protect us from all sides…

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“The armour of the bounties of nature, shining in the sky, assuming bodily form, put on their bodies, what the resplendent self makes an armour for himself, may that armour protect us from all sides.

May heaven and earth be my armour; my armour be the day; armour be the sun.  May all the bounties of Nature make my armour.  May the army of enemies never reach me.”

– Atharva Veda