Atharva Veda Quotes on Death & Dying (17 Quotes)

It has shone upon thee, light has arisen, darkness has departed from thee. We remove from thee death, destruction, and disease.

The noose of the Messenger of Death is around their necks they are constantly tormented by death.

It is evident that there is a differences in the death of the 'ignorant' and that of a 'knowledgeable'.

One fears death because of ignorance but when the 'flame of knowledge' is enkindled in the mind then the 'fear of death' ceases to exist.

Death is not the merciless that he is made out to be he is the friend and companion, the teacher, the kindly kinsman, who takes you into his fold and clothes you with the halo of remembrance.

The people, rulers, leaders and chiefs - none of them shall be able to remain in the world. Death is inevitable it strikes the heads of the false.

To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil messengers of death do I lead them captive.

O camel-like mind, you are so very fortunate dwell upon the jewel of spiritual wisdom. You hold in your hands the sword of the Guru's spiritual wisdom with this destroyer of death, kill the Messenger of Death.

The hypocritical and the greedy are struck down the Messenger of Death punishes them with his club. O camel-like mind, you are my breath of life rid yourself of the pollution of hypocrisy and doubt.

We should free ourselves from all debts before death so that our soul could rest in peace.

Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds it saves man from the torments of birth and death.

Those, who indulge excessively in material and sensual pleasures approach death with fear and inevitably fall prey to the wrath of death.

Befriend him, death, and pity him, may he from here arise Unharmed, with sound limbs, hearing perfectly, through old age carrying a hundred years, let him get enjoyment by himself (unaided)

All are equal in birth and in death. Differences arise only during the interval. The Emperor and the beggar are both born naked they sleep equally silently they bow out without even leaving their new address. Then how can their reality be different There can be no doubt on this score. All are basically the same.

Illumination is the purpose of life of the recurring sequence of birth and death.

THE study of the Vedas is the highest type of learning since it leads to the conquest of Death. All other studies deal with the means of living or the surroundings which you have to live they deal with earning and spending, deriving a little pleasure by this trick, escaping a little grief by that trick. The Vedas show the path to the Realm of Eternal Bliss, where there is no Birth or Death.

This (man) shall live and shall not die, we rouse this man (to life) I make for him a remedy, O death, do not slay the man