Hymns to the Maruts: the forces of the wind

In the Rig Veda, the Maruts are not simple winds. They are forces in motion — loud, fast, unpredictable.
They embody raw natural energy when it is unleashed.

The hymns dedicated to them speak of storms, thunder, lightning, but also of vital impulse and transformation.

1. Who are the Maruts?

The Maruts are described as young, fierce, always moving as a group, armed with lightning and thunder. They rush through the sky, shaking the Earth. They announce storms, change, and the breaking of stillness.

They are often associated with Indra, whom they accompany in battle. But they are not subordinate — they act through their own power.

2. The Maruts as intermediate forces

In the reading of the three worlds Earth is ordinary consciousness, the sky is illumination, the in-between is movement. The Maruts clearly belong to this intermediate world.

They are the wind that connects Earth and sky, stillness and light, humanity and the sacred.

They represent everything that sets consciousness in motion.

3. An image of inner forces

The hymns to the Maruts are not only about weather. They also describe what happens inside human beings sudden impulses, inner upheavals, mental storms, moments when everything shakes before transformation.

The Maruts are the forces that disturb, but allow passage.
Without them, nothing changes.

4. A necessary but dangerous energy

The Maruts are neither gentle nor comforting. They can destroy as much as they can liberate.The hymns show that they must be acknowledged, respected, but not controlled.

They remind us that every deep transformation passes through disorder.

5. A message for today

Even today, the forces of the wind are visible in climatic storms, in social upheavals, in inner crises.

The Maruts remind us that movement is inevitable.
The question is not how to avoid it, but how to cross the storm consciously.