Wednesday 2 October 2013

Rig Ved 1.88

my assumption of not calling ashvas of vedas as physical horse seems right again in RV 1.88.1 which says "COME hither, Maruts, on your lightning laden cars, sounding with sweet songs, armed with lances, winged with steeds.
Fly unto us with noblest food, like birds, O ye of mighty power."

thus winged steeds can not be physical horse, and not mere an imagination but in physical reality it must correspond to nervous action. 

marut devtas move with such a great force that they vibrate the nerves, and said to vibrate the mountains and earth, by their chariot tear the earth. 
1.88.2: "ith their red-hued or, haply, tawny coursers which speed their chariots on, they come for glory.
Brilliant like gold is he who holds the thunder. Earth have they smitten with the chariot's felly.
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1.88.3: "For beauty ye have weapon upon your bodies. As they stir woods so may they stir our spirits.
For your sake, O ye Maruts very mighty and well-born, have they set the stone, in motion."

here word 'van' meaning forest is used where wood is written in translation. it can be taken as large assembly of nerves like dense forest. as they stir it, they stir our spirit. 

1.88.4 "The days went round you and came back O yearners, back, to this prayer and to this solemn worship.
The Gotamas making their prayer with singing have pushed the well's lid up to drink the water."

marutas drink the energy flowing upwards through the spinal cord to brain, here that nerve through spinal cord must be well, lid of which is presented to marutas so that they can drink it. 

1.88.5: "5 No hymn way ever known like this aforetime which Gotama sang forth for you, O Maruts,
What time upon your golden wheels he saw you, wild boars rushing about with tusks of iron."

the last part is important here. maruts carry the weapons to strike on what, which is the enemy? the wild boars. the word is 'varaha' and as per nirukt varah means cloud. so, maruts strike on wild clouds. clouds also may be source of energy which has bound energy. so the purpose is just to release the energy channel. 

that's the eighty eighth sukta.

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