{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06045.htm","path":"hin/av/av06045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06045.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Sin of the Mind, avaunt! begone! Why sayest thou what none\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0should say?\n \u00a0\u00a0Go hence away, I love thee not. Go to the forests and the trees.\n \u00a0\u00a0My heart is in our homes and cows.\n 2Whatever wrong we have committed, sleeping or waking, by\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ill-wish, dislike, or slander,\n \u00a0\u00a0All these offences, which deserve displeasure, may Agni take\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from us and keep them distant.\n 3Indra and Br\u0101hmanaspati! whatever foolish deed we plan,\n \u00a0\u00a0May provident Angirasa preserve us from the sin and woe.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 45: A prayer for preservation from mental sin and evil promptings","type":"page"}