Sukta 186
Sukta 10.186
Vāta (Wind as life-force and healer)
この短い三詩節の讃歌は、風神ヴァータ（Vāta）を慈しみ深い癒やし手として招き、心に安らぎと歓びをもたらし、生命の息を前へと運んで生の充実へ導くよう願う。さらにヴァータを父・兄弟・友と呼びかけて結びつきを深め、最後に、ヴァータ自身の住処に蓄えられると信じられた「不死の宝」の分け前――生を支え、死に屈しない活力を得て生き続けるための力――を求める。
Mantras
Mantra 1
वात आ वातु भेषजं शम्भु मयोभु नो हृदे । प्र ण आयूंषि तारिषत् ॥
風神ヴァータ（Vāta）よ、薬としてわれらに吹き来たれ、吉祥として、歓喜として、われらの心に。われらの命の息を前へと運び渡し、衰えを越えて、より満ちた時へと至らしめよ。
Mantra 2
उत वात पितासि न उत भ्रातोत नः सखा । स नो जीवातवे कृधि ॥
また、ヴァータ（Vāta、風神）よ、汝はわれらの父、また兄弟、また友である。ゆえにわれらを生きるために整えよ――われらのいのちのありようを正しくし、保ち、増し育てよ。
Mantra 3
यददो वात ते गृहेऽमृतस्य निधिर्हितः । ततो नो देहि जीवसे ॥
もし汝の家に、ヴァータよ、不死（アムリタ）の宝蔵が据え置かれているなら、そこからわれらに生の糧を与えよ――不死の分け前がわれらの息に入り、旅路を支えますように。
Frequently Asked Questions
Vāta is the wind as a divine power—both the outer moving air and the inner life-breath (prāṇa). The hymn treats him as a healer who supports calmness, vitality, and longevity.
The hymn asks Vāta to come as a remedy, bring peace and joy into the heart, and carry the worshipper’s life-breaths forward into a fuller, protected life-term.
It is an image for a deathless store of vitality (amṛta) associated with Vāta. The prayer asks that some of this sustaining, undiminishing life-power be granted ‘for living’—to strengthen and preserve life.
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