{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av10008.htm","path":"hin/av/av10008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av10008.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Worship to loftiest Brahma, Lord of what hath been and what\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shall be,\n \u00a0\u00a0To him who rules the universe, and heavenly light is all his own!\n 2Upheld by Skambha's power these two, the heaven and the earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stand fast.\n \u00a0\u00a0Skambha is all this world of life, whatever breathes or shuts an.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eye.\n 3Three generations have gone by and vanished and others near\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0have entered into sunlight.\n \u00a0\u00a0There stood on high he who metes out the region into green,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0plants hath passed the Golden-coloured.\n 4One is the wheel, the tires are twelve in number, the naves are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0three What man hath understood it?\n \u00a0\u00a0Three hundred spokes have thereupon been hammered, and sixty\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pins set firmly in their places. p. 28\n 5Discern thou this, O Savitar. Six are the twins, one singly born.\n \u00a0\u00a0They claim relationship in that among them which is born alone.\n 6Though manifest, it lies concealed in the vast place they call the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0old:\n \u00a0\u00a0Therein is firmly stationed all the moving, breathing universe.\n 7Up, eastward downward in the west, \u2018it rolleth, with countless\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0elements, one-wheeled, single-fellied.\n \u00a0\u00a0With half it hath begotten all creation. Where hath the other half\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0become unnoticed?\n 13In front of these the five-horsed car moves onward: side-horses,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0harnessed with the others draw it.\n \u00a0\u00a0No one hath seen its hither course untravelled; the height sees\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0it more near, the depth more distant.\n 9The bowl with mouth inclined and bottom upward holds stored\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0within it every form of glory.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thereon together sit the Seven Rishis who have become this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mighty One's protectors\n 10The Verse employed at opening and conclusion, the Verse\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0employed in each and every portion;\n \u00a0\u00a0That by which sacrifice proceedeth onward. I ask thee which is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that of all the Verses.\n 11That which hath power of motion, that which flies, or stands,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which breathes or breathes not, which, existing, shuts the eye\n \u00a0\u00a0Wearing all forms that entity upholds the earth, and in its close\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0consistence still is only one.\n 12The infinite to every side extended, the finite and the infinite\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0around us,\n \u00a0\u00a0These twain Heaven's Lord divides as he advances, knowing the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0past hereof and all the future\n 13Within the womb Praj\u0101pati is moving: he, though unseen, is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0born in sundry places.\n \u00a0\u00a0He with one half engendered all creation. What sign is there to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tell us of the other?\n 14All men behold him with the eye, but with the mind they know\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not him.\n \u00a0\u00a0Holding aloft the water as a water-bearer in her jar.\n 15With the full vase he dwells afar, is left far off what time it fails,\n \u00a0\u00a0A mighty Being in creation's centre: to him the rulers of the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0realms bring tribute. p. 29\n 16That, whence the Sun arises, that whither he goes to take his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rest,\n \u00a0\u00a0That verily I hold supreme: naught in the world surpasses it.\n 17Those who in recent times, midmost, or ancient, on all sides.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0greet the sage who knows the Veda,\n \u00a0\u00a0One and all, verily discuss \u0100ditya, the second Agni, and the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0threefold Hansa.\n 18This gold-hued Haiisa's wings, flying to heaven, spread o'er a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thousand days' continued journey.\n \u00a0\u00a0Supporting all the Gods upon his bosom, he goes his way behol-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ding every creature.\n 19By truth he blazes up aloft by Brahma, he looks down below:\n \u00a0\u00a0He breathes obliquely with his breath, he on whom what is.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0highest rests.\n 20The sage who knows the kindling-sticks whence by attrition\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wealth is drawn,\n \u00a0\u00a0Will comprehend what is most high, will know the mighty\n \u00a0\u00a0Br\u0101hmana.\n 21Footless at first was he produced, footless he brought celestial\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0light.\n \u00a0\u00a0Four-footed grown, and meet for use, he seized each thing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enjoyable.\n 22Useful will he become, and then will he consume great store of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0food\n \u00a0\u00a0The man who humbly worshippeth the eternal and victorious\n \u00a0\u00a0God.\n 23Him too they call eternal; he may become new again to-day.\n \u00a0\u00a0Day and Night reproduce themselves, each from the form the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0other wears.\n 24A hundred, thousand, myriad, yea a hundred million stores of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wealth that passes count are laid in him.\n \u00a0\u00a0This wealth they kill as he looks on, and now this God shines\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bright therefrom.\n 25One is yet finer than a hair, one is not even visible. And hence\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Deity who grasps with firmer hold is dear to me.\n 26This fair one is untouched by age, immortal in a mortal's house.\n \u00a0\u00a0He for whom she was made lies low, and he who formed her\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath grown old.\n 27Thou art a woman, and a man; thou art a damsel and a boy. p. 30\n \u00a0\u00a0Grown old thou totterest with a staff, new-born thou lookest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0every way.\n 28Either the sire or son of these, the eldest or the youngest child.\n \u00a0\u00a0As sole God dwelling in the mind, first born, he still is in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0womb.\n 29Forth from the full he lifts the full, the full he sprinkles with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the full.\n \u00a0\u00a0Now also may we know the source from which the stream is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sprinkled round.\n 30Brought forth in olden time, the everlasting, high over all that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0is was she, the Ancient.\n \u00a0\u00a0The mighty Goddess of the Morn, refulgent with one eye, looketh\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0round with one that winketh,\n 31Known by the name of Guardian Grace the Deity sits girt by\n \u00a0\u00a0Right.\n \u00a0\u00a0The trees have taken from her hue, green-garlanded, their robe\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of green.\n 32When he is near she leaves him not, she sees him not though he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0is near.\n \u00a0\u00a0Behold the wisdom of the God; he hath not died, he grows not\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0old.\n 33Voices that never were before emitted speak as fitteth them.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whither they go and speak, they say there is the mighty Br\u0101h-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mana.\n 34I ask thee where the waters' flower by wondrous magic art was\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0placed,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thereon the Gods and men are set as spokes are fastened in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nave.\n 35Who gave command unto the wind that blowet!\n \u00a0\u00a0Who ranged the five united heavenly regions?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who were the Gods who cared not for oblations!\n \u00a0\u00a0Which of them brought the sacrificial waters?\n 36One God inhabiteth the earth we live on; another hath encom-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0passed air's mid-region.\n \u00a0\u00a0One, the Supporter, takes the heaven and bears it: some keep-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing watch guard all the quarters safely.\n 37The man who knows the drawn-out string on which these crea-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tures all are strung,\n \u00a0\u00a0The man who knows the thread's thread, he may know the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mighty Br\u0101hmana. p. 31\n 38I know the drawn-out string, the thread whereon these creatures\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all are strung.\n \u00a0\u00a0I know the thread's thread also, thus I know the mighty Brah-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ma na.\n 39When Agni passed between the earth and heaven devouring with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0his flame the all-consumer,\n \u00a0\u00a0Where dwelt afar the spouses of one husband, where at that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0moment, where was M\u0101tarisvan?\n \u00a0\u00a0-40. Into the floods had M\u0101tarisvan entered, the deities had past in-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to the waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0There stood the mighty measurer of the region: into the ver-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dant plants went Pavam\u0101na.\n 41Over the G\u0101yatri, above the immortal world he strode away.\n \u00a0\u00a0Those who by Song discovered Song\u2014where did the Unborn see\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that thing?\n 42Luller to rest, and gatherer-up of treasures, Savitar like a God\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whose laws are constant, hath stood like Indra in the war for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0riches.\n 43Men versed in sacred knowledge know that living Being that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0abides.\n \u00a0\u00a0In the nine-portalled Lotus Flower, enclosed with triple bands\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and bonds.\n 44Desireless, firm, immortal, self-existent, contented with the es-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sence, lacking nothing,\n \u00a0\u00a0Free from the fear of Death is he who knoweth that Soul cou-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rageous, youthful, undecaying.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 8: Speculations on the Suprem...","type":"page"}