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To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer
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Rig Veda V.82 <\/b>
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1. Of Savitri divine we embrace that enjoying, that which is
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2. For of him no pleasure in things can they diminish, for too self-victorious is it, nor the self-empire of this Enjoyer.
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3. ‘Tis he that sends forth the delights on the giver, the god who is the bringer forth of things; that varied richness of his
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4. Today, O divine Producer, send forth on us fruitful felicity,
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5. All evils, O divine Producer, dismiss; what is good, that send forth on us.
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6. Blameless for infinite being in the outpouring of the divine Producer, we hold by the thought all things of delight.
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7. The universal godhead and master of being we accept into ourselves by perfect words today, the Producer whose production is of the truth —<\/span><\/p>\n

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8. He who goes in front of both this day and night never
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9. He who by the rhythm makes heard of the knowledge all
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COMMENTARY
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Four great deities constantly appear in the Veda as closely allied in their nature and in their action, Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga,
\nAryaman. Varuna and Mitra are continually coupled together in the thoughts of the Rishis; sometimes a trio appears together,
\nVaruna, Mitra and Bhaga or Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman. Separate sūktas <\/i>addressed to any of these godheads are comparatively  
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\nrare, although there are some important hymns of which Varuna is the deity. But the Riks in which their names occur, whether in
\n hymns to other gods or in invocations to the All-gods, the Viś<\/font>ve<\/i>
\n\t\t\t \t\t\tDevā<\/font>h<\/font><\/i>, are by no means inconsiderable in number.
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\n These four deities are, according to Sayana, solar powers, Varuna negatively as lord of the night, Mitra positively as lord
\nof the day, Bhaga and Aryaman as names of the Sun. We need not attach much importance to these particular identifications,
\nbut it is certain that a solar character attaches to all the four. In them that peculiar feature of the Vedic gods, their essential
\noneness even in the play of their different personalities and functions, comes prominently to light. Not only are the four closely
\nassociated among themselves, but they seem to partake of each other’s nature and attributes, and all are evidently emanations
\nof Surya Savitri, the divine being in his creative and illuminative solar form.
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\n Surya Savitri is the Creator. According to the Truth of things, in the terms of the Ritam, the worlds are brought forth from
\nthe divine consciousness, from Aditi, goddess of infinite being, mother of the gods, the indivisible consciousness, the Light that
\ncannot be impaired imaged by the mystic Cow that cannot be slain. In that creation, Varuna and Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga
\nare four effective Puissances. Varuna represents the principle of pure and wide being, Sat in Sachchidananda; Aryaman represents the light of the divine consciousness working as Force; Mitra representing light and knowledge, using the principle of
\nAnanda for creation, is Love maintaining the law of harmony; Bhaga represents Ananda as the creative enjoyment; he takes the
\ndelight of the creation, takes the delight of all that is created. It is the Maya, the formative wisdom of Varuna, of Mitra that
\ndisposes multitudinously the light of Aditi brought by the Dawn to manifest the worlds.
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\n In their psychological function these four gods represent the same principles working in the human mind, in the human
\ntemperament. They build up in man the different planes of his being and mould them ultimately into the terms and the forms
\nof the divine Truth. Especially Mitra and Varuna are continually   <\/span> <\/p>\n

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described as holding firm the law of their action, increasing the Truth, touching the Truth and by the Truth enjoying its vastness
\nof divine will or its great and uncontracted sacrificial action. Varuna represents largeness, right and purity; everything that
\ndeviates from the right, from the purity recoils from his being and strikes the offender as the punishment of sin. So long as
\nman does not attain to the largeness of Varuna’s Truth, he is bound to the posts of the world-sacrifice by the triple bonds
\nof mind, life and body as a victim and is not free as a possessor and enjoyer. Therefore we have frequently the prayer to
\nbe delivered from the noose of Varuna, from the wrath of his offended purity. Mitra is on the other hand the most beloved of
\nthe gods; he binds all together by the fixities of his harmony, by the successive lustrous seats of Love fulfilling itself in the order
\n\t\t\t of things, mitrasya dhāmabhih<\/i>. His name, Mitra, which means
\n also friend, is constantly used with a play upon the double sense;
\nit is as Mitra, because Mitra dwells in all, that the other gods become the friends of man. Aryaman appears in the Veda with
\nbut little distinctness of personality, for the references to him are brief. The functions of Bhaga are outlined more clearly and are
\nthe same in the cosmos and in man.
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In this hymn of Shyavashwa to Savitri we see both the functions of Bhaga and his oneness with Surya Savitri; for it is to the creative Lord of Truth that the hymn is addressed, to Surya,
\nbut to Surya specifically in his form as Bhaga, as the Lord of Enjoyment. The word
\nbhaga <\/i>means enjoyment or the enjoyer
\nand that this sense is the one held especially appropriate to the divine name, Bhaga, is emphasised by the use of
\nbhojanam<\/i>,
\n bhā<\/font>ga<\/i>, saubhagam <\/i>in the verses of the hymn. Savitri, we have
\nseen, means Creator, but especially in the sense of producing, emitting from the unmanifest and bringing out into the manifest. Throughout the hymn there is a constant dwelling upon this root-sense of the word which it is impossible to render
\nadequately in a translation. In the very first verse there is a covert play of the kind; for
\nbhojanam <\/i>means both enjoyment
\nand food and it is intended to be conveyed that the “enjoyment of Savitri” is Soma, from the same root
\nsu<\/i>, to produce, press
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\nout, distil, Soma, the food of divine beings, the supreme distilling, highest production of the great Producer. What the Rishi
\nseeks is the enjoyment in all created things of the immortal and immortalising Ananda.
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\n It is this Ananda which is that enjoyment of the divine Producer, of Surya Savitri, the supreme result of the Truth; for Truth
\nis followed as the path to the divine beatitude. This Ananda is the highest, the best enjoyment. It disposes all aright; for once
\nthe Ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. It carries man
\nthrough to the goal. If by the truth and right of things we arrive at the Ananda, by the Ananda also we can arrive at the right
\nand truth of things. It is to the divine Creator in the name and form of Bhaga that this human capacity for the divine and
\nright enjoyment of all things belongs. When he is embraced by the human mind and heart and vital forces and physical being,
\nwhen this divine form is received into himself by man, then the Ananda of the world manifests itself.
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\n Nothing can limit, nothing can diminish, neither god nor demon, friend nor enemy, event nor sensation, whatever pleasure
\nthis divine Enjoyer takes in things, in whatever vessel or object of his enjoyment. For nothing can diminish or hedge in or hurt
\n\t\t\t his luminous self-empire, svarājyam<\/i>, his perfect possession of
\nhimself in infinite being, infinite delight and the vastnesses of the order of the Truth.
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\n Therefore it is he that brings the seven delights, sapta ratnā<\/font><\/i>,
\nto the giver of the sacrifice. He looses them forth on us; for they are all there in the world as in the divine being, in ourselves also,
\nand have only to be loosed forth on our outer consciousness. The rich and varied amplitude of this sevenfold delight, perfect on
\n\t\t\t all the planes of our being, is the bhā<\/font>ga<\/i>, enjoyment or portion
\nof Bhaga Savitri in the completed sacrifice, and it is that varied wealth which the Rishi seeks for himself and his fellows in the
\nsacrifice by the acceptance of the divine Enjoyer.
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\n Shyavashwa then calls on Bhaga Savitri to vouchsafe to him
\neven today a felicity not barren, but full of the fruits of activity, rich in the offspring of the soul,
\n\tprajāvat saubhagam<\/i>. Ananda is  
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creative, it is jana<\/i>, the delight that gives birth to life and world; only let the things loosed forth on us be of the creation conceived
\nin the terms of the truth and let all that belongs to the falsehood, to the evil dream created by the ignorance of the divine Truth,
\nduhsvapnyam<\/i>, be dismissed, dispelled away from our conscious being.
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In the next verse he makes clearer the sense of
\nduhsvapnyam<\/i>.
\n  What he desires to be dispelled is all evil, visvani duritani<\/i>.
\nSuvitam <\/i>and duritam <\/i>in the Veda mean literally right going and wrong going.
\nSuvitam <\/i>is truth of thought and action, duritam<\/i>
\nerror or stumbling, sin and perversion. Suvitam <\/i>is happy going, felicity, the path of Ananda;
\nduritam <\/i>is calamity, suffering, all
\n  ill result of error and ill doing. All that is evil, viś<\/font>vā<\/font>ni duritani<\/i>,
\n\t\t\tbelongs to the evil dream that has to be turned away from us. Bhaga
\n\t\t\tsends to us instead all that is good, —bhadram<\/i>, good in the sense of felicity, the auspicious things of the divine enjoying,
\nthe happiness of the right activity, the right creation.
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For, in the creation of Bhaga Savitri, in his perfect and fault
\nless sacrifice, —there is a double sense in the word sava<\/i>, “loosing forth”, used of the creation, and the sacrifice, the libation of the
\nSoma, —men stand absolved from sin and blame by the Ananda, anāgaso<\/i>, blameless in the sight of Aditi, fit for the undivided and infinite consciousness of the liberated soul. The Ananda owing to
\nthat freedom is capable of being in them universal. They are able
\nto hold by their thought all things of the delight, viś<\/font>vā<\/font>
\nvāmāni<\/i>;
\n\t\t\t for in the dhī<\/i>, the understanding that holds and arranges, there is right arrangement of the world, perception of right relation,
\nright purpose, right use, right fulfilment, the divine and blissful intention in all things.
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It is the universal Divine, the master of the Sat, from whom all things are created in the terms of the truth,
\nsatyam<\/i>, that the
\nsacrificers today by means of the sacred mantras <\/i>seek to accept into themselves under the name of Bhaga Savitri. It is the creator
\nwhose creation is the Truth, whose sacrifice is the outpouring of the truth through the outpouring of his own Ananda, his divine
\nand unerring joy of being, into the human soul. He as Surya Savitri, master of the Truth, goes in front of both this Night
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\nand this Dawn, of the manifest consciousness and the unmanifest, the waking being and the subconscient and superconscient
\nwhose interaction creates all our experiences; and in his motion he neglects nothing, is never unheeding, never falters. He goes
\nin front of both bringing out of the night of the subconscient the divine Light, turning into the beams of that Light the uncertain
\nor distorted reflections of the conscient, and always the thought is rightly placed. The source of all error is misapplication, wrong
\nplacing of truth, wrong arrangement, wrong relation, wrong positing in time and place, object and order. But in the Master
\nof Truth there is no such error, no such stumbling, no such wrong placing.
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\n Surya Savitri, who is Bhaga, stands between the Infinite and the created worlds within us and without. All things that
\nhave to be born in the creative consciousness he receives into the Vijnana; there he puts it into its right place in the divine
\nrhythm by the knowledge that listens and receives the Word as it descends and so he looses it forth into the movement of things,
\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\u00b4  \t\t\t<\/i>  āśrāvayati ślokena pra ca
\n\tsuvāti. <\/i>When in us each creation of
\n\t\t\t the active Ananda, the prajāvat saubhagam<\/i>, comes thus out of
\nthe unmanifest, received and heard rightly of the knowledge in the faultless rhythm of things, then is our creation that of
\nBhaga Savitri, and all the births of that creation, our children, our offspring, prajā<\/font><\/i>, apatyam<\/i>, are things of the delight,
\nviś<\/font>vā<\/font><\/i>
\n \t\t\t   \t\t\t<\/i> vāmāni<\/i>. This is the accomplishment of Bhaga in man, his full
\nportion of the world-sacrifice.  
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