Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 121: A prayer for happiness in heaven

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HYMN CXXI

A prayer for happiness in heaven

Spreading them out, untie the snares that hold us, Varuna's
bonds, the upper and the lower.
Drive from us evil dream, drive off misfortune; then let us go in-
to the world of virtue.
If thou art bound with cord or tied to timber, fixt in the earth,
or by a word imprisoned,
Our Agni Gārhapatya here shall free thee, and lead thee up into
the world of virtue.
The two auspicious stars whose name is called Releasers have
gone up.
Send Amrit hither, let it come freeing the captive from his
bonds!
Open thyself, make room: from bonds thou shalt release the
prisoner.
Freed, like an infant newly born, dwell in all pathways where
thou wilt.