Veda indicates that we indeed have friends everywhere in this world, there is immense strength in them
and we can confidently approach them for help. Results could be truly spectacular if we take the result as
a gift from God. Rishi Shantati calls out like this in Sukta 11.6:
11.6.1 We call upon fire, plants, food, herbs, cloud and sun to save us from difficulties.
11.6.2 We call upon great king, learned friends, the rich, and the part of the divine One present
everywhere to free us from distress.
11.6.3 We call upon the victors, motivators, supporters, leaders, and deep thinkers to save us from
hardships.
11.6.4 We call upon doctors, damsels, Brahmins, and judges to save us when in trouble.
11.6.5 We call upon day and night, sun and moon, and all bright and intelligent ones to save us from
troubles.
11.6.8 We call upon the birds in the sky and the animals in the jungles to save us from distress.
11.6.10 We call upon the stars, the earth, the sacred places, mountains, rivers, oceans and lakes to save
us from distress.
11.6.11 We call upon our Saptarshis - skin, eye, ear, tongue, nose, mind and intellect along with their
fields, our souls, and our disciplinary ruling principles to save us from distress.
11.6.12 May the divine qualities of sun, space and the energetic earth save us from distress.
11.6.16 We call upon the stingy, the demonic, the snakes, the pious, and our ancestors and also the one
hundred and one types of deaths to save us from distress.
11.6.19 We call upon the ambitious and the truthful to save us with all the powers at their disposal.
11.6.23 For those who know this, God is present in all. Hey citizens, gift this universal cure to one another.
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