Hindu Medicine c8.55

c8.55

The hymn then dwells again on the macrocosmic aspects of life-breath in the form of the fire of lightning, the divine babe that grows in the watery womb of the motherly clouds (mātariśvan) (15); of wind (15), and rain (17), and the vegetation stirred into existence by the cosmic prāṇa (17). Thus the incantation returns to the idea from which it started; in closing the cycle, it announces the reward which is in store for the initiated who becomes aware of the power of breath and worships all its aspects, revering its very sound as perceived in its ceaseless rhythmical flow, both in his own organism and in the universal body (18, 19):