{"id":1905,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:12","slug":"56-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-seventeenth-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\/56-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-seventeenth-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-56_Hymns to Agni &#8211; V 1- 28 &#8211; Hymn Seventeenth.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 Seventeenth 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 ENLARGEMENT<br \/>\n<\/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 <span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n <b>AND ULTIMATE ASPIRATION <\/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\">[A state arrives in which man goes beyond the mere subtlety and<br \/>\nfineness of the intelligence and reaches to a rich and manifold largeness of soul. Even then though he has now the wide law<br \/>\nof his being which is our right foundation, he needs a force greater than his to lead him; for largeness and multiplicity of<br \/>\nsoul-force and knowledge are not enough, there must be the divine truth in thought, word and act. For we have to attain<br \/>\nbeyond the enlarged mental being to the beatitude of a state beyond mind. Agni has the light and the force, the Word and<br \/>\nthe true impulsion, the embracing knowledge and the achieving power. He shall bring the divine wealth in his chariot and carry<br \/>\nus towards the blissful state and the supreme good.]<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\/-225_The%20Seventeenth%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"46\"><\/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. I am mortal who call thee, O godhead, for thy strength<br \/>\nis greater than mine and it is righteous in its acts. Let the man of multiple soul when he has made perfect his sacrifice,<br \/>\nadore the Will for his increasing.<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 \t&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\/-226_The%20Seventeenth%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"46\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: -15pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 15pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n \t&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\">2. Man, thou who hast won to the wide law of thy being,<sup><font size=\"2\">1<\/font><\/sup> by<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 The larger working of consciousness and power in the being by which the rigid<br \/>\nlimitations of the ordinary mind and life and physical being are broken and man is able to experience a full inner life and open himself to communication with all the planes of<br \/>\nhis own and of the cosmic existence. &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; 444<\/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 mouth of this flame thou shalt be self-mightier to attain and shalt mentalise the paradise of his richest flamings, the<br \/>\nparadise of rapture beyond the thought of the mind.<sup><font size=\"2\">2<\/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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-15_The Secret of Veda\/-image\/-227_The%20Seventeenth%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"46\"><\/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\">3. For by the mouth and radiance of his flame he has yoked<br \/>\nhimself with the impelling force and the word, and vast as if with the seed of heaven blazes out the purity of his rays.<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\/-228_The%20Seventeenth%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"46\"><\/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. Because by the force of his workings he has the embracing knowledge and the achieving power, his chariot carries a<br \/>\ndivine wealth; therefore in all creatures he is the godhead to be expressed and the helper to whom men call.<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\/-229_The%20Seventeenth%20Hymn%20to%20Agni.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"46\"><\/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. Even now and even for us may the luminous masters of knowledge be firm by the mouth of the flame to our supreme<br \/>\ngood.<sup><font size=\"2\">3<\/font><\/sup> O Son of Energy, guard us so that we may enter in, be mighty to attain our blissful state. March with us in our<br \/>\nbattles that we may grow.<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 state of bliss of which Swar, the supramental plane of existence, is the basis.<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<br \/>\nThe luminous gods in us must keep our consciousness firmly attached to the light and truth that is brought by the workings of the Will so that we may not fall away from<br \/>\nthe right movement and its divine joy.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n <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; 445<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seventeenth Hymn to Agni &nbsp; A HYMN OF ENLARGEMENT AND ULTIMATE ASPIRATION &nbsp; [A state arrives in which man goes beyond the mere subtlety&#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-1905","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\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}