Shanti Mantras: from The Upanishads & Veda Samhita

by Dr. R. L. Kashyap

To have a happy and blissful life, we need many facilities or powers such as the power of will, fortitude, quietude etc. Like everything else, these powers have to be nourished. In some periods of our life we feel peaceful. Later we fell that the peace has left us. The problem is that we are systematically squandering the power of peace without replenishing it. Mantras in this book help us in establishing the plenitude in us.

This collection contains a variety of mantras. We give the Sanskrit text of each mantra in Devanagari. Then we divide the mantra into several parts, give together the roman transliteration and the meaning together for each part. For the less common Sanskrit words, their corresponding translation is given in parenthesis.

Table of Contents:

1. Shanti Mantras for Integral Development
2. The Deities and their Psychological Powers
3. Upanishad Shanti Mantras
4. Shukla Yajur Veda Samhita
5. Krishna Yajur Veda (Taittiriya Samhita)
6. Rig Veda Samhita
7. Svasti Mantras
8. Bhadra Mantras
9. Atharva Veda Shanti Mantra (3.30.3)
10. Index of Mantras

About the Author:

Dr. R.L. Kashyap is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana in USA. He had his masters degree form Indian Institute of science, Bangalore and obtained Ph.D. form Harvard University. He is the recipient of many international awards. He has authored more than 350 research papers. He has guided more than 50 Ph.D. Scholars. He has written extensively on Veda. He has given the word-meaning of all the verses from the first 121 suktas of Rig Veda. He has to his credit six major books on the Veda. He is the Honorary Director of Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic culture, Bangalore.