Rigveda – Mandala 1, Sukta – 36

We shall discuss the hymns, Sukta wise & Mandala wise. Our focus is on the implicit meaning of the various hymns instead of literal translations of the hymns. These purported meanings are based primarily on the English translations by Swami Dharmanand Saraswati of the works done by Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
 
Highlights –
There is one God only and none is more adorable than Him. Vedic hymns eulogy the Supreme Being and fulfil material desires. People should keep the company of persons well versed in Hindu scriptures and who provide happiness & protection to righteous persons and destroy the wicked persons.
The hymn wise, purported explanations –
 
Mandala 1 – Sukta – 36
 

1. With Vedic hymns and holy eulogies, we earnestly request the Supreme Leader and Lord of all His devoted subjects who desire to lead divine lives, whom other benevolent, wise and righteous persons also inflame in their hearts for the fulfilment of noble desires.
2. Men should remain contented with the Communion with or contemplation upon One God only. Wise learned persons never accept anything else as Adorable in the place of God, therefore they cannot be defeated. Thus, those who are atheists can never overcome them.
3. All men cause oblations to reach the heavens, attaining happiness thereby and as the flames or splendors of this electricity and the famous material fire go upwards.
4. None can achieve, preserve and develop or prosper the State without the brave messengers who are well-versed in all Shastras, the best among the knowers of Political Science and History, righteous and clever. Therefore, all should act as stated in these Mantras.
5. It is only the members of the Assemblies along with good ambassadors and messengers who can preserve the State and none else.
6. As learned persons give happiness to the people of the world by putting pure oblation in the sacrificial fire, in the same. manner, the officers and workers of the State should put in prison wicked unrighteous persons and give delight to righteous persons.
7. None can overcome his enemies without the members of the Assembly and servants of the State, who are devoted to the liberal President of the Assembly or the council of ministers) having attained Swarajya.
8. As lightning, fire and sun, cut into pieces the cloud and causing rain fill all worlds with water that gives happiness to all, in the same manner, the subjects should be gladdened by the President of the Assembly and other workers of the State by destroying enemies like the thorns.
9. Highly intelligent officers and workers of the state should be full of splendour like the fire and endowed with great virtues. They should create pure and graceful forms, knowing the real nature of the divine virtues and of the earth and other elements and shining on account of their wisdom.
10. The man whom all learned and other righteous persons. appoint as the ruler of the State, because he is thoughtful, the bringer of all articles that are worth-taking, endowed with noble virtues, possessing the wealth of wisdom and gold etc, who is good mannered and civilized, should protect and preserve all people like their father.
11. The President of the Assembly and other persons of the State should properly utilize the fire which is kindled by the priests and other learned men for the homa that is meant to purify the air and the rain and whose glows or lusters go upwards, whose properties are mentioned in the Vedic Mantras, for the accomplishment of the work of arts and industries that is helpful for administrative purposes.
12. The President of the Assembly and other persons of the State should have friendship with the scholars of the Vedas and other highly learned persons. They should fill up continuously the stores of food and wealth and should be able to wage war against thieves and robbers. Thus, they should give much happiness to the people.
13. A President of the Assembly should be full of splendor like the Sun. He should overcome all unrighteous and wicked enemies by waging war against them and should take his seat on a high pedestal along with the learned priests for the protection of all beings.
14. The President of the Assembly who is exalted on account of noble virtues and good temperament should keep all men away from sin with the fear, of the punishment for the transgression of the laws of the State. He should burn away all wicked foes, should keep with enlightened persons and make all endowed with noble virtues for the growth of knowledge, happiness and life.

1. Men should pray for protection to the kind-hearted President of the Assembly who desires the growth of righteousness and is the protector of all from all sides. Men should also keep themselves away from persons of wicked nature and all sins, in body, word and mind. Without doing so, none can remain ever happy.
2. The Commander of an army and others should smite down the limbs of their enemies as artisans break the stones etc. They should then be engaged day and night in preserving their own subjects, so that enemies may not be able to give them trouble.
3. As this material fire when properly utilized by the learned, gives them strength and prosperity and protects an expert artist and his friends; in the same manner, the President of the Assembly, when requested by the men of army and others gives them strength and encouragement and wealth should preserve experts in the science of war and their friends.
4. All righteous persons should challenge for fight, in co-operation with the President of the Assembly those un-righteous people who take a way unjustly others' articles, who are crooked and desire their victory. They should demolish their houses built on the mountains or in the forests and they should put them into prisons.
5. By the divine grace of the worshippers, by involving the officials of the state for the protection of the subjects, with the fame of true conduct to all men, giving joy to the righteous and chastising the wicked and making wise men imbibe knowledge.
6. The members of the council, the princes and the subjects should destroy the evil-doing creatures, just as the fire etc. consume the forest etc. The subjects should be protected continuously by such virtuous souls.