Water, you kindly grant life
In which we can find happiness.
Please grant us your most auspicious nourishing essence
Like a mother feeding her beloved
You carry us happily to far destinations
And give us strength for procreation
Waters that we drink, you are goddesses bringing aid and bliss
Let your health and strength stream to us
Come in a flood to heal us, goddess queens ruling precious things
Supreme controllers of men
The Moon God (Soma) told me that water holds the power of every medicine
And holds within her the all-blessing God
Waters, you are full of medicine, protecting my body
So that I may live long under the Sun
My faults, my evils, my lies
Wash them away, O water
Water, with this prayer I seek the blessing of your Moisture
Send forth God, the nourisher, to bath me in light
This is ninth prayer from the tenth chapter of the world’s oldest surviving book, the Rg Veda. The ancient founder of my school of astrology, Sage Parashara, prescribes meditation on the fourth line of this prayer (in bold) to pacify problems astrologically related to Saturn.
The Sanskrit for this fourth line is:
शं नो देवीरभिष्टय
अापो भवन्तु पीतये
शं योरभि स्रवन्तु नः
shamn no deviirabhizhTaya
aapo bhavantu piitaye
shamn yorabhi srvantu naH
