{"id":1895,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:09","slug":"87-the-god-of-the-mystic-wine-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\/87-the-god-of-the-mystic-wine-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-87_The God of the Mystic Wine.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe God of the Mystic Wine <\/font><\/b>
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\nRig Veda IX.75 and 42<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n These two hymns are rendered as literally as possible so as to show the original symbolism of the Veda untranslated into its
\npsychological equivalents.
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\nI<\/b>
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\n1. Placed in delight he flows to the pleasant Names in which he increases; vast and wise he ascends the chariot of the vast
\nsun, the chariot of a universal movement.
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\n2. Tongue of the Truth, a pleasant honey,1<\/font><\/sup> he flows speaker
\nand lord of this Thought and invincible; the Son places the third hidden Name of the Parents2<\/font><\/sup> in the luminous world of
\nHeaven.
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\n1
\nThe sweet wine of the Soma. <\/font>
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\n2
\nHeaven and Earth; there are three heavens and three earths and at the summit is the triple luminous world of Heaven called Swar and described lower down as the triple
\nback or threefold level in the Dawn. That is the world of the “vast sun” and is itself described as the Truth, the Right, the Vast.
\n  
\n<\/font> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPage – 565<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n3. Breaking into light he cries down into the jars, guided by men, in the golden sheath; in him the milkings of the Truth
\ndawn out,3<\/font><\/sup> he shines wide on the triple back of the Dawn.
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\n4. Pressed out by the stones, placed in delight by the thoughts,
\npure, making to shine out the two mothers, Earth and Heaven, he runs evenly through all the hairs of the Sheep;4<\/font><\/sup>
\nhis stream of honey goes on increasing day by day.
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\n5. Race everywhere, O Soma, for our happiness, purified by
\nmen clothe thyself with the mixings; with those thy raptures that are smiting and wide-extended, impel Indra to give his
\nplenty.5<\/font><\/sup>
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\nII<\/b>
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\n1. Giving birth to the luminous worlds of heaven,6<\/font><\/sup> giving birth to the Sun in the waters,7<\/font><\/sup> the Brilliant One clothes himself
\nwith the waters and the rays.8<\/font><\/sup>
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\n
\n3
\nOr, “to him the milkers of the Truth cry out the chant.” <\/font>
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\n4
\nThe strainer in which the Soma is purified is made of the fleece of the Ewe. Indra is the Ram; the Ewe must therefore be an energy of Indra, probably the divinised sense-mind,
\nindriyam<\/i>. <\/font>
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\n
\n5
\nThe Soma was mixed with water, milk and other ingredients: Soma is said to clothe himself with the Waters and with the “cows”, that is, the illuminations or yield of Dawn,
\nthe shining Cow. <\/font>
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\n
\n6
\nThe three worlds of Swar. <\/font>
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\n
\n7
\nAgni, Surya and Soma himself are said to be found in the waters or seven rivers.
\n<\/font>
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\n
\n8
\n\t\t\t \t\t\t.<\/i> Gāh<\/i>, meaning both cows and rays.
\n  
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPage – 566<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

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\n2. He by the ancient thought flows pressed out in a stream, a god around the gods.
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\n3. For one increasing and swiftly advancing9<\/font><\/sup> there flow for his winning of the plenty the Soma-juices with their thousand
\nstrengths.
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\n4. Milked out, the ancient food, he is poured into the strainer
\nthat purifies and shouting he brings to birth the gods.
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\n5. Soma, purifying himself, travels to all desirable boons, to
\nthe gods who increase the Truth.
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\n6. Stream on us, O Soma, when thou art pressed out, that
\nin which are the Cows, the Heroes, the Steeds, the Plenty; stream impulsions vast.10<\/font><\/sup>
\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
\n 9 On the path, through all obstacles; the sacrifice is figured both as a growth of man
\nand as a journey. <\/font>
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\n
\n 10
\n“Large foods”, according to the ritualist commentator; as there are here two words  meaning food in his usual rendering, is <\/i>and vaja<\/i>, he gives another meaning to
\nvaja <\/i>and
\n explains the verse “give us a wealth along with which there are cows, men, horses and
\nbattle and give us plentiful food.” <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage – 567<\/font><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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