Let us chant the Vedic Praise to Lakshmi, one of the sweetest in the lyric-hymnological compositions, inspired and elevating, lofty in its tone and majestic in its depiction of the divine Goddess, at the same time solid and luminous in its quantitative assertions. “Invoke for you O Agni, the Goddess Lakshmi, who shines like gold, yellow in hue, wearing gold and silver garlands, blooming like the moon, the embodiment of wealth. O Agni! Invoke for me that unfailing Lakshmi, blessed by whom, I shall win wealth, cattle, horses and men. ...”

...   more »