USHA - THE GODDESS OF AWAKENING

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This light has come, of all the lights the fairest:

The brilliant brightness has been born effulgent.

 

Urged onward for god Savitar's uprising,

Night now has yielded up her place to morning.

 

Bringing a radiant calf she comes resplendent:

To her the Black One has given up her mansions.

 

Akin, immortal, following each the other,

Morning and Night fare on, exchanging colours.

 

The sisters' pathway is the same, unending:

Taught by the gods alternately they tread it.

 

Fair-shaped, of form diverse, yet single-minded,

Morning and Night clash not, nor do they tarry.

 

Bright leader of glad sounds she shines effulgent:

Widely she has unclosed for us her portals.

 

Pervading all the world she shows us riches:

Dawn has awakened every living creature.

 

Men lying on the ground she wakes to action:

Some rise to seek enjoyment of great riches,

Some, seeing little, to behold the distant:

Dawn has awakened every living creature.

 

One for dominion, and for fame another;

Another is aroused for winning greatness;

Another seeks the goal of varied nurture:

Dawn has awakened every living creature.

 

Daugther of Heaven, she has appeared before us,

A maiden shining in resplendent raiment.

Thou sovereign lady of all earthly treasure,

Auspicious Dawn, shine here to-day upon us.....

 

Gone are those mortals who in former ages

Beheld the flushing of the early morning;

We living men now look upon her shining:

Those will be born who shall hereafter see her.

 

Dispelling foes, observer of world order,

Born in due season, giver of enjoyment,

Wafting oblations, bringing wealth and fortune,

Shine brightly here to-day, O Dawn, upon us....

 

In the sky's framework she has gleamed with brightness;

The goddess has cast off the robe of darkness.

 

Rousing the world from sleep, with ruddy horses,

Dawn in her well-yoked chariot is arriving.

She brings upon it many bounteous blessings;

Brightly she shines and spreads her brilliant lustre.

 

Last of innumerable morns departed,

First of bright morns to come, has Dawn arisen.

Arise! The vital breath again has reached us:

Darkness has gone away and light is coming.

She leaves a pathway for the sun to travel:

We have arrived where men prolong existence.

 

(from Rig Veda I:113)

 

PLEASE, JOIN ME IN OFFERING SALUTATIONS TO THE GODDESS USHA on this

beautiful friday morning.

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Here is a tribute to Goddess USHAS from the sacred text of rig veda !

 

1. THE radiant Dawns have risen up for glory, in their white

splendour like the waves of waters.

She maketh paths all easy, fair to travel, and, rich, hath shown

herself benign and friendly.

 

2 We see that thou art good: far shines thy lustre; thy beams, thy

splendours have flown up to heaven.

Decking thyself, thou makest bare thy bosom, shining in majesty, thou

Goddess Morning.

 

3 Red are the kine and luminous that bear her the Blessed One who

spreadeth through the distance.

The foes she chaseth like a valiant archer, like a swift warrior she

repelleth darkness.

 

4 Thy ways are easy on the hills: thou passest Invincible! Se1f-

luminous! through waters.

So lofty Goddess with thine ample pathway, Daughter of Heaven, bring

wealth to give us comfort.

 

5 Dawn, bring me wealth: untroubled, with thine oxen thou bearest

riches at thy will and pleasure;

Thou who, a Goddess, Child of Heaven, hast shown thee lovely through

bounty when we called thee early.

 

6 As the birds fly forth from their restingplaces, so men with store

of food rise at thy dawning.

Yea, to the liberal mortal who rernaineth at home, O Goddess Dawn,

much good thou bringest.

 

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The picture of goddess USHAS from exoticindia, art is indeed very

beautiful....

 

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