Atharva Veda · 186 of 724

HYMN XVIII

A charm to banish jealousy 1. The first approach of Jealousy, and that which followeth the    first,   The pain, the fire that burns within thy heart we quench and    drive away. 2. Even as the earth is dead to sense, yea, more unconscious than    the dead,   Even as a corpse’s spirit is the spirit of the jealous man. 3. The thought that harbours in thy heart, the fluttering doubt    that dwells therein.   Yea, all thy jealousy, like heat born of the dance, I banish    thence.