Atharvaveda (Sookta-Wise Translation)

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The Atharvaveda has many rituals on how to attain worldly pleasures. It has descriptions about diseases, how they can be cured, how to get rid of sins and their effectsand also tells various methods to gain wealth.

The Atharvaveda is more applicable to modern society because it is related to science, medical treatment, mathematics, engineering, industry, etc.

Atharvaveda, the fourth and the last of the Vedas, is the latest flower-offering in our Vedic bouquet. It is somewhat distinct from the other three Vedas. While the first three Vedas deal, in general, with the gods and future life of man, this latest Veda deals with the present the life of man in this world. Its chief concern is man, his practical problems, protection from the enemy, politics and his day to day welfare. However, as the research of the scholars reveal some of the hymns of Atharvaveda must have been as old as those of the first, Rigveda. Despite being of the comparatively later origin Atharvaveda deserves our highest respect and consideration. Because it contains the large number of highly philosophic hymns. Dealing explicitly with the Absolutes, Lord Supreme or Brahman. Hence, Atharvaveda is also called 'Brahmaveda.' This may be called the knowledge of the self as well. The Brahmaveda or the knowers of the Brahman know that the Absolute of the Self is ever wise, satisfied, self-existent, free from all desires, never deficient, imaging, immortal and ever young. Such persons are never afraid of death. These cosmogenic and highly philosophical hymns belong to the latest sections of this treatise on human behaviour.