Rig Veda Sukta 58
Mandala 10Sukta 5812 Mantras

Sukta 58

Sukta 10.58

This hymn is a therapeutic invocation to recall and re-seat the wandering mind (manas) back into the living body and the “home of life” (kṣaya), especially when it strays toward Yama—the deathward pull in the imagery. Refrain-like verses enumerate many places the mind may have gone (death, waters, plants, past and future), and the singers ritually “turn it back” for continued life, coherence, and wellbeing.

Recitation with translationRig Veda 10.58

In this hymn

Addressed to

  • ManasMantras 1-4Manas (to be recalled) with Yama as the deathward attractor in the imagery

    Manas is treated as a movable, straying principle that can depart to distant domains, Yama’s realm, the waters, plants, and even the horizons of time, and can be summoned back by authoritative speech (mantra).

  • Brihat / VastnessMantra 9Bṛhat / Vastness as a plane

Mantras

Mantra 1

यत्ते यमं वैवस्वतं मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

अगर तुम्हारा मन बहुत दूर चला गया है यम के पास, तो हम उसे यहाँ वापस लाते हैं। तुम्हारे जीने के लिए लाते हैं। घर में रहने के लिए लाते हैं।

Mantra 2

यत्ते दिवं यत्पृथिवीं मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

अगर तुम्हारा मन बहुत दूर चला गया है, ऊपर स्वर्ग में या नीचे धरती पर। वो मन हम वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। ताकि तुम ठीक से रह सको, तुम्हारा बसेरा बने।

Mantra 3

यत्ते भूमिं चतुर्भृष्टिं मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

अगर तुम्हारा मन बहुत दूर चला गया है, उस धरती पर जो चारों तरफ फैली है। वो मन हम वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। ताकि तुम ठीक से रह सको, तुम्हारा बसेरा बने।

Mantra 4

यत्ते चतस्रः प्रदिशो मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

अगर तुम्हारा मन बहुत दूर चला गया है, चारों दिशाओं में। वो मन हम वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। ताकि तुम ठीक से रह सको, तुम्हारा बसेरा बने।

Mantra 5

यत्ते समुद्रमर्णवं मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

अगर तुम्हारा मन बहुत दूर चला गया है, समुंदर की लहरों में। वो मन हम वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। ताकि तुम ठीक से रह सको, तुम्हारा बसेरा बने।

Mantra 6

यत्ते मरीचीः प्रवतो मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

अगर तुम्हारा मन बहुत दूर चला गया है, किरणों के साथ पहाड़ियों की तरफ। वो मन हम वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। ताकि तुम ठीक से रह सको, तुम्हारा बसेरा बने।

Mantra 7

यत्ते अपो यदोषधीर्मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

तुम्हारा मन अगर पानी में या पेड़-पौधों में भाग गया है, तो हम उसे वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। तुम अपने घर में रहो और जीयो।

Mantra 8

यत्ते सूर्यं यदुषसं मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

तुम्हारा मन अगर सूरज की तरफ या सुबह की रोशनी की तरफ दूर चला गया है, तो हम उसे वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। तुम अपने घर में रहो और जीयो।

Mantra 9

यत्ते पर्वतान्बृहतो मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

तुम्हारा मन अगर बड़े पहाड़ों की तरफ भाग गया है, तो हम उसे वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। तुम अपने घर में रहो और जीयो।

Mantra 10

यत्ते विश्वमिदं जगन्मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

तुम्हारा मन अगर सारी दुनिया में घूमने निकल गया है, तो हम उसे वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। तुम अपने घर में रहो और जीयो।

Mantra 11

यत्ते पराः परावतो मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

तुम्हारा मन अगर बहुत दूर किसी और जगह चला गया है, तो हम उसे वापस तुम्हारे पास ला रहे हैं। तुम अपने घर में रहो और जीयो।

Mantra 12

यत्ते भूतं च भव्यं च मनो जगाम दूरकम् । तत्त आ वर्तयामसीह क्षयाय जीवसे ॥

तुम्हारा मन कभी-कभी बहुत दूर चला जाता है। वो सोचता है जो हो चुका है और जो होने वाला है। हम उस मन को वापस तुम्हारे पास लाते हैं। तुम अपने घर में शांति से रहो और जियो।

Inside Sukta 58

How it unfolds

  1. Where it opens

    The hymn begins by recognizing the mind’s dangerous distance—having gone far, even toward Yama (death).

  2. Development

    It expands the map of dispersion: the mind may be scattered into natural powers (waters, plants) and other remote or subtle domains; each is addressed with the same recalling formula.

  3. Climax

    The repeated performative act—‘we turn it back to you here’—functions as the hymn’s peak: speech becomes the force that reverses the mind’s trajectory from deathward/outerward to lifeward/inward.

  4. Where it settles

    It resolves by anchoring the mind in the present life: ‘here’ (iha), in ‘dwelling’ (kṣaya), ‘for living’ (jīvase), culminating in reintegration across time (past and future) into the living now.

The deity: Manas, with Yama Vaivasvata as the deathward attractor in the imagery

  • In the VedaYama appears not as the hymn’s object of praise but as the symbolic destination of a mind slipping toward death or unconsciousness.
  • Cosmic functionManas integrates perception, intention, memory, and vitality, binding the person to embodied life; its ‘return’ restores order (ṛta) at the human level by reuniting awareness with breath, body, and social dwelling.
  • Inner significancePsychologically, the hymn addresses dissociation, shock, grief, delirium, or depressive ‘death-pull’ by re-centering attention in the present. Spiritually, it is a reintegration practice: gathering scattered energies from nature and time back into the living self.

Famous verses

tat ta ā vartayāmasiha kṣayāya jīvase
Verse 10.58.1Sets the core crisis and remedy: the mind has gone toward Yama, and the mantra explicitly ‘turns it back’ for continued life—establishing the hymn’s healing refrain and death-to-life reversal.Read verse 10.58.1 →
tat ta ā vartayāmasiha kṣayāya jīvase
Verse 10.58.7Links mind-restoration with elemental and medicinal supports—waters and plants—showing a Vedic model of psycho-somatic healing where nature-powers aid reintegration.Read verse 10.58.7 →
bhūtaṃ ca bhavyaṃ ca
Verse 10.58.12Gathers the mind from temporal extremes (‘what has been and what will be’), presenting the hymn’s most comprehensive reintegration: returning attention from rumination and anxiety into embodied life.Read verse 10.58.12 →

Attributes of the deity

  • Recallable and restorable (ā-vartana)
  • Prone to dispersion into outer realms (waters, plants, distance, time)
  • Life-linked: returning mind equals renewed living (jīvase)
  • Stabilizing: brings ‘settled dwelling’ (kṣaya) and coherence
  • Protected from the deathward current symbolized by Yama

Also by this seer

  • No secure additional hymn attributions; RV 10 contains several late/appendix-type hymns with uncertain seer ascriptions.

The rite, step by step

  • Seat or lay the patient facing the household fire (or a clean, quiet place), establishing calm and attention.
  • Recite the refrain verses, naming the realm(s) where the mind is believed to have gone (e.g., toward Yama, into waters/plants, into past/future).
  • On the phrase “tat ta ā vartayāmasi” (‘that we turn back to you’), gesture inward toward the patient’s heart/head, symbolically reversing the outward drift.
  • Conclude with a settling act: sprinkling water, touching the crown/forehead, and affirming ‘kṣayāya jīvase’ (‘for dwelling, for living’).
  • Optionally repeat the key verses three times for firmness of return and stabilization.

Offerings

  • Water (āpaḥ) for cooling and re-integration
  • Ghee in the fire (if performed with agni) for strengthening vitality
  • Medicinal herbs (oṣadhīḥ) or herbal fumigation as a supportive symbol
  • Simple food (anna) after recitation to ‘ground’ the return

Frequently Asked Questions

It is a healing hymn that ‘calls back’ a person’s mind when it feels lost, scattered, or drawn toward death or unconsciousness. The refrain turns the mind back “here” for stable dwelling and living.

Yama represents the deathward direction—the realm the mind may drift toward in severe illness, shock, or despair. The hymn does not worship Yama here; it uses him as the image of danger from which the mind is recalled.

Traditionally it can be recited as a supportive recovery prayer for someone who has fainted, is very ill, frightened, or mentally unsettled. The recitation is paired with calming actions like water-sprinkling, herbal support, or a simple fire offering, to help the person feel present and grounded.

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