Loosen the bonds, O Varuna, which bind us, which crush us, cramping our every movement. Make us sinless in respect to your Holy Law, unbound for Boundlessness, O son of Aditi.
Rig Veda I, 24, 15
Whatever law of yours, O God Varuna, we, being mortal men, may violate day after day, do not consign us, we beg, as prey to death or to your own fierce anger, to be destroyed by reason of your displeasure.
Rig Veda I, 25, 1
Give us, Lord, a share of sunlight, of waters, freedom from sin and communion with the living. Do not tarnish the joy of our hearts for we have put our trust in your name.
Rig Veda I, 104, 6
When the sun has set, Yajnavalkya and the moon has set and the fire has gone out, what serves as light for a man? Speech (sound) serves as his light, for with speech as light he sits, goes out, works and returns. Therefore, Your Majesty, when one cannot see even one’s own hand, yet when a sound is uttered, one can go there. Just so, Yajnavalkya.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV, III-Investigation of the Three States, 5
Which is the self? This purusha which is identified with the intellect (vijnanamaya) and is in the midst of the orgams, the self-indulgent light within the heart (intellect). Assuming the likeness of the intellect, it wansers between the two worlds; it thinks, as it were and moves, as it were being indetified with dreams, it trasncends this waking world, which represents the forms of death (ignorance and its effects).
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV, III-Investigation of the Three States, 7
