How great, O Indra and Soma, is your power! It was you who performed those first and mighty exploits. It was you who subdued the Sun, subdued the Sky, and chased away all darkness, all the ribald.
Rig Veda VI, 72, 1
Indra and Soma, you make the dawn to glow and cause the Sun to rise in all his splendor. You have propped up the Sky with a supporting pillar and spread out Mother Earth in all directions.
Rig Veda VI, 72, 2
Indra and Soma, you smote the serpent Vrtra who sought to obstruct the waters. To you the heavens yielded their load; you pierced the river torrents as with a lance and filled full many a sea.
Rig Veda VI, 72, 3
Within the cow’s udder, unprepared, it was you, O Soma and Indra, who placed the milk. You held the cream-hued unimpeded stream within the multicolored moving creatures.
Rig Veda VI, 72, 4
Yama said: The self-existent Supreme Lord inflicted an injury upon the sense-organs in creating them with outgoing tendencies; therefore a man perceives only outer objects with them and not the inner Self. But a calm person, wishing for Immortality, beholds the inner Self with his eyes closed.
Yajur Veda, Katha Upanishad, Part Two, Chapter I, 1
