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.
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.
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.
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