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An absolute disgrace... trash all over Stonehenge on Midsummer

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Who knows? Perhaps Druids were doing that (or something akin to that). :)
However, thanks, World, to have appreciated the Indian gift. There were a few doing 'Surya Namaskar' on June 21 at Stonehenge.
World take to mat, bend, twist to mark inaugural Yoga Day

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Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Thorbjorn, two hymns to Ādityas from the older portion of RigVeda, two of the 28 in RigVeda (I have selected these as they are shortest):

Ādityas.
1 THROUGH the Ādityas’ most auspicious shelter, through their most recent succour may we conquer.
May they, the Mighty, giving ear, establish this sacrifice, to make us free and sinless.
2 Let Aditi rejoice and the Ādityas, Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, most righteous.
May they, the Guardians of the world, protect us, and, to show favour, drink this day our Soma.
3 All Universal Deities, the Maruts, all the Ādityas, yea, and all the Ṛibhus,
Indra, and Agni, and the Aśvins, lauded. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.
Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LI. Ādityas.

1. MAY we be free from every bond, Ādityas! a castle among Gods and men, ye Vasus.
Winning, may we win Varuṇa and Mitra, and, being, may we be, O Earth and Heaven.
2 May Varuṇa and Mitra grant this blessing, our Guardians, shelter to our seed and offspring.
Let us not suffer for another's trespass. nor do the thing that ye, O Vasus, punish.
3 The ever-prompt Aṅgirases, imploring riches from Savitar the God, obtained them.
So may our Father who is great and holy, and all the Gods, accordant, grant this favour.
Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LII. Ādityas.
 
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Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
But the most interesting is the hymn to Suryā, the spouse of Sun, Surya, which is chanted at the time of a Hindu wedding:

42 Be ye not parted; dwell ye here reach the full time of human life.
With sons and grandsons sport and play, rejoicing in your own abode.
43 So may Prajāpati bring children forth to us; may Aryaman adorn us till old age come nigh.
Not inauspicious enter thou thy husband's house: bring blessing to our bipeds and our quadrupeds.
44 Not evil-eyed, no slayer of thy husband, bring weal to cattle, radiant, gentle-hearted;
Loving the Gods, delightful, bearing heroes, bring blessing to our quadrupeds and bipeds.
45 O Bounteous Indra, make this bride blest in her sons and fortunate.
Vouchsafe to her ten sons, and make her husband the eleventh man.
46 Over thy husband's father and thy husband's mother bear full sway.
Over the sister of thy lord, over his brothers rule supreme.
47 So may the Universal Gods, so may the Waters join our hearts.
May Mātariśvan, Dhātar, and Destri together bind us close.
:D
Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN LXXXV. Sūrya's Bridal.
 
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