Wednesday 2 October 2013

Rig Veda 1.85

mantra 3 says, marut devtas destroy every obstacle in their path such that, the way of butter open up. 

in yajna we put butter in the agni which is considered to move up and reach to devtas.
from this mantra we can consider that there are some obstacles in path of it which are removed by marut devtas. 
but if the butter after burning had to move from fire to sky, there are no obstaclesthere. there fore it must be some other sky through which it moves. it is the subtle nerves in our body which we know are blocked, and that are opened by pranayaama. such the life force move through it. also butter is not the physical butter but some effect of pranayama, perhaps some purified mental action as shri aurobindo says.
in tantra we know that there are obstacles in path of subtle nerves.

in mantra 5 i am unable to understand what does the deer with colored spots on it represents which are said to be yoked by marut devtas and after which water fall down from the dark clouds.
water is energy flowing down through nerves, cloud can also be taken as source of energy, but the deer with colored spots is mysterious.

mantra 9 talks about tvashta making vajra of thousand edges. if gayatri pariwar translation is trusted, it's vajra of thousand flows ( dhaara ), which must be of thousand flow of energy. and by that indra removed the block of water by slaying vritra which had covered the waters. here is also the same thing, that is removing the block of nerves which is a very common concern in tantra.

that's in eighty fifth sukta.


- YVV

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