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Rigveda – Mandala 1, Sukta – 69 & 70

7/31/2026

We shall discuss the hymns, Sukta wise & Mandala wise. Our focus is on the implicit meaning of the various hymns instead of literal translations of the hymns. These purported meanings are based primarily on the English translations by Swami Dharmanand Saraswati of the works done by Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

Highlights –
The hymn wise, purported explanations –
One gains wisdom only by learning meticulously from learned & truthful person and after gaining the wisdom only he enjoys happiness. Such persons are benevolent to all. 7. All men should behave as a learned person true in mind, word and deed perform benevolent acts without prejudice or partiality.

A man being master of his senses should worship God who pervades or possesses all pure attributes and acts. He should also respect a man who is endowed with good attributes and actions. Without this, a man cannot make his birth as human being fruitful.

Men should know that there is nothing that is not. pervaded by the conscious Supreme Being or God. The soul cannot remain even for a moment without doing an act or getting its fruit. Therefore, a man should always engage himself in doing righteous deeds by giving up all evils.

Men should adore only that God who being the universal Spirit pervading all and through the Vedas gives instructions to all and they should have communion with Him.

Mandala 1 – Sukta – 69

No one becomes learned without being a good student. None can enjoy great happiness without the knowledge and practical application of the science of electricity and other substances.
That man should be served by all who like the lustre of the sun, the Dawn's lover or extinguisher is pure, virile, splendid, bright and illuminator of all by his knowledge. Being himself full of wisdom, he fills the earth and the heaven with the light of knowledge. He being endowed with intelligence and the power of action although the son or disciple of a highly learned truthful person becomes their teacher revered as illustrious father.
As the udder of the cows and a learned wiseman are benevolent to all, in the same manner, the President of the assembly sitting in the assembly etc. and others should give joy and happiness to all.
That man should be always served or respected by all who being wise, humble and discriminating is well-versed in all sciences, is Illuminator of all knowledge like the fire, is like the udder of the cows which gives sweetness to the milk, eater of nourishing food who diffuses happiness like a benevolent person, amongst mankind. He like a bliss-giver to be invited by men, sits gracious in the middle of the house or an assembly like Agni or leader.
Men should know that they cannot enjoy all happiness without right knowledge and association with learned persons.
O man, you should also serve and respect a leader who diffuses happiness in a dwelling like a delightful lovely son who overcomes adversaries like a pleasing strong steed in the battlefield and takes men across all misery, who living among men makes them divine.
All men should behave as God or a learned person true in mind, word and deed perform benevolent acts without prejudice or partiality.
O learned person, none can violate or break these holy vows and laws when you men and utters good words of instruction and advice. This is thy most admirable action that with the cooperation of thy comrades, you smite down all wicked foes.
Men should always enjoy happiness in all true dealings by giving up all evils and taking shelter in God and a man who is illuminator of all sciences like the sun, burner of all misery like the fire.
(1) In the case of God.... God is Refulgent like the sun, Omniscient and Omnipresent. All men should get His knowledge. He is the Giver of Knowledge to the soul. Learned persons enjoying happiness in their souls should drive away all evils and should glorify the Charming God. (2) In the case of a learned person. A learned person should be full of splendour like the sun, the destroyer of misery. He should know the feelings or conditions of all subjects. The people should bow before such a great person who is worth-seeing obeying his commands. They should open their doors to welcome him.

Mandala 1 – Sukta – 70

A man being master of his senses should worship God who pervades or possesses all pure attributes and acts. He should also respect a man who is endowed with good attributes and actions. Without this, a man cannot make his birth as human being fruitful.
(1) In case of God. We meditate upon God who is Refulgent and being the Lord of the world is Omniscient. By His wisdom, He knows all the subjects whether old or new, all the divine cows and acts which regulate the birth of the human race. (2) We serve and honour a learned person who is full of the light of wisdom and knows all the subjects whether old or new, all divine vows and acts which regulate the birth of the human race.
Men should know that there is nothing that is not. pervaded by the conscious Supreme Being or God. The soul cannot remain even for a moment without doing an act or getting its fruit. Therefore, a man should always engage himself in doing righteous deeds by giving up all evils.
Let us worship God who is adorable and within the waters and Pranas, within forests and rays of the sun and the moon, within all movable and immovable things within the mountains and within the mansions being Omnipresent. He is perfect, Immortal Lord of the subjects, performing always noble deeds like the creation and preservation of the world and Omniscient. He is the controller of all objects.
Men should adore only that God who being the universal Spirit pervading all and through the Vedas gives instructions to all and they should have communion with Him.
(1) God, who is at the Giver of knowledge to all through these hymns is the Destroyer of the night of ignorance as fire is of the dark night. His gives much wealth to His devotees. O God! protect all these many creatures on earth as you being Omniscient, Know the origin of the divine virtues and enlightened persons and ordinary men. (2) O wise learned man, you also give instructions to all through these Vedic hymns and destroy the night of nescience. Knowing the nature of all divine virtues and enlightened and ordinary mort.ls, you should protect all.
Men should always worship God who is the Creator of the whole world, without whom, the world cannot come into being They should also know the nature of the soul without whose exertion, happiness cannot be attained. Only such person should be served who is true in mind, word and deed.
God who is adored by power are manifested by the dawns and nights, trees and all other objects of the beautiful world, born out of the eternal Primordial Matter, is ever established in Bliss, is the Giver of happiness. It is He who performs all True acts of creation, sustenance and dissolution.
O men, you must serve and adore God with your mind, body and wealth (by obeying His commands to do good to all beings) who has created all non-eternal objects or effects from the eternal cause-Primordial Matter and has established in them touch and other attributes, in whose creation all souls are heirs as the sons of their father, and who is the Giver of all happiness to all.
O God Supporter and Nourisher of the world, you who art protector and giver of all things, confers preserving power in the cattle and the earth etc. You create the sun and establish excellence in the rays. In this way, you uphold and preserves us. Therefore, all leaders worship and serve you as the sons serve their father from whom they get knowledge and wealth.
You should know that there is no king except God or a righteous learned president of the Assembly who is destroyer of enemies, punisher of the evil-doers and augmenter of happiness. Knowing this, you should always multiply noble deeds done for the good of others.

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Rigveda – Mandala 1, Sukta – 67 & 68

7/24/2026

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We shall discuss the hymns, Sukta wise & Mandala wise. Our focus is on the implicit meaning of the various hymns instead of literal translations of the hymns. These purported meanings are based primarily on the English translations by Swami Dharmanand Saraswati of the works done by Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

Highlights –
One should always enjoy the company of learned and noble persons. Vedic mantras and scientific knowledge sharpen minds and enlightens them. Meditating on God is important as he illuminates the soul, gives desirable objects and protects us. He gives lifeforce by the practice of pranayama.

Men cannot get secular and spiritual happiness without the communion with God and obeying His Commands. The learned virtuous and renowned persons by the performance of the righteous austerities and by other virtues, attain divinity. They attain afterwards Truth and immortality. None can be happy without possessing self-control and other virtues.

The hymn wise, purported explanations –

Mandala 1 – Sukta – 67

Men should enjoy bliss by associating themselves with the learned persons.
O man, you should always serve a learned leader who is like a conqueror of desirable good objects, who is like a King who chooses an efficient able young man as his adviser or helper, who is kind friend among men, who is auspicious or beneficent like a Sadhu (noble person true in mind, word and deed) is doer of good like a nan of good intellect and actions, good upholder of noble things, prosperous as a performer of good works, kind giver of happiness, conveyor of various objects that are worth taking and giving and propitious.
Those leaders enjoy infinite bliss who being endowed with intellect and actions know with wisdom the Vedic Mantras which sharpen or enlighten various sciences and glorify them, who act as a liberal donor giving to deserving persons, all wealth that he has in hand or as God who being seated in the cave of the intellect upholds all or a learned man living in the intellect possessing all knowledge.
O men, you should always meditate upon that God only who being omnipresent is within the soul and so instructs men in what is true and what is false. They should also associate themselves with learned teachers and not with ignorant persons.
As God sustains the whole universe with His knowledge and Power, as a dear friend causes good happiness to his friend by dis-severing the bond of misery, as God in the form of Antaryami or Indwelling Universal spirit illuminates the soul, by maintaining them, in the same manner, the President of the Assembly maintains or upholds the state by true justice and the Sun upholds the world by attraction and other attributes
O learned persons, as un-born eternal God sustains the earth and the heaven with true Supreme wisdom and eternal Laws, gives all dear or desirable objects, protects us from the bondage of the animals being seated in the cave of our intellect and giving abstruse secret knowledge in the same manner, you should protect all people with righteousness and the observance of thy duties all thy life and be like the un-born Eternal God (in purity and benevolence etc.).
None can enjoy true happiness without the communion with God and scientific knowledge, without true knowledge and conduct.
(1) He who knows the Omniscient God present in the intellect or knowledge, who obtains the speech of absolutely the True Vedas and all those who glorify God and acquire wealth (knowledge and gold etc.), observing truthfulness and Honesty in all dealings and whom God Himself instructs (through the Vedas and Inner Voice of conscience), enjoy all happiness and delight. (2) He who knows a learned righteous person and gets the correct knowledge of water and other elements. The rest as above.
Men should enjoy happiness by adoring God who is the Antaryami or Indwelling Universal Spirit pervading and controlling all His subjects and they should utilise electricity in various works. They should get delight as learned people do when sitting at home or as brave persons after defeating their enemies in the battlefields.
(1) O men, you should adore that God well whom wise men attain as their Home (Refuge) having shown Him the highest reverence, who upholds all His subjects well according to the Law of cause and effect and whose glory is manifest in the herbs, creepers and plants etc. pervading them all, He is Omniscient and Giver of life to all to be known through the practice of Pranayama or Breath Control. (2) You should know well the properties of electricity which is present inside the herbs, plants and waters etc. and which is known by great scientists and utilised by them for various beneficial purposes.

Mandala 1 – Sukta – 68

None can accomplish spiritual and secular worldly happiness without worshipping God and without thoroughly knowing and utilising the science of electricity.
(1) The person who is sustainer of all and who makes his knowledge mature by practice and experience, worships Refulgent God. He covers (protects) inanimate and animate things that are to be He thus becomes highly respectable by learned persons among the enlightened obtained. (2) He who knows fully the attributes of the electricity that upholds all beings and is very beneficial becomes a renowned scientist among highly intelligent persons.
Men cannot get secular and spiritual happiness without the communion with God and obeying His Commands.
O God, all those learned virtuous and renowned persons by the performance of the righteous austerities (which are dry like wood) and by other virtues that lead towards Thee, lovingly try to obtain Thy Divinity and Thy famous acts. They attain afterwards Truth and immortality. Every conscious soul should also try to attain this desirable state with great effort and earnestness.
Men should know that without God, from inanimate matter nothing can be produced, nothing can stand without a support. No one can remain without any action. Those learned persons who give education and other good virtues to the people and receive knowledge from others, should be respected and not others.
Those learned persons who take shelter in God who is embodiment of Truth and gives life to all, by whom all divine virtues and knowledge are attained and do noble deeds are very fortunate. O learned persons who ever gives to thee who art a righteous man and devoted to God perfect knowledge and who ever being wise (Mahatma) gives thee good education, given to him gold and other forms of wealth.
Men should enjoy bliss constantly by being friendly to one another and by acquiring the knowledge of all sciences.
He should be the Lord of these subjects or people who is engaged in all good works and everywhere the giver of wealth of various kinds to the children of wise learned men. O learned persons, endowed with knowledge. good education, dexterity and other virtues and desiring protective vigour in your own excellent off-spring wish well of him. Learn all sciences.

None can enjoy happiness without obeying the commands of God and absolutely truthful enlightened persons. None can be happy without possessing self-control and other virtues. Therefore, men should cultivate these virtues in order to enjoy happiness.
May all those persons be always happy who hasten to obey the commands of this Agni (God and a wise learned leader) like sons obedient to the orders of a father. That man is to be served and honoured by all who possessing self-control and peace and having abundant food and materials accepts or acquires wealth with his desirable virtues and attains perfect joy and destroys his violent opponents.

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Rigveda – Mandala 1, Sukta – 64 to 66

7/3/2026

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We shall discuss the hymns, Sukta wise & Mandala wise. Our focus is on the implicit meaning of the various hymns instead of literal translations of the hymns. These purported meanings are based primarily on the English translations by Swami Dharmanand Saraswati of the works done by Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

Highlights –
Sun and winds are important for life as well as death; happiness and sorrow. Knowledge of both is necessary for material prosperity as well as spiritual progress. For spiritual and secular happiness, company of the learned people and the knowledge of the science of the air and other elements are required. Knowledge of Prana Vidya and vital energy is essential for spiritual progress. Likewise, scientific knowledge of properties of energy and air is essential for material prosperity. God can be attained with this knowledge and then enjoy perfect bliss.
Those people are always happy and long-lived who know well the means of Brahmacharya (perfect purity and self-control) and use them for the accomplishment of their works, who possess and utilises properly all necessary articles for suitable and regular diet and walk etc.

The hymn wise, purported explanations –

Mandala 1 – Sukta – 64

Men should know that whatever is the movement, force, knowledge, exertion, speech, hearing, growth, decay, hunger and thirst, it is all caused by the air. They should rightly preach the science of air to others.
As there are mighty lions, elephants and oxen in the creation of God, so are these powerful winds. As the rays of the sun purify, so do winds also. Without the sun and the winds, it is not possible to have health or disease, birth and death etc. Therefore, men should know thoroughly the attributes of both of them (the sun and winds) and should utilise them properly in their works.
Just as clouds are the basis of water, mountains are the basis of medicines etc., similarly, it should be understood that winds are the source of their union and separation, the basis of all, the cause of happiness and sorrow, and are always devoid of touch. Without these, the particles from the group of water and fire would not be able to move and stay on the earth.
Men should know the attributes of the Maruts (winds and brave soldiers mighty like them) and should enjoy pure happiness.

O men, God teaches you about the attributes of the Maruts (winds). These airs or winds make all people happy by generating lightning, by raining down water, by sprinkling earth and herbs etc. You should know all this well.
As there is the oblation of the Ghee or clarified butter in the Yajnas, as there is the well for watering the field and animals, as there is the horse for semination the mare, in the same manner, when the airs or winds are utilised with scientific knowledge, they accomplish all acts.
Men cannot make any movement, eating, riding etc. without the winds. Therefore, these winds should be properly utilised in aeroplanes, boats and steamers etc. and with the combination of fire and water quick moving vehicles should be constructed.
One should know that all strength, force, life, hearing and other faculties are mostly dependent upon the winds.
Men should know that it is the winds that are the supporters of all embodied things and means of strength, bravery, art, knowledge and other works.
Men cannot attain spiritual and secular happiness without the learned people and the knowledge of the science of the air and other elements.
Men should know well the attributes of the winds which produce rain etc. and should utilise them properly.
Men should know that no movement is possible without air, therefore they should master the science of air and accomplish all their works utilising the wind properly.
Those men who know the Prana Vidya or the science of Vital Energy, become mighty and respectable. They get over their foes and all misery and possessing elephants, horses, men, wealth and intellect they ever grow harmoniously.
Other men also should try to acquire the knowledge of the winds or the science of airs as learned scientists do.
As a virtuous extra-ordinarily wise man endowed with wisdom and labour, acquires from the winds and other elements many kinds of happiness after accomplishing many works, in the same manner, you should also acquire the knowledge of this science of air and enjoy happiness.

Mandala 1 – Sukta – 65

As men catch hold of a thief seeing his foot-marks etc. and take from him the animals and other things stolen by him, in the same manner, attain God who is within the soul as True Preceptor, the Support of all and who can be attained with knowledge and then enjoy perfect bliss.
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As by the light of the sun, all objects become visible, by the association of the learned, God is realised when a man acquires the Vedic knowledge and observes rules of Dharma (righteousness). Electricity and other substances also can be known well in this way with all their attributes and actions.
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There are few in the world who are eager to know and attain God and also utilise electricity properly after or along with that great Knowledge. As the best growth of body, mind and soul enables a man to get kingdom, rain to get good water, and as good horse and ocean are givers of much happiness, in the same manner, God and electricity lead to much delight and bliss, but a great, scholar possessing the correct knowledge of these two is rare.
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When men use the fire excited by the wind in the works of transportation and driving various vehicles and engines etc. it can accomplish many works. This is what men should know well.
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As it is not possible for anyone to accomplish various objects without the use of fire in the form of electricity, it should therefore, be used properly after knowing its science thoroughly.
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Mandala 1 – Sukta – 66

God alone is to be always adored who has created for the welfare of all beings the [fire] for the possesses many attributes and is very useful.
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Those people are always happy and long-lived who know well the means of Brahmacharya (perfect purity and self-control) and use them for the accomplishment of their works, who possess and utilises properly all necessary articles for suitable and regular diet and walk etc.
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That man can attain the prosperity of a State who is steadfast and firm like the harmony of knowledge and action, who is the cause of all happiness like an agreeable wife, who Is resplendent or bright like the sun, who is wonderful leader of the path of emancipation and who is conqueror in all battles like a brave hero.
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Men should know that a good commander of an army destroys all miseries as a well-trained army conquers the enemies and as the knowers of the science of archery destroy their adversaries by throwing upon them powerful arms.
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Those who thus adore God, enjoy happiness as cows go to their stall and rays to the sun. As a man can accomplish many works by going to the sea, in the same manner, men should get their desire fulfilled by having communion with Omnipresent God and by having correct knowledge of the science of electricity.
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