The Krishna Yajurveda — The Taittirīya Saṃhitā

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Taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey

Vedic scholar. Founder of VidyāSetu.

Curriculum

परिचय · Introduction

Welcome · The Veda of the Sacred Act — free to read (20 min)
What You Will Learn (20 min)
The Taittirīya Peace Invocation · śānti-mantra (20 min)
Kṛṣṇa and Śukla · Two Streams of One Veda (20 min)
At a Glance · The Text (20 min)
How to Travel This Course (20 min)

काण्डम् १ · Kāṇḍa 1 — The Veda Begins

Kāṇḍa 1 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
1.1.1 · The First Words of the Yajurveda (20 min)
1.1.1 · Blessing the Cows (20 min)
1.1.2 · The Sacred Grass (20 min)
1.1.4 · In the Impulsion of Savitṛ (20 min)
1.1.9 · Who Really Performs the Act (20 min)
Pause · How a Vedic Rite Is Built (20 min)
1.8.3 · The Great Confession (20 min)
1.8.5 · Calling the Mind Back (20 min)
1.8.5 · If We Have Injured the Worlds (20 min)
1.8.6 · "Rudra Is One Alone" (20 min)
1.8.6 · The Tryambaka — the Mahā-mṛtyuñjaya (20 min)
1.8.15 · The Swan Seated Everywhere (20 min)

काण्डम् २ · Kāṇḍa 2 — Prayers of Desire

Kāṇḍa 2 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
2.1.11 · Indra in the Thick of It (20 min)
2.1.11 · Each God with His Own Troop (20 min)
2.1.11 · Sinlessness and Unboundedness (20 min)
2.1.11 · "Hear This Call of Mine" (20 min)
2.1.11 · "Do Not Steal Away Our Life" (20 min)
2.2.12 · Savitṛ of the Golden Hand (20 min)
2.2.12 · "The Good Today, the Good Tomorrow" (20 min)
Pause · The Deities of the Saṃhitā (20 min)
2.3.14 · The Gaṇapati Invocation (20 min)
2.3.14 · Agni and Soma, the Paired Gods (20 min)
2.3.14 · Soma the Guardian (20 min)
2.4.14 · The Eye of the Gods (20 min)
2.4.14 · The All-Gods Called to the Grass (20 min)
2.5.12 · The Two Sovereigns (20 min)

काण्डम् ३ · Kāṇḍa 3 — Repair, Sweetness, and Debt

Kāṇḍa 3 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
3.1.8 · The Spilled Drop (20 min)
3.1.9 · The Morning Pressing (20 min)
3.1.9 · Rudra's Share (20 min)
3.3.1 · "In Me Place Wisdom" (20 min)
3.3.2 · The Vow of Honeyed Speech (20 min)
3.3.8 · Agni, Giver of Life (20 min)
3.3.8 · Free of Debt (20 min)
Pause · What "Expiation" Means in the Veda (20 min)
3.4.5 · Each God, His Own Domain (20 min)
3.4.10 · Lord of the Dwelling (20 min)
3.5.6 · Loosing Varuṇa's Noose (20 min)

काण्डम् ४ · Kāṇḍa 4 — The Fire-Altar, the Rudram, the Chamakam

Kāṇḍa 4 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
4.1.1 · First, Yoke the Mind (20 min)
4.1.1 · "Impel the Sacrifice; Purify Our Intention" (20 min)
4.1.5 · Āpo Hi Ṣṭhā — the Waters (20 min)
The Śrī Rudram · What You Are About to Read (20 min)
4.5.1 · The Rudram Begins (20 min)
4.5.1 · "With These, Show Us Mercy" (20 min)
4.5.1 · The Face That Reveals No Evil (20 min)
4.5.5 · The Litany of Names (20 min)
4.5.8 · ★ Namaḥ Śivāya — the First Time (20 min)
4.5.10 · Harm Not Our Own (20 min)
4.5.10 · The Healing Form (20 min)
The Chamakam · Now, the Asking (20 min)
4.7.1 · "And to Me…" (20 min)
4.7.3 · "And Peace to Me, and Joy" (20 min)
4.7.11 · And Even the Numbers (20 min)

काण्डम् ५ · Kāṇḍa 5 — Building the Fire-Altar

Kāṇḍa 5 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
5.1.11 · The Kindled Fire (20 min)
5.4.2 · "Let These Bricks Be Milk-Cows" (20 min)
5.7.2 · The Bull-Brick (20 min)
5.7.2 · The Likeness of the Year (20 min)
5.7.2 · The Light by Which the Gods Rose (20 min)
5.7.2 · A Hundred Autumns of Shelter (20 min)
5.7.2 · The Cycle of Years (20 min)
5.7.3 · The Thunderbolt Brick (20 min)
5.7.4 · The Realm-Bearing Brick (20 min)
5.7.6 · The Three Worlds Formula (20 min)
5.7.6 · Radiance Among All People (20 min)
5.7.8 · Agni Piles His Own Self (20 min)
5.7.9 · Taking Agni Into Oneself (20 min)
5.7.25 · The Cosmic Body (20 min)

काण्डम् ६ · Kāṇḍa 6 — The Soma Sacrifice Explained

Kāṇḍa 6 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
6.1.1 · "Protect My Body" (20 min)
6.1.2 · The One Complete Verse (20 min)
6.1.3 · "Do Not Injure Me" (20 min)
6.1.4 · "Keep Watch, O Agni" (20 min)
6.1.4 · The Unbroken Thread (20 min)
6.1.7 · "I Have Mounted the Eye of the Sun" (20 min)
6.1.7 · "Come Back Again" (20 min)
6.1.8 · The Drawn Line (20 min)
6.2.2 · "May I Attain the Pressing" (20 min)
6.2.11 · Digging Up the Buried Charm (20 min)
6.3.3 · "O Plant, Protect It; O Axe, Do Not Harm It" (20 min)
6.6.3 · "In the Ocean Is Thy Heart" (20 min)

काण्डम् ७ · Kāṇḍa 7 — The Year as a Sacrifice

Kāṇḍa 7 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
7.1.11 · Taking Up the Work (20 min)
7.1.11 · The Rein of Ṛta (20 min)
7.1.11 · "Thee for What Is, Thee for What Is Not" (20 min)
7.1.15 · Everything, Offered (20 min)
7.1.18 · Yoked to the Metres, Consecrated by the Seasons (20 min)
7.1.18 · Ṛta in Satya, Satya in Ṛta (20 min)
7.4.15 · "I and Thou" (20 min)
7.4.17 · "May the Wind Blow Blissfully" (20 min)
7.4.18 · The Great Riddle — Brahmodya (20 min)
7.4.18 · Who Moves Alone? (20 min)
7.4.20 · Making Light for the Lightless (20 min)
7.4.21 · The Breath Litany (20 min)

उपसंहार · Synthesis & Review

The Seven Kāṇḍas in One View — free to read (20 min)
What the Yajurveda Teaches About Action (20 min)
Timeless Wisdom, Modern Echoes (20 min)
Key Vocabulary (20 min)
Common Misconceptions (20 min)
Frequently Asked Questions (20 min)
Living the Yajurveda (20 min)
Reflection · The Veda of Doing (20 min)
What You Have Gained (20 min)
Closing · śānti (20 min)