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The Twentieth Hymn to Agni
A HYMN OF THE WORK AND THE ATTAINMENT
[The Rishi desires a state of spiritual wealth full of the divine working in which nothing shall fall away to the division and the crookedness. So, increasing by our works the divine Force in us daily, we shall attain to the Bliss and the Truth, the rapture of the Light and the rapture of the Force.]
1. O Will, O conqueror of our plenitude, the felicity which thou alone canst conceive in the mind, that make full of inspiration by our words and set it to labour in the gods as our helper.
2. They who are powers increased of thee in the fierceness of thy flame and strength, yet impel us not on the path, they fall away to the division, they cleave to the crookedness of a law that is other than thine.
3. Thee, O Will, we take to us as the priest of the offering and the accomplisher of a discerning knowledge; holding for thee all our delights we call thee the ancient and supreme to our sacrifices by the word;
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4. Rightly and in such wise that, O forceful god, O perfect power of works, we may increase thee day by day, that we
may have the Bliss, that we may have the Truth, that we may have perfect rapture by the Rays of the knowledge, that we
may have perfect rapture by the Heroes of the Force.
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