Rig Veda Samhita, Mandala VII, Sukta 49 Hymn to the Divine Waters

Sri Aurobindo Studies · Nov 28, 2021 · 3m

"The Veda speaks constantly of the waters or the rivers, especially of the divine waters ... and occasionally of the waters which carry in them the light of the luminous soloar world or the light of the Sun ... . The passage of the waters effected by the gods or by man with the aid of the gods is a constant symbol. ... What can these rivers be whose wave is full of Soma-wine, full of the ghrta, full of urj, the energy? What are these waters that flow to the goal of the god's movement, that establish for man the supreme good? Not the rivers of the Punjab; no wildest assumption of barbarous…