When the soul gradually reduces and then stops altogether its participation in darkness and inauspicious powers, the Friend of the World, God, reveals to the soul the limitless character of its knowledge and activity. §
Mṛigendra Āgama, Jñāna Pāda 5.A1. MA, P. 138§
O God, grant us of boons the best: a mind to think and a smiling love, increase of wealth, a healthy body, speech that is winsome and days that are fair. §
Ṛig Veda 2.21.6. VE, P. 191§
O self-luminous Divine, remove the veil of ignorance from before me, that I may behold your light. Reveal to me the spirit of the scriptures. May the truth of the scriptures be ever present to me. May I seek day and night to realize what I learn from the sages.§
Rig Veda, Aitareya Upanishad, Invocation. UPR, P. 95§
O earthen vessel, strengthen me. May all beings regard me with friendly eyes! May I look upon all creatures with friendly eyes! With a friend’s eye may we regard each other! §
Śukla Yajur Veda 36.18. VE, P. 342§
There are five great sacrifices, namely, the great ritual services: the sacrifice to all beings, sacrifice to men, sacrifice to the ancestors, sacrifice to the Gods, sacrifice to Brahman.§
Śukla Yajur Veda, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 11.5.6.1. VE, P. 394§
The world of Brahman belongs only to those who find it by the practice of chastity and the study of Brahman. For them there is freedom in all the worlds.§
Sāma Veda, Çhāndogya Upanishad 8.4.3. VE, P. 638 §
What people call salvation is really continence, for through continence man is freed from ignorance. And what is known as the vow of silence, that too is really continence. For a man through continence realizes the Self and lives in quiet contemplation.§
Sāma Veda, Çhāndogya Upanishad 8.5.1. UPP, P. 123§
Maintaining the austerity of silence, facing east or north, having full control over the system of inhalation and exhalation and the air of prāṇa, he should recite the Pañchākshara hymn and meditate.§
Chandrajñāna Āgama, Kriyāpāda 8.54-55 CJ, P. 80 §
O Agni, since we are kindling the fire of the Spirit through tapas, may we be dear to the Veda, long-lived and bright in intellect.§
Atharva Veda 7.61.1. BO HV, P. 71§
Like butter hidden in milk, true knowledge dwells in all that lives; ever with mind as the churning rod, everyone should churn it out in himself. Using the whirling rope of knowledge, one should obtain, like fire by friction, that partless, stainless silence; “I am Brahman,” as it’s said.§
Atharva Veda, Brāhmabindu Upanishad 20–21. UPB, P. 690§
Say not, “This poor man’s hunger is a heaven-sent doom.” To the well-fed, too, comes death in many forms. Yet the wealth of the generous giver never dwindles, while he who refuses to give will evoke no pity.§
Ṛig Veda 10.117. 1. VE, P. 850§
In vain the foolish man accumulates food. I tell you, truly, it will be his downfall! He gathers to himself neither friend nor comrade. Alone he eats; alone he sits in sin. The ploughshare cleaving the soil helps satisfy hunger. The traveler, using his legs, achieves his goal. The priest who speaks surpasses the one who is silent. The friend who gives is better than the miser. §
Ṛig Veda 10.117. 6–7. VE, P. 851§
Against fear, against anger, against sloth, against too much waking, too much sleeping, against too much eating, not eating, a yogin shall always be on his guard.§
Atharva Veda, Amṛitabindu Upanishad 27. upb, p. 696§
Lightness, healthiness, steadiness, clearness of complexion, pleasantness of voice, sweetness of odor, and slight excretions—these, they say, are the first results of the progress of yoga.§
Kṛishṇa Yajur Veda, Śvetāsvatara Upanishad 2.13. UPR, P. 723§
The word Nāmaḥ should be put first, then the word Śivāya. This is called the knowledge of Pañchākshara, the greatest among the hymns of the scriptures. In short, the wisdom of Pañchākshara is the matrix of all śabda (word). This wisdom, which emanated from the mouth of Śiva, expresses the very nature of Śiva Himself.§
Chandrajñāna Āgama, Kriyāpāda 8. 5-6 CJ, P. 72-73§