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\nNila Rudra Upanishad
\n<\/font><\/b>
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\n
\nFirst Part <\/b>
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\nTranslation <\/b>
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\n 1. OM. Thee I beheld in thy descending down from the heavens to the earth, I saw Rudra, the Terrible, the azure-throated,
\nthe peacock-feathered, as he hurled. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
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\n 2. Fierce he came down from the sky, he stood facing me on
\nthe earth as its lord,\u2014the people behold a mass of strength, azure-throated, scarlet-hued.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
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\n 3. This that cometh is he that destroyeth evil, Rudra the Terrible, born of the tree that dwelleth in the waters; let the
\nglobe of the stormwinds come too, that destroyeth for thee all things of evil omen.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
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\n 4. Salutation to thee who bringeth the world into being, salutation to thee, the passionate with mighty wrath. Salutation
\nbe to thy arms of might, salutation be to thy angry shaft.
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\n 5. The arrow thou bearest in thy hand for the hurling, O thou that liest on the mountains, make an arrow of blessing, O
\nkeeper of the hills, let it not slay my armed men. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n 6. With fair speech, O mountain-dweller, we sue to thee in the
\nassembly of the folk, that the whole world may be for us a friendly and sinless place.
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\n 7. That thy arrow which is the kindliest of all and thy bow which is well-omened and that thy quiver which beareth
\nblessing, by that thou livest for us, O lord of slaughter. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\n 8. That thy body, O Terrible One, which is fair and full of
\nkindness and destroyeth sin, not thy shape of terrors, in that thy body full of peace, O mountaineer, thou art wont
\nto be seen among our folk. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\n 9. This Aruna of the dawn that is tawny and copper-red and
\nscarlet-hued, and these thy Violent Ones round about that dwell in the regions in their thousands, verily, it is these
\nwhom we desire.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nCommentary<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n 1.
\nअपश्य<\/font>. I beheld. The speaker is the author of the Upanishad, a prince of the Aryan people, as we see from the fifth verse. He records a vision of Rudra descending from the heavens to the
\nearth. अवः<\/font>, down, is repeated for the sake of vividness. In the
\nsecond half of the sloka the murti or image in which he beheld the Divine Manifestation is described, Rudra, the God of might
\nand wrath, the neck and throat blue, a peacock’s feather as a crest, in the act of hurling a shaft.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n 2. He proceeds to describe the descent. He descended fiercely, that is, with wrath in his face, gesture and motion and stood
\nfacing the seer, प्रत्यष्ठात् <\/font>, on the earth, and over it,
\n\tअधि<\/font>, in a way expressive of command or control. This image of Divine
\nPower, seen by the prince in Yoga, becomes visible to the people in general as a mass of strength,
\n\tमह<\/font>, scarlet in colour, deep blue in the neck and throat.
\n\tमह<\/font>
\nis strength, bulk, greatness. The manifestation is that of wrath and might. The people see Rudra
\nas a mass of brilliance, scarlet-ringed and crested with blue, the scarlet in Yoga denoting violent passion of anger or desire, the
\nblue sraddha, bhakti, piety or religion. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n 3. Rudra, whom we know as the slayer of evil, comes. The Rajarshi describes him as born of the tree that is in the waters.
\n\tभेष<\/font> is
\nby philology identical with the Latin ficus or figtree, aswattha. The aswattha is the Yogic emblem of the manifested world,
\nas in the Gita, the tree of the two birds in the Swetaswatara Upanishad, the single tree in the blue expanse of the Song of
\nLiberation. The jala is the apah or waters from which the world rises. The rishi then prays that the
\n\tवातीकारः<\/font>, mass of winds of which Rudra is lord and which in the tempest of their course
\nblow away all calamity, such as pestilence etc, may come with him.
\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n 4. In the fourth verse he salutes the God. Rudra is the Supreme Ishwara, Creator of the World, He is the dreadful, wrathful
\nand destroying Lord, swift to slay and punish. भाम<\/font> is passionate
\n <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPage – 292<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t<\/font>
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anger, and the word मन्युः<\/font> denotes a violent disturbed state of  mind, passion, either of grief or of anger.
\ntherefore means, one who is full of the passion of violent anger.
\nभाममन्यवे<\/font> Rudra
\nis being saluted as a God of might and wrath, it is therefore to the arms as the seat of strength and the arrow as the weapon of
\ndestruction that salutation is made. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n 5. Rudra is coming in a new form of wrath and destruction in
\nwhich the Aryans are not accustomed to see him. Apprehensive of the meaning of this vision, the King summons the people and
\nin assembly prayer is offered to Rudra to avert possible calamity. The shaft is lifted to be hurled from the bow; it is prayed that it
\nmay be turned into a shaft of blessing, not of wrath. In this verse the Prince prays the God not to slay his men, meaning evidently,
\nthe armed warriors of the clan. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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