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On Living Well, based on the Black Yajur Veda

REFLECTING ON THE VEDAS
Attain to reflections that bring help to yourself first and foremost.
- also called Taittiriya Samhita. Based on the translation by Arthur Berriedale Keith from 1914, these are highlights. And this halfway modernised version is edited by T. Kinnes

Books (kandas) and chapters (prapathakas):

Book 1: Ch. 1 ¤ 2 ¤
More is under way.

Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed throughout:

Kanda 1:

Prapathaka 1

1.1.1

Food gives strength.

Try to get full of strength through milk.

Let no thief and evil worker have control over you.

Protect your cattle well.

1.1.2

You are impelled by (old) gods.

Divine straw, rise with a hundred shoots.

1.1.5

There is a filter that has no flaw.

Let the rays of the bright sun purify you.

May we be victorious in contest.

1.1.7

Make expiration firm, make inspiration firm.

1.1.9

You are broad, and wealthy are you.

1.1.10

As wife with my husband I am united. / United be my spirit with my body.

1.1.13

With elevation he has lifted me up.

Guard me from bondage, from evil food, from ill deed.

1.1.14

May Pusan further our every prayer.

Prapathaka 2

1.2.2

Every man prays for wealth, let him choose glory that he may prosper.

1.2.3

Let us rejoice in fullness of wealth, in sustenance.

1.2.4

I have mounted the eye of the sun.

The ancient yoga talks of a pranic eye between the eyebrows and calls it the third eye etc. To this day methods are handed over for seeing it (jyoti mudra).

1.2.5

May I not be separated from abundance of wealth.

1.2.7

With us be the gold.

1.2.8

He has placed strength in horses, milk in kine; has set skill in the heart.

Not only horses are strong, not only cows produce milk; in fact, all kinds of mammal mothers do: rabbits, goats, sheep, horses, females, and so on. There is no reason to get "culturally limited" of outlook.

1.2.9

Let not the evil-working wolves (find) you.

Who are the howling and preying and blood-thirsty wolves? You know someone who takes to yelling and heeds lamb's blood very much? She might tell, or maybe not -

We have reached the path which leads to bliss, without a foe, whereby a man defeats all his foes and wins wealth.