May there be peace on earth

[leyh 0]

May there be peace on earth,peace in the atmosphere and in the heavens.Peaceful be the waters,the herbs and plants.May the Divine bring us peace.May the holy prayers and invocations of peace-liturgies generate ultimate Peace and Happiness everywhere.With these meditations which resolve and dissolve harm,violence,and conflicts,we render peaceful whatever on earth is terrible,sinful,cruel,and violent.Let the earth become fully auspicious,let everything be beneficial to us.(Atharva Veda XIX-9)

 

 

[Tarun 6]

May there be peace on Earth and war in cyberspace. All out war!

[talasiga 0]

Rig Ved Sanghita: 10.191 - 2

 

Sam gacchadvam sam vadadhvam

sam no manaamsi jaanataam;

Devaa bhaagam yathaa poorve'

sam jaanaanaa upaasate' .

 

Together shall we walk, together talk

together our minds understand;

Thus did the gods in olden times

reach their divine ends.

 

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Dear Leyh and others,

 

I love the spell binding rhythm in this verse,

don't you?

I have put the long vowels in bold as these are the ones that take on the "metrical stress". (This is how I was taught).

 

The translation is my own adaption of one found in "Vedanta Hymns and Songs" published by Vivekananda Vedanta Society (whose address in 1972 was:

5423 S. Hyde Park Blvd.

Chicago

- I thing thats in the US)

 

sam kind wishes

from

 

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talasiga@hotmail.com

 

 

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[This message has been edited by talasiga (edited 08-24-2001).]