{"id":1906,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:13","slug":"41-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-second-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\/41-hymns-to-agni-v-1-28-hymn-second-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-41_Hymns to Agni – V 1- 28 – Hymn Second.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe Second Hymn to Agni <\/font><\/b>
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\nA HYMN OF THE LIBERATION OF THE DIVINE FORCE <\/b>
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\n[Nature in her ordinary limited and material workings holds the Divine Force concealed in her secret or subconscient being; only
\nwhen consciousness enlarges itself towards the One and Infinite, is it manifested, born for the conscient Mind. The clarities of
\nthe higher illumination cannot be kept so long as there is not this Strength to guard them, for hostile powers snatch them
\naway and conceal them again in their secret cavern. Divine Will manifested in man, itself liberated, liberates him from the cords
\nwhich bind him as a victim in the world-sacrifice; we attain to it by the teaching of Indra, the divine Mind, and it protects
\nthe uninterrupted play of the Light and destroys the powers of falsehood whose limitations cannot hem in its growth and
\nits out-flaming; it brings the divine waters from the luminous Heaven, the divine wealth liberated from the attacks of the
\nEnemy, and gives the final peace and perfection.]
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\n1. The young Mother1<\/font><\/sup> bears the Boy pressed down in her secret
\nbeing and gives him not to the Father; but his force is not diminished, the peoples behold him established in front2<\/font><\/sup> in
\nthe upward working of things.
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\nThe Mother and Father are always either Nature and the Soul or the material being and the pure mental being.
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\n2 As the Purohit who leads and conducts the work of the sacrifice.
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\n2. Who is this Boy whom thou bearest in thyself when thou art compressed into form, but thy vastness gives him birth?
\nFor many seasons the Child grew in the womb; I saw him born when the Mother brought him forth.
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\n3. I saw far off in the field of being one tusked with golden light and pure bright of hue who was shaping the weapons
\nof his war. I give to him the immortality in me in all my separate parts3 and what shall they do to me who have not
\nthe Word4 and the God-Mind is not in them?
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\n4. I saw in the field as though a happy herd that ranged continuously in many forms of luminous beauty. None could seize on them, for he was born; even they that were old among
\nthem, grow young once more.
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\n5. Who were they that divorced my strength from the herds of
\nLight? Against them there was no protector nor any worker in this war. Let those that took them from me, release them
\nto me again; for he with his conscious perceptions comes driving to us our lost herds of the radiance.
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\n3 Soma, the wine of immortality, is given to the gods in three parts, on three levels of
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\nThe expressive Word which manifests that which is hidden, brings out into expression that which is unexpressed.
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\n6. The king of those who dwell in creatures, he in whom all creatures dwell, is hidden within mortals by hostile powers;
\nlet the soul-thoughts of the Eater of things release him, let the confiners be themselves confined.
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\n7. Shunahshepa too, head of delight, was bound to the thousandfold post of the sacrifice; him thou didst release,
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\nyea, he accomplished perfection by his works; so do thou take thy seat here in us, O conscious seeing Flame, O
\nPriest of our sacrifice, and loose from us the cords of our bondage.
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\n8. Mayst thou not grow wroth and depart from me! He who guards the law of action of the godheads, told me of thee
\nand, taught by him his knowledge, I came to thee.
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\n9. This Flame of Will shines out with the vast light of Truth
\nand makes all things manifest by the greatness of him. He overpowers the formations of knowledge5 that are undivine
\nand of an evil movement; he sharpens his horns to gore the Rakshasa.
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\n 5 Maya. There are two kinds of Maya, the divine and undivine, the formations of the
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\n10. May the voices of the Flame in our heavens be
\nsharp-weaponed to slay the Rakshasa! In his ecstasy his angry
\nlustres break all that opposes his advance; the energies undivine that obstruct us from every side cannot pen him
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\n11. O thou who art born in many forms, I illumined in mind,
\naccomplished in understanding, perfect in works, have fashioned for thee this song of thy affirming to be as if thy
\nchariot. If thou, O Strength, take an answering delight in it, by this we may conquer the waters that carry the light of
\nthe luminous heaven.6<\/font><\/sup>
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\n12. The strong-necked7<\/font><\/sup> Bull increases in us and drives to us the treasure of knowledge8<\/font><\/sup> that was withheld by our enemy; nor
\nis there any to destroy it. For so have the Powers Immortal spoken to the Strength that he work out peace for the man
\nwho enlarges the seat of sacrifice, that he work out peace for the man who carries in his hand the oblation.
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\n6 Swar, the divine mind pure to the luminous Truth.
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\n7 Or, many-necked.
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\n8 The wealth of the luminous herds.
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