{"id":1915,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:16","slug":"28-v-surya-savitri-creator-and-increaser-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\/28-v-surya-savitri-creator-and-increaser-vol-15-the-secret-of-veda","title":{"rendered":"-28_V Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser.html"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser
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1. Men illumined yoke their mind and they yoke their thoughts
\nto him who is illumination and largeness and clear perceiving. Knowing all phenomena he orders, sole, the Energies of
\nthe sacrifice. Vast is the affirmation in all things of Savitri, the divine Creator.
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2. All forms he takes unto himself, the Seer, and he creates from them good for the twofold existence and the fourfold.
\nThe Creator, the supreme Good, manifests Heaven wholly and his light pervades all as he follows the march of the
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3. In the wake of his march the other gods also reach by his
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4. And thou reachest, O Savitri, to the three luminous heavens; and thou art utterly expressed by the rays of the Sun; and
\nthou encompassest the Night upon either side; and thou becomest by the law of thy actions the lord of Love, O God.
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5. And thou art powerful for every creation; and thou becomest the Increaser, O God, by thy movings; and thou
\nilluminest utterly all this world of becomings. Shyavashwa has attained to the affirmation of thee, O Savitri.1<\/font><\/sup>
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COMMENTARY<\/b>
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Indra with his shining hosts, the Maruts, Agni, the divine force,
\nfulfiller of the Aryan sacrifice, are the most important deities of the Vedic system. Agni is the beginning and the end. This Will
\nthat is knowledge is the initiator of the upward effort of the mortal towards Immortality; to this divine consciousness that is
\none with divine power we arrive as the foundation of immortal existence. Indra, lord of Swar, the luminous intelligence into
\nwhich we have to convert our obscure material mentality in order to become capable of the divine consciousness, is our chief
\nhelper. It is by the aid of Indra and the Maruts that the conversion is effected. The Maruts take our animal consciousness made up
\nof the impulses of the nervous mentality, possess these impulses with their illuminations and drive them up the hill of being
\ntowards the world of Swar and the truths of Indra. Our mental evolution begins with these animal troops, these “Pashus”; they
\nbecome, as we progress in the ascension, the brilliant herds of the Sun,
\ngāvah<\/i>, rays, the divine cows of the Veda. Such is the psychological sense of the Vedic symbol.
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1 For a good idiomatic and literary translation, rendering the sense and rhythm of the
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\nBut who, then, is Surya, the Sun, from whom these rays proceed? He is the Master of Truth, Surya the Illuminator, Savitri the Creator, Pushan the Increaser. His rays in their own nature are supramental activities of revelation, inspiration, in
\ntuition, luminous discernment, and they constitute the action of that transcendent principle which the Vedanta calls Vijnana, the
\nperfect knowledge, the Veda Ritam, the Truth. But these rays descend also into the human mentality and form at its summit
\nthe world of luminous intelligence, Swar, of which Indra is the lord.
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\nFor this Vijnana is a divine and not a human faculty. Man’s mind is not constituted of the self-luminous truth, like the divine
\nmind; it is a sense-mentality, Manas, which can receive and understand2<\/font><\/sup> Truth, but is not one with it. The light of knowledge
\nhas to present itself in this human understanding tempered so as to suit its forms to the capacities and limitations of the physical
\nconsciousness. And it has to lead up progressively to its own true nature, to manifest successive evolutionary stages for our mental
\ndevelopment. Therefore the rays of Surya, as they labour to form our mental existence, create three successive worlds of mentality
\none superimposed on the other, —the sensational, aesthetic and emotional mind, the pure intellect and the divine intelligence.
\nThe fullness and perfection of these triple worlds of mind exists only in the pure mental plane of being,3<\/font><\/sup> where they shine above
\n the three heavens, tisro divah<\/i>, as their three luminosities,
\ntrīni<\/i>
\n rocanani<\/i>. But their light descends upon the physical consciousness and effects the corresponding formations in its realms, the
\n Vedic pārthivāni rajāmsi<\/i>, earthly realms of light. They also are
\n triple, tisrah prthivīh<\/i>, the three earths. And of all these worlds
\n  .<\/i> Surya Savitri is the creator.
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\nWe have in this figure of various psychological levels, each considered as a world in itself, a key to the conceptions of the
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Vedic Rishis. The human individual is an organised unit of existence which reflects the constitution of the universe. It repeats
\nin itself the same arrangement of states and play of forces. Man, subjectively, contains in himself all the worlds in which, objectively, he is contained. Preferring ordinarily a concrete to an abstract language, the Rishis speak of the physical consciousness
\nas the physical world, earth, Bhu, Prithivi. They describe the pure mental consciousness as heaven, Dyaus, of which Swar, the
\nluminous mind, is the summit. To the intermediate dynamic, vital or nervous consciousness they give the name either of
\nAntariksha, the intermediate vision, or of Bhuvar, —multiple dynamic worlds formative of the Earth.
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For in the idea of the Rishis a world is primarily a formation of consciousness and only secondarily a physical formation of
\nthings. A world is a loka<\/i>, a way in which conscious being images itself. And it is the causal Truth, represented in the person of
\nSurya Savitri, that is the creator of all its forms. For it is the causal Idea in the infinite being,
\n\t\t\t—the idea, not abstract, but
\nreal and dynamic, —that originates the law, the energies, the formations of things and the working out of their potentialities
\nin determined forms by determined processes. Because the causal Idea is a real force of existence, it is called Satyam, the True in
\nbeing; because it is the determining truth of all activity and formation, it is called Ritam, the True in movement; because
\nit is broad and infinite in its self-view, in its scope and in its operation, it is called Brihat, the Large or Vast.
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Savitri by the Truth is the Creator, but not in the sense of a fabrication or mechanical forming of things. The root of the
\nword means an impulsion, a loosing forth or sending out, —the sense also of the ordinary word for creation,
\nsrsti<\/i>, —and so a
\n .<\/i> production. The action of the causal Idea does not fabricate, but
\nbrings out by Tapas, by the pressure of consciousness on its own being, that which is concealed in it, latent in potentiality and in
\ntruth already existent in the Beyond.
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Now the forces and processes of the physical world repeat,
\nas in a symbol, the truths of the supraphysical action which produced it. And since it is by the same forces and the same
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processes, one in the physical worlds and the supraphysical,
\nthat our inner life and its development are governed, the Rishis adopted the phenomena of physical Nature as just symbols for
\nthose functionings of the inner life which it was their difficult task to indicate in the concrete language of a sacred poetry that
\nmust at the same time serve for the external worship of the Gods as powers of the visible universe. The solar energy is the physical
\nform of Surya, Lord of Light and Truth; it is through the Truth that we arrive at Immortality, final aim of the Vedic discipline.
\nIt is therefore under the images of the Sun and its rays, of Dawn and day and night and the life of man between the two poles of
\nlight and darkness that the Aryan seers represent the progressive illumination of the human soul. It is so that Shyavashwa of the
\nhouse of Atri hymns Savitri, Creator, Increaser, Revealer.
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Surya enlightens the mind and the thoughts with the illuminations of the Truth. He is vipra<\/i>, the illumined. It is he who delivers the individual human mind from the circumscribed
\nconsciousness of self and environment and enlarges the limited movement which is imposed on it by its preoccupation with
\nits own individuality. Therefore he is brhat<\/i>, the Large. But his
\nillumination is not a vague light, nor does his largeness come by a confused and dissolved view of self and object; it holds
\nin itself a clear discernment of things in their totality, their parts and their relations. Therefore he is vipascit<\/i>, the clear in perception. Men as soon as they begin to receive something
\nof this solar illumination, strive to yoke their whole mentality and its thought-contents to the conscious existence of the divine
\nSurya within them. That is to say, they apply, as it were, all their obscure mental state and all their erring thoughts to this Light
\nmanifested in them so that it may turn the obscurity of the mind into clearness and convert the errors of thought into those truths
\n which they distortedly represent. This yoking (yu\u00f1jate<\/i>) becomes
\ntheir Yoga. “They yoke the mind, and they yoke their thoughts, the enlightened, of (i.e. to, or so that they may be part of or
\nbelong to) the Enlightened, the Large, the Clear-perceptioned.”
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Then the Lord of Truth orders all the human energies offered
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and sovereign Power governing all knowledge and action. Not interfered with by conflicting agencies, he governs perfectly; for
\nhe knows all manifestations, comprehends their causes, contains their law and process, compels their right result. There are seven
\nof these sacrificial energies (Hotras) in the human being, one corresponding to each of the seven constituents of his psycho
\nlogical existence, —body, life, mind, super-mind, bliss, will and essential being. Their irregular action or wrong relation, caused
\nand maintained by the obscuration of knowledge in Mind, is the source of all stumbling and unhappiness, of all evil act and evil
\nstate. Surya, Lord of Knowledge, puts each of them to its right place in the Sacrifice. “Knower of phenomena sole he arranges
\nthe sacrificial energies.”
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Man thus arrives at a vast and all-embracing affirmation
\nin himself of this divine Creator. It is implied in this passage and indicated more clearly in the next verse that the result is a
\nright and happy creation —for all our existence is a constant creation —of the universe of man’s whole being. “Vast is the
\ncomprehensive affirmation of the god Savitri.”
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Surya is the seer, the revealer. His Truth takes into its illumination all forms of things, all the phenomenal objects and experiences which constitute our world, all the figures of the
\nuniversal Consciousness within and without us. It reveals the truth in them, their sense, their purpose, their justification and
\nright use. Ordering rightly the energies of the sacrifice it creates or produces good as the law of our whole existence. For all
\nthings have their justifiable cause of being, their good use and their right enjoyment. When this truth in them is found and
\nutilised, all things produce good for the soul, increase its welfare, enlarge its felicity. And this divine revolution is effected both in
\nthe lower physical existence and in the more complete inner life which uses the physical for its manifestation. “The Seer takes to
\nhimself all forms, he brings out (creates or manifests) good for the twofold (two-footed), for the fourfold (four-footed).”4<\/font><\/sup>
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4 The symbolism of the words dvipade <\/i>and catuspade <\/i>may be differently interpreted.
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\nThe process of this new creation is described in the rest of the hymn. Surya, as the creator, as the supreme good, manifests
\nin our human consciousness its concealed heavenly summit on the levels of the pure mind, and we are able to look up above
\nfrom the earth of our physical existence and are delivered from the obscurities of the night of Ignorance. He follows, sunlike,
\nthe march of the Dawn, illuminating all the regions of our being on which falls its light; for there is always needed the precursory
\nmental illumination before the Truth itself, the supramental principle, can take possession of this lower existence. “The creator,
\nthe supremely desirable, manifests all heaven and shines pervadingly following (after or according to) the movement forward of
\nthe Dawn.”
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\nAll the other gods follow in this march of Surya and they
\nattain to his vastness by the force of his illumination. That is to say, all the other divine faculties or potentialities in man expand
\nwith the expansion of the Truth and Light in him; in the strength of the ideal super-mind they attain to the same infinite amplitude
\nof right becoming, right action and right knowledge. The Truth in its largeness moulds all into the terms of the infinite and
\nuniversal Life, replaces with it the limited individual existence, maps out in the terms of their real being the realms of the physical consciousness which, as Savitri, it has created. This also is in us a creation, although in reality it only manifests what already
\nexists but was concealed by the darkness of our ignorance, —just as the realms of the physical earth are concealed from our
\neyes by the darkness, but reveal themselves as the sun in his march follows the Dawn and measures them out one by one to
\nthe vision. “Following whose march the other gods too reach the vastness of the divinity by his strength, he who maps out
\nentirely —that brilliant one —the earthly realms of light, the god Savitri, by his greatness.”
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\nBut it is not only the full capacity of our physical or earthly consciousness that this divine Truth illuminates and forms for
\na perfect action. It pervades the three luminous realms of the \t\t\t pure mind (trīni
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the intuitive reason and liberating the superior faculties from their limitation and constant reference to the material world fulfils our entire mental being. Its activities receive their completest manifestation; they are gathered up into the life of the complete
\nTruth by the rays of the sun, that is to say, by the full splendour of the divine Super-Mind manifested in us. “And thou goest,
\nO Savitri, to the three luminousnesses, and thou art perfectly expressed by the rays of the Sun (or, art gathered together by
\nmeans of the rays).” <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Then it is that the higher kingdom of the Immortality, Sachchidananda revealed, shines out perfectly in this world. The higher and lower are reconciled in the light of the supra-mental
\nrevelation. The Ignorance, the Night, is illumined upon both sides of our complete being, not only as in our present state
\nupon one. This higher kingdom stands confessed in the principle of Beatitude which is for us the principle of Love and
\nLight, represented by the god Mitra. The Lord of Truth, when he reveals himself in the full godhead, becomes the Lord of
\nBliss. The law of his being, the principle regulating his activities is seen to be Love; for in the right arrangement of knowledge and
\naction everything here comes to be translated into terms of good, felicity, bliss. “And thou encompassest Night upon both sides,
\nand thou becomest, O God, Mitra by the laws of thy action.” <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Truth of the divine existence becomes eventually the
\nsole Lord of all creation in ourselves; and by his constant visitations or by his continual progressions the Creator becomes
\nthe Increaser, Savitri becomes Pushan. He aggrandises us by a constantly progressive creation until he has illumined the whole
\nworld of our becoming. We grow into the complete, the universal, the infinite. So has Shyavashwa, of the sons of Atri,
\nsucceeded in affirming Savitri in his own being as the illuminative Truth, the creative, the progressive, the increaser of man
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\nwho brings him out of egoistic limitation into universality, out of the finite into the infinite. “And thou hast power alone for
\ncreation; and thou becomest the Increaser, O God, by the goings; and thou illuminest entirely all this world (literally, becoming).
\nShyavashwa has attained to the affirmation of thee, O Savitri."  
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