Sri Aurobindo
The Secret of the Veda
with Selected Hymns
The Tenth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna
An Invocation to the Sacrifice
[The Rishi invokes Mitra and Varuna to the Soma offering as destroyers of the enemy and greateners of our being and as helpers of our thoughts by their mastery and wisdom.]
5.71.1
आ नो॑ गन्तं रिशादसा॒ वरु॑ण॒ मित्र॑ ब॒र्हणा॑ ।
उपे॒मं चारु॑मध्व॒रम् ॥१॥
ā naḥ gantam riśādasā varuṇa mitra barhaṇā
upa imam cārum adhvaram
O destroyers of the Enemy, come with your greatenings,1 O Varuna, O Mitra, to this our delightful sacrifice.
5.71.2
विश्व॑स्य॒ हि प्र॑चेतसा॒ वरु॑ण॒ मित्र॒ राज॑थः ।
ई॒शा॒ना पि॑प्यतं॒ धियः॑ ॥२॥
viśvasya hi pra-cetasā varuṇa mitra rājathaḥ
īśānā pipyatam dhiyaḥ
O Varuna, O Mitra, you govern every man and are the wise thinkers; you are the rulers, nourish our thoughts.
5.71.3
उप॑ नः सु॒तमा ग॑तं॒ वरु॑ण॒ मित्र॑ दा॒शुषः॑ ।
अ॒स्य सोम॑स्य पी॒तये॑ ॥३॥
upa naḥ sutam ā gatam varuṇa mitra dāśuṣaḥ
asya somasya pītaye
Come, O Varuna, O Mitra, to our Soma offering, to the sacrifice of the giver, that you may drink of this wine.
1 By destroying the enemy, the hurters, who pervert and diminish our being, will and knowledge, they increase in us the largenesses proper to the “vast Truth”. When they govern, the control of the Dasyus is removed and the knowledge of the Truth increases in our thoughts.