Simplified Shukla Yajurveda - Chapter 38

 CHAPTER 38

In this chapter, there are many mantras related to wife and husband and the expectations or statements made by them at the time of engagement or marriage.

1. O learned woman, you are charitable in  behaviour.  I take you as my wife as a person with strong hands and body. 

2. O  well educated woman, come into me and my lfie. You come into me and I go into you. You give happiness and you get full happiness. Your husband gives you happiness. So  acquire husband. Acquire him (specific person).

O highly learned woman, select a learned husband. Go to him who is advanced in knowledge.

3. O woman, you become constant bestower of knowledge, a symbol of respect (turban), a protector of the family. Dedicate yourself to pleasant domestic life.

4. O girl, acquire excellence, satisfy well your parents. develop good body endowed with consciousness. Please your teachers with learning and truthful speech. Know the science of heat and energy and acquire supremacy over them.

5. O highly learned woman, you have to give milk to  the child and make him sleep. Your  husband is bringer of happiness, possessor of noble qualities, master of riches, and charitable in nature. With his support you acquire all desirable objects. Establish him in the house. Pray that you rise through him to the vast summit of prosperity.

6. O strong man, like the twentyfour syllables of the Gayatri metre, observe  celibacy for twentyfour years, i.e. marry after twenty four years, complete the education. If more vedas are being learned, ; like fortyfour syllables of Trishtup metre, observe celibacy for fortyfour years.

Grasp the hand of the beautiful bride and accept her with vow with water in hand. O husband and wife behave mutually like Pran and Apan to accomplish your tasks.

O Vasus, protect nicely the sacrifice and the sweet honey prepared by the bees. Work together well and nobly to make sun's beams bring rain

7. O husband or wife (each one saying to the other), Truly do I accept you to live with pure air, water and medicinal herbs.  I want you to be fearless,  unconquerable,  irresistible, provider of protection. I accept you for good breath. 

8. O husband or wife  (each one saying to the other), In true words,  I accept you  for the wealthy and powerful offspring. who kills miseries. Children who befriend the wise,  know the science of Sun, and  the atmosphere, and preparing and  possessing stores of provisions. I accept you for the offspring, who will be the guardian of the vedas, and the embodiment of noble virtues.

9. O husband or wife  (each one saying to the other), I, in true words do accept you for the offspring, knowing the science of electricity, lover of justice, and friend of the learned. 

10. O teacher and preacher, in this world, please taste  the remnants of this pleasant well-arranged sacrifice (yagnas etc.).  Let the priest seated in the south of the altar, accompany and worship the learned in all quarters.


11. O husband and  wife, with the verses of the Yajur veda, in a nice way, in the light of the Sun, in the fire fit for yajna, perform with pleasure, the duty of domestic life. In the light of knowledge, perform

with pleasure in the company of the learned, the  yajna,  that gives  true spiritual knowledge.

12. O well educated husband and wife, do the  daily the yajna, which broadens our mental vision, gives us scientific and technical knowledge.  Give food and show respect to the technicians who brings the Sun and atmosphere into useful service.

13. O husband and wife, protect together the domestic life like air and lightning. Like the Sun and Earth. Decide and judge together the responsibilities of the married life. In the domestic life bestow pleasure on all   using  your boons of knowledge. 

14. O husband or wife, be the recipients of truth, religious minded, and be  free from violence, Establish wealth for us, learn the veda, acquire sovereignty, and preserve the subjects. Enjoy overflow of food, enjoy overflow of  vedic knowledge and God, enjoy overflow of energy,  enjoy overflow of  power. 

15. Husband and wife should try to save  persons from irreligious acts. They should respect the pupils. They should receive gladly the thundering clouds. They should respect the highly cultured people, who purify the world with sacrifice and protect us. They should use respectful words for ladies and gentlemen dignified like the Sun and Earth. They should always speak the truth to all the learned people.

16. O husband or wife, spend the day rightly combining the light of knowledge with the light of noble
qualities.

Wisely spend the night, rightly combining the light of contemplation with the light of noble religious qualities. May we enjoy through smell the sweet butter oblations put in the highly blazing fire. 

O Supreme God, I bow to you. Do  not injure me.


17. O learned person, famous, chastiser of the wicked, majestic, possessing far-spread glory, and wise, you condemn the spread of ignorance and spread knowledge. Stay in a place  with plenty to eat. 
Be happy and be the developer of the learned. Your Homa should be good to inhale  and beautiful to see.

18. O learned husband and wife, may thy meditation and divine contemplation for preserving the knowledge of the pupils, and the provisions of the yajna increase and be ever accomplished. 

O husband or wife bright like the day, you activities in the air, with the help of electricity as expounded in Trishtup, may increase and be accomplished. 

O husband or wife, the  shining performance of yours  on the Earth, in the Assembly, or amongst the people, may increase and be accomplished. 

19. O king, guard the body of the Kshatriya and Brahmana and afford protection to others. Just as we follow you,  your subjects also should  follow you  in a spirit of devotion.

20. A godly person  serves in abundance like God, the Protector of the world.  May he, full of age and engagements teach us. May he, advanced in age and happiness instruct us in the knowledge of God, so that we may shun the hateful enemies inside our mind, and cast aside the sayings of the crooked persons.

21. O Great People and Leaders,  Be great and make others also great. Be strong, make others strong. Through your compassion, you  advance and  make others advance. Just as we grow great, let us make others great.

22. All should understand lightning-fire, the cause for rain, fast in motion, mighty, roaring, like friend from far to see us, shining with the Sun in the atmosphere. 

23. To us let waters and plants be friendly.

24. May we, looking mentally upon God, free from darkness, and nicely attain to happiness on all sides.

25. O God, shine in our souls, You are the  illuminator of knowledge, give me knowledge (light). May we progress in full, having acquired you. 

26. O God, even though  the Heaven and Earth are spread in compass,  the seven oceans are extended far and even though they are so vast, you preserve them with your indestructible power of perseverance. I meditate on you to imbibe in me your  imperishable power.

27. With lustrous fulgency, with readily serviceable riches, the yajna shines with triple light. In my soul be that great mental force, in my soul be strength, wisdom and action.

28. O virtuous happy person, you enjoyed a share of the  of the invigorating and savoury milk of the Homas and Yajnas performed for many years. Provide for us also  the bliss of drinking it year after year.    May we obtain your   wisdom and manifest strength through yajnas done under your guidance. Our soul also must receive the benefits of yajnas.

Based on Writings of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Devichand.

You can suggest modifications needed.

Simplified Shukla Yajurveda - Chapter 39

 

CHAPTER 39

1. This mantra is related to the dead body. The dead body is presented to the various divine entities. Swaha of the vital breathings with their controlling lord, the soul to  earth, To Agni, To Firmament,   To Vayu, To Sky, To Surya. 

2. To the Quarters, To the Moon,  To the Stars, To the Waters,  To the Ocean, To the Navel,  To the Purifying light. 

3. To Speech,  To Breath, To Dhananjaya Vayu,  To the right eye,  To the left eye, ! To the right ear, To the left ear. (You may even interpret it as swaha of.)

4. Prayer: may I obtain, the wishes and purposes of my mind and things happen according my speech (words) . Please bestow on me the  cattle's beauty, sweet taste of food, fame and grace,  truthful speech and virtuous conduct.

5. Worship Him alone. Paramatma, the supreme soul. He, who retains the soul called Prajapati, (the nourisher of men); the well protected soul called Samrat, (filled with lustre); the well received soul called Vaishvadeva (Connected with all meterial objects); the soul  called Dharma, (full of brilliance); the soul progressing called Teja (light); she soul well received in water called Ashwin (connected with Pran and Apan); timely received soul called Paushan (the light connected with the Earth); the violent soul called Maruta (the light connected with man's body); the soul reared in water called Maitra (connected with friendly Pran),  the attacking soul called vayavya (full of velocity like air); the soul invoked called Agneya (burning lustrous like fire), the soul recognised as bead called vak (one that commands and gives orders).

6. After death, the soul goes to the Sun on the first day ; to Agni on the second ; to Vayu on the third; to Aditya on the fourth; to Chandrama (the moon) on the fifth ; to Ritu on the sixth ; to Maruts
on the seventh ; to Brihaspati on the eighth ; to Mitra on the ninth ; to Varuna on the tenth ; to Indra on the eleventh ; to all divine, noble traits on the twelfth. ;

7. The soul after death, according to its actions becomes fierce and calm ; terrible and fearless ; ignorant and enlightened ; trembling and steadfast ; forbearing and unforbearing ; passionate and ascetic ; and a
prey to bewilderment.

8. The souls after death attain to fire with the heart ; to -lightning with the upper part of the heart ; to Pashupati with the whole heart ; to Bhava with the liver.

To Sharva with the two cardinal bones ; to Ishana with righteous indignation; to Mahadeva with the intercostal flesh ; to the Fierce God with the rectum ; to handsome chinned person, to knowable and procurable powers with two lumps of flesh near the heart.

9. Souls inside or outside the womb become virile through pure blood ; lovely through virtuous deeds ; chastisable through ignoble deeds ; supreme through pastime ; noble through spiritual force ; achievers of aims through enjoyment. Suitable place for fire is between the ribs ; for bile the liver ; for waters the rectum ; for soul the protector of bodily organs the pericardium.


10. Swaha ! (statement accompanying burning of various organs) To the hair,  To the nails,  the external skin, the internal skin ! the blood !  the heart's blood ! the fats ! all the wet parts of the body,  the external fleshy parts, the internal fleshy parts, the gross sinews, the subtle sinews,  the tough bones, the soft bones !  marrows !  internal part of the marrows ! the semen ! the anus. 

11. Take nourishing diet for physical exertion, for lofty adventure, for concerted effort, for endeavours by different organs, for enterprise, for physical and mental purity, for contemplative soul, for expounding nice ideas, and for spiritual power.

12. Exert for the performance of religious duty and  penance. Be a  Brahmchari devoted to study as a  recluse and learn from the people lustrous like the Sun. Try hard to avoid sins, expiate for them, and ward off physical ailments through medicine.

13. Honour the just ruler. Keep away Death the great Finisher. Worship God the destroyer of the wicked. Contemplate on God the Great. Try for the preservation of Vedic knowledge (truths regarding the world and Brahma). Revere all learned persons,  utilise all the forces of nature. Acquire the knowledge of Heaven (Brahma) and Earth (entire creation).

Based on Writings of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Devichand.

You can suggest modifications needed.

Simplified Shukla Yajurveda - Chapter 40

 CHAPTER XL

1.  All moving beings in the universe are enveloped by the Omnipotent God. Enjoy what God has  granted you. Do not covet  the wealth of any other man.

2. Man should wish to live for a hundred years but he has to be unselfish and has to do religious deeds in this world, . Karma done for unselfish does not attach to him. There is no other way than this for  emancipation (escaping from birth and death cycle).

3. The men engulfed in the darkness of ignorance by not listening to gurus, and those who disobey the dictates of conscience,  and are  given to carnal pleasures are sinners. They, in this life, and after death, keep getting birth in those sexual enjoyments and participate in  sexual enjoyments but these activities are covered with afflictions and they suffer. 

4. God is permanent, One, swifter than mind, beyond the reach of physical organs, speeding on before them. He has Omnipresence, The soul resides in him and performs action.

5. God  is motionless. He is far distant from the irreligious and ignorant, and near the yogis. He is within this entire universe, and also surrounds it externally.

6. The man, who sees all animate and inanimate creation in God, and God pervading all material objects, falls not a prey to doubt. Both animate creatures and inanimate objects have God within and around them.

7. A man contemplating upon God, feels in Him all beings exist like he is existing.  Such a yogi looking upon God as an unequalled One, becomes free from delusion and grief.


8. God is All pervading, Lustrous, Bodiless, Flawless, Sinewless, Pure, Unpierced by evil. He is Omniscient, Knower of the hearts of all, Censurer of the sinful, and Self-existent. He truly reveals through the vedas all things for His subjects from His immemorial attributes. He is free from birth and death.

9. People who abandon  God, fall deep into the shade of blinding gloom . Those  who are engaged in the material pleasures of the world  sink to darkness deeper.

10. One fruit results from the knowledge of this created world, the Effect. Another fruit results from the knowledge of eternal Matter, the Cause. 

11. Thie man who knows simultaneously the effect and the cause, overcoming death through the knowledge of the cause, attains to salvation through the knowledge of the effect, the created world.

12. To blinding darkness go the men who worship Nescience. Those proud of little knowledge enter darkness that is darker still.

13. Different is the fruit, they say, of knowledge and Nescience. 

14. He who simultaneously knows well these two, knowledge and Action,   gains salvation through knowledge.

15. As a soul, at the time of death, remember Om. Remember God for your vitality and your eternity,  As a person in body know that soul is immaterial and immortal but the body is finally reduced to ashes.

16. Pray to God. "O Divine, Lustrous, Benevolent God, most ample, respectful adoration do we bring to you. You are  All-Knowing. Remove from us the sin that leads us astray. Lead us through virtuous path to riches, happiness and all sorts of wisdom."

17. Om is the name for God. God is vast like the atmosphere, Greatest of all in merit, action, and nature. 

Based on Writings of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Devichand.

You can suggest modifications needed.