The Rudram Chamakam is a prayer for blessings, where the devotee asks for a series of material and spiritual boons.
Salutations to your ire, Rudram and also salutations to your arrow…
Salutations to your bow and also to both your arms.
Bless us with happiness our Lord,
With that arrow of thine, which is holy,
With that bow of thine, which is begetter of good,
With that quiver of thine, which is sweet.O Rudra, who showers happiness on us from the Mount,
With your aspect which is peaceful,
Which is giver of good always,
And that which is bereft of sin,
And which is the road to salvation,
And which takes us to taller heights,
Reveal to us the principle of the soul.
Salutations and salutations,
To him cuts the tree of mortal life,
And to him who is the lord of the universe.We salute and respect,
Him who is naturally scented,
Who looks after his devotees by mercy,
And him with three eyes,
And pray and request,
To move us away from the catch of death,
Like the cucumber from its stalk,
And firmly put us in the path of salvation.Let our salutations be offered to that Rudra,
Who is in fire,
Who is in water,
Who is in plants and trees,
And who is in everything in the world.
Extracted from the Taittiriya collection of Krishna Yajur Veda.
Aim Hrim Klim
Left Picture by Unknown author – from a 19th-century textbook on Hinduism.http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/bce_500back/vedas/pantheon/pantheon.html, Public Domain, Link
Right picture by PHGCOM – self-made, photographed at Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
