Atharva Veda Man Quotations

Man is but the Image of God. Even Nature is but an appearance of God; the reality is He alone.

MAN is flying to the Moon and diving into the Sea; but he does not know how to live on Earth with his fellow men in Love and Peace. He moves towards the Moon for fear others may reach there before him and dives through the Sea to strike terror, himself terrified of others!

Naturally, man has to seek all means of discovering the meaning of Life, for without knowing it, he is lost; he wanders from birth to birth, receiving knock after knock and is seldom the better for all the experience.

Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; it saves man from the torments of birth and death.

May the son of a noble man be victorious!

Four steps are laid down in the scriptures to help man succeed in this effort; Discrimination between the Permanent and the Impermanent; withdrawal from the process of catering to the senses; Positive control of the feelings, thoughts, and pursuits; and incessant yearning for Liberation from all bonds.

God has not made any man wholly bad or wholly good; your likes and dislikes are inducing you to label them as such.

GOD is all-powerful; God is everywhere; God is all knowing. To adore such a formidable limitless principle, man spends a few minutes out of the 24 hours and uses a minute idol, image or picture! It is indeed ridiculous; it is practically futile. Adore Him so long as you have breath and so long as you are conscious. Have no other thought than God, have no other aim than knowing His command; no other activity than translating that command into action. That is what is meant by Surrender. Surrender yourself unto Him.

Man is, they say, a monkey that has lost its tail; well, he must lose many more attributes of the monkey before he is entitled to call himself Man. He must dedicate his thought, word and deed to God and surrender to His Will. Then only is this animal entitled to become a Man in whom the Divine is enshrined.

Well, everyone will come to that conclusion sooner or later; for there is a limit to the capacity of man to control events. You may call it Destiny. Another may call it Providence; and a third, God. Names do not matter. It is the humility that matters; the wonder and the sense of awe that matters.

There is in life the tragedy of ignorance and selfishness. They force man to take the wrong road; and suffer calamity.

What little man has to accomplish must be done quickly, at the place that is assigned to him and within the time that is allotted to him. And, man has such a formidable task before him; it is to fulfill it that he has come as man, exchanging for this human habitat all the merit he has acquired during many past lives. The task is no less than the manifestation of the Divinity latent in man.

Every man should first desire to acquire maximum knowledge, to engage himself in the noblest of deeds, earn social respect, success, fame and prosperity, authority and then act accordingly in order to realize them.

THE tongue is the armour of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.

As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb, turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed!

THE span of life allotted to man is very short; the World in which he lives is very wide; time extends far behind and far beyond.

This ocean too is vast and full of mystery; it has its unplumbed depths! It tosses man about from birth to death and again from death to birth.

Pursuing petty physical beauty leads man astray; it is as calamitous as the pursuit of trivial joy.

A man is not scared of the 'Past' i.e. bygone days, no matter how bitter it might have been.

A man beaming with enthusiasm naturally accomplishes his works easily and quickly.

A man should become strong both physically and mentally, so that he could successfully meet the challenges of this world.

A man should do things which he is good doing at and go and settle in places where prospects look good for his growth and prosperity.

A man should work hard to earn wealth so that he does not have any problem in arranging things necessary for running household successfully.

Into thy womb shall enter a male germ, as an arrow into a quiver! May a man be born there, a son ten months old!

In order to accomplish his duties fearlessly, a man must take the refuge of 'Truth'.

By living in the company of learned souls a man acquires knowledge and becomes well cultured.

An enlightened man naturally engages himself in virtuous deeds.

A weak man can never achieve success in his life.

The man who can see is a scholar; the man who can walk is a person with experience.

That man is happy, who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord's Name. All the rest of the world is enticed by Maya; they do not obtain the state of fearless dignity.

Through this oblation, that causes prosperity, may this man flourish anew; may he excel the wife that they have brought to him with his sap!

This (man) shall live and shall not die, we rouse this man (to life)! I make for him a remedy, O death, do not slay the man!

THE discovery of Truth is the unique mission of man. Man is a mixture of Maya and Madhava; the Maya throws a mist which hides the Madhava.