Wisdom of the Ancient Seers: Mantras of the Rig Veda

Contents
Foreword by Subhash Yak
Preface
I. Introduction
     1. The Rig Veda The Book of Mantra
          The Rig Veda
          The Golden Age
          The Solar-Dawn Religion of Enlightenment
          The Aryan Seers
          The Gods
          Gods and Goddesses
          Mantric Language
          Method of Translation
     2. Chants to Heaven and Earth and Chants to the Dawn
          Resplendent with Clarity VI.70
          Hymns to the Dawn Ushas
          Goddess Human in Mortals VII.75
          The Birth of the Eye of the Gods VII.76
          The Guiding Goddess of the Days VII.77
          The Beneficent Daughter of Heaven VII.78
          The Path-Goddess of Men VII.79
          A New Eon of Life VII.80
II. The Fourfold Godhead
     3. Agni Consciousness-Force the Sacred Fire 71
          An Ocean of Oneness X.5
          This Immortal Light in Mortals VI.9 Seer — Barhaspatya Bharadvaja
          The Foremost Station of the Bird III.5 Seer — Gathina Vishvamitra
          The Knower of All Births m.l Seer — Gathina Vishvamitra
          The Cosmic Victory of our Ancient Fathers
          IV.1 Seer—Vaniadeva Gautama
          IV.2 Seer — Vamadeva Gautama
          The White Horse is Born in the Forefront of the Days V.l Seers — Budha and Gavishthira Atreya
          The Magical Invoker VI.1
          I Am the Fire 111.26
          Question the Fire I.145
          May We Have the Power to Control the Stallion 11.5
          The Power of Sacrifice in the Supreme Ether V.15
          The Universal Ruler VII.6
     4. Indra 
          Pure Being the Spiritual Man
          The Divine Warrior 111.34
          The Dragon-Slayer IV. 19
          In the Ecstasy of Soma II. 15
          I Have Been Born as the Sun VIII.6
          How to Sing the Mystic Song 1.62
          Who Slays His Own Parents V.34
          The Wielder of the Vajra 111.46
          According to His Own Will He Created Himself 111.48
          Indra Speaks as the Hawk IV26
          Generating at Once tbe Sun, Heaven and the Dawn VL30 Seer — Barhaspatya Bharadvaja
          Conscious with the Energy of Life in Every World-Age VI.36
          You Have Conquered All Births VIII.88
          You Have\'II-anscended All Existence VIII.89
     5. Surya
          Intelligence the Solar Self
          The Sun of Creation
          The Solar Self I.115
          Savitar the Sun of Transformation 1.35
          The Ancient Solar Yoga V81
          Mitra & Varuna: The Divine Friend & Lord VII.65
          Through All the Manifold Births of Men VTL62
          Flying Like a Hawk VH.63
          The Sunlight Rain of Bliss V.63
          Sons of the Infinite Mother V.69
          Varuna, the Unborn Who Upholds Heaven VIII.41
          Sailing on the Cosmic Ocean VII.88
          Mitra, the Divine Friend m.59
          Vishnu, the Pervader V1Ï.99
          
The Fostering Sun, Pushan VT.58
          The Sun-Bird X.177
          May We Be Infinite VII.
     6. Soma
           Immortal Nectar, the Bliss of Pure Perception 
          Vedic Alchemy: How to Extract the Soma Driving
          Driving Away False Thinking DL70 Seer — Renu Vaishvamitra
          Pillar of Heaven BL89
          The Being of Splendor IX.94
          The Priest of the Gods IX, 96  
          The Single Eye IX.9 
          The Cosmic Atom IX, 10  
           The Poet-Seer IX .20
          The Lord of the Mind IX.28 
          Yielding the Milk Sc Clarity of the Imperishable IX .31 
          Four Infinite Oceans of Splendor IX.33
          The Spirit Effused for the Absorption IX.37
          The Essence of the Perceptive Faculties IX.47 
          Soma as the Sun IX.54
          Into the Belly of the Tfee IX.95
          Secret Nature of the Father Sc Mother IX.75 
          The Seven-Mouthed Chants IX.I1Î 
III. The Goddess  
     7. The Goddess, the Power of the Divine Word 
          The Muse 
          The Goddess Intelligence X,ll
          The Forms of the Goddess 111.57
          The Goddess of the Waters VTL47
          Sarasvati, the Goddess of the Flowing Stream  of Inspiration VT.61
          Sita, the Goddess o f the Piowed-Up Earth IV 57
          Rodasi, Goddess of Transformed Heaven & Earth 1.167 
           Like Women in Childbirth Y61 
IV. Appendices 
     Glossary of Terms 
     Key to Translation of Vedic Terms 
     Bibliography 
     Index