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A masterpiece by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,  And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost

Four Vedas - Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda & Atharva Veda

The Rig Veda: Also called “The Book of Mantra” The Rig Veda is a collection of inspired songs or hymns. It is one of the oldest book in any Indo-European language. It contains the earliest form of all Sanskrit mantras that date back to 1500 B.C. - 1000 B.C.  There are some scholars who feel that the Rig Veda dates back as early as 12000 BC - 4000 B.C. The Rig-Vedic collection (samhita) of mantras consists of 1,017 hymns (suktas), covering about 10,600 stanzas, divided into eight ‘astakas’ each having eight chapters (adhayayas), which are sub-divided into  various groups. The hymns are the work of great seers called ‘rishis’. There are seven primary seers identified:    1. Atri    2. Kanwa    3. Vashistha    4. Vishwamitra    5. Jamadagni    6. Gotama and    7. Bharadwaja It is a primary source of information on the Rig Vedic civilization. The Rig Veda accounts of the Rig-Vedic civilization’s social, religious, political and economic background in de