550 Quotes by Atharva Veda

THE selfishness fouling your love is veiling divinity from your vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; It is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.

Those who are greedy and 'devoid of devotion' sit together and devour flesh, they definitely have an eye on other's wealth.

Gain is deposited in my right hand, victory in my left. Let me become a conqueror of cattle, horses, wealth, and gold!

Those who are greedy and avaricious end up in misery. Because of their evil deeds they are short lived.

From thy heart, thy lungs, viscera, and sides; from thy kidneys, spleen, and liver we do tear out the disease.

Those who act in egotism, selfishness and conceit die; what do they gain?

These creatures all together shall yield milk for us; do thou, O earth, give us the honey of speech!

From thy eyes, thy nostrils, ears, and chin--the disease which is seated in thy head--from thy brain and tongue I do tear it out.

The past is 'truth' because events have already happened and they can not be questioned.