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Far go my thoughts (to him), as go
The eager cows that meadows seek, Desiring (him), the wide-eyed (god). Together let us talk again, Since now the offering sweet I bring, By thee beloved, and like a priest Thou eat'st.
I see the wide-eyed (god): I see his chariot on the earth, My song with joy hath he received.
Hear this my call, O Varuna, Be merciful to me today, For thee, desiring help, I yearn.
Thou, wise one, art of everything, The sky and earth alike, the king; As such upon thy way give ear, And loose from us the (threefold) bond; The upper bond, the middle, break, The lower, too, that we may live.
In the portrait of such a god as this one comes very near to monotheism. The conception of an almost solitary deity, recognized as watcher of wrong, guardian of right, and primitive creator, approaches more closely to unitarianism than does the idea of any physical power in the Rig Veda.
To the poet of the Rig Veda Varuna is the enveloping heaven;[70] that is, in distinction from Dyaus, from whom he differs toto caelo, so to speak, the invisible world, which embraces the visible sky. His home is there where lives the Unborn, whose place is unique, above the highest heaven.[71]