Sukta 2

Mantra 1

वायवा याहि दर्शतेमे सोमा अरंकृताः । तेषां पाहि श्रुधी हवम् ॥

O Vāyu, come—O luminous and beautiful One. These Soma-essences are made ready and rightly prepared. Drink of them, and hear our call: receive the inner summons that aspires toward the Breath of the Truth.

Mantra 2

वाय उक्थेभिर्जरन्ते त्वामच्छा जरितारः । सुतसोमा अहर्विदः ॥

O Vāyu, by the uplifted hymns the seekers grow fervent towards you; the chanters, having pressed the Soma, who are knowers of the luminous Day, call you near—towards the awakened breath and its swift inspirations.

Mantra 3

वायो तव प्रपृञ्चती धेना जिगाति दाशुषे । उरूची सोमपीतये ॥

O Vāyu, thy wide-spreading stream of delight-milk comes to the giver (the aspiring sacrificer); luminous and far-ranging, it moves for the drinking of Soma—so that the inner rapture may be received and increased in us.

Mantra 4

इन्द्रवायू इमे सुता उप प्रयोभिरा गतम् । इन्दवो वामुशन्ति हि ॥

O Indra and Vāyu, come near to these Soma-pressings, borne by their powers of delight; for the Soma-drops indeed yearn for you—seeking your presence to awaken the inner force and the free breath in us.

Mantra 5

वायविन्द्रश्च चेतथः सुतानां वाजिनीवसू । तावा यातमुप द्रवत् ॥

O Vāyu and Indra, you two take cognizance of the pressed Soma; O lords of plenitude and victorious force, come—hasten near to the swift-flowing delight that runs toward you.

Mantra 6

वायविन्द्रश्च सुन्वत आ यातमुप निष्कृतम् । मक्ष्वित्था धिया नरा ॥

O Vāyu and Indra, come swiftly toward the one who is pressing Soma; draw near to the offering set out—O you two heroic powers—thus, by the awakened thought that aspires for the Truth.

Mantra 7

मित्रं हुवे पूतदक्षं वरुणं च रिशादसम् । धियं घृताचीं साधन्ता ॥

I call Mitra of the clarified and stainless power of right action, and Varuṇa the destroyer of harm; may they accomplish in us the thought-movement that flows with the luminous ghee—clear, straight, and effective for the soul’s work.

Mantra 8

ऋतेन मित्रावरुणावृतावृधावृतस्पृशा । क्रतुं बृहन्तमाशाथे ॥

By the power of the Ṛta (the Truth-Order), Mitra and Varuṇa—growers of the Ṛta, touchers of the Ṛta—grant us the vast and luminous will of right action (kratu), so that our inner being moves in harmony with the Truth-Consciousness.

Mantra 9

कवी नो मित्रावरुणा तुविजाता उरुक्षया । दक्षं दधाते अपसम् ॥

May Mitra and Varuṇa—those two seers, widely-born and of vast, sheltering habitation—place within us dakṣa, the discerning power of right formation, for the fulfilment of the work (apas), the effective action of the soul.