us with a perfect deliverance. May we in our embodyings break through the Destroyers.The Ninth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna
V.70
The Increasers of Being and Deliverers
[The Rishi desires the wide and multiple fostering of our being and its powers which Varuna and Mitra give and their complete impulsion of our strength towards the perfect foundation of the divine status. He prays to them to protect and deliver him from the Destroyers and prevent their adverse control from impairing the growth of the godhead in our various sheaths or bodies.]
5.70.1
पु॒रू॒रुणा॑ चि॒द्ध्यस्त्यवो॑ नू॒नं वां॑ वरुण ।
मित्र॒ वंसि॑ वां सुम॒तिम् ॥१॥
puru-uruṇā cit hi asti avaḥ nūnam vām varuṇa
mitra vaṃsi vām su-matim
Multiple indeed by the wideness1 is now your fostering of our being, O Varuna. O Mitra, I would enjoy your perfect-mindedness.
5.70.2
ता वां॑ स॒म्यग॑द्रुह्वा॒णेष॑मश्याम॒ धाय॑से ।
व॒यं ते रु॑द्रा स्याम ॥२॥
tā vām samyak adruhvāṇā iṣam aśyāma dhāyase
vayam te rudrā syāma
You are they who betray not to harm;2 may we enjoy your complete force of impulsion for our founding; may we be they, O you violent godheads.
5.70.3
पा॒तं नो॑ रुद्रा पा॒युभि॑रु॒त त्रा॑येथां सुत्रा॒त्रा ।
तु॒र्याम॒ दस्यू॑न्त॒नूभि॑: ॥३॥
pātam naḥ rudrā pāyubhiḥ uta trāyethām su-trātrā
turyāma dasyūn tanūbhiḥ
Protect us, O violent ones,3 with your protectings and deliver us with a perfect deliverance. May we in our embodyings break through the Destroyers.
5.70.4
मा कस्या॑द्भुतक्रतू य॒क्षं भु॑जेमा त॒नूभि॑: ।
मा शेष॑सा॒ मा तन॑सा ॥४॥
mā kasya adbhutakratū ityadbhuta-kratū yakṣam bhujema tanūbhiḥ
mā śeṣasā mā tanasā
O transcendent in will-power, let us not in our embodyings suffer the control of any,4 nor in our begetting, nor our creation.
1 The wideness of the infinite Truth-plane with the manifold wealth of its spiritual contents. Its condition is the perfection of the thought-mind and psychic mentality proper to a divine nature, which comes to man as the grace of the gods, sumati.
2 The harms of the dasyus, destroyers of our being and enemies of its divine progress, the sons of Limitation and Ignorance.
3 Rudras. Rudra is the Divine as the master of our evolution by violence and battle, smiting and destroying the Sons of Darkness and the evil they create in man. Varuna and Mitra as helpers in the upward struggle against the dasyus assume this Rudrahood.
4 That is, any of the Destroyers.