Sukta 186
Sukta 10.186
Vāta (Wind as life-force and healer)
这首简短的三颂赞歌祈请风神伐多（Vāta）为慈惠的医者：他将安宁与喜悦带入人心，并把生命之息推送向更圆满的生命。诗中又以父亲、兄弟与朋友相称，使关系更为亲近；末了祈求分得他自家居处所藏的“长生之宝”——即能维系生存、无死的生命力，使人得以继续活着。
Mantras
Mantra 1
वात आ वातु भेषजं शम्भु मयोभु नो हृदे । प्र ण आयूंषि तारिषत् ॥
愿风神瓦塔（Vāta）向我们吹来为药，为吉祥、为悦乐入我心中；愿他引领我们的寿命与气息前行、渡越，使之超越衰减，达至更圆满的期限。
Mantra 2
उत वात पितासि न उत भ्रातोत नः सखा । स नो जीवातवे कृधि ॥
又啊，伐多（Vāta，风神），你是我们的父亲；又是我们的兄弟；又是我们的朋友。愿你使我们得以生存——整治我们的生命之态，使之能持久、能增长。
Mantra 3
यददो वात ते गृहेऽमृतस्य निधिर्हितः । ततो नो देहि जीवसे ॥
若在你家中，啊伐多（Vāta），确有不死之宝藏被安置；那么就从那宝藏赐给我们以生存——愿那不死的分量进入我们的气息，扶持我们的行程。
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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