{"id":1874,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:01","slug":"57-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-eighteenth-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/15-the-secret-of-veda\/57-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-eighteenth-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-57_Hymns to Agni – V 1- 28 – Hymn Eighteenth.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Eighteenth Hymn to Agni <\/font><\/b>
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\n A HYMN OF THE LORDS OF THE PLENITUDE <\/b>
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\n \t[The Divine Will is invoked to complete the manifestation of the divine powers after the second state of the soul when it has
\npassed beyond the mere physical being and is full of the perfect energy of the vital plane; for the gods have given all the life’s
\nfifty steeds of swiftness, Agni is there as the light and flame of its far-extended existence which has broken the limitations of
\nthe material being and he is full of the joys of this new and rich supra-physical life. Now the third state, the free mental
\nbeing, is to be perfected by a richly varied and luminous play of thought and word ending in the manifestation of the highest
\nreach of the mental realms, the power of the supramental Light in the mentality; there begins the manifestation of the intuitive
\nand inspired mind. Agni has to create that vastness and light and divinity of the Truth-knowledge and so crown with it the
\nalready attained free swiftness of force and wide range of life and enjoyment proper to the perfected and god-filled vitality.]
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\n 1. Let the Will be affirmed in the dawning,1<\/font><\/sup> guest of the creature with his many delights who, immortal in mortals, takes
\njoy in all their offerings.
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\nThe dawning of the divine Dawn of the higher knowledge in the mind.  
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\n2. He is the plenitude of his own discerning mind for the second soul2<\/font><\/sup> when it bears the purified intelligence; then it holds
\nin itself the continual wine of delight and affirms thee, O Immortal.
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\n3. Such art thou I call, the pure flame of this far-extending existence for the lords of the plenitude whose chariot inviolate
\nranges wide,3<\/font><\/sup> O giver of the steeds of swiftness, —<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n4. The lords of the plenitude in whom is rich light of the
\nthought and they keep the words of our utterance in their mouth;4<\/font><\/sup> the fullness of the soul has been spread as a seat
\nof sacrifice in the power5<\/font><\/sup> of the luminous world and all its inspirations are set round about.
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\n 2 Dwita, the god or Rishi of the second plane of the human ascent. It is that of the
\nLife-force, the plane of fulfilled force, desire, free range of the vital powers which are no longer limited by the strict limitations of this mould of Matter. We become conscious of
\nand conscious in new realms, immense ranges of life, the “far-extending existence” of the next verse, which are screened off from our ordinary physical consciousness. Trita
\nis the god or Rishi of the third plane, full of luminous mental kingdoms unknown to the physical mind.
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\n 3 In these new worlds of life the divine movement is now fulfilled there and ranges unpierced by the “harms” of the powers of Death and Darkness.
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\nThis verse describes the farther ascent of the movement from the realms of Dwita to the realms of Trita.
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\n 5 Swarnara, often spoken of as if it were a country; it is not Swar itself, the utter
\nsuperconscient plane, but the power of itself which the light of that world forms in the pure mentality. Here its inspirations and illuminations descend and take their place
\n\u00b4 round the seat of the sacrifice. These are elsewhere called the scouts, “eclaireurs”, of the
\nsolar Deity, Varuna.   <\/font> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n5. They who have given me fifty steeds of swiftness6<\/font><\/sup> with a perfect affirming, the divine souls that are lords of the plenitude, for them, O Flame-Immortal, create the large, the vast, the luminous knowledge full of the godheads.
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\n6 The Ashwa or Horse is the symbol of the Life-Force as the Cow is the symbol of the
\nLight. Fifty, hundred, a thousand are numbers symbolic of completeness.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPage – 448<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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