Rudra Mantras from Taittiriya Samhita ; Namaka, Chamaka, Shiva-Sankalpa, Inner Yajna and Suparna : With Text and Roman Transliteration

Language: Sanskrit Text with Transliteration and English Translation
Pages: 144

About The Book
Rudra mantras have a very important place in Vedas. They help us to manifest the power of healing and the upward evolution of the consciousness.
This commentary help the aspirants to lead a happy life overcoming the obstacles.
Introduction
About the Vedas

The Vedas was the beginning of our spiritual knowledge; the Vedas will remain its end. These composition of an unknown antiquity are as many breasts of the eternal mother of knowledge from which our succeeding age have all been fed (Sri Aurobindo)
In the Hindu tradition Vedas is a single collection of all mantras revealed to various rishis. From this source Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa compiled four collections. They are Rig Veda Mantra Samhita Yajur Vedas Mantra samhita. These four collections are mentioned by name and function is several Veda mantras such as Shukla Yajur Veda (31.9), Atharva Veda (10.7.20) etc. as the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad (2.4.10) declares all these four collection of mantras are the oral revelations of the supreme Being to the rishis.
A Veda mantra is outwardly a poetic verse. At a deeper level it is the expression of the intuition arising out of the depths of the soul of the rishi. It is the voice of the rhythm which has created the worlds and is still creating perpetually several of its aspects. A mantra is packed with the power of the askesis (tapas) of the rishi to whom it was revealed. Even a person who has earlier exposure to the veda can feel its power when a devotee chants it in the proper mode note that the verses of the poem or epics of famous poets like Kalidasa are melodious and full of aesthetic beauty but they are not mantras.
In the Hindu tradition these book are regarded as the source of all wisdom interpreted in a broad sense. These books contain the seed of the doctrine or the philosophical thought which blossomed i