The Buddhist Fallacy

Though occasioned by a few conversations I had on social media, the topic has been with me for about two decades now : the fallacy in Buddhist thought, if one is looking for truth. For our world of action, there is no better subscription than the Buddhist way. For, it is in the very tenor of what the great Buddha himself presented in the new path : action … terminate absolutely the (lower) desires to end misery in your life and the world about … evolve out of even the (higher) desires to end absolutely the cycle of karma and rebirth.

Keeping the context of cultured thought of the times in which Buddha stood up and presented his own is important, if one is not to merely imagine and project one’s own meaning to what Buddha held forth in his assemblies. He disdains the rituals of Vedic or the later Sindhu-Sarasvati religious culture and he is silent on the ” God ” concept that tradition was then full of. It simplifies much in people’s life, freeing their attention to concentrate on the job at hand : action, on what to do, how to live one’s life, what to believe of what is manifest, which to regard as right or the correct path, how to decide … the entire life and values perspective in short that enables us to critically view our life and situational instance, and act in its accord.

What I see instead is that people, both hard core and romantic subscribers of Buddhist way, are reposing more and more of their quest for truth in it. It just leads to a jumboorie of imagined truths, the kind that Carl Jung warns us about : Enlightenment is not a matter of raising clouds of light within us; it is to illumine the very darkness all about.

Truth, in Buddhist way, can only be speculative, which in itself is a fine thing to do. But since it says, “overcome the self,” its followers presume that the directive means “negate the self.” It implies that the self is either a non-existent entity that we regard as existing through ignorance or that it exists but only until we are able to “eliminate” through our effort.

The first implication is a philosophical one, and still begs the question : So, what exists, in truth ? The second categorically means that the self does not exist in truth, and leads us back to the first. Without attempting to answer the ultimate question, let us revert back to the original directive Buddha proposes : Overcome the self. To me, in its context, it means that we become more powerful than the desiring self, the one which takes us over and commits acts that leads to misery for ourself and the world around us. That, we should win it over and make it subservient to our dictates, to the values perspective that Buddha clearly lays out. It is not a call for negating our very self, for there has to be one even for “overcoming the self.”

To sum : Buddhism could be a great way to action, to live and reduce misery, if not end it. But there is no truth in.

Personally, I find the Buddhist way a trifle too contradictory to something that I regard as non-negotiable : Life is; embrace it.

How is one to embrace life, if all of life and the world is nothing but misery ?

How does the anecdotal Buddha recommend joy, and advise us to enjoy our wealth but with offerings to others ?

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Journal : Awakening … Into The Truth

MIND, KARMA AND GUNA – II

https://vamadevananda.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/journal-awakening-into-the-truth-10/ … Hereon, it becomes difficult to chart the inner processes and describe nature of change they each bring about in the very nature of our mind and its consequence upon ourself… contd…

The mind is not in the horizontal spread of, and of the same order as, the material universe, in which the body-identified individual finds itself as one amongst trillions. The Mental Space is a vertical shift away within the self and, phenomenally speaking, is of an entirely different order. A view of one’s mind is available only to the particular individual to whom the specific mind unit belongs. So, there can be no group study, examination or observation, of the mind. 

The task is an uphill one : for, the individual-self must rise to identify with the witness consciousness peering through the buddhi or the intellect to avail of the toehold unaffected by the mind, against one’s own sensory habits anchored to material objects that, to our vitalised sensibility rooted in subconscious drives, promise what we all prefer in our experience : pleasure, joy, ecstasy and happiness. 

But that involves allowing the emotion-backed will to take over our self, consenting to the consequential intent, wading into action for specific result, and pushing ourself through hope and despair. That choice we commit ourself to, through consent and action, is our Karma; and the habitual proclivity in the nature of our mind, to act in order to avail, is a display of the dominating Guna or the Great Qualifier of each thing or being manifest, which in this instance is Rajas.

The entire creation, gross and subtle, is qualified by the three Gunas : Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Though all three Gunas are present in each being, there is predominance of one at any given point in time in accord with its Karma or the nature of choices it has habituated itself to, the general character of the species to which it belongs, and the environment it finds itself in. 

Typically, the dominance of Sattva leads one to arise and rise into more calm and peace, non-violence, quest for truth, inclination to focused contemplation and persevere at effort to gain knowledge, patience and honest conduct, freedom from envy and covetousness, and attenuation of worldly ambitions. Rajas makes one more driven to action, more given to vitality and less to self-examination, reduced scrupulousness, to more ambition for material acquisition and attachment to sensory pleasures, and to more agitated states of the mind. Tamas causes the tendency to remain in inertia and general inaction, and easy slide down into mere physical pleasure, without assuming responsibility or striving to exert.

The mind is made of wholly non-material impressions left by our Karma in the unit mind. These too determine the predominant Gunas that characterise the mind unit and qualify the “person” or the individual self attached to it. Hence, phenomenally, one with reduced residual karma would have progressively attenuated activity in Chitta and Manas, in that order. 

Theoretically, an individual without any residual karma, with his quest for knowledge and experience quenched, will not have a mind unit as the rest of us are attached to. Such a person will no longer be an “individual” but will be unified with the undifferentiated infinitude of the Causal Space, where the three gunas exist in a state of perfect balance and there are no object things or differentiated beings to observe ! 

One is then the being itself, of which all beings are manifest and de-manifest; one is then knowledge itself, of which finite knowledge forms arise and become extinct; and, one is then bliss itself, of which all transient pleasures and joys are experienced and which all beings constantly desire. One is then the Soul of the universe, pervading the Mental and Material spaces, pervading all phenomena and beings in them.

Courtesy Nicholas Roerich archives : http://www.roerich.org/wwp.html

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Journal : Awakening … Into The Truth

THE SANATAN WAY

The world capitalises on our need to be happy in a variety of ways : by the economic order in which food is available to those who either have land and money for inputs to grow and harvest or have the money to buy it in the marketplace; it keeps billions on our planet hungry and deprived, and enslaved. There are regions where water is sold by owners of fresh water bodies and clean air to breathe can be had only in costly air-conditioned areas. Governments and oligarchs big and small buy up natural resources held untill then in common and, as “property owners,” do as they please untill the environment is too polluted and is no longer self-generating, leaving the “public” more in want of fish, firewood and animals, even air and water that was earlier consumable and freely available till then.

Then, there is the ubiquitous media and “urban” advancements – food, gadgets, civic amenities, security, transport, communication, entertainment, lifestyle – that get propagated to multiply people’s needs, create where there was not, which again ropes in a much larger population that perpetually feel disatisfied, constantly aspires to enter the set graded channels and end up either enslaving, being enslaved, or becoming mediates in between.

The apparent priviledges of the masters too is less real than it seems : they might have more than they need, but the needs multiply, with real risks to their wealth and income; that it all might disappear in a jiffy or diminish alarmingly for any number of causes, leaving them rather poor. If not enslaved by bigger cats in business, there would be robbers and killers on the prowl, or taxmen and politicians who may or may not be humoured unless the stakes are met on the high. Money itself begins to enslave the masters and dangerously too, like a man astride a tiger !

Apart from material causes, rather as perceived material causes, images or impressions in memory, or imagination, trigger the same persistent emotional distress – pain, want, anger or despair, nowhere thoughts, darkness in awareness and inadequacy of being. Every craving that issues of recall and takes us over, everytime we are lost in the maze of thought or are unable to extend it to light, we suffer the same smallness of the slave, of being a mere for-other distressed robot under remote control. Occasionally, some of us meet a guide or chance on our own the ability to hold the dissatisfaction in our very hand and summon the intuitive will to take the grapple on to the next level, where our purity of being fills us with manifold more moral strength and intellectual acuity required to wring the truth out of matters in our subconscious and those thrown up by out mental ground.

Few are fortunate and sagacious enough to remove themselves from this worldly game of being in the master-slave trap, of ensnaring and entrapping others into it. But it continues blatantly for the billions in every secular and religious walk of life; yes, every ‘faith’ plays by it, more or less. 

In the Sanatan way, its varnashrama society codifies the “householder” period of life during which the man is expected to fulfill two goals : acquire income and wealth and attain physical pleasures and sensuous joys. The period covers approximately 25 years, one-fourth of the total, after he has gone through the rigours of leading a celibate life and educating himself in a whole range of disciplines including dharma, which equips him with moral clarity, ethical norms, and a well-etched perspective of matters in truth and the ability to discriminate between right and wrong.

Unlike the contracted souls of bleak, colder climes in the West with fewer hands, less sunshine and deficient resources, which conditions tethered them to survival-induced barbary amongst themselves and compelled them to colonise faraway lands and its populations, the agriculturally rich energy-surplus tropical lands fostered far more expansive and embracing ways of life in the Indian subcontinent. The Sanatan way evolved with the refinement of the thread of thought from Vedic antiquity, its culmination in the Upanishad era and popularisation through the Epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Puranas and, above all, the Bhagavad Gita. 

Though there were codified norms laid out by various authorities for public behaviour and conduct in private, the evolution of both the community and the individual was more an integrated and inherited affair, with rules and values perspective even the unlettered were aware of. The elite and the laity grew into the Sanatan way without an elaborate enforcement bureaucracy or judicial vertical, and fell in step in accord with their nature and station. The community was responsible for the welfare of its people; and individuals for themselves, for each other and the community. 

A community of people that lives responsibly must have collective institutions and agreed processes to educate and skill its people in diverse arts and sciences. It must also value truth : as God to theists and as pure knowledge to atheists. The truth is self-evident to the man unified with himself, his day and his environment, his people and his time. How the man’s being expands with thought and action issuing from the unified self, and contracts of segregagtion or alienation, also yields his moral and ethical values. The book merely records them and makes it formal.

The Sanatan way, and the Hindu country, produces scriptures and saints. Untill history began with kings and monuments, and truth was no longer evident : it only remained in debates and arguments. People were no more responsible for their karma, for living out the consequences in their awareness in order to learn, know and remember, and transcend with their awakening. Instead, men and women came to be seized by concerns of wealth and power, slave and enslave !

Karma is the thread vibrating between our immortality and now, over the seen and unseen. It spans the five sheaths of our being across the three great spaces, in our life and death and beyond through umpteen iteration of forms gross, making or unmaking the subtle untill its unity with the causal and ultimate turning away for liberation absolute. Our preoccupation with the body, with material possessions and worldly station only distracts us from the primary task here and now : of attending to the karma pulsating in the unseen. The shrink is of no help … for he only takes his norm and references from the mundane.

Journal : Atharva Veda – Part IV

A SMALL SELECTION OF FREELY PARAPHRASED HYMNS … contd

Source : Hymns of the Atharva Veda [ 1895 ] by Ralph T.H. Griffith

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01034.htm

Part I @ https://vamadevananda.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/journal-atharva-veda-part-i-29-2/

Part II @ https://vamadevananda.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/journal-atharva-veda-part-ii/

Part III @ https://vamadevananda.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/journal-atharva-veda-part-iii/

Vedas, Vedic Age and Vedic People : A Brief … contd

LIFE, DEATH & TRUTH – ( 2 )

Is there life after death ?

“ What will happen to me after death ? ”

Through Part ( 1 ) @ https://vamadevananda.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/journal-atharva-veda-part-iii/ we are laying out a consistent basis for reincarnation and life after death, as a matter of fact and not of speculation or mere belief and faith that the Death – Burial – ‘ Day Of Judgement ‘ process proposed in monotheistic religions demand, which billions of their followers are taught of and abide by, even though the thesis beggars belief, calling on huge imagination and immense leap of faith.

The reasoned “ Model Of Being “ extrapolated from what the Vedic seers discovered in their own self, which every human being at any time can, involved positing three Great Spaces instead of just the gross one with material forms. The Spaces – Material, Mental and Causal – are co-existent and co-incident but have entirely different nature and laws. Every man can observe the living body is preserved by vitality that inert bodies lack. In human beings, with a developed nervous sytem and brain, the body is pervaded and acted upon by the mind, which is absolutely non-material and has a nature entirely other than that of the inert body.

It is so far established that the human being is not just the body with which one is identified during waking hours. That, the brain is not the mind, though certain phenomenal happenings in the mind and brain might be concurrent ; that, we derive all our experiences through and of the body but all experiential phenomena actually takes place and is perceived in the mind.

Humans are mental beings that have a vitality powered physical body to sense and act, experience and learn, think out and know. Even the Vitality behind all manner of cyclic effects is a programmed form of energy, essentially non-material, which enables life forms to digest, respire, recharge, purify and excrete. An effect of the divergent ways, nature and laws particular to matter and mind is evident in transaction analysis The three ego states – child, adult and parent – are nothing more than subconsciously qualified ego-individual-being pervading the mind-body complex while it is awake. The body follows the “thermodynamic direction” of time, from past to present, child to adult to parent… but the respective impressions in the mental space do not age or die, unless consciously dealt with, adequately and in certain completeness ending upon our self.

Mortality, death, loss of form and ultimate disappearance is natural to all bodies in material space, as their normal course. The regular phenomenal effect is inevitable and does not require the slightest human intervention, if we are willing to wait. But what is “Death ?” It is the cessation of life functions in the body… the loss of directed vitality on which our power to sense and act rests, that carries our cognition faculty and our ability to think, know and recall. But is it “cessation” of “directed vitality” or its mere “separation” from the body that it had preserved and kept alive until then ?

We know material forms destruct in time. The forms in mental space however are not subject to the same norm, as can be observed in our direct experience : the knowledge we acquire consciously and clearly when we are younger keeps fresh forever if our brain, the doorway to mental space, is not damaged or atorphied; the subconscious impressions from past arise with the same effect in our present, whether auto-qualifying the unaware ego with urges and compulsions or raising those surreal dreams during which our subconsciously impressed memories are revealed.

We are now in a position to answer the questions :

Is there life after death ?

What will happen to me after death ?

The clear conclusion is that the material body will die and there would no “life” for it as it was before. It will degrade and breakdown into atoms and molecules that will find their use in forming other life or inert forms. But the “subtle” combination including the individual form departs with its deepest urges, alongwith the desire flared up at the time when the last breath is expelled. The subtle being includes its mental impressions, sans name-place-form identities proper to the material space. The immobilised and lost but conscious being separates from the body and is carried on vitality, inclusive of its potential organs and functions. Instead of coming to an end, as it happens with the material body, the entire subtle unit remains in mental space, tethered to its source in causal space – the Soul – and is reincarnated in another body in the material space in due course of time.

The Soul is the ever awake witness – consciousness that oversees the transmigration. Under its gaze the vitality, alongwith potentials scripted into it, attaches itself with the cosmic knowledge coagulates programmed in another material form. Soon, the individual being is vitalised, identifies with its new body, new parents, family members, places and names, and is launched on its journey in material space through childhood, adult life, old age and another death !

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Next Part… a discussion on Moksha – liberation from the transmigration cycle.

To be continued …

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( 23 ) A Benediction At The Election Of A King   –    BOOK III : HYMN IV

 O King ! Shine as the lord

The sole ruler of the people.

For, to thee has come the splendour of kingship

Let all regions of the heavens invite thee.

Here, invite the waiting men

And acknowledge each, as they bow before thee.

 
O King ! The clansmen have elected thee.

These five celestial regions have elected thee.
Rest thou on high, on top of this power supreme.

Thence, as a mightiest amongst us
Award us all with the treasure of your great deeds.

 
O King ! The kinsmen shall now invite thee

And thou shall go to meet them.

But with thee shall go Agni, as an active herald.
Let women have your good in their heart

And their sons be friendly, disposed well towards you.

Thou, O Mighty One, shalt receive tributes in abundance.

 
First the Asvins, Varuna and Mitra…

Then, the Universal Gods and Maruts shall call thee.
Thence, O Mighty One, direct thy thought

To spreading the wealth …

To giving the gifts of your treasure to us all.

 
Speed to us hither from the farthest distance.

Propitious unto thee be the Earth and Heaven.
Even so hath Varuna, the Lord, asserted…

He himself has called thee : Come thou hither.

 
Welcome to the tribes of men, O Indra !

O Indra, Varuna deems thou accordant.
To his own place has he called thee

Saying, “Let him adore the Gods.

“Let him guide the clansmen.”

 
The bounteous paths, O King, all in concert

Have given thee room and comfort

In sundry places and forms.

Let all of these call thee hither

In unison and harmony.

Live thy tenth decade here, O King.

Be a strong and kind ruler.

( 24 ) A Prayer For The New Year  –  BOOK III : HYMN X

The First Day has dawned.

May Yama be with the cow

With blessings for her to pour forth her milk.
May she be rich in milk

And provide for us through many a coming year.

May the Night who approaches as a cow

… she, whom the gods accept with joy

… she, who is the Consort of the Year

Bring abundant happiness to us.

Thou, O Night, whom we revere

And look upon as representating the Year,
Vouchsafe us children to a long life

And bless us as to enhance our wealth.

This Night is the same

Whose light first dawned upon us.

She moves, established in the midst of others.
Great powers and glories are contained within her.

A first-born bride, she conquers all

And bears us children, being her own.

Loud was the wooden pass-gear’s ring and rattle

As it made the annual oblation ready.
First Ashtakā ! may we be lords of riches

With able and cultured children
And good men about us.

The shrine of Ilā flows with oil

And is lined with fat :

Accept our oblations, O Jātavedas !
Tame animals of varied form and colour —

May all the seven abide with me contented.

Come thou, O Night !

To nourish me and make me prosper.

May the favour of the Gods attend us.
Filled full, O Ladle, fly thou forth.

Completely filled fly back again.
Serving at every sacrifice

Bring food and energy to us.

This Year hath come to us, O Ekāshtakā!

Thou art its lord and consort.
Vouchsafe long lives for us children.

Bless us to enhance our wealth.

I worship the Seasons

And Lords of the seasons.

Over the year, its parts and groups
Years, Half Years and Months…

I offer to the Lord of all existence

Beings and things.

I offer to the Seasons

To their several groups

To Months and Years.
To Dhātar, Vidhātar, Fortune

And to the Lord of all things existing.

With clarified butter and libation

We sacrifice and adore the Gods.
Wealthy in kine, may we retire

To rest in our modest homes.

Ekāshtakā, burning with zealous fervour

Brought forth her offspring…

The great and glorious Indra.
With him, the Gods subdued their adversaries :

The Lord of Might became the Dasyus’ slayer.

O Mother of Indra and Soma !

Thou art the daughter of Prajāpati.
Satisfy thou our hearts’ desires.

Accept our sacrifice gladly.

( 25 ) A Blessing On Barley Crops  –  BOOK IV : HYMN CXLI

Spring high, O Barley

And become much

Through thine own magnificence.
Overflow all storage vessels.

Let the bolt from heaven forbear

From striking thee down.

As we invite thee, O Barley

We call upon the God who heareth us.
Raise thyself up, like heaven on high

And become immeasurable

As the sea.

Let thine out-turns be beyond measure.

Beyong measure be thy gathered heaps.
Exhaustless be the givers of thee

And exhaustless be those

Who eat of thee.

( 26 ) A Blessing On Cattle  –  BOOK IV : HYMN CXLI

O’ My Good Man !

Vayu collected these cattle for us.

Go thou, find their sustenance

And keep them in Tvashtar’s care :
May Indra bless and comfort them

And Rudra look after them

So that they would surely increase.

Take thou the iron axe

And make a pair by marks upon their ears.
This sign the Asvins have impressed :

Let these increase and multiply.

Even as Gods and Asuras

Even as mortal men have done
Do ye, that these may multiply in thousands.

O Asvins ! Now, pray, make the mark.

( 27 ) A Benediction On A Newly Built House  –  BOOK III : HYMN XII

Here, I fix my firm-set dwelling.

May it overflow with clarified butter.
May it stand in safety.
May we approach thee, O House

With all our people

Good men, free of charms
And dwell within thee.

Even here, O House

Stand thou on firm foundation

Wealthy in horses

Rich in kine and gladness
Wealthy in nourishment

Milk and fat that rise up (in sacrifice)

For great felicity and good fortune.

Thou, O House, art a spacious store

With lofty roofs and full of clean corn.
Let the young calf and the little boy approach thee

And milch-kine stream homeward in the evening.

May Savitr and Vāyu establish this House.

May Brihaspati, who knows, show the way

And may Indra protect it.
May the moist Maruts sprinkle it with clarified butter

And may King Bhaga make our corn farms laden with grain.

O Queen of the home ! In the beginning

Thou sheltering, kindly Goddess was established by the Gods.
Clad in thy robe of grass, be thou friendly, kindly disposed

And give us wealth, with good men about us.

Thou, O Pole, mount the pillar in due order.

Strong and shining forth afar, keep off our foes.
O House ! Let not those who dwell within thee suffer.

Let us dwell within thee through a hundred autumns

With all our men and folks in the family.

To this House, the tender boy has come.

The calves have come with all the beasts
To drink from this crock hither

Foaming with jars of curdled milk upturned in it.

Bring hither, O Dame, the pitcher full

And pour out the molten butter blent with nectar

Bedewing these thirsty beings with a draught of ambrosia.
May abundance itself guard this dwelling

And fulfill all our hopes and expectations.

Here, I bring Water that is free from all impurities

That kills all cause of illness and disease
With Agni, the immortal one

Here I enter and make the house my own.

( 28 ) A Merchant’s Prayer For Success In His Business  –  BOOK III : HYMN XV

I stir and animate, Indra the merchant .

May he approach us and be our guide and leader.
Chasing ill will, wild beast and highway robber

May He who has the power

Give to me the riches I seek.

The many paths that Gods are wont to travel

The paths that go between heaven and earth
May they all rejoice with me

Through these oblations I offer

Of milk and clarified butter

That I may be rich

And make profit by my purchase.

With fuel for thou. O Agni !

I offer butter and my longing

For strength and conquest.

And, with prayer for strength

I adore this holy hymn
To gain a hundred treasures.

O Agni, pardon our repeat submission.

We have trod this distant road.
Favour us in our effort to sell and barter.

Make our merchandise exchange deals profitable.
Accept the twin offerings in our libations

And grant that they be propitious.

Make our ventures prosperous and enhance our income.
.
Ye gods ! The wealth I carry for my transactions

Seeking to add more to it…
This very wealth I offer to thee.
May this wealth grow for me, not less.

O Agni, upon this sacrifice
Chase away those that hinder our profit !

Ye gods ! The wealth I carry for my transactions

Seeking to add more to it…
This very wealth I offer to thee.

Herein, with this libation

May Indra, Savitr and Soma

Prajāpati and Agni give me splendour.

We sing thy praise, O Hotr-priest Vaisvānara, with reverence !
Keep thou watch over our children

Over our bodies, kine and lives.

Still to thee, O Jātavedas, ever will we bring oblation

As to a stabled horse.
Joying in food, O Agni

And in the growth of our riches

May we, thy servants, never suffer.

( 29 ) A Farmer’s Song And Prayer To Speed The Plough  –  BOOK III : HYMN XVII

Wise and devoted to the Gods

Skilful men fast bind the ropes to the plough
And lay the yokes on either side.

Lay on the yokes and fasten well the traces :

Sow the seeds in the furrow formed.
Virāj, vouchsafe us while we sense plenty with restraint !
Let the ripe grain come home with drawing of the sickle.

The sharp share of the plough bringeth bliss

Traces on the oxen

Stilts on the ground hold it right and steady.

Shear out for me a cow, a sheep

Get a rapid driver the cart

And a blooming woman, plump and strong !

May Indra press the furrow down

May Pūshan guard and cherish her.
May she, well stored with love

Yield lovingly for us

Through each succeeding year.

Happily let the share turn up the soil

The men happily follow the oxen.
Suna and Sira ! Pleased with our sacrifice

Make the plants bring abundant produce to this man.

Happily may our steers and men work.

May the plough furrow happily.
Happily be the traces bound.

Happily may the driving – goad ply.

Suna and Sira ! Welcome ye to this laud.

Bedew ye both this earth of ours

With the milk that ye have made in heaven.

Auspicious Sitā, come thou near :

We venerate and worship thee
That thou mayst bless us and bestow prosperity

And bring to us abundant fruits for our efforts.

Loved by the Visvedevas and the Maruts

Let Sitā be bedewed with oil and honey.
Turn thou to us, O Sitā, with the wealth of milk

In vigour and strength

And pouring streams of clarified butter.

( 30 ) A Jealous Wife’s Incantation Against A Rival  –  BOOK III : HYMN XVIII

From out the earth I dig this Plant and Herb

Of most effectual power
Wherewith one quells the rival wife

And gains the husband for oneself.

O Victorious Plant ! Sent by the Gods !

Auspicious thou, with expanded leaves !

Drive thou the rival wife away

And make my husband only mine.

Indeed, he hath not named her

But dalliest not thou with this husband of mine.
Far into the most remote distance

We drive the rival wife away.

Stronger am I with you for support, O Stronger One !

Aye, mightier than the mighty, indeed.
Let my rival be beneath me

Lower than the lowest dame !

I am the conqueror with thou

And it is thou who art truly victorious.
And, as victory attends us both

We will subdue the emulating bed-mate.

I have girt thee, my Man !

With the conquering Plant

And laid the Mightiest One beneath thee.
As a cow hastens to her calf

And water on its way

So too will thy spirit speed to me,