{"id":1894,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","slug":"48-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-ninth-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\/48-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-ninth-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-48_Hymns to Agni – V 1- 28 – Hymn Ninth.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Ninth Hymn to Agni <\/font><\/b>
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\n DIVINE WILL ASCENDENT
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\n FROM THE ANIMAL TO MENTALITY <\/b>
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\n \t[The Rishi speaks of the birth of the divine Will by the working
\nof the pure mental on the material consciousness, its involved action in man’s ordinary state of mortal mind emotional, nervous, passionate marked by crooked activities and perishable enjoyments and its emergence on the third plane of our being
\nwhere it is forged and sharpened into a clear and effective power for liberation and spiritual conquest. It knows all the births or
\nplanes of our existence and leads the sacrifice and its offerings by a successive and continuous progress to the divine goal and
\nhome.] <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n 1. Thee the godhead mortals with the oblation seek, O Will;
\non thee I meditate who knowest the births; therefore thou carriest to the goal our offerings without a break.
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\n 2. Will is the priest of the oblation for man who gives the offering and forms the seat of sacrifice and attains to his
\nhome; for in him our works of sacrifice converge and in him our plenitudes of the Truth’s inspirations.
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\n3. True too it is that thou art born from the two Workings1<\/font><\/sup> like a new-born infant, thou who art the upholder of the
\nhuman peoples, Will that leads aright the sacrifice.
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\n \t4. True too it is that thou art hard to seize as a son of crooked
\nnesses2<\/font><\/sup> when thou devourest the many growths of delight like an Animal that feeds in his pasture.
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\n \t5. But afterwards thy fiery rays with their smoky passion meet together entirely; oh then, the third Soul3<\/font><\/sup> forges him in our
\nheavens like a smith in his smithy; ’tis as if in the smith himself that he whets him into a weapon of sharpness.4<\/font><\/sup>
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\n 6. O Will, may I by thy expandings and thy expressings of the Lord of Love, —yea, may we, as men assailed by enemies,
\nso besieged by discords, pass through and beyond these stumblings of mortals.
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\n 1 The two Aranis or tinders by which the fire is struck out; the word can also mean
\nworkings and is related to arya<\/i>. Heaven and Earth are the two Aranis which produce Agni; Heaven his father, Earth his mother.
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\n 2 Literally, of the crooked ones, possibly the seven rivers or movements of our being
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\nTrita Aptya, the Third or Triple, apparently the Purusha of the mental plane. In the tradition he is a Rishi and has two companions significantly named Eka, one or single,
\nand Dwita, second or double, who must be the Purushas of the material and the vital or dynamic consciousness. In the Veda he seems rather to be a god.
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\nVedic pregnancy of structure and phrase, “When, oh, him Trita forges in heaven like a smith, sharpens as in the smith”. In English we have to expand in order to bring out the
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\n7. Bring to us human souls that felicity, O Will, thou forceful one! May he shoot us forward on our path, may he nourish and increase us and be in us for the conquest of the plenitude. March with us in our battles that we may grow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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