gathina vishwamitra

 

SUKTA  24

1. O Fire, overpower the hostile armies, hurl them from us; hard to pierce, pierce the enemy-powers, found thy splendour in him who carries through the sacrifice. 

2. O Fire, thou art kindled by the word of revelation, the immortal who comes to the offering, accept wholly our pilgrim-sacrifice.

3. O Fire, ever-wakeful with thy light, O son of force, invoked sit on my seat of sacrifice.

 

¹Or, in the river Drishadwati, in Apaya and in Saraswati.    ²Or, himself a begetter;

4. O Fire, with all thy divine fires greaten in our sacrifices the word that has sight.

5. O Fire, give to the giver a wealth full of hero-strengths enclosing us; intensify the force in us having with us the Son.

 

sukta  25

1. O Fire, thou art the son of heaven by the body of the earth, the conscious knower, even the omniscient. Sacrifice to each god in turn, O thou who knowest.

2. Fire the knower wins the hero-energies, wins the plenitudes striving towards immortality. So do thou bring to us the gods, O giver of the manifold plenty.

3. The Fire, free from all ignorance, illumines Earth and Heaven the divine and immortal mothers of all things; possessing all he is manifold in his delights by his plenitudes and his dispensations.

4. O Fire, and O Indra, here in the gated house of the giver who offers the wine, come to the sacrifice, gods unforgetting, for the drinking of the Soma-wine.

5. O Fire, thou shinest high, eternal in the house of the waters, O son of force, O knower of all things born, greatening under thy guard the worlds of thy session.

 

SUKTA  26

1. We the Kushikas, bringing the offering, desiring the Treasure, call by our words Fire, the universal godhead, discerning him by the mind, as the follower of the truth, who finds the world of the sun, the great giver, the divine and rapturous charioteer.

2. We call to guard us that brilliant Fire, the universal godhead, who grows in the mother, the master of the word, the speaker and the hearer, for the human being's forming of the god-head, the illumined Seer, the Guest, the swift Traveller.

3. As if the neighing Horse by the mothers, the universal god-head is kindled high by the Kushikas from generation to generation; may that Fire wakeful in the Immortals give to us the hero-strength and good power of the Horse and the ecstasy.

4. Let them go forward, the plenitudes with the strengths, thy Fires; they have yoked the dappled mares mingled together to reach bliss and make the mountains tremble, before them the life-gods, omniscient, pouring the Vast, inviolable.

5. The life-gods with their glory of fire, universal in the peoples,¹ we desire as our brilliant and forceful guard; great givers are they, thunderous and terrible, clothed as if in raiment of rain, they are like roaring lions.  

6. Host upon host, troop upon troop with their proclaimings of the Fire we desire the luminous energy of the life-gods; they come to the sacrifice driving their dappled horses, their achievement cannot be taken from them, they are wise thinkers in the discoveries of knowledge.

7. I am the Fire, I am from my birth the knower of all things born; light is my eye, in my mouth is immortality; I am the triple Ray, I am the measurer of the mid-world, I am the unceasing illumination, I am the offering.

    

¹Or, dragging all with them,

light; he has created by the self-laws of his nature the supreme ecstasy and his sight has embraced earth and heaven.

9. He is a fountain with a hundred streams that is never exhausted, with his illumined consciousness he is the father and accorder of all that must be spoken; he takes his rapture in the lap of the Father and Mother and earth and heaven fill him full, the speaker of truth.

 

SUKTA  27

1. Forward move the luminous plenitudes bearing the offering with the ladle of light; the seeker of bliss travels to the gods.  

2. I pray by the word the Fire with its illumined consciousness, who accomplishes the sacrifice, who has the inspiration, who has the firm holding.

3. O Fire, may we have the power to rein thee, the divine steed of swiftness, may we cross through the hostile forces.  

4. Fire high-blazing in the rite of the path. Fire whom we must

pray, who purifies, with his tresses of flame — him we desire.

5. He is the immortal, wide in might, clothed in raiment of light; well-fed with the oblation. Fire is the carrier of the offerings in the sacrifice.

6. Assailed by the opponent the doers of sacrifice, setting to work the ladle, keeping the true thought, have made the Fire to guard them.

7. The immortal, the godhead, the Priest of the call goes in our front with his mage-wisdom, impelling the discoveries of knowledge.

8. He is held as the Horse in the plenitudes, he is led along in the rites of the path, he is the illumined Seer who accomplishes the sacrifice.

9. He was made by the Thought, one Supreme;¹ it held the child of beings, the father of the Understanding in the body.²  

 

     ¹Or, the desirable one;

       ²Or, the daughter of the Understanding set him in us the child born from creatures and their father.

10. The word of revelation born from the understanding sets thee within, one supreme, O thou forcefully created, O Fire, the perfect thinker and the aspirant. 

11. Fire the swift in motion, who crosses through the waters, the illumined seers desiring to conquer in the union with the Truth set ablaze by the plenitudes. 

12. I pray Fire, the Seer-Will, the Son of Energy flaming out in heaven in the rite of the path.

13. One to be prayed, to be worshipped with obeisance, one who sees¹ through the darkness, the Fire is kindled high, the male of the herd.

14. Mighty and male the Fire is kindled high, he is like a horse that carries the gods, him they pray who bring the offerings.

15. Thee, mighty and male, we male and mighty kindle high, O Bull of the herds, O Fire, and thou illuminest the Vast.

 

     ¹Or, is seen

SUKTA 28

1. O Fire, accept our offering, the frontal oblation in the dawn pressing of the wine, O knower of the births, O rich in thought.

2. O Fire, for thee is the frontal offering prepared and dressed, that accept, O youthful god.

3. O Fire, come to¹ the frontal offering that is cast to thee with the disappearance of day; O son of force, thou art established in the rite of the path.

4. In the noonday pressing of the wine, O seer, knower of all things born, accept the frontal offering. O Fire, the wise thinkers in their discoveries of knowledge impair not thy portion, who art the mighty one.

5. O Fire, in the third pressing also thou hast desire of the frontal offering cast to thee, O son of force; do thou by the illumination establish in the gods the pilgrim-sacrifice full of ecstasy and wakeful in the immortals.

 

     ¹Or, devour

  

6. O Fire, increasing accept the frontal offering, the oblation cast with the disappearance of the day, O knower of all things born.

 

sukta  29

1. This is the churning out, this the bringing to birth that is done; bring the Queen of the peoples, let us churn out the Fire as of old.

2. The knower of all births is set in the two tinders, like an unborn child well-placed in the womb of the mothers. Fire who is to be prayed from day to day by men wakeful and bearing their offering.

3. Waking to knowledge bring him down in her lying supine; at once penetrated she has brought to birth the male of the herd: a ruddy pile of strength his might shines forth, the son of the Word of revelation is born in the manifestation of knowledge.

4. We in the seat of the Word of revelation, on the navel-centre

of the earth, set thee within, O knower of all things born, for the carrying of the oblations.

5  Churn out, O men, the seer who creates no duality, the immortal thinker and knower with his fair front; Fire who is the supreme intuition in the sacrifice, the blissful one, bring to birth in your front, O men.

6. When they churn him out by the strength of their arms wide he shines, he is like a horse of swiftness, he is luminous in the woodlands; he is like a richly hued chariot in the journeying of the two riders, none can impede him; burning around the rocks he tears the grasses.

7. Agni when he is born shines waking to knowledge, he is the Horse, the illumined who is declared by the seers, the great giver, whom the gods have set in the pilgrim-sacrifices as the carrier of the offerings, the one to be prayed, the omniscient.  

8. Sit, O Priest of the call, in that world which is thy own waking to knowledge, accomplish the sacrifice in the native seat of deeds well done; manifesting the godheads¹ thou sacrifices! to the gods with the offering, — O Fire, found in the sacrificer the vast expansion. 

 

     ¹Or, bringing the gods

9. O Friends, create his mighty smoke, go with unerring steps towards the plenitude; this is the Fire conqueror in the battle, by whom the gods overcame the destroyers.

10. This is thy native seat where is the order of the Truth whence born thou shonest forth, know it and take there thy session, then give increase to our words.

11. A mighty child in the womb he is called the son of the body;  when he is born he becomes one who voices the godhead:  when as life who grows in the mother he has been fashioned in the mother he becomes a gallop of wind in his movement.   

12. Churned out with the good churning the seer set Within with a perfect placing, — O Fire, make easy the paths of the sacrifice, offer sacrifice to the gods for the seeker of godhead.

13. Mortals have brought to birth the Immortal, Fire with his strong tusk, the unfailing deliverer.¹ The ten sisters who move as companions passion over the male that is born.

     ¹Or, one who unfailing crosses through all.

14. He shone out from the eternal with his seven priests of the call when he blazed on the lap of the mother, in her bosom of plenty. He is full of joy and closes not his eyes from day to day, once he has been born from the belly of the Almighty One.

15. Fighting down the unfriendly powers like the marching hosts of the life-gods the first-born of the Word come to know all that is: the Kushikas have sent forth the luminous word, one by one they have kindled the Fire in the house.

16. Because here today in the going forward of this sacrifice we have chosen thee, O Priest of the call, O thou who wakest to knowledge, thou hast moved to the Permanent, thou hast  achieved by thy toil the Permanent; knowing, come as one possessed of knowledge to the Soma-wine. 

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