Veda Chanting

O Goddess Saraswathi, who is present everywhere, the one who bestows the best please grace us with your presence. With your grace let our thoughts be focused on spiritual matters and not on useless and wasteful discussions that we have been indulging in so far. May our children too be led to this path.

O Goddess, When your grace falls on a person, be become a man of knowledge and is liberated, henceforth, a knower of Brahman. O Devi, bestow on us true wealth and prosperity.

May Indra, Aswins and Goddess Saraswathi grant me a discerning intellect.

Grant me the same intellect as the light-being and the mind of the custodians of knowledge. Grant me the cosmic intellect that manifested as the Vedic knowledge with its sweet frangrance.

O Medha, grant me the inner wisdom to understand the true nature of all things in the universe. Let your radiance spread like glittering gold. O Devi, with your radiant face you nurtured me with milk and honey and enfolded me with safety and fame.

O Agni, grant me the intellect, creativity, effulgence and controlled senses arising from the chanting of the Vedas. O Surya, grant me the intellect and creativity to frighten my enemies.

Rishi: Atharvaa

With this plant that is feared and hated by evil forces removes all curses and washes it away, like water. It is of divine birth. All the curses have no effect including those by enemies, sisters and those by wise men in their anger. Its roots are in heaven and it protects us with its thousand branches with its height on earth. O divine plant, protect our wealth and children from harm. Let the miserly and enemies have no control over us. Those with the evil eye will have their backs broken, Let us have satsang with the kind-hearted. Let the curses return to those who curse.

Rishi: Shaunaka

O Agni, let the fire of intent increase with the passing of seasons, time. Good company and truth increase you. Lend your support to all the four regions from your heavenly abode.

O Agni, with your fire of enquiry kindled in the person there is only increase. The path to bliss is set. May only those who follow your path come to no harm and be victorious.

O Agni, those seekers of Brahman adore you. May you delight in our battles and conquest. You defeat our inner enemies and defeat all temptations.

With this intent reside in us constantly and with this single focus.

O Agni, none can stand in your way, you bring us together with our friends and enhance our friendship. Join hands with those with same intent and become potent in each.

Rishi: Bhrgu - Atharvana

O Indra, with lordship over the senses, enjoy the bliss from Soma. With Soma rejoice. Overwhelmed by the new experience, filled to overflowing with Soma, Let the words you speak be divine. Vrtra, is killed by Indra, our friend, a master. With soma filled enlightenment he overcomes all foes, like Brghu. Let the ecstasy of Soma, enter you, O Indra, and help us. Please hear our mantras and reside willingly here and bring the ecstasy of soma. Destroy the senses seeking mind and clear the obstruction so that the divine may flow within us.

Let the illuminating knowledge break the ignorance of the senses and allow the individual consciousness reach its ocean. The self revealed by the three fold sacrifice and soma is the result of the destruction of ignorance with light.

Rishi: Atharvaa

We wear this protective device, which keeps us strong and immune to disease and a long life filled with joy. Its strength is equal to a thousand men and protects us from all kinds of evil. It drives of evils, Vishkanda and the consumers. It is a panacea for all ills. It was given to us by the gods in our struggle against demons. Hemp and Jangidamani , one from the woods the other is cultivated. We live long lives, protected agains the evil actions and miserliness of others.

Rishi: Angiraa

Your, are an excellent remedied that I made as a cure with the protection of the glacial streams from the mountains. Spread amongst the hundred healing formulae, you protect against bleeding and diseases, O herbs. The healers delve deep to extract you to heal serious wounds. The diseases disappear. Swimmers dive into ocean depths to bring you up, to stop bleeding and make diseases leave. This is also found from the depths of the earth, it too cures bleeding and prevent diseases.

Let us experience be peaceful and happy as a direct result of the healing. Indra kills rakshasas. May Indra's aime remain true and fall on the Rakshasas.

Rishi: Maatrnaama

The divine custodians of knowledge are the lords of the worlds. All people direct their aspirations to them and they are worthy of consistent intent. You are my mantric goal and I prostrate in surrender to you. In heavens you find your audience. We pray for your grace, being the the supreme ruler of the world. We should offer ourselves only to Him. He is ever blissful, being the master of the Yajna and heaven, clothed in heavenly light. All negative forces are warded off.

He is surrounded by Light beings, who are faultless and can be found active in the ocean of consciousness.

I offer my prostrations to the heavenly Goddesses shining amongst the Zodiacal nakshatras, who are the radiance of the Knowledge beings. The light drives away the dark forces wherever they look and make the mind blissful.

"Goddess Sarasvati is manifest in man as the power of speech. All elements are indicated and subsumed in Speech. It is speech that desccribes, declares and denotes them. Through soft and sweet speech, we can transform even demonic persons into decent individuals. From words, honey drips; words are fragrant flowers; words enshrine Vedic wisdom; words can build heaven or hell. " - Baba

Sativur in his golden chariot moves thorugh the darkness acknowledges the immortal and mortal and sees the world. Fire will be our messenger, within whom the knowledge of the entire world is and who performs sacrifice understood by the gods. Let the results of the Yajna reach the one who performs it, and the omniscient lord his sacrificial share who see both 4 legged and two legged creatures.

Om my salutations to sun God with all the gods that have influence with him.

Om, Fire in the peaks of heaven, Fire the companion of Earth, Fire the progenitor of the Waters. O mother Earth, in your happiness provide a comfortable abode where we may see refuge. The body is nourished and our energies filled, when the master of our bodies are friendly and generous. Om my salutations to Mars God with all the gods that have influence with him. True knowledge is the altar for the thinking man, which accompanies him from birth to birth in earth and heavens. With the blessed woman Indrani, her consort is ever victorious and is the Supreme being offered worship in the entire universe. Om my salutations to Shukra God with all the gods that have influence with him. The Word is encased in the womb of consciousness, one foot, two feet, four feet,eight feet become nine feet. The thousand petalled is the supreme destination. O Moon, grow and unite with the fire of our offering. Your spoke the knowledge that lies in the waters and the happiness in fire. Water the medicine. Om my salutations to moon God with all the gods that have influence with him.

May the offering be the union of you O fire and the Yajna Lord. With your power, make my Father youthful and perform the sacrifice upholded by you. With three strides, Vishnu, made us dust at his feet. Vishnu is and permeates the sacrifice, may I be in union with it. Om my salutations to Budha God with all the gods that have influence with him. Oh Brahspati, Our great treasure, your power born of Truth is the radiance that shines above all others, the son of Truth.

Oh Indra, the sages of the Sacrifice, serve you eagerly, as you drink the ectstasy, along with Maruths and .Sharayat. Thus you become the heroic Brahmin. The Word first and then the Sun. His light shine on all and everywhere including the origin. Om my salutations to Brahaspathi God with all gods that have influence with him.

Water our bliss, O Goddess, be our bliss that quenches our thirst.

May we have riches beyond riches, O Creator, who pervades all that is. May the Offering of the sages, satisfy you Oh Yama, seated at the fire alongside Sage Angiras. Om my salutations to Saturn God with all the gods that have influence with him. The Power of Indra rises within us, forever increasing and brings in his wake the Siddhas. The harbinger of dawn, the knowledge, trumpets the arrival of Mother from the east proceeding to our fathers heaven. The golden chains around our neck, self imposed by Goddess Niruthi, is be unfettered, to drink the bliss of Soma. Om my salutations to Rahu God with all the gods that have influence with him.

Your birth was along with the dawn, your strength gives strength to the weak and form to the formless.

Brahma is the leader of the Sages, who are the wise like the bull among animals, the Hawk among vulture, self-control among temptations. Soma is inherited by the pure. O fire, your brilliance reveals the brilliant treasures and the luminous evolutions of the night. O Moon, may your cool words join with fire, the keeper of wealth and heroes. my salutations to Kethu God with all the gods that have influence with him.

Om my salutations to the Nine Planets and the Sun God. Om Shanthi, Om Shanthi, Om Shanthi

Rishi: Vena

Vena was one with the Supreme, The Mother born, milked that of one form. Svar loka and the Rishis offer worship.

Those who truly know it, and those who delight in it, speak to us of the Immortal, the Hidden. Three parts remain veiled, and those who experience it become the guardians of our Fathers.

He is our All knowing Father, The all knowing to the seekers of knowledge, the one who gives form to the formless and name to form, the one who gives structure and order.

Having travelled the Earth and the skies, I have come seeking refuge in my meditation on the immortal First Born Son, the original Word, hiding in speech, he stands hidden. He is Fire that supports.

Having travelled the Earth and skies, I know the universal truth, like strings that spread outward encompassing the immortal Gods universally.