Sukta 65

Mantra 1

यदिन्द्र प्रागपागुदङ्न्यग्वा हूयसे नृभिः । आ याहि तूयमाशुभिः ॥

If, O Indra, you are called by men from the east or the west, from above or below—then come swiftly, with your rapid powers; arrive in us as the immediate help.

Mantra 2

यद्वा प्रस्रवणे दिवो मादयासे स्वर्णरे । यद्वा समुद्रे अन्धसः ॥

Whether it is at the outflowing stream of heaven that you become intoxicated, O leader of the luminous heights, or whether it is in the ocean-depth of the pressed delight—there too you are the power that takes joy and increases force within us.

Mantra 3

आ त्वा गीर्भिर्महामुरुं हुवे गामिव भोजसे । इन्द्र सोमस्य पीतये ॥

With our inspired words we call you—vast and wide—like one calls a cow for her yielding: come, O Indra, for the drinking of Soma, to partake and to increase the giving within us.

Mantra 4

आ त इन्द्र महिमानं हरयो देव ते महः । रथे वहन्तु बिभ्रतः ॥

Let your tawny powers, O Indra, carry hither your greatness and your might, O god, on the chariot—upholding it: may the dynamic energies bring the divine force into our field.

Mantra 5

इन्द्र गृणीष उ स्तुषे महाँ उग्र ईशानकृत् । एहि नः सुतं पिब ॥

Indra, I proclaim you and I praise you—great, formidable, a maker of mastery: come to us, drink the pressed Soma; enter the field of our being and strengthen the rule of the light within.

Mantra 6

सुतावन्तस्त्वा वयं प्रयस्वन्तो हवामहे । इदं नो बर्हिरासदे ॥

We, who have the Soma pressed and the offering-force prepared, call you: come and sit upon this our sacred seat of expansion; take your place within the ordered rite in us.

Mantra 7

यच्चिद्धि शश्वतामसीन्द्र साधारणस्त्वम् । तं त्वा वयं हवामहे ॥

For even among the everlasting powers you are the common and accessible one, O Indra; therefore we call you—come as the shared strength that supports all and awakens the light in us.

Mantra 8

इदं ते सोम्यं मध्वधुक्षन्नद्रिभिर्नरः । जुषाण इन्द्र तत्पिब ॥

This honeyed Soma they have milked out for you with the pressing-stones, O strong ones: accept it, O Indra, and drink that delight—so the sweetness may turn into victorious energy in us.

Mantra 9

विश्वाँ अर्यो विपश्चितोऽति ख्यस्तूयमा गहि । अस्मे धेहि श्रवो बृहत् ॥

You are known beyond all the noble and the discerning: come swiftly. In us place the vast hearing—wide fame of the soul, the capacity to receive and hold the true word.

Mantra 10

दाता मे पृषतीनां राजा हिरण्यवीनाम् । मा देवा मघवा रिषत् ॥

A giver to me of the dappled herds, a king of the golden treasures—may the bountiful one not be harmed by the gods; may the power of plenitude remain intact and victorious in our work.

Mantra 11

सहस्रे पृषतीनामधि श्चन्द्रं बृहत्पृथु । शुक्रं हिरण्यमा ददे ॥

Upon a thousand dappled energies he set a shining, vast and broad splendour; he gave bright gold—an image of the wide luminous substance established in the seeker as enduring spiritual wealth.

Mantra 12

नपातो दुर्गहस्य मे सहस्रेण सुराधसः । श्रवो देवेष्वक्रत ॥

O mighty descendants of the hard-to-overcome (Power), by your thousandfold good giving you have fashioned for me a luminous fame among the gods—an inner recognition in the higher worlds.