{"id":1886,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:05","slug":"66-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-twenty-seventh-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\/66-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-twenty-seventh-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-66_Hymns to Agni &#8211; V 1- 28 &#8211; Hymn Twenty-Seventh.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <b><font size=\"4\">The Twenty-Seventh Hymn to Agni <\/font><\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <b>A HYMN OF THE STRENGTH AND ILLUMINATION <\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n \t<span lang=\"en-gb\">[The Rishi under the figure of the demigod, Traivrishna Tryaruna Trasadasyu, and the seer Ashwamedha, symbolises the fulfilment<br \/>\nin the human mentality of the illumination of the God-Mind Indra, and the power of the God-Will, Agni, in the vitality. The<br \/>\nMind-Soul, destroyer of the demons, awakened to knowledge as the human-born Indra, has given to the seer his two cows of light<br \/>\nthat draw his wain, his two shining horses that draw his chariot and the ten times twelve cows of the dawn of knowledge. He has<br \/>\nassented to and confirmed the desire with which the Life-Soul has given the sacrifice of the Life-Horse to the gods. The Rishi<br \/>\nprays that this Mind-Soul, lord of the triple dawn, may give to the journeying Life that seeks the truth, the mental intelligence<br \/>\nand power of possession needed and may itself in return receive from Agni the peace and bliss. The Life-Soul on the other hand<br \/>\nhas given the hundred powers, the vital strength needed for the upward journey; the Rishi prays that this Life-Soul may attain<br \/>\nto that vast strength which is the power of the Sun of Truth on the superconscient plane.]<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-276_The%20Twenty-Seventh%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n \t<span lang=\"en-gb\">1. O Will, O Universal Power,<sup><font size=\"2\">1<\/font><\/sup> the mighty One supreme in vision, master of his being, lord of his plenitudes has given<br \/>\nme his two cows of the Light that draw his wain. He of<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">1<br \/>\nOr, Godhead. &nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 466<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">the triple dawn, son of the triple Bull,2 has awakened to knowledge with the ten thousands3 of his plenitude.<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-277_The%20Twenty-Seventh%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"387\" height=\"49\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">2. He gives to me the hundred and twenty4 of the cows of dawn; his two shining5 horses he gives, yoked to the car,<br \/>\nthat bear aright the yoke. O Will, O Universal Power, do thou rightly affirmed and increasing extend peace and bliss<br \/>\nto the lord of the triple dawn.<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-278_The%20Twenty-Seventh%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"49\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">3. For thus has he done desiring thy grace of mind, new-given<br \/>\nfor him new-manifested, &#8212;he, the disperser of the destroyers,6 the lord of the triple dawn who with attentive mind<br \/>\ngives response to the many words of my many births.7<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">2<br \/>\nThe Triple Bull is Indra, lord of the three luminous realms of Swar, the Divine Mind; Tryaruna Trasadasyu is the half-god, man turned into the Indra type; therefore he is<br \/>\ndescribed by all the usual epithets of Indra, &#8220;Asura&#8221;, &#8220;Satpati&#8221;, &#8220;Maghavan&#8221;. The triple dawn is the dawn of these three realms on the human mentality.<br \/>\n\t<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">3 Thousand symbolises absolute completeness, but there are ten subtle powers of the<br \/>\nillumined mind each of which has to have its entire plenitude. <\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">4<br \/>\nThe symbolic figure of the illuminations of divine knowledge as the series of dawns (cows) of the twelve months of the year and twelve periods of the sacrifice. There are<br \/>\nagain ten times twelve to correspond to the ten subtle sisters, powers of the illumined mentality.<br \/>\n\t<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">5 The two shining horses of Indra identical probably with the two cows of light of<br \/>\nthe first verse; they are the two vision-powers of the supramental Truth-consciousness, right-hand and left-hand, probably direct truth-discernment and intuition. As cows symbolising light of knowledge they yoke themselves to the material mind, the wain; as horses symbolising power of knowledge to the chariot of Indra, the liberated pure<br \/>\nmind. <\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">6 Trasadasyu; in all things he reproduces the characteristics of Indra.<br \/>\n\t<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"2\">7<br \/>\nThe seer by this self-fulfilment on the higher plane is born, as it were, into many realms of consciousness and from each of these there go up its words that express the<br \/>\nimpulses in it which seek a divine fulfilment. The Mind-Soul answers to these and gives assent, it supplies to the word of expression the answering word of illumination and to<br \/>\nthe Life that seeks the Truth it gives the power of intelligence that finds and holds the Truth.<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/font> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 467<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-279_The%20Twenty-Seventh%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"49\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">4. May he who answers to me with assent give to the illumined giver of the Horse-sacrifice,<sup><font size=\"2\">8<\/font><\/sup> by the word of illumination<br \/>\npossession of the goal of his journey; may he give power of intelligence to the seeker of the Truth.<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-280_The%20Twenty-Seventh%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"44\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">5. A hundred strong bulls of the diffusion<sup><font size=\"2\">9<\/font><\/sup> raise me up to joy; the gifts of the sacrificer of the steed are as outpourings of<br \/>\nthe wine of delight with their triple infusions.<sup><font size=\"2\">10<\/font><\/sup><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-281_The%20Twenty-Seventh%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"44\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">6. May the God-Mind and the God-Will uphold in the sacrificer of the Horse and giver of his hundred a perfect energy and a vast force of battle even as in heaven the Sun of Light<br \/>\nindestructible.<sup><font size=\"2\">11<\/font><\/sup><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">8<br \/>\nThe Horse-sacrifice is the offering of the Life-power with all its impulses, desires, enjoyments to the divine existence. The Life-soul (Dwita) is itself the giver of this sacrifice<br \/>\nwhich it performs when by the power of Agni it attains to vision on its own vital plane, when it becomes, in the figure of the hymn, the illumined seer Ashwamedha.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">9 The complete hundred powers of the Life by whom all the abundance of the vital<br \/>\nplane is showered upon the growing man. The vital forces being the instrument of desire and enjoyment, this diffusion is like the outpouring of the wine of delight that raises the<br \/>\nsoul to new and intoxicating joys. <\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">10<br \/>\nThe delight extracted from existence is typified by the honey wine of the Soma; it is mixed with the milk, the curds and the grain, the milk being that of the luminous cows,<br \/>\nthe curds the fixation of their yield in the intellectual mind and the grain the formulation of the light in the force of the physical mind. These symbolic senses are indicated by the<br \/>\ndouble meaning of the words used, <i>go<\/i>, <i>dadhi <\/i>and <i>yava<\/i>.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">11<br \/>\nPerfect and vast energy in the vital being corresponding to the infinite and immortal light of the Truth in the mental being.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">&nbsp;<\/span><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 468<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twenty-Seventh Hymn to Agni &nbsp; A HYMN OF THE STRENGTH AND ILLUMINATION &nbsp; [The Rishi under the figure of the demigod, Traivrishna Tryaruna Trasadasyu,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-the-secret-of-veda","wpcat-41-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}