RIGVEDA

Mandala I: Sukta 89

(I)

MAY the happy (blissful) Sacrifices come to us from every­where, indomitable, invincible, upsoaring. May the Gods be there for our increase, may they never abandon us, may they protect us day after day.

(2)

May the perfect, the happy Mind of the Gods who move in the straight path, and their gifts be turned towards us. May we share the friendship of the Gods. May they carry forward our span of life.

(3)

With the ancient mantra we invoke them all – Bhaga and Mitra and Aditi and the unstumbling Daksha, Aryaman too, and Varuna and the twin Aswins. May Saraswati, Mother of bliss, create happiness for us.

(4)

That healing draught, creative of Delight, may the Wind blow over to us; may Earth the mother and Heaven the

father and also the Grinding Stones that press out soma-juice and create delight blow over the same to us. O Aswins, Masters of knowledge, listen to us, both of you.

(5)

Him, the Supreme Master, Lord of the moving and the unmoving, approachable through the understanding, we call for protection. May the Fosterer be there too to increase our realms of knowledge. May he be there for our welfare, the inviolable guardian and saviour.

(6)

May lndra of the full-grown hearing bring to us the Su­preme Welfare. May the all-knowing Fosterer also bring to us the Supreme Welfare. And the Fashioner whose cha­riot wheels move on unhurt, may he too bring to us the Supreme Welfare. And the same Supreme Welfare may Brihaspati establish in us.

(7)

Dappled steeds are the Storm-Gods and their Mothers are of dappled hue. Happy is their journey and they move from knowledge to knowledge. They have tongues of fire, thinking beings are they, sun-eyed, may all these Gods come to us for guarding us.

(8)

Happy be the hearing to our ears, happy be the seeing to our eyes. O Gods, Lords of the Sacrifice, we invoke them with all our limbs firm and steady; may we enjoy that span of life established in the Gods.

(9)

Beside us stretch a hundred autumns. They bring age to our bodies there, therein the sons become fathers. In this fleeting life-span do not be hostile to us, O Gods.

(10)

The One Mother is the heaven and the mid-space. She is the mother and the father and the son. All the Gods are Herself, Herself are the Five Peoples. The One Mother is the creature (created being) and the creatrix.

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