Rig Veda 6.63.11: Mandala 6, Sukta 63, Mantra 11
Sukta 6.63
- Rishi
- Bharadvāja
- Devata
- Aśvinau
- Chandas
- Triṣṭubh
- Rasa
- Shanta (peace)
आ वां सुम्ने वरिमन्त्सूरिभिः ष्याम् ॥
ā́ vāṃ sumné várimant sūríbhíḥ syām ||
हम तुम्हारे साथ रहें, तुम्हारी खुशी में। जो लोग देते हैं, उनके साथ हम भी रहें।
Word by Word
- आ
- hither, towardsIndeclinableउपसर्ग/निपात; गत्यर्थे/आह्वानार्थेRoot आ (उपसर्ग/निपात)
- वाम्
- you twoPronounद्वितीया/षष्ठी द्विवचन (enclitic form); ‘you two’ (acc./gen.)Role KarmaRoot युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
- सुम्ने
- in (your) favour, in graceNounनपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी एकवचनRole AdhikaraṇaRoot सुम्न (प्रातिपदिक; सु- + म्न/मन ‘favour, grace’)
- वरिमन्त्
- wide spaces, broad roomAdjectiveपुंलिङ्ग; द्वितीया बहुवचन (acc. pl.)Role KarmaRoot वरिमन्/वरिमत् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘breadth, wide space, room’)
- सूरिभिः
- with patrons/noblesNounपुंलिङ्ग; तृतीया बहुवचनRole KaraṇaRoot सूरि (प्रातिपदिक; ‘patron, lord, noble’)
- ष्याम्
- may I be / may I becomeVerbविधिलिङ् (optative); उत्तमपुरुष एकवचन; परस्मैपदRole KartāRoot अस् (धातु) → स्य- (विधिलिङ्/आशीर्लिङ्-आधार; Vedic optative/aorist-optative type)
Sandhi Notes
- पदच्छेदः: आ | वाम् | सुम्ने | वरिमन्त् | सूरिभिः | ष्याम् । ‘वरिमन्त्सूरिभिः’ इति संधिः: वरिमन्त् + सूरिभिः → वरिमन्त्सूरिभिः (त् + स् → त्स्)। स्वरचिह्न: वां॑ (उदात्त/स्वरित-चिह्नित), वरि॑मन्त्, सू॒रिभि॑ः इत्यादि ऋग्वैदिक-स्वरविशेषाः।
The meaning
Outer meaning
May we be with you in the wideness of your blissful favor, together with the illumined givers.
Inner meaning
A compact culmination: the goal is abiding in the Aśvins’ ‘sumna’—a grace that is not narrow or occasional but wide (variman), spacious enough to hold the whole life. ‘Sūribhiḥ’ are the illumined givers—those parts of the being (and those companions in the path) that give rightly from light. The seeker prays for inclusion in a community and consciousness of luminous generosity, where divine favor becomes a stable wideness.
Universal truth
The mature fruit of divine help is a spacious, enduring state of grace shared with luminous, generous consciousness—an inner wideness that supports life and relationship.
Themes
Closing blessing, Grace and wideness, Spiritual companionship
The seer
- Rishi
- Bharadvāja
- Lineage
- Bārhaspatya
- Other hymns
- RV 6.63 (closing)
Family tradition
Closing aspiration typical of Bharadvāja: from invocation and action to a settled state of wideness and grace.
Significance
The seer’s end-prayer points to the psychic condition needed for integral life—vastness (variman) held within divine favor (sumna).
The deity
- Devata
- Aśvinau (Nāsatyā)
- Epithets
- Nāsatyā, Dasrā
- Related deities
- Aditi (infinite wideness), Uṣas (awakening)
Cosmic role
Bestowers of well-being and harmonizing grace that widens the human field.
Inner power
They open the being into a spacious happiness and right fellowship with luminous forces.
In ritual
Where it is used
Concluding benediction within the hymn recitation.
आ वां॑ सु॒म्ने वरि॑मन्त्सू॒रिभि॑: ष्याम् ॥
आ । वा॒म् । सु॒म्ने । वरि॑मन् । सू॒रिऽभिः॑ । स्या॒म् ॥
ā | vām | sumne | variman | sūri-bhiḥ | syām
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Single pāda (abbreviated closing line)
Concise, settling cadence—like a seal.
Brings closure and spacious calm; a resting in wideness after the hymn’s movement.
- सुम्ने (sumne)
- Literal: favor, grace, happiness. Symbolic: divine benevolence as a conscious supportive force
- वरिमन् (variman)
- Literal: wideness, vastness. Symbolic: spacious consciousness; freedom from constriction and fear
- सूरिभिः (sūribhiḥ)
- Literal: with the sūris (bountiful/illumined patrons). Symbolic: with illumined givers—higher faculties and noble companions who give from light
- स्याम् (syām)
- Literal: may I/we be. Symbolic: abiding, stable participation (not a momentary touch)
Concluding benediction (āśis) sealing the hymn’s invocation and requests
At the end of an Aśvin hymn sequence as a closing wish.
Conclude recitation; silent pause to ‘receive’ wideness.
Use as a short daily refrain for cultivating spaciousness and grace—especially after practice or before sleep.
sumna denotes benevolent favor/beatitude; variman again signals expansion of consciousness as the condition for divine companionship. √as ‘to be’ optative syām expresses aspiration for a stable state of participation, not a momentary gift.
Vastness (bṛhat/variman) as spiritual condition, Sumna (grace) as sustaining beatitude, Sūri as illumined fullness (not merely wealthy patron)
To be ‘with the sūris’ implies alignment with right giving and right order in collective life.
Grace becomes stable when the being lives in truth and generosity.
Wideness as a fundamental cosmic condition (Aditi) into which the individual can enter.
Vedāntic/integral: wideness as a sign of higher consciousness; grace as sustaining force.
Variman = inner sky: spacious awareness free from contraction; sumna = warm supportive presence within that space.
- What is the primary Vedic 'mythologem' present in this verse?
- The ‘abiding in divine favor’ mythologem: not an event but a state—dwelling with the gods in wideness. Innerly, the culmination is stable participation in grace (sumna) and expanded consciousness (variman), alongside those who embody plenitude (sūri).
- How does the linguistic structure reflect Proto-Indo-European roots?
- The optative syām from √as (PIE *h₁es- ‘be’) is a core inherited modality expressing wish/aspiration, characteristic of archaic prayer closures.
- What is the relationship between the Rishi and the Devata here?
- The rishi seeks not merely gifts but communion—‘to be’ with the Aśvins in their wideness of grace. The reciprocity matures from transaction to participation: the human becomes a vessel of the divine state.
Rest in wideness: feel the breath expand into a boundless inner sky; invoke gentle grace.
Anāhata (expansive warmth) and Sahasrāra (spaciousness)
Slow coherent breathing (5–6 breaths/min). On exhale, mentally repeat variman.
Spacious peace with a subtle sweetness of support.
After any intense practice, seal with this line: drop effort, open to wideness, and include others (‘sūribhiḥ’) in goodwill.
Short line—keep precise accenting; avoid rushing; let final ‘syām’ lengthen slightly as a seal.
Sustain varíman with clear vowel; keep sūribhiḥ as sū-ri-bhiḥ (long ū).
: sumne—no extra vowel between m-n, : variman—short i, final n dental, : sūribhiḥ—long ū; bh aspirated, : ṣyām—retroflex ṣ + y cluster; long ā
Soft, open, spacious resonance; end in silence.
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