suitor towards (her)!
becomes lord sanctuary seek treasure
When selfishness is gone, then one becomes the Lord Himself; seek the Sanctuary of the treasure of mercy.
beings controls deliver lord shall speak
We speak to being, to the lord of being, and also to him that controls the beings; to the beings all assembled, they shall deliver us from calamity!