May happiness await you with your children! Watch over this house as mistress of the home. Unite yourself wholly with your husband. Thus authority in speech till old age will be yours. §
Ṛig Veda 10.85.27. VE, P. 255§
O Lord, lead us along the right path to prosperity. O God, you know all our deeds. Take from us our deceitful sin. To you, then, we shall offer our prayers. §
Śukla Yajur Veda, Īśa Upanishad 18. VE, P. 831 §
The spirit of man has two dwellings: this world and the world beyond. There is also a third dwelling place: the land of sleep and dreams. Resting in this borderland, the spirit of man can behold his dwelling in this world and in the other world afar; and wandering in this borderland, he beholds behind him the sorrows of this world, and in front of him he sees the joys of the beyond.§
Śukla Yajur Veda, Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upanishad, 4.3.9. UPM, 134§
To them belongs yon stainless Brahman world in whom there is no crookedness and falsehood, nor trickery.§
Atharva Veda, Praśna Upanishad 1.16. UPR, P. 380§
May this woman, Agni, find a husband, then, verily, King Soma will make her happy. May she, bearing sons, be the queen of the home, and fortunate, hold the sway, united with her husband. Even as the lair, O bounteous Ones, is a loved, charming, happy retreat of wild animals, so may this woman, Fortune’s darling, be loved by her husband, being never at variance with him. §
Atharva Veda 2.36.-4 HV, P. 125§
Righteousness [dharma] is the honey of all beings, and all beings are honey for righteousness. He who is the resplendent, immortal Person in righteousness and who, with reference to oneself, is the resplendent, immortal Person consisting of obedience to righteousness, He indeed is that which is the ātman, the immortal, Brahman, the all.§
Śukla Yajur Veda, Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upanishad 2.5.11. VE, P. 716§
When a person causes abortion in pregnancy by striking, by medicine, or by annoyance, the highest, middle and lesser punishments shall be imposed respectively.§
Kauṭiliya’s Arthaśāstra 229. KA, P. 277§
O learned people, may we with our ears listen to what is beneficial, may we see with our eyes what is beneficial. May we, engaged in your praises, enjoy with firm limbs and sound bodies, a full term of life dedicated to God.§
Ṛig Veda 1.89.8. RVP, P. 287§
They acquire a plenteous store of food; they come united to the altar. Their rewards never lessen. They do not wander from the Gods or seek to hide their favors granted. Thus they acquire great glory. With sons and daughters at their side, they live a good long span of years, both decked with precious gold. Devoted to sacrifice, gathering wealth, they serve the Immortal and honor the Gods, united in mutual love. §
Ṛig Veda 8.31.6-9. VE, P. 265§
The resplendent Self, through the ecstacy of spiritual joy, inspires all virtuous thoughts among men of divine nature.§
Ṛig Veda 8.32.28. RVP, VOL 9, P. 3,025§
Having reached the last order of life, one should sit in a solitary place in a relaxed posture, with pure heart, with head, neck and body straight, controlling all the sense organs, having bowed with devotion to the master.§
Atharva Veda, Kaivālya Upanishad 5. VE, P. 442§
For a hundred autumns may we see, for a hundred autumns may we live, for a hundred autumns may we know, for a hundred autumns may we rise, for a hundred autumns may we flourish, for a hundred autumns may we be, for a hundred autumns may we become—and even more than a hundred autumns! §
Atharva Veda, 19.67. VE, P. 303§
If he should desire, “Let me be born here again,” in whatever family he directs his attention, either the family of a brahmin or the family of a king, into that he will be born. §
Sāma Veda, Jaiminīya Upanishad Brāhmaṇa, 3.28.3-4. VO, P. 115§
Pursuit of the duties of the stage of life to which each one belongs—that, verily, is the rule! Others are like branches of a stem. With this, one tends upwards; otherwise, downwards.§
Kṛishṇa Yajur Veda, Maitrī Upanishad 4.3. BO UPR, P. 810§