Meaning -
I join you with madhu, nectar of the herbs. The rivers, mountains, clouds, all yield the nectar of life. The sparkling stream, the sheepala herbs, all is madhu, nectar sweet of life. May there be peace and comfort in your mouth. Let there be peace in the heart. (There is no word in this sukta which specifically and exclusively means ‘the snake’. The word ‘ahi’ means snake as well as darkness which implies ignorance also. ‘Visha’ means anything perniciously active which can be poison as well as ignorance. The sukta therefore has been interpreted in the physical sense of ‘recovery from poison’, as well as in the psychic and spiritual sense of ‘recovery from ignorance and illusion’. The suggestion of darkness is clear in the first verse itself with the reference to night covering the world with darkness in the absence of the sun. The remedy suggested in the third verse is ‘madhu’, which Swami Dayananda explains as knowledge, karma and meditation in his commentary on Yajurveda 37, 13 and 19,91 where knowledge is explained as the essence of existence like honey being the essence of herbs collected by the bee.)

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