Hymns to the Mystic Fire

Vavri

Sukta 19

अभ्यवस्थाः प्र जायन्ते प्र वद्रेर्वव्रिश्चिकेत ।
उपस्ये मातुर्वि चष्टे ॥१॥

1) State upon state is born, covering upon covering has become

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conscious and aware, in the lap of the mother he sees.

जुहुरे वि चितयन्तोऽनिमिषं नृम्णं पान्ति ।
आ दृळ्हां पुरं विविशुः ॥२॥

2) Awaking to an entire knowledge they have called and guard a sleepless strength, they have entered the strong fortified city.

आ श्वैत्रेयस्य जन्तवो द्युमद् वर्धन्त कृष्टयः ।
निष्कग्रीवो बृहदुक्थ एना मध्वा न वाजयुः ॥३॥

3) Creatures born, men who people the earth have increased the luminosity of the son of the white mother; his neck wears the golden necklace, he has the utterance of the Vast, and with his honey-wine he is the seeker of the plenitude.

प्रियं दुग्धं न काम्यमजामि जाम्योः सचा ।
धर्मो न वाजजठरोऽदब्धः शश्वतो दभः ॥४॥

4) He is as if the delightful and desirable milk of the mother, he is that which is uncompanioned abiding with the two companions; he is the blaze of the light, and the belly of the plenitude, he is the eternal invincible and the all-conqueror.

कीळन् नो रश्म आ भुवः सं भस्मना वायुना वेविदानः ।
ता अस्य सन् धृषजो न तिग्माः सुसंशिता वक्ष्यो वक्षणेस्थाः ॥५॥

5) O Ray, mayst thou be with us and play with us, unifying thy knowledge with the shining of the breath of life; may those flames of him be for us violent and intense and keenly whetted, strong to carry and settled in the breast.