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\nMANDALA SIX<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\nBHARADWAJA BARHASPATYA<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nSUKTA  1 <\/font> <\/b><\/p>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nO potent Fire, thou wert the first thinker of this thought and the Priest of the
\ncall. O Male, thou hast created everywhere around thee a force invulnerable to
\noverpower every force.  <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nAnd now strong for sacrifice, thou hast taken thy session in the seat of
\naspiration, one aspired to, a flame of the call, an imparter of the impulse.
\nMen, building the godheads, have grown conscious of thee, the chief and first,
\nand followed to a mighty treasure. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nIn thee awake, they followed after the Treasure as in the wake of one who walks
\non a path with many possessions, in the wake of the vast glowing-visioned
\nembodied Fire that casts its light always and for ever., <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nTravellers with surrender to the plane of the godhead, seekers of inspired
\nknowledge, they won an inviolate inspiration, they held the sacrificial Names
\nand had delight in thy happy vision. <\/p>\n

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\n
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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nThe peoples increase thee on the earth; both kinds of riches of men increase
\nthee. O Fire, our pilot through the battle, thou art the deliverer of whom we
\nmust know, ever a father and mother, to human beings. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nDear and servable is this Fire in men; a rapturous Priest of the call has taken
\nup his session, strong for sacrifice. Pressing the knee may we come to thee with
\nobeisance of surrender when thou flamest alight in the house. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nO Fire, we desire thee, the god to whom must rise our cry, we the right
\nthinkers, the seekers of bliss, the builders of the godheads. O Fire, shining
\nwith light thou leadest men through the vast luminous world of heaven. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8.
\nTo the seer, the Master of creatures who rules over the eternal generations of
\npeoples, the Smiter, the Bull of those that see, the mover to the journey beyond
\nwho drives us, the purifying Flame, the Power in the sacrifice. Fire the Regent
\nof the Treasures! <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

9.
\nO Fire, the mortal has done his sacrifice and achieved his labour who has worked
\nout the gift of the oblation with the <\/p>\n

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\n
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\nfuel of thy flame and wholly learned the way of the offering by his prostrations
\nof surrender; he lives in thy guard and holds in himself all desirable things.\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

10.
\nO Fire, O son of Force, may we offer to thy greatness that which is great,
\nworshipping thee with the obeisance and the fuel and the offering, the altar and
\nthe word and the utterance. For we would work and strive in thy happy right
\nthinking, O Fire. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

11.
\nO thou who art filled with inspiration and a passer of barriers, O thou who has
\nextended earth and heaven by the wideness of thy light and thy inspired
\ndiscoveries of knowledge, shine wider yet in us with thy large and solid and
\nopulent amassings, O Fire. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

12.
\nO Prince of Riches, fix always in us that in which are the Gods, settle here
\nmany herds for the begotten son. In us may there be the happy things of true
\ninspiration and the multitude of the large impulsions from which evil is far.\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

13.
\nQ King, O Fire, let me enjoy by thee and thy princehood of the riches many
\nriches in many ways; for, O Fire of many blessings, there are many treasures for
\nthy worshipper in thee, the King.  \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n
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SUKTA 
\n<\/span>2 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nO Fire, thou travellest like a friend to the glory where is our home. O
\nwide-seeing Prince of the Treasure, thou nurturest our inspiration and our
\ngrowth. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nMen who see aspire to thee with the word and the sacrifice. To thee comes the
\nall-seeing Horse that crosses the mid-world, the Horse that no wolf tears. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nThe Men of Heaven with a single joy set thee alight to be the eye of intuition
\nof the sacrifice when this human being, this seeker of bliss, casts his offering
\nin the pilgrim-rite. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nThe mortal should grow in riches who achieves the work by the Thought for thee,
\nthe great giver; he is in the keeping of the Vast Heaven and crosses beyond the
\nhostile powers and their evil. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nO Fire, when mortal man arrives by the fuel of thy flame to the way of the
\noblation and the sharpening of thy intensities, he increases his branching
\nhouse, his house of the hundred of life. <\/p>\n

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\n
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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nThe smoke from thy blaze journeys and in heaven is outstretched brilliant-white.
\nO purifying Fire, thou shinest with a flame like the light of the sun. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nNow art thou here in men, one to be aspired to and a beloved guest; for thou art
\nlike one delightful and adorable in the city and as if our son and a traveller
\nof the triple world. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8.
\nO Fire, thou art driven by the will in our gated house like a horse apt for our
\nwork; thou art by thy nature like a far-spreading mansion and like a galloper of
\nwinding ways and a little child. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

9.
\nO Fire, thou art like a beast in thy pasture and devourest even the unfallen
\nthings; the lustres of thy blaze tear to pieces the woodlands, O ageless Flame.\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

10.O Fire, thou comest a Priest of the call into the house of men that do the Rite
\nof the Path. Make us complete in the treasure, O Master of men! O Angiras
\nflame-seer, rejoice in our oblation. <\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

11.
\nO Fire, O friendly Light, O Godhead, turn to the Godheads, mayst thou speak for
\nus the true thought of Earth and Heaven; move to the peace and the happy abode
\nand the men of Heaven. Let us pass beyond the foe and the sin and the stumbling;
\nlet us pass beyond these things, pass in thy keeping through them safe. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>3 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nThe mortal who longs for the Godhead shall take up his home with thee, O Fire,
\nhe is born into the Truth and a guardian of the Truth and comes to thy wide
\nLight, \u2014 he in whom thou being Varuna takest with Mitra a common delight and
\nthou guardest that mortal, O God, by thy casting away from him of evil. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.<\/i>
\nHe has sacrificed with sacrifices, he has achieved his labour by his works, he
\nhas given to the Fire whose boons grew ever in opulence. And so there befalls
\nhim not the turning away of the Glorious Ones; evil comes not to him nor the
\ninsolence of the adversary. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nFaultless is thy seeing like the sun’s; terrible marches thy thought when
\nblazing, with light thou neighest aloud like a <\/p>\n

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\n
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\nforce of battle. This Fire was born in the pleasant woodland and is a rapturous
\ndweller somewhere in the night.  <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nFiery-sharp is his march and great his body, \u2014 he is like a horse that eats and
\nchamps with his mouth: he casts his tongue like an axe to every side, like a
\nsmelter he melts the log that he burns. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nHe sets like an archer his shaft for the shooting, he sharpens his powers of
\nlight like an edge of steel. He is the traveller of the night with rich rapid
\nmovements; he has thighs of swift motion and is like a bird that settles on a
\ntree. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nThis friendly Light is like a singer of the word and clothes himself with the
\nRays, he rhapsodises with his flame. This is the shining One who journeys by
\nnight and by day to the Gods, the shining Immortal who journeys through the day
\nto the Gods. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nThe cry of him is like the voice of ordaining Heaven;\u00b9 he is the shining Bull
\nthat bellows aloud in the growths of the forest. He goes with his light and his
\nrace and his running and fills Earth and Heaven with his riches; they are like
\nwives happy in their spouse. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n    \u00b9<\/span>Or,
\nthe cry of him in his worship of sacrifice is like the voice of Heaven; <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8.
\nHe flashes like the lightning with his own proper strength, his own founding and
\nhelpful illuminations. As if heaven’s craftsman he has fashioned the army of the
\nLife-Gods and lightens ablaze in his exultant speed. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>4 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nO Son of Force, O Priest of the call, even as always in man’s forming of the
\ngodhead thou sacrificest with his sacrifices, sacrifice so for us to the Gods
\ntoday, O Fire, an equal power to equal powers, one who desires to the Gods who
\ndesire.  <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nHe is wide in his light like a seer of the Day; he is the one we must know and
\nfounds an adorable joy. In him is universal life, he is the Immortal in mortals;
\nhe is the Waker in the Dawn, our Guest, the Godhead who knows all births that
\nare. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nThe heavens seem to praise his giant might; he is robed in lustre and brilliant
\nlike the Sun. Ageless the purifying Fire moves abroad and cuts down even the
\nancient things of the Devourer.\u00b9<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n    <\/b>\u00b9Or, the enjoyer. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nO Son, thou art the speaker, thy food is thy seat; Fire from his very birth has
\nmade his food the field of his race. O Strength-getter, found strength in us!
\nThou conquerest like a king and thy, dwelling is within, there where there comes
\nnot any render. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nHe eats his food and sharpens his sword of defence; he is like the Life-God a
\nmaster of kingdoms and passes beyond the nights. O Fire, may we pierce through
\nthe foe, O thou who breakest like a galloping steed all that battle against thy
\nappointings, hurting around thee our hurters as they fall upon us. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nO Fire, thou art like the Sun with thy splendid illuminations and hast wide
\nextended Earth and Heaven with thy light. Smeared with lustre,\u00b9 rich in
\nbrilliance he shepherds away the darkness and like a son of the desire of the
\nGods rushes onward in his march. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nWe have chosen thee most rapturous with the flaming lights of thy illuminations;
\nO Fire, hear for us that which is great. O Godhead of Fire, the most strong Gods
\nfill thee like Indra with might and like the Life-God with riches. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

   
\n\u00b9Or, anointed with light, <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8.
\nO Fire, thou journeyest happily to the treasures by paths where the wolf rends
\nnot, and earnest us beyond all evils. These high things thou givest to the
\nluminous wise; thou lavishest the bliss on him who voices thee with the word.
\nMay we revel in rapture, strong with the strength of the Heroes, living a
\nhundred winters. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>5 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. 
\nI call to you by my thoughts. Fire, the youngest of the gods in whose words is
\nno bale, the Youth, the Son of Force. He is a mind of the knowledge free from
\nall that hurts; his gifts are many and he journeys to the riches where all boons
\nare.  <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nO Priest of the call. Priest with thy many flame-forces,\u00b9 in the night and in
\nthe light the Lords of sacrifice cast on thee their treasures. As in earth are
\nfounded all the worlds, they founded all happinesses in the purifying Fire. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nThou art the Ancient of Days and hast taken thy seat in these peoples and
\nbecomest by the will their charioteer of desirable things. O Conscient, O thou
\nwho knowest all births that are, thou walkest wide for thy worshipper in
\nunbroken order to the Treasures. <\/p>\n

\n     <\/p>\n

   
\n\u00b9Or, forms of flame, <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nO Fire, O friendly Light, O most burning Power, the enemy who is hidden and
\nwould destroy us, the enemy who is within us and would conquer, leap
\nfiery-forceful with thy affliction of flame and consume him with thy male and
\nageless fires. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nWhen man gives to thee with the sacrifice and the fuel and with his spoken words
\nand his chants of illumination, he be-comes, O Immortal, O Son of Force, a mind
\nof knowledge among mortals and shines with the riches and inspiration and light.\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nMissioned create that swiftly, O Fire. Force is thine, resist with thy force our
\nconfronters. When^ revealed by thy lights, thou art formulated by our words,
\nrejoice in the far-sounding thought of thy adorer. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nO Fire, may we possess in thy guard that high desire, \u2014 possess, O Lord of the
\ntreasures, that Treasure and its heroes, possess replenishing thee thy
\nplenitude, possess, O ageless Fire, thy ageless light. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>6 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

1.
\nMan turns with a new sacrifice to the Son of Force when he desires the Way and
\nthe guard. He arrives in his journeyings to the heavenly Priest of the call, the
\nPriest shining with light, but black is his march through the forests he tears.\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nHe grows white and thunderous, he stands in a luminous world; he is most young
\nwith his imperishable clamouring fires. This is he that makes pure and is full
\nof his multitudes and, even as he devours, goes after the things that are many,
\nthe things that are wide. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nO Fire, thy lights range wind-impelled on every side, pure as thou art pure.
\nMany things they violate and break in their rashness and enjoy the forests of
\ntheir pleasure, heavenly lights, seers of the ninefold-ray. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nO Fire of the burning purities, pure and flaming-bright are these thy horses
\nthat loosed to the gallop raze the earth. Then wide is thy wandering and its
\nlight shines far as it drives them up to the dappled Mother’s heights. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nThen the tongue of the Bull leaps constantly like the thunder-bolt loosed of the
\nGod who fights for the herds of the Light. The destruction of Fire is like the
\ncharge of a hero; he is terrible and irresistible, he hews the forests asunder. \n<\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nThou hast spread out the earthly speed-ranges by thy light and the violence of
\nthy mighty scourge. Repel by thy forceful powers all dangerous things; turn to
\nconquer those who would conquer us, shatter our confronters. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nO rich in thy brilliances. Fire with thy manifold luminous mights, rivet to us
\nthe rich and various treasure, most richly diverse, that awakens us to knowledge
\nand founds our expanding growth. O delightful God, to him who voices thee with
\ndelightful words the vast delightful wealth and its many hero-keepers! <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>7 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.<\/i>
\nHead of heaven and traveller of the earth a universal Power was born to us in
\nthe Truth, a Guest of men, a seer and absolute King; the Gods brought to birth
\nuniversal Fire and made him in the mouth a vessel of the oblation. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nAll they together came to him, a navel knot of sacrifice, a house of riches, a
\nmighty point of call in the battle. Charioteer of the Works of the way, eye of
\nintuition of the sacrifice, the Gods brought to birth the universal Godhead. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nO Fire, from thee is born the Seer, the Horse and of thee are the Heroes whose
\nmight overcomes the adversary. O King, O universal Power, found in us the
\ndesirable treasures. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nO Immortal, all the Gods come together <\/b>to thee in thy birth as to a
\nnew-born child. O universal Power, they travelled to immortality by the works of
\nthy will when thou leapedst alight from the Father and Mother. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nO Fire, universal Godhead, none could do violence to the laws of thy mighty
\nworkings because even in thy birth in the lap of the Father and the Mother thou
\nhast discovered the light of intuition of the Days in manifested things.\u00b9 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nThe heights of heaven were measured into form by the eye of this universal
\nForce, they were shaped by the intuition of the Immortal. All the worlds are
\nupon his head; the seven far-flowing rivers climbed from him like branches. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nThe Universal mighty of will measured into form the kingdom of middle space; a
\nSeer, he shaped the luminous planes of Heaven. <\/b>He has spread around us
\nall these worlds; he is the guardian of immortality and its indomitable
\ndefender. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

    \u00b9Or,
\nin all sorts of knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
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SUKTA 
\n<\/span>8<\/b> <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nNow have I spoken aloud the force of the brilliant Male who fills the world, the
\ndiscoveries of knowledge of the god who knows all things that are. A new and
\npure and beautiful thought is streaming like sacramental wine to Fire, the
\nuniversal Godhead. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nFire is the guardian of the laws of all workings and he kept safe the laws of
\nhis action and motion even in the moment of his birth in the supreme ether. The
\nUniversal mighty of will measured into shape the middle world and touched heaven
\nwith his greatness. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nThe Wonderful, the Friend propped up earth and heaven and made the darkness a
\ndisappearing thing by the Light. He rolled out the two minds like skins; the
\nUniversal assumed every masculine might. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nThe Great Ones seized him in the lap of the waters and the Peoples came to the
\nKing with whom is the illumining Word. Messenger of the luminous Sun, Life that
\nexpands in the Mother brought Fire the universal Godhead from the supreme
\nBeyond. <\/p>\n

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\n
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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nFound for those who from age to age speak the word that is new, the word that is
\na discovery of knowledge, O Fire, their glorious treasure; but cut him in twain
\nwho is a voice of evil, cast him low by thy force of light like a tree with the
\nthunderbolt, imperishable\u00b9 king.  <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nO Fire, uphold in our masters of the treasure their indestructible\u00b2 hero-force
\nand unbending might of battle. O universal Fire, may we by thy safe keepings
\nconquer the plenitude of the hundreds and the plenitude of the thousands. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nO our impeller,\u00b3 holder of the triple session, shield our luminous seers with
\nthy indomitable guardian fires. Keep safe, O Fire, the army of those who have
\ngiven, O Universal, hearing our hymn to thee deliver to its forward march. <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>9 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nA day that is black and a day that is argent bright, two worlds revolve in their
\ndifferent paths by forces that we must know. Fire, the universal Godhead, like a
\nking that comes to birth has thrust the Darknesses down by the Light. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

   
\n\u00b9Or, ageless <\/span>    \u00b2Or, imaging <\/span>    \u00b3Or,
\nO doer of sacrifice, <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nI know not the woof, I know not the warp, nor what is this web that they weave
\nmoving to and fro in the field of their motion and labour. There are secrets
\nthat must be told and of someone ,the son speaks them here, one highest beyond
\nthrough his father lower than he. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.
\nHe knows the warp, he knows the woof, he tells in their time the things that
\nmust be spoken. This is the guardian of immortality who wakes to the knowledge
\nof these things; walking here below he is one highest beyond who sees through
\nanother. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nThis is the pristine Priest of the call, behold him! this is the immortal Light
\nin mortals. This is he that is born and grows with a body and is the Immortal
\nseated and steadfast for ever. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n


\n5.<\/i> An immortal Light set inward for seeing, a swiftest mind within in men
\nthat walk on the way. All the Gods with a single mind, a common intuition, move
\naright in their divergent paths towards the one Will. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nMy ears range wide to hear and wide my eyes to see, wide this Light that is set
\nin the heart; wide walks my mind and I <\/p>\n

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\n
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\nset my thought afar; something there is that I shall speak; something that now I
\nshall think. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nAll the gods were in awe of thee when thou stoodest in the darkness and bowed
\ndown before thee, O Fire. May the Universal Godhead keep us that we may be safe,
\nmay the Immortal keep us that we may be safe. <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>10<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1.
\nWhen the pilgrim-rite moves on its way, set in your front the divine ecstatic
\nFire, place him in front by your words, the Flame of the good riddance:\u00b9 he is
\nthe Knower of all things born; his light shines wide and he shall make easy for
\nus the progressions of the sacrifice. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.
\nO Fire, kindled by man’s fires. Priest of the call who comest with thy light,
\nPriest of the many flame-armies, hearken to the anthem our thoughts strain out
\npure to the godhead like pure clarified butter,\u00b2 even as Mamata chanted to him
\nher paeon. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00b9The word suvr<\/i><\/span>̣kti<\/span><\/i>
\ncorresponds to the katharsis<\/i> of the Greek mystics \u2014 the clearance,
\nriddance or rejection of all perilous and impure stuff from the consciousness.
\nIt is Agni Pavaka, the purifying Fire who brings to us this riddance or
\npurification, "suvrikti". <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b2Here we have the clue to the symbol of the
\n"clarified butter" in the sacrifice; like the others it is used in its double
\nmeaning, "clarified butter" or, as we may say, "the light-offering". <\/span><\/p>\n

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3.
\nHe among mortals is fed on inspiration, the illumined who gives with his word to
\nthe Fire, the seer whom the Fire of the brilliant illuminations settles by his
\nluminous safeguardings in the conquest of the Pen where are the herds of the
\nLight. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.
\nFire of the blackened trail in his very birth has filled wide earth and heaven
\nwith his far-seeing light. Now has Fire that  makes pure been seen by his bright
\nflame even through much darkness of the billowing Night. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.
\nFound, O Fire, for us and the masters of plenty by thy safeguardings packed with
\nthe plenitudes a treasure of richly brilliant kinds; for these are they who
\nsurpass all others in their opulence and inspiration and hero-mights. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.
\nO Fire, yearn to the sacrifice that the bringer of the offering casts to thee;
\nfound the rapture. Hold firm in the Bharadwaja the perfect purification; guard
\nthem in their seizing of the riches of the quest. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.
\nScatter all hostile things, increase the revealing Word. May we revel in the
\nrapture, strong with strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters. <\/p>\n

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