{"id":1900,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:10","slug":"13-chapter-xiii-dawn-and-the-truth-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\/13-chapter-xiii-dawn-and-the-truth-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-13_Chapter XIII Dawn and the Truth.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ctl00_divsitecopyright\" class=\"divsitecopyright\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t<b><font size=\"4\">Chapter<\/font><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">XIII <\/font><\/b>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t<b><font size=\"4\">Dawn and the Truth <\/font><\/b>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<b><font size=\"5\">U<\/font>SHA<font size=\"2\"> <\/font>IS<\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdescribed repeatedly as the Mother of the Cows. If then the cow<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tis a Vedic symbol for the physical light or for spiritual<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tillumination the phrase must either bear this sense that she is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe mother or source of the physical rays of the daylight or<br \/>\n\t\t\t\telse that she creates the radiances of the supreme Day, the splendour and clarity of the inner illumination. But we see in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe Veda that Aditi, the Mother of the gods, is described both<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tas the Cow and as the general Mother; she is the Supreme Light<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tand all radiances proceed from her. Psychologically, Aditi is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe supreme or infinite Consciousness, mother of the gods, in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\topposition to Danu or Diti,\u00b9 the divided consciousness, mother<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tof Vritra and the other Danavas \u2014 enemies of the gods and of man<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tin his progress. In a more general aspect she is the source of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tall the cosmic forms of consciousness from the physical upwards,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe seven cows, <i>sapta g&#257;vah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tare her forms and there are, we are told, seven names and seven<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tseats of the Mother. Usha as the mother of the cows can only be<br \/>\n\t\t\t\ta form or power of this supreme Light, of this supreme<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tConsciousness, of Aditi. And in fact, we do find her so<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdescribed in I.I 13.19, <i>m&#257;t&#257; dev&#257;n&#257;m aditer an&#299;kam, <\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Mother of the gods, form (or, power) of Aditi&quot;. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tBut the illumining dawn of the higher or undivided Consciousness<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tis always the dawn of the Truth; if Usha is that illumining<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdawn, then we are bound to find her advent frequently associated<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tin the verses of the Rig-veda with the idea of the Truth, the <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tam.<\/i> And such association we<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdo repeatedly find. For, first of all, Usha is described as<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;following effectively the path of the Truth&quot;, <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tasya<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tpanth&#257;m anveti s&#257;dhu<\/i>. Here neither the ritualistic<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tnor the naturalistic sense suggested for <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tam<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcan at <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<font size=\"3\">\u00b9<\/font><span><font size=\"2\">Not that the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tword Aditi is etymologically the privative of Diti; the two<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twords derive from entirely different roots, <i>ad<\/i> and <\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<i><font size=\"2\">di.<\/font><\/i><\/span><font size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 131<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tall apply; there would be no meaning in a constant affirmation<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthat Dawn follows the path of the sacrifice or follows the path<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tof the. water. We can only escape from the obvious significance<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tif we choose to understand by <i>panth&#257; r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tasya<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe path, not of the Truth, but of the Sun. But the Veda<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdescribes rather the Sun as following the path of Usha and this<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twould be the natural image suggested to an observer of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tphysical Dawn. Moreover, even if the phrase did not clearly in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tother passages mean the path of the Truth, the psychological<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsignificance would still intervene; for the sense would then be<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthat the dawn of illumination follows the path of the True or<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe Lord of the Truth, Surya Savitri. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tWe have precisely the same idea repeated but with still clearer<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tand fuller psychological indications in 1.124.3, <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tasya<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tpanth&#257;m anveti s&#257;dhu, praj&#257;nat&#299;va na di&#347;o min&#257;ti,<\/i> &quot;She moves<br \/>\n\t\t\t\taccording to the path of the Truth and, as one that knows, she<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tlimits not the regions&quot;. <i>Di&#347;ah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\twe may note, has a double sense; but it is not necessary to<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tinsist upon it here. Dawn adheres to the path of the Truth and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tbecause she has this knowledge or perception she does not limit<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe infinity, the <i>br<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>hat,<\/i> of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twhich she is the illumination. That this is the true sense of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe verse is proved beyond dispute, expressly, unmistakably, by<br \/>\n\t\t\t\ta Rik of the fifth Mandala (V.80.1) which describes Usha <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdyutad-y&#257;m&#257;nam br<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>hat&#299;m r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tena<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;var&#299;m svar &#257;vahant&#299;m,<\/i> &quot;of a<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tluminous movement, vast with the Truth, supreme in (or possessed<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tof) the Truth, bringing with her Swar&quot;. We have the idea of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tVast, the idea of the Truth, the idea of the solar light of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tworld of Swar; and certainly all these notions are thus<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tintimately and insistently associated with no mere physical<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDawn! We may compare VII. 75.1, <i>vyus<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;&#257;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#257;<\/span>vo divij&#257; r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tena, &#257;vis<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>kr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>n<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>v&#257;n&#257;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tmahim&#257;nam &#257;g&#257;t,<\/i> &quot;Dawn born in heaven opens out things by the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tTruth, she comes manifesting the greatness&quot;. Again we have Dawn<br \/>\n\t\t\t\trevealing all things by the power of the Truth and the result<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdescribed as the manifestation of a certain Vastness. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tFinally we have the same idea described, but with the use of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tanother word for Truth, <i>saty&#257;<\/i> which does not, like <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tam,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/i>lend itself to any ambiguity, <i>saty&#257; satyebhir mahat&#299;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tmahadbhir <\/i> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 132<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>dev&#299; devebhih<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t(VII.75.7), &quot;Dawn true in her being with the gods who are true,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvast with the Gods who are vast&quot;. This &quot;truth&quot; of the Dawn is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tmuch insisted upon by Vamadeva in one of his<br \/>\n\t\t\t\thymns, IV.51; for there not only does he speak of the Dawns<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;encompassing the worlds immediately with horses yoked by the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tTruth&quot;, <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tayugbhir a&#347;vaih<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t(cf. VI.65.2) but he speaks of them as <i>bhadr&#257; r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>taj&#257;tasaty&#257;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;happy, and true because born from the Truth&quot;, and in another<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tverse he describes them as &quot;the goddesses who awake from the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tseat of the Truth&quot;. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tThis close connection of <i>bhadra<\/i> and <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ta<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\treminds us of the same connection of ideas in Madhuchchhandas<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tHymn to Agni. In our psychological interpretation of the Veda we<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tare met at every turn by the ancient conception of the Truth as<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe path to the Bliss. Usha, the dawn of the illumination of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tTruth, must necessarily bring also the joy and the beatitude.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tThis idea of the Dawn as the bringer of delight we find<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tconstantly in the Veda and Vasishtha gives a very positive<br \/>\n\t\t\t\texpression to it in VII.81.3, <i>y&#257; vahasipuru sp&#257;rham ratnam na<br \/>\n\t\t\t\td&#257;sus<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>e mayah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;thou who bearest to the giver the beatitude as a manifold and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdesirable ecstasy&quot;. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tA common Vedic word is the word <i>s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\twhich Sayana interprets as &quot;pleasant and true speech&quot;; but it<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tseems to have often the more general sense of &quot;happy truths&quot;.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDawn is some- times described as <i>r<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;var&#299;,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tfull of the Truth, sometimes as <i>s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;var&#299;.<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShe comes uttering her true and happy words, <i>s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#299;rayant&#299;.<\/i> As she has been described as the leader of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tradiant herds and the leader of the days, so she is described as<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe luminous leader of happy truths, <i>bh&#257;svat&#299; netr&#299; s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;n&#257;m<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t(1.92.7). And this close connection in the mind of the Vedic<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tRishis between the idea of light, of the rays or cows, and the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tidea of the truth is even more unmistakable in another Rik,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t1.92.14, <i>gomati a&#347;v&#257;vati vibh&#257;vari\u2026 s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;vati,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Dawn with the shining herds, with thy steeds, widely luminous,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tfull of happy truths&quot;. A similar but yet more open phrase in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t1.48.2 points the significance of this collocation of epithets,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<i>gomat&#299;r a&#347;v&#257;vat&#299;r vi&#347;vasuvidah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Dawns with their radiances (herds), their swiftnesses (horses),<br \/>\n\t\t\t\trightly knowing all things&quot;. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 133<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;text-indent:25pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tThese are by no means all the indications of the psycho- logical<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcharacter of the Vedic Dawn that we find in the Rig-veda. Dawn<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tis constantly represented as awakening to vision, perception,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tright movement. &quot;The goddess&quot;, says Gotama Rahugana, &quot;fronts and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tlooks upon all the worlds, the eye of vision shines<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twith an utter wideness; awakening all life for movement she<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdiscovers speech for all that thinks&quot;, <i>vi&#347;vasya v&#257;cam avidat<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tman&#257;yoh<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> (1.92.9). We have here<br \/>\n\t\t\t\ta Dawn that releases life and mind into their fullest wideness<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tand we ignore the whole force of the words and phrases chosen by<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe Rishi if we limit the suggestion to a mere picture of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\treawakening of earthly life in the physical dawning. And even if<br \/>\n\t\t\t\there the word used for the vision brought by the Dawn, <i>caks<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>uh<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tis<\/i> capable of indicating only physical sight, yet in other<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tpassages it is <i>ketuh<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> which<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tmeans perception, a perceptive vision in the mental<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tconsciousness, a faculty of knowledge. Usha <span>is <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tpracet&#257;h<\/i><\/span><i><span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i> she<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twho has this perceptive knowledge. Mother of the radiances, she<br \/>\n\t\t\t\thas created this perceptive vision of the mind; <i>gav&#257;m janitr&#299;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\takr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ta pra ketum<\/i> (1.124.5). She<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tis herself that vision, \u2014 &quot;Now perceptive vision has broken out<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tinto its wide dawn where nought was before&quot;, <i>vi n&#363;nam ucch&#257;d<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tasati pra ketuh<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> (1.124.11).<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShe is by her perceptive power possessed of the happy truths, <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcikitvit s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;vari<\/i> (IV.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t52.4). <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tThis perception, this vision is, we are told, that of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tImmortality, <i>amr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tasya ketuh<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t(III.61.3); it is the light, in other words, of the Truth and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe Bliss which constitute the higher or immortal consciousness.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tNight in the Veda is the symbol of our obscure consciousness<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tfull of ignorance in knowledge and of stumblings in will and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tact, therefore of all evil, sin and suffering; light is the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcoming of the illuminated higher consciousness which leads to<br \/>\n\t\t\t\ttruth and happiness. We find constantly the opposition of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\ttwo words <i>duritam<\/i> and <i>suvitam. Duritam<\/i> means<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tliterally stumbling or wrong going, figuratively all that is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twrong and evil, all sin, error, calamity; <i>suvitam<\/i> means<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tliterally right or good going and expresses all that is good and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\thappy, it means especially the felicity that comes by following<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe right path. Thus Vasishtha says of the goddess (VII.78.2),<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Dawn <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 134<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tcomes divine repelling by the Light all darknesses and evils&quot;, <i>vi&#347;v&#257; tam&#257;msi durit&#257;,<\/i> and in a number of verses<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe goddess is described as awakening, impelling or leading men<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tto right going, to the happiness, <i>suvit&#257;ya.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tTherefore she is the leader not only of happy truths, but of our<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tspiritual wealth and joy, bringer of the felicity which is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\treached by man or brought to him by the Truth, <i>es<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>&#257;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tnetr&#299; r&#257;dhasah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span> s&#363;nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t&#257;n&#257;m<\/i> (VII.76.7). This<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twealth for which the Rishis pray is described under the figure<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tof material riches; it is <i>gomad a&#347;v&#257;vad v&#299;ravad<\/i> or it is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<i>gomad a&#347;v&#257;vad rathavacca r&#257;dhah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tGo, <\/i>the cow, <i>a&#347;va,<\/i> the horse, <i>praj&#257; <\/i>or <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tapatya,<\/i> the offspring, <i>nr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tor <i>v&#299;ra,<\/i> the man or hero, <i>hiran<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">y<\/span>a,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tgold, <i>ratha,<\/i> the chariot, <i>&#347;ravas, \u2014<\/i> food or fame,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\taccording to the ritualist interpretation, \u2014 these are the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tconstituents of the wealth desired by the Vedic sages. Nothing,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tit would seem, could be more matter-of-fact, earthy, material;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthese are indeed the blessings for which a race of lusty<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tbarbarians full of vigorous appetite, avid of earth&#8217;s goods<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twould pray to their primitive gods. But we have seen that <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\thiran<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ya<\/i> is used in another<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsense than that of earthly gold. We have seen that the &quot;cows&quot;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\treturn constantly in connection with the Dawn as a figure for<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe Light and we have seen that this light is connected with<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tmental vision and with the truth that brings the bliss. And <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\ta&#347;va,<\/i> the horse, is always in these concrete images of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tpsychological suggestions coupled with the symbolic figure of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe cows:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDawn is <i>gomat&#299; a&#347;v&#257;vat&#299;.<\/i> Vasishtha has a verse (VII.77.3)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tin which the symbolic sense of the Vedic Horse comes out with<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tgreat power and clearness,\u2014 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-left:25pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>Dev&#257;n&#257;m caks<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>u<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>h<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsubhag&#257; vahant&#299;,<\/i> <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-left:50pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>&#347;vetam nayant&#299; sudr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;&#347;<\/span>ikam<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\ta&#347;vam;<\/i> <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-left:25pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>us<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;&#257;<\/span> adar&#347;i ra&#347;mibhir vyakt&#257;<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;margin-left:50pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>citr&#257;magh&#257; vi&#347;vam anu prabh&#363;t&#257;.<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&quot;Happy, bringing the gods&#8217; eye of vision, leading the white<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tHorse that has perfect sight. Dawn is seen expressed entirely by<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe rays, full of her varied riches, manifesting her birth in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tall things.&quot; It is clear enough that the white horse (a phrase<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tapplied to the god Agni who is the Seer-Will, <i>kavikratu,<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;line-height: 150%\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 135<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tperfectly- seeing force of divine will in its works V.1.4) is<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tentirely symbolical\u00b9 and that the &quot;varied riches&quot; she brings<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twith her are also a figure and certainly do not mean physical<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twealth. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tDawn is described as <i>gomat&#299; a&#347;v&#257;vati v&#299;ravat&#299;;<\/i> and since<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tthe epithets <i>gomat&#299;<\/i> and <i>a&#347;v&#257;vat&#299;<\/i> applied to her<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tare symbolical and mean not &quot;cowful and horsed&quot;, but radiant<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twith illuminations of knowledge and accompanied by the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tswiftnesses of force, so <i>v&#299;ravat&#299;<\/i> cannot mean<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&quot;man-accompanied&quot; or accompanied by heroes or servants or sons,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tbut rather signifies that she is attended by conquering energies<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tor at any rate is used in some kindred and symbolic sense. This<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tbecomes quite evident in 1.113.18, <i>y&#257; gomat&#299;r us<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>asah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsarvav&#299;r&#257;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>&#8230;t&#257; a&#347;vad&#257; a&#347;navat<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsomasutv&#257;.<\/i> It does not mean &quot;the Dawns that have cows and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tall men or all servants, those a man, having offered the Soma,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tenjoys as horse- givers.&quot; The Dawn is the inner dawn which<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tbrings to man all the varied fullnesses of his widest being,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tforce, consciousness, joy; it is radiant with its illuminations,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tit is accompanied by all possible powers and energies, it gives<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tman the full force of vitality so that he can enjoy the infinite<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdelight of that vaster existence. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\tWe can no longer take <i>gomad a&#347;v&#257;vad v&#299;ravad r&#257;dhah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tin a physical sense; the very language of the Veda points us to<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tquite another truth. Therefore the other circumstances of this<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tgod- given wealth must be taken equally in a spiritual<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsignificance; the offspring, gold, chariots are symbolical; <i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#347;ravas<\/i> is not fame or food, but bears its psychological<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsense and means the higher knowledge which comes not to the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tsenses or the intellect, but to the divine hearing and the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tdivine vision of the Truth; <i>r&#257;dhah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>d&#299;rgha&#347;ruttamam<\/i>,<i> rayim &#347;ravasyum<\/i> is that rich state of being, that spiritually opulent<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tfelicity which turns towards the knowledge <i>(&#347;ravasyu)<\/i> and<br \/>\n\t\t\t\thas a far-extended hearing for the vibrations of the Word that<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcomes to us from the regions <i>(di&#347;ah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>)<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tof the Infinite. Thus the luminous figure of the Dawn liberates <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 24pt;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;line-height: 150%\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\t\t1 <font size=\"2\">The symbolism of the horse<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tis quite evident in the hymns of Dirghatamas to the Horse of the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tSacrifice, the hymns of various Rishis to the Horse Dadhikravan<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tand again in the opening of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twhich &quot;Dawn is the head of the Horse&quot; is the first phrase of a<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvery elaborate figure. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 136<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n\t\t\tus from the material, ritual, ignorant misunderstanding of the Veda<br \/>\n\t\t\twhich would lead us stumbling from pitfall to pitfall in a very<br \/>\n\t\t\tnight of chaos and obscurity; it opens to us the closed door and<br \/>\n\t\t\tadmits to the heart of the Vedic knowledge. <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 137<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_divsitehidden\" class=\"divsitehidden\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter XIII &nbsp; Dawn and the Truth &nbsp; USHA IS described repeatedly as the Mother of the Cows. 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