Karmanirnaya 11_35

11_35

“These dappled ones” are the waters, cows, or words. “Of his,” of the Supreme Lord residing in Vāyu as Prāṇa, who “milks water,” they “mix the Soma.” For it is combined with waters. Soma is mixed with milk and the like; or it is grasped with mantras. And because of the scripture: “Now, ‘milking water’—Prāṇa indeed is milking water.” Because it milks excellent water, or action and knowledge, it is “sūdadohas.” “Water” (uda) is that by which a person rises up (udetya) and becomes elevated; thus knowledge and the like, or mind, is indeed Soma. Speech mixes that with its own meanings. Because they are fit for questioning (praśna), words are “pṛśnayaḥ”; or because they consist in praise, or are praiseworthy. Praiseworthiness alone applies to waters and cows. “At the birth of the gods,” in the sacrifice; for their manifestation is there, or earlier in knowledge. “The peoples,” the subjects, also mix [it]. The particle “and” is omitted to show that primarily they alone mix [it]. “In the three luminous realms of heaven”: at the birth, that is, the sacrifice, of the gods who abide as far as the sun, the moon, and lightning. The sacrifice indeed is the birth of the gods, for the gods manifest there.
Because of scriptures such as: “Up to the sun and the moon, up to lightning—they indeed have settled upon the worlds,” and: “Heaven indeed is lightning; having approached its lord Vāyu, through him alone one approaches the Supreme; this same one shines in the world of Brahman,” heaven is indeed lightning. (3)