Vedic Verses for 8/11/17

[Yama:] Your friend repudiates such a friendship as will make of his sister a woman unrelated. The heroes, sons of the mighty Asura, sustainers of the heaven, view all from afar.

Rig Veda X, 10, 2

[Yami:] Do not the immortals require of you that from the sole existing mortal issue an offspring? Let your heart and mine be fused together. Enter now as husband the body of your wife!

Rig Veda X, 10, 3

[Yama:] Shall we do now what has hitherto been spurned? Shall we who speak truth now countenance wrong? The Merman and the Nymph within the waters– these are our origin, our intimate kinship.

Rig Veda X, 10, 4

[Yami:] Even in the womb God, the Ordainer and Vivifier, the molder of forms, made us consorts. No one transgresses his Holy Laws; to this both Heaven and Earth bear witness.

Rig Veda X, 10, 5

[Yama:] Who knows about the first day? Who has seen it? Who can of that day produce firm proof? Great is the decree of Mitra and Varuna, What, temptress, will you say to men to seduce them?

Rig Veda X, 10, 6

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