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Atharva Veda Quotes

«A man can sustain himself without food for few days but he can not live without water for a single day.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: canned food, sustain
«Illumination is the purpose of life; of the recurring sequence of birth and death.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: illuminations, recurring
«WHEN the sun is over your head, there will be no shadow; similarly, when faith is steady in your head, it should not cast any shadow of doubt.»
Author: Atharva Veda
«It is only recently that India fell under the impact of alien cultures which highlighted material comfort, physical luxury, sensual liberty, and exterior display; and that Indians have trodden the wrong path of exploitation and violence, idleness and pompousness.»
«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.»
«THE river of human life meanders along, through many a valley, leaps over many a cliff, loses itself in many a marsh and seeks to empty itself in the ocean of Divine Grace; though, what happens is that it falls into the undrinkable expanse of salt.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: leaps, marshes, meanders
«At night, when you retire to sleep, feel that you are entering the green-room after the scene, but with the dress of your role on; for perhaps the role is not yet over and you have not yet been permitted to take the dress off. Perhaps, you have to make another entrance the next morning. Do not worry about that. Place yourself fully at His Disposal; He knows; He has written the play and He knows how it will end and how it will go on; Yours is but to act and retire.»
Author: Atharva Veda
«THERE are three types of persons: those, who confess their own faults and mention the excellence of others, are the highest type; those, who highlight their own excellence and decry the faults of others, are worse; those, who parade their own faults as excellence and deride the excellence in others as faults, are the worst. The last type is nowadays most rampant.»
«Some live by the shore, some live on the water; some study the Vedas.»
Author: Atharva Veda
«O Indra, destroy all those lustful people behaving like birds.... angry ones behaving like wolves.... greedy ones behaving like vultures.... enticed ones like owls..... arrogant ones like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.»

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