{"id":1885,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","slug":"71-hymns-to-mitra-varuna-v-62-72-hymn-second-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\/71-hymns-to-mitra-varuna-v-62-72-hymn-second-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-71_Hymns to Mitra-Varuna V – 62 – 72 – Hymn Second.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Second Hymn to Mitra-Varuna <\/font><\/b>
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\n THE GIVERS OF THE RAIN <\/b>
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\n [Mitra and Varuna are by their united universality and harmony the guardians of the divine Truth and its divine Law eternally
\nperfect in the ether of our supreme being; thence they rain down the abundance of the heavens and its bliss upon the favoured
\nsoul. Seers in man of that world of Truth, as they are by their guardianship of its law rulers of all this becoming, they give us its
\nrain of spiritual wealth and immortality. The Life-powers range with the voice of the truth-seeking thought through earth and
\nheaven and the two Kings come to their cry with the brilliant clouds full of the creative waters. It is by the Maya, the divine
\ntruth-knowledge of the Lord, that they thus rain down heaven; that divine knowledge is the Sun, the Light, the weapon of Mitra
\nand Varuna ranging abroad to destroy the ignorance. At first the Sun, the body of the Truth, is concealed in the very storm of its
\noutpourings and only the sweetness of their streaming into the life is felt; but the Maruts as Life-Powers and Thought-Powers
\nrange abroad seeking in all the worlds of our being for the brilliant rays of the concealed knowledge to be gathered as a shining
\nwealth; the voice of the Rain is full of the flashings of the Light and the movement of the divine Waters; its clouds become robes
\nfor the Life-Powers. Through it all by the formative knowledge of the mighty Master of Truth and by the law of the Truth,
\nthe two kings maintain the divine workings in us, governing by the Truth all our being, and finally set in its sky the Sun,
\nnow revealed, as a chariot of the richly varied splendours of the knowledge, the chariot of the journey of the spirit to the highest
\nheavens.]  
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\n1. Guardians of the Truth, you ascend your car and the law of the Truth is yours in the supreme ether.1<\/font><\/sup> He whom here you
\ncherish, Masters of the wideness and the harmony, for him increases full of the honey the rain of heaven.
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\n2. Emperors,2<\/font><\/sup> you rule over this world of our becoming, O Mitra and Varuna, in the getting of knowledge you are
\nseers of the realm of Light; we desire from you the rain, the felicitous wealth, the immortality, and lo! the Thunderers3<\/font><\/sup>
\nrange abroad through earth and heaven.
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\n3. Emperors, strong Bulls of the abundance, Masters of earth
\nand heaven, O Mitra and Varuna, universal in your workings, you approach their cry with your clouds of varied light
\nand you rain down Heaven by the power of the knowledge4<\/font><\/sup> of the Mighty One.5<\/font><\/sup>
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\n 1 The infinity of the superconscient being.
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\n 2 \t\t\t Samr<\/i><\/font>ā<\/font><\/i>t<\/i><\/font><\/font><\/i>, having perfect kingship over the subjective and objective existence.
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\nThe Maruts, Life-Powers and Thought-Powers who find out the light of truth for all our activities. The word may also mean formers or builders.
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\n 4 Maya, the creative knowledge-will of the Deva.
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\n 5 Asura, a word used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the Deva (Ahuramazda), but also
\nfor the gods, His manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans, by another and fictitious derivation,
\na-sura<\/i>, the not-luminous, the not-gods.
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\n4. This is your knowledge, O Mitra and Varuna, that is lodged in heaven; it is the Sun, it is the Light; it ranges abroad as
\nyour rich and varied weapon. You hide it in heaven with the cloud and with the raining. O Rain, full of the honey start
\nforth thy streamings.
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\n5. The Life-Powers yoke their happy car for the bliss, even
\nas might a hero for battle, O Mitra and Varuna, in their seekings for the herds of Light; thundering they range the
\nvaried worlds, and you pour out on us, rulers imperial, the water of Heaven.
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\n6. O Mitra and Varuna, the Rain speaks its language6 rich and varied and full of the light and the movement; the Life
\nPowers have put on your clouds for raiment. Utterly by the knowledge you rain down Heaven ruddy-shining and
\nsinless.
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\nHere we see the subjective sense of the thunder in the symbol of the storm; it is the outcrashing of the word of the Truth, the Shabda, as the lightning is the outflashing of
\nits sense.   <\/font>
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\n7. O Mitra and Varuna illumined in consciousness, by the Law, by the knowledge of the Mighty One you guard the
\nworkings;7<\/font><\/sup> by the Truth you govern widely all the world of our becoming; you set the Sun in heaven, a chariot of
\nvarious splendour.
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\n Vratani<\/i>, called the Aryan or divine workings, those of the divine law of the Truth to
\nbe revealed in man. The Dasyu or un-Aryan, whether human or superhuman, is he who is void of these diviner workings, opposes them in his darkened consciousness and tries
\nto destroy them in the world. The Lords of Darkness are therefore called Dasyus, the Destroyers.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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