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== Vritra’s deeper description ==
the Vedas explain or describe Vritra in this way
athrushnavantham viyatham buddimanam sushupanam indra sapta prati pravatha sayana mahim vajrena virihena aparvanan Rk Samhita 4.19.10 '''(It is 4.19.3)'''
Vrita is called as having a very bulky body and he is but not very powerful, personification of dissatisfaction, unconscious, but doesn’t not recognize that. He sleeps in a way that that sapta sindus can’t flow, he is shaped in a snake form. Such Vritra is killed by Indra with his thunderbolt, on the day of full moon light. Vedas describe the death of Vritra in many places.
The mood of this is the birth of Vritra and killing of Vritra is an eternal principle of this world therefore it is explained that
vratra ahim parishaya maranaha he is lying facing against flowing water. That means life is a continuous flow and no one can stop it. The community life is one kind and the individual life is another kind of flow: bhu, bhuva, suvaha. The 7 vyaharthris they represent the elevation of one’s consciousness. Therefore sapta sindhus they represent the consciousness of the 7 planets of human existence. So therefore this indicates the flow of consciousness in the human existence. We will describe in a different volume on this subject matter. Water is the ingredient that keeps things green, without water there is drought. Similarly in the personality of human beings, if the flow of life or the sapta sindus stop, then there is a drought of spiritual existence, then every aspect of human beings, the emotions, intellectual capacity, friendship, values, relationships, it gives rise to drought like situation. In this way the flow of ruthu or the season is to not to stop is the nature of this world that is the desire of the lord. ruthum ruthaya pavathe and specially those who are on the path of ruju marga, it always flows in a way pleasing and favorable to them and to sleep and stop that flow of water is the main work of Vritrasura. As we described previously panis are the robbers of spiritual knowledge of God. But Vritra is the one who stops the flow of life. He is the one who puts obstacle for human beings to achieve higher realms of life and that gives him happiness. In the water there is a principle of svara-loka and agni deva was the one who killed Dasyus and he released this planet and therefore there is connection between water and paramapada.
This connection is spoken in vedas also
agnir jatho arochathaha grihan dasyun jyotisha tamaha avindath ga apaha svaha Rk Samhita 5.14.4. (Rik is matching)
In many places this connection is given.
apsu surya vahad dhanam the sun god who is residing in water, he has lots of wealth of the devathas. 8.64.9 (Rik not matching)
When Vasishta offered his prayer and glorified the water based on the revelation of this verse. RS 7.49.1 (Rik is matching)
Samudra jeshtaha salilasya Madhya punaha yantha minisha manaya indroya vajro vrishabo ra rath tha apo de virahimamavanthu Rk Samhita 7.49.1
the water flow from river which are continuously flowing for reaching the ultimate destination: ocean, then the flow between sky of ocean and purify the entire existence. One who is transcendentally situated just like Vajri Indra he fulfills everyone’s desire from freeing from Vritra imprisonment. So similarly let the situation of the water flow, let it protect me or let it flow continuously.
The river which is flowing from the ocean, there is one very interesting thing, in earthly planet we see river flowing towards ocean. But here rivers are being born from the ocean (samudra is always superior and it is also salilasya madhyath) this one is symbolic and there is no doubt about it because if you just try to get the meaning, this sukta doesn’t give any explanation or meaning, but in the personality of human being, to recognize or revitalize the consciousness which is dormant, and when it is re-awakened, then most of the time, it is flowing outwards.
In this way life’s transaction goes on. So this one is the rain coming from space and from that perspective, the internal thing is explained. In the future suktas it is explained that this transcendental river is born in devaloka and it flows uninterruptedly and then it re-appears svayam jaha and this river is flowing only for the ocean and Varuna is called the master and he is always watching the satya and unrutha: the truth and falsity. Such daivi descriptions are there.
Samudra has been defined by Yaska Niruktha 12.10 has one of the sixteen meanings of antariksha is samudravanthi aspath apaha samudra samabhidravanthi enam apaha sa vodanthe asmin bhutani samudako bhavathi samono uthyathi va that means water is created and everything is flowing towards water. Every living entity is happy then water enters there and water is making everything wet and this one the ocean that is described here is different from the oceans of the earthly planet. Therefore one of the most important work of Vritra is to stop water flow and that means to stop flow of life. That’s symbolic meaning and therefore to control him and restrict him, that’s the main duty of the devathas or Indra specifically. In this work, the Marut devathas helped Indra. This is explained in Aitreya Brahamana 3.20 similarly in many places the Vedas glorify this. The help of Vsnu is described in previous verses and many devathas have invested their energies in Indra and that’s what is explained
== VRITRASURA( INTERNAL HUNGER) ==
== VRITRASURA( INTERNAL HUNGER) ==
The Vritrasura’s episode described in Taitreya Samhita: In Taitreya Samhita 2.4.1 the story is mentioned in this way: Trashtra prajapathi had a son named Vishwarupa. Once the purohit of the devathas: Brihaspati, being angry, he left his priestly work and so the devathas invited Vishwarupa as their priest and Vishwarupa had some inclination towards the demons. Therefore without the devathas noticing, he would offer some of the oblations to the asuras, which was arranged by, devas. When Indra got to know about this, he was furious and killed Vishwarupa. When Trashtra got to know about this, he was very upset and performed a yajna to get a son who could kill Indra. But how could one do yajna without Indra. Trashtra perfomed yajna without inviting Indra. He did not invite him to drink Soma pana. Indra told Trashtra that he should invite him and Trashtra said since you have killed my son, I’ll not and he performed his yajna without Indra and Indra by force without the permission of Trashtra drank Soma pana during the conclusion of yajna. Being angry with Indra, Trashtra used left over Soma and invoked Havan-agni and took that left over soma and went to ahavana agni and then he blazed the fire and performed the homa and chanted sva indra chatru vardhasya. While chanting this mantra there was some mistake in pronunciation and because of that mispronunciation, the entire meaning got changed. Instead of let there be a son who could kill indra, it became, let there be a son who will be killed by Indra. Instantly, Vritra was born. Indra by knowing that if the Yajna gets complete and if he stays there and devathas would be defeated by Vritra forever, Indra he disappeared from that place meanwhile Vritra started growing like the bow or the as the arrow leaves, he started growing to such an extent and started covering the entire universe.
The Vritrasura’s episode described in Taitreya Samhita: In Taitreya Samhita 2.4.1 the story is mentioned in this way: Trashtra prajapathi had a son named Vishwarupa. Once the purohit of the devathas: Brihaspati, being angry, he left his priestly work and so the devathas invited Vishwarupa as their priest and Vishwarupa had some inclination towards the demons. Therefore without the devathas noticing, he would offer some of the oblations to the asuras, which was arranged by, devas. When Indra got to know about this, he was furious and killed Vishwarupa. When Trashtra got to know about this, he was very upset and performed a yajna to get a son who could kill Indra. But how could one do yajna without Indra. Trashtra perfomed yajna without inviting Indra. He did not invite him to drink Soma pana. Indra told Trashtra that he should invite him and Trashtra said since you have killed my son, I’ll not and he performed his yajna without Indra and Indra by force without the permission of Trashtra drank Soma pana during the conclusion of yajna. Being angry with Indra, Trashtra used left over Soma and invoked Havan-agni and took that left over soma and went to ahavana agni and then he blazed the fire and performed the homa and chanted sva indra chatru vardhasya. While chanting this mantra there was some mistake in pronunciation and because of that mispronunciation, the entire meaning got changed. Instead of let there be a son who could kill indra, it became, let there be a son who will be killed by Indra. Instantly, Vritra was born. Indra by knowing that if the Yajna gets complete and if he stays there and devathas would be defeated by Vritra forever, Indra he disappeared from that place meanwhile Vritra started growing like the bow or the as the arrow leaves, he started growing to such an extent and started covering the entire universe.