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Atharvaveda - VI 46 Exorcism of Evil dreams
Identifier
015846
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The Atharvaveda translated by Maurice Bloomfield
Thou, who art neither alive nor dead
The immortal child of the gods art thou.
O Sleep
Varunani is thy mother
Yama thy father
Araru is thy name
We know, O Sleep, thy birth
thou art the son of the divine womenfolk
the instrument of Yama
Thou art the end,
Thus do we know thee, O Sleep
do thou O Sleep
protect us from evil dreams
As one pays off a sixteenth
an eighth
a fourth
or an entire debt
thus do we transfer every evil dream
away, to disappear
upon the night winds