{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07086.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07086.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07086.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. WISE, verily, are creatures through his greatness who stayed ever, spacious heaven and earth asunder;\n Who urged the high and mighty sky to motion, the Star of old, and spread the earth before him.\n 2 With mine own heart I commune on the question how Varu\u1e47a and I may be united.\n What gift of mine will he accept unangered? When may I calmly look and find him gracious?\n 3 Fain to know this is my sin I question others: I seek the wise, O Varu\u1e47a, and ask them.\n This one same answer even the sages gave me, \"Surely this Varu\u1e47a is angry with thee.\"\n 4 What, Varu\u1e47a, hath been my chief transgression, that thou wouldst slay the friend who sings thy praises?\n Tell me, Unconquerable Lord, and quickly sinless will I approach thee with mine homage.\n 5 Free us from sins committed by our fathers, from those wherein we have ourselves offended.\n O King, loose, like a thief who feeds the cattle, as from the cord a calf, set free Vasi\u1e63\u1e6dha.\n 6 Not our own will betrayed us, but seduction, thoughtlessness, Varu\u1e47a wine, dice, or anger.\n The old is near to lead astray the younger: even sleep removeth not all evil-doing.\n 7 Slavelike may I do service to the Bounteous, serve, free from sin, the God inclined to anger.\n This gentle Lord gives wisdom to the simple: the wiser God leads on the wise to riches.\n 8 O Lord, O Varu\u1e47a, may this laudation come close to thee and lie within thy spirit.\n May it be well with us in rest and labour. Preserve us ever-more, ye Gods, with blessings.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LXXXVI. Varu\u1e47a.","type":"page"}