The Shukla Yajurveda — The Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā

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Taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey

Vedic scholar. Founder of VidyāSetu.

Curriculum

परिचय · Introduction

Welcome · The Veda Kept Clear — free to read (20 min)
What You Will Learn (20 min)
The Śānti-Mantra of This Veda · VS 36.9 (20 min)
Śukla and Kṛṣṇa · Two Streams of One Veda (20 min)
At a Glance · The Text (20 min)
How This Course Travels (20 min)

अध्यायाः १–१० · The Regular Rites

Adhyāyas 1–10 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
VS 1.1 · The First Words of This Veda (20 min)
VS 1.5 · Taking the Vow — From Untruth to Truth (20 min)
VS 2.28 · Releasing the Vow — "I Am He Who I Truly Am" (20 min)
VS 3.9 · The Agnihotra — Light Is Fire, Fire Is Light (20 min)
VS 3.60 · The Tryambaka — and Its Hidden Second Half (20 min)
Pause · How a Vedic Rite Is Shaped (20 min)
VS 4.26 · Buying the Soma (20 min)
VS 5.14 · They Yoke the Mind — the Root of Yoga (20 min)
VS 6.26 · The Stones Are Listening (20 min)
VS 8.52 · "We Have Gone to the Light" (20 min)
VS 9.23 · "May We Keep Watch in the Kingdom" (20 min)
VS 9.40 · Consecrating the King (20 min)
VS 10.24 · The Swan Seated Everywhere (20 min)

अध्यायाः ११–१८ · The Fire-Altar

Adhyāyas 11–18 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
VS 11.1 · First, Yoke the Mind (20 min)
VS 11.5 · "Let All the Sons of the Immortal Hear" (20 min)
VS 11.7 · Purify the Intention (20 min)
VS 11.57 · The Fire-Pan, Borne Like a Child (20 min)
VS 12.54 · The Brick-Laying Mantra (20 min)
Pause · What the Altar Is For (20 min)
VS 13.4 · Hiraṇyagarbha — the Golden Germ (20 min)
VS 14.11 · Make the Brick Unshakeable (20 min)
VS 15.54 · "Wake Up, Agni" (20 min)
VS 17.2 · "Let These Bricks Be Milch-Cows" — and the Great Numbers (20 min)
VS 17.67 · The Ascent from the Finished Altar (20 min)
VS 18.1 · The Vāja Litany — the Śukla Chamakam (20 min)
VS 18.29 · "We Have Become Immortal" (20 min)

अध्यायः १६ · The Śatarudriya

Adhyāya 16 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
VS 16.1 · The Hymn Begins at the Wrath (20 min)
VS 16.2 · The Form That Reveals No Evil (20 min)
VS 16.3 · "Injure Not Man, Injure Not the World" (20 min)
VS 16.4 · Addressing Him with Auspicious Speech (20 min)
Pause · White Rudram and Black Rudram (20 min)
VS 16.14 · The Weapon, the Arms, the Bow (20 min)
VS 16.15 · Harm Not the Great, Nor the Small (20 min)
VS 16.16 · Children, Cattle, Heroes (20 min)
VS 16.17 · The Litany of Salutations Begins (20 min)
VS 16.28 · Bhava, Rudra, Śarva, Paśupati (20 min)
VS 16.41 · ★ नमः शिवाय — a Verse of Its Own (20 min)
VS 16.47 · Lord of Nourishment (20 min)
VS 16.49 · The Healing Form (20 min)
VS 16.51 · Lay Down the Weapon and Come (20 min)

अध्यायाः १९–२५ · The Rite and the Realm

Adhyāyas 19–25 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
VS 19.30 · The Ladder — Vow, Consecration, Giving, Faith, Truth (20 min)
VS 20.21 · Up Out of the Darkness (20 min)
VS 20.25 · Where Knowledge and Power Walk Together (20 min)
VS 20.86 · Sarasvatī Lights Every Thought (20 min)
VS 22.22 · ★ The Prayer for the Realm (20 min)
VS 22.33 · Everything Made Whole (20 min)
Pause · The Riddles of Adhyāya 23 (20 min)
VS 23.9–10 · Who Moves Alone? (20 min)
VS 23.47–48 · What Light Equals the Sun? (20 min)
VS 23.65 · "None but You" (20 min)
VS 25.14 · Let Noble Thoughts Come from Every Side (20 min)
VS 25.21 · May We Hear What Is Auspicious (20 min)
VS 25.23 · Aditi Is All (20 min)

अध्यायाः २६–३२ · The Puruṣa and the One

Adhyāyas 26–32 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
VS 26.2 · The Veda Is Spoken to Everyone (20 min)
VS 30.3 · Drive Away Evil, Impel the Good (20 min)
VS 31.1 · ★ The Puruṣa Sūkta Opens (20 min)
VS 31.2 · The Puruṣa Is All This (20 min)
VS 31.3 · One Quarter Is All Beings (20 min)
VS 31.7 · From the Sacrifice, the Vedas Were Born (20 min)
VS 31.16 · The Gods Sacrificed to the Sacrifice (20 min)
VS 31.18 · ★ "I Know This Great Puruṣa" (20 min)
VS 31.19 · Unborn, Yet Manifoldly Born (20 min)
VS 32.1 · ★ "That Alone Is Agni" (20 min)
VS 32.2 · No One Has Grasped Him (20 min)
VS 32.3 · ★ "Of Him There Is No Likeness" (20 min)
VS 32.8 · Woven as Warp and Woof (20 min)

अध्यायाः ३३–३९ · The Mind, and the Hundred Autumns

Adhyāyas 33–39 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
VS 33.43 · Savitṛ Rides Through the Dark (20 min)
VS 34.1 · ★ The Mind That Travels Far (20 min)
VS 34.2 · The Mind by Which the Wise Act (20 min)
VS 34.3 · Knowing, Awareness, Steadiness (20 min)
VS 34.4 · Past, Present and Future Held Within (20 min)
VS 34.5 · The Hub in Which the Vedas Are Set (20 min)
VS 34.6 · The Good Charioteer (20 min)
VS 36.9 · May Mitra Be Well-Being (20 min)
VS 36.17 · Peace in Everything (20 min)
VS 36.18 · The Eye of a Friend (20 min)
VS 36.24 · ★ "May We See a Hundred Autumns" (20 min)
VS 37.2 · Yoking Mind and Insight (20 min)
VS 39.4 · May Truth of Speech Be Mine (20 min)

अध्यायः ४० · The Īśāvāsya

Adhyāya 40 · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
The Śānti · Fullness (20 min)
VS 40.1 · "Enjoy by Renouncing" (20 min)
VS 40.2 · A Hundred Years of Work (20 min)
VS 40.4 · Unmoving, Swifter Than the Mind (20 min)
VS 40.5 · Far and Near (20 min)
VS 40.6 · Seeing All Beings in the Self (20 min)
VS 40.7 · Where Then Is Grief? (20 min)
VS 40.15 · Uncover the Face of Truth (20 min)
VS 40.16 · "That Person There — I Am He" (20 min)
VS 40.18 · The Last Words of the Veda (20 min)

उपसंहार · Synthesis & Review

The Forty Adhyāyas in One View — free to read (20 min)
White and Black · What the Comparison Taught Us (20 min)
Timeless Wisdom, Modern Echoes (20 min)
Key Vocabulary (20 min)
Common Misconceptions (20 min)
Frequently Asked Questions (20 min)
Living the Śukla Yajurveda (20 min)
Reflection · What This Veda Asks (20 min)
What You Have Gained (20 min)
Closing · śānti (20 min)