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Part I
The Mysteries of the Human Body
A Vision of Body and Spirit in the Mysterious Words of the Vedic Wisdom
A mighty child in the womb, he is called the son of the body. Rig-Veda ffl.29.2
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The treasure of heaven hidden in the secret cavern like the young of the bird, within the infinite rock. Rig-Veda, 1.130.3
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Follow the shining thread spread out across the mid-world Rig-Veda, X.53.6 ***
He has cloven wide away the darkness, even as the cleaver of beasts a skin, that he may spread out our earth under his illuminating sun. Rig-Veda, V.85.1 ***
What shall I do with that by which the nectar of immortality is not obtained?
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV.5.4
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Violent are they, yet comrades of a firm gleaming Strength.
Rig-Veda, V.52.2 ***
O master of energy they have called you as giver and never resting from meditation.
Rig-Veda, IV.31.7 ***
O Tree that keepest the delight, start apart like the womb of a mother giving birth, hear my cry and deliver me.
Rig-Veda, V.78.5
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Full of solid might is their shining energy, sharp is their outflashing light.
Rig-Veda, V.86.3 ***
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He the handsome Messenger moves between earth and heaven. Rig-Veda, ffl.3.2 ***
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O fire, when thou art Well borne by us Thou becomest The supreme growth And expansion of our being. Rig-Veda, II. 1.12 ***
When fierce strengths Our earth's pleasant growths Start away from their roots, Our earth herself trembles and vibrates and even her mountain.
Rig-Veda, V.60.2
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The horses that the Breath of Life has yoked Are yoked well. Rig-Veda, V.31.10 ***
In the streams
of its wide-flowing flood
they purify themselves
and garb themselves
with its densities,
and here
They break open the material hill.
Rig-Veda, V.52.S
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Which of you has awakened to the knowledge of this secret thing that it is the child Who gives birth to his own mothers. Rig-Veda, 1.95.4
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It spreads and assails the Black Dense. Rig-Veda, 1.92.5
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Storm about with thy car full of the Waters, let the high places and the low be equalled with each other. Rig-Veda, V.83.7
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I beheld afar in a field one shaping his weapons who was golden-tusked and pure-bright of hue; I give to him the immortal essence in several parts...
Rig-Veda, V.2.3
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Our fathers broke open the firm and strong places by their words, yea, the Angirasas broke open the hill by their cry; they made in us the path to the great heaven; they found the Day and Swar and vision and the luminous Cows. Rig-Veda, 1,71.2
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They who entered into all things that bear right fruit formed a path towards immortality; earth stood wide for them by the greatness of the Great Ones; the mother Aditi with her sons came for the upholding.
Rig-Veda, 1.72.9
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