Vedic prayer: A journey to churn the ocean (nature)

 Om dakshinadigindro dhipatisthiroshciraji rakshita pitr ishabha: .

Tevyo namo dhipotivyo namo rakshitavyo namo ishyuvyo namo evyo astu.

Yoshmandestiyam vayam dismantamvo jamve dadhmh:

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Ishwar rules the southern quarter as Indra, guard as Tirashciraji, preserve and pervade the wisdom of our forefathers with arrow-like morning rays. With utmost respect, I bow to Indra, I bow to Tiraschiraji, I bow to the morning rays signifying pervading wisdom. Oh, Indra, the refulgent, we bring those to your just consciousness, who absorbed in vileness and jealousy keeps up strident enmity towards us.

Being in a conscious mind, contemplating Ishwar signifying six devas; Agni, Indra, Varuna, Soma, Vishnu and Brihaspati and psychologically staying close to the pervading presence of Ishwar to the six quarters that pervade us, is the praying in Vedic way. We relentlessly talk about Gayatri, but how many of us realize the last line of that mantra,

Dhiyo yo nah pracodayat

Means, who gives us pure thoughts and intelligence. Let’s remember “Us,” not “me”. That’s an important distinction between Vedic thought and non-Vedic thoughts of India.

Vedic dharma does not call or advocates bliss to someone particular. Never. It’s a collective journey towards noble consciousness. Through one’s word, thought, action, demeanor, posture it’s a journey of realization of an ultimate entity and the call to humankind through the power of the expression of that realization to explore the divinity of the cosmos.

It’s like an invitation to Great Yajna, the eternal Fire ritual as Purusha Sukta tells us, where the cycle of the celebration of creation and cessation seen as the great sacrifice is primordially present.