quotes from vedas

“Do not be led by others,
awaken your own mind,
amass your own experience,
and decide for yourself your own path.”
― Veda

“This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies.”
― Atharvaveda

“O Indra, destroy all
those lustful people
behaving like birds....
angry ones
behaving like wolves....
greedy ones
behaving like vultures....
enticed ones
behaving like owls.....
arrogant ones
behaivng like eagles
and the jealous ones
behaving like dogs.”
― Veda

"Through all this world strode Vishnu:
thrice his foot he planted,
and the whole world was gathered in his footsteps.
Vishnu, the guardian,
he whom none deceiveth,
made three steps and established his laws."
-the Sama Veda (8:2:5)

“One should strongly resent miserliness
and indulge in charity
because one can acquire the never-ending wealth
of immortality by doing so.”
-The Rig Veda

"Hail, Water,
ye bring health and bliss:
ye help us to energy.
That we may look on great delight!
-the Sama Veda (9:2:10

“One should performed karma for the benefit of humanity
with an unbiased approach because bias gives birth to evil,
which creates thousands of obstacles in our path. ”
The Rig Veda

One not knowing a land asks of one who knows it, he goes forward instructed by the knowing one. Such, indeed, is the blessing of instruction, one finds a path that leads him straight onward.

“One ruins the mind
if he or she indulges in bad deeds
and ends up in misery. ”
The Rig Veda

“The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness. ”
-The Rig Veda

By self dedication (Vrata) one obtains consecration (Diksha)

By consecration one obtains grace (Dakshina)

By grace one obtains reverence (Sraddha),

By reverence is Truth (satya) obtained YV.Vs 19-30

When, Lord of our prayer, the first of Speech and the foremost

The sages uttered, giving the unnamed a name,

Which was their best and their most stainless, then they

With love revealed the Divine secret in their souls RV 10-71-1

You who by the Dharma (law) has spread about

Flowering and seed bearing plants and streams of water

You who generate the matchless lightning in the sky RV 2-13-7