(RV 1.2.7)
mitram huve pūtadaksham
varuņam cha rishādasam, dhiyam
ghŗtāchīm sādhantā.
I
invoke Mitra of purified discernment and Varuņa, destroyer of our
foes perfecting a bright understanding.
To achieve
a luminous consciousness in the mind, the help of Mitra, the God
of Harmony and Joy, and Varuņa, the Lord of Purity and Vastness,
are indispensable. For the workings of the mind are constantly
interfered with by the vitiating elements of desire, preference
and wrong judgment; there is a lack of coherence and harmony
between movement and movement; there is a heavy limitation imposed
by the nature of the senses through which the mind feeds itself.
Besides there are influences in the world that stand against the
full development of the mind in the direction of Truth. To stall
all these is invoked the aid of Varuņa, the Lord of Vastness and
Purity, who breaks down the barriers that limit and eliminate the
clinging impurities, of Mitra who works in the purity of Varuņa to
establish his harmonies and joys of happy relations, building up a
spontaneous discernment between right and wrong. All mental
disharmonies and wrong movements are converted and a harmonious,
wide, right action of thought is accomplished.
(RV
1.2.8)
ŗtena mitrāvaruņāv-ŗtāvŗdhāv-ŗtaspŗshā,
kratum bŗhantam-āshāthe.
By the Truth Mitra and Varuņa, truth- increasing, truth-touching,
enjoy
a vast will-power.
The object of these Powers at work in the seeker is to establish
in him the unimpeded workings of Truth. The means they employ to
achieve their objective are themselves derived from Truth,
wherever they get entry—in whichever part—there they increase the
content of Truth. Their horizons in man touch the Truth. All
limitations of mind and power are eliminated. And thus they build
up for man a boundless, self-effectuating power of Truth.
(RV
1.2.9)
kavī no mitrāvaruņā tuvijātā
urukshayā, daksham dadhāte apasam.
For us, Mitra and Varuņa, seers, multiple-born, wide-housed,
uphold the discernment that does the work.
Mitra and
Varuņa are seers, they see into the beyond and know what is
preparing and what should be effected now. They manifest in a
variety of ways, in a number of faculties, e.g. inspiration,
intuition, revelation etc., in the seeker, imparting their purity,
vastitude, joy and harmony to all his movements. They are not
confined to the narrow formations of his sense-mind and ego; the
home that they create for themselves in his being is wide and
large. In that freedom, in that large and far-seeing vision, they
forge for him an infallible discernment between truth and untruth,
the pure and the mixed, that does effortlessly the great work of
organizing the Truth in the being.
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