Lexicon of Rig Veda

Lexicon

of Rig Veda

Cow, go, is supramental perception of the Truth that has penetrated into mental consciousness or is on its own heavenly level: we desire those yours dwelling-places, where many-horned (i.e. existing in all heavenly worlds) travelling cows go, from where, surely, that supreme great step of wide-striding Bull shines out, 1.154.6. Let us go, O seekers of the cows, to Indra – he increases well our thought. Invincible, he then would pour on us his riches – supreme intuition, cows-rays, 1.33.1. Our fathers the Angirases broke open by words, by cry firm strong place, the mountain, made the path for us from wide Heaven, have found the Day, Svar, intuition, luminous herds, 1.71.2. Like river running forward, that advanced down, cows moved in visible Svar, 1.66.10. Milch-cows are invincible on sacred grass, when they illuminate their heavenly home, 1.173.1.

This cow is our fosterer, dhenu, because it nurses the Truth in us, rises us by its sweet white milk of knowledge, well milking, sudugha, dohana. For milch-cows of the Truth, enjoying in heaven, bellowing, full-uddered, fed us, 1.73.6. So for us, O Agni, thought was fed in wide Heavens – milk cow for man, giving by itself to doer of work its hundredfold riches, 2.2.9. He, who now yokes to chariot (i.e. uses in his hymn) the cows of the Truth, the mighty ones, shining, furious, having arrows in their mouths thrown in hearts, carrying bliss, he, who of them nourishing ones, is growing, let him live, 1.84.16. Cherishing milch-cows fed up fond of wisdom-word Mamateya by that udder. Let the knowing one desire that drink of knowledges, let Aditi protect that one who illuminates by mouth, 1.152.6.

During their descend from Svar towards Earth, in its upper planes of illuminated mind, in bright mind, full of milch-cows, 1.120.9, these supramental by their nature and origin perceptions may take forms of mental movements and so be named as thoughts, but they are not thought and surpass it: thoughts led by cows, 1.90.5.