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SIGNALLING A PRELUDE to creation, Brahma's placid mind took on a vibratory mode; and Atri, along with the other sages, was born of him. The earliest reference to him is as a Vedic seer, found in the hymns of the Rig Veda, along with Agni, Indra, etc. The fifth mandala (section) of the Rig Veda is ascribed to him. In a mystic meditation on prana, the vital breath, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, after describing the other six sages, depicts Atri, the seventh, thus: 'The tongue is Atri, for through the tongue food is eaten. Atri is but this name "Atti". He who knows it as such becomes the eater of all, and everything becomes his food’.

SIGNALLING A PRELUDE to creation, Brahma's placid mind took on a vibratory mode; and Atri, along with the other sages, was born of him. The earliest reference to him is as a Vedic seer, found in the hymns of the Rig Veda, along with Agni, Indra, etc. The fifth mandala (section) of the Rig Veda is ascribed to him. In a mystic meditation on prana, the vital breath, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, after describing the other six sages, depicts Atri, the seventh, thus: 'The tongue is Atri, for through the tongue food is eaten. Atri is but this name "Atti". He who knows it as such becomes the eater of all, and everything becomes his food’.