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

\n
\nGATHINA VISHWAMITRA<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>1<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

1.
\nBear me that I may be strong to hold the wine, O Fire, for thou hast made me a
\ncarrier flame of sacrifice in the getting of knowledge: I shine towards the
\ngods, I put the stone to its work, I accomplish the labour;\u00b9 O Fire, take
\ndelight in my body. <\/p>\n

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

2.
\nWe have made the sacrifice with its forward movement, may the word increase in
\nus,* with the fuel, with the obeisance they have set the Fire to its work. The
\nheavens have declared the discoveries of knowledge of the seers and they have
\nwilled a path for the strong and wise. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nFull of understanding, pure in discernment, close kin from his birth to earth
\nand heaven he has founded the Bliss. The gods discovered the seeing Fire within
\nin the waters, in the work of the sisters. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nThe seven mighty rivers increased the blissful flame,\u00b2 white in his birth, ruddy
\nglowing in his mightiness: the Mares went up to him as to a new-born child; the
\ngods gave body to Agni in his birth. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00b9Or,
\nI attain to the peace;        <\/span>\u00b2Or,
\nincreased him in his beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 105<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

5.
\nWith his bright limbs he has built wide the mid-world purifying the will by his
\npure seer-powers; wearing light like a robe around the life of the waters he
\nforms his glories vast and ample. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nHe moved all round the seven mighty Ones of heaven:  undevouring, inviolate,
\nneither were they clothed nor were they naked: here young and eternal in one
\nnative home the seven Voices held in their womb the one Child. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nWide-strewn, compact, taking universal forms are his energies in the womb of the
\nlight, in the streaming of the sweetnesses: here the milch-cows stand nourished
\nand growing; two great and equal companions\u00b9 are the mothers of the Doer of
\nworks. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nUpborne, O Son of Force, thou shinest out wide holding thy bright and rapturous
\nbodies; there drip down streams of the light and the sweetness, there where the
\nBull has grown by the seer-wisdom. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nAt his birth he discovered the teat of abundance of the Father, he loosed forth
\nwide his streams, wide his nourishing  <\/p>\n

\n
\n\u00b9Or, vast and whole<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 106<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

rivers;\u00b9 he discovered
\nhim moving in the secrecy with his helpful comrades, with the mighty Rivers of
\nHeaven, but himself became not secret in the cave.  <\/p>\n

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

10.
\nHe carried the child of the father who begot him; one, he sucked the milk of
\nmany who nourished him with their overflowing. Two who have one lord and
\nkinsman, for this pure male of the herds guard both in the human being. <\/p>\n

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

11.
\nVast was he in the unobstructed wideness and grew, for the waters many and
\nglorious fed the flame; in the native seat of the Truth the Fire lay down and
\nmade his home, in the work of the companions, the sisters. <\/p>\n

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

12.
\nLike a height upbearing all\u00b2 in the meeting of the great waters, eager for
\nvision for the Son, straight in his lustres, he is the Father who begot the
\nshining Ray-herds, the child of the Waters, the most strong and mighty Fire. <\/p>\n

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

13.
\nOne desirable and blissful gave birth to him in many forms, a visioned child of
\nthe waters and a child of the growths of earth: the gods too met with the Mind
\nthe Fire, strong at his birth and powerful to act\u00b3 and set him to his work. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00b9Or,
\nhe loosed forth the milch-cows;    <\/span>\u00b2
\nOr, all like one moving and
\nupbearing all    <\/span>\u00b3Or,
\nmost admirable <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 107<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

14.
\nVast sun-blazings cleave like brilliant lightnings to this Fire, straight in his
\nlustres, growing as in a secret cave within in his own home in the shoreless
\nwideness, and they draw the milk of immortality. <\/p>\n

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

15.
\nMaking sacrifice with my offerings for thee I pray, and pray for thy friendship
\nand true-mindedness with an utter desire. Fashion with the Gods protection for
\nthy adorer and guard us with thy flame-forces that dwell in the house. <\/p>\n

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

16.
\nWe who come to thee to dwell with thee in thy home, O perfect leader of the way,
\nholding all opulent things, may we, overflowing\u00b9 them with the full stream of
\ninspiration, overwhelm the hostile army of the undivine powers. <\/p>\n

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

17.
\nO Fire, thou becomest in us the rapturous ray of intuition of the gods that
\nknows all seer-wisdoms; established in thy home thou settlest mortals in that
\ndwelling-place, as their charioteer achieving their aim thou journeyest in the
\nwake of ‘the gods. <\/p>\n

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

18.
\nIn the gated house of mortals the immortal sat as King <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

     \u00b9Or,
\nsmiting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 108<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

accomplishing the
\nthings of knowledge: the Fire shone out in his wideness with his luminous front,
\nknower of all seer-wisdoms. <\/p>\n

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

19.
\nCome to us in a rapid approach with thy happy befriendings, mighty, come with
\nthy mighty protectings; in us the abundance of the delivering riches, for us our
\nglorious high-worded portion create. <\/p>\n

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

20.
\nO Fire, these are thy eternal births which I have declared to thee, ever new
\nbirths for the ancient flame: great are the offerings of the Wine we have made
\nfor the mighty one. He is the knower of all births set within in birth and
\nbirth. <\/p>\n

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

21.
\nThe knower of all births set within in birth and birth is kindled by
\nVishwamitra, an unceasing flame; in the true thinking of this lord of sacrifice,
\nin a happy right-mindedness may we abide. <\/p>\n

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

22.
\nO forceful God, O strong Will, establish this sacrifice of ours in the gods and
\ntake in it thy delight: O Priest of the call, extend to us the vast impulsions;
\nO Fire, bring to us by sacrifice the great Treasure. <\/p>\n

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


\nPage \u2013 109<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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23.
\nO Fire, achieve at my call the Revealing Speech, the many-actioned, the lasting
\nconquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in
\nhis birth;\u00b9 O Fire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nSUKTA <\/font>2<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

1.
\nWe create an understanding like pure light for the Fire that makes the Truth to
\ngrow, for the universal godhead. The priests of the word fashion twofold by the
\nthought of the human being\u00b2 this priest of the call, as the saw carves a
\nchariot, and join him into a whole. <\/p>\n

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

2.
\nHe from his birth illumined both the firmaments, he became the desirable son of
\nthe Father and Mother. The ageless and inviolable Fire, firmly founded in bliss,
\nwith his riches of the Light, is the carrier of offering and the guest of the
\npeoples. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nBy the will, in the order and law of a delivering discernment, the gods brought
\nthe Fire into being by their perceptions of the Knowledge. In his greatness
\nshining forth with his blazing light I invoke him as the Horse so that I may
\nconquer the plenitude.<\/p>\n

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

\n     \u00b9Or, himself a
\nbegetter    <\/span>\u00b2Or, the
\nhuman priest of the word by their thought<\/span><\/p>\n


\nPage \u2013 110<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

4.
\nTo conquer the supreme bliss of the rapturous godhead, the undeviating plenitude
\nfull of the word of illumination, we accept the gift of the Flame-Seers,\u00b9 the
\nFire that aspires, the Seer-Will shining with heavenly light. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nHaving gathered the sacred grass, stretching out the ladle of offering, men have
\nset here in their front the Fire for the happiness, in his plenitude of
\ninspiration, the Violent, the universal in godhead, the bright and beautiful,
\none who accomplishes the seekings of sacrifice of the doers of the works. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nO Fire, O purifying light, O Priest of the call, men in their sacrifices having
\ngathered the sacred grass, desiring the work, sit around thy house which we must
\nobtain as ours; found for them the Treasure. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nHe filled the two firmaments, he filled the vast sun-world, when he was born and
\nheld by the doers of the work. He is led around for the pilgrim-sacrifice, the
\nSeer founded in the Bliss, as the Horse for the conquest of the plenitude. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nBow down to the giver of the offering, set to his work the perfect in the
\npilgrim-rite, the knower of all the births who dwells in the house: for he is
\nthe all-seeing charioteer of the  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, the Bhrigus.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 111<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

\nvast Truth, the Fire has become the priest of the gods set in front. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nTriple is the fuel of the mighty and pervading Fire purified by the aspiring
\nimmortals; one of three they have set in the mortal, the fuel of the enjoyment,
\ntwo have gone to that companion world. <\/p>\n

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

10.
\nThis seer and lord of creatures human impulsions have perfected everywhere like
\nan axe for sharpness. He goes overrunning the high and the low places; he holds
\nthe child born in these worlds. <\/p>\n

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

11.
\nThe male of the herds has been born in different wombs and he stirs abroad like
\na roaring lion, the universal god-head, the immortal wide in his might bestowing
\nthe riches and the ecstasies on the offerer of sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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

12.
\nUniversal godhead as in the ancient days has ascended glad by high thoughts to
\nthe firmament, to the back of heaven, even as of old he creates the riches for
\nthe creature born; wakeful he travels ever over the same field of movement. <\/p>\n

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

\nPage \u2013 112<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

13.
\nThe sacrificial Fire whose home is in heaven and who possesses the Truth, the
\nillumined seer with his utterance of the word whom life that grows here in the
\nmother has set, him with his diverse journeying, his tawny hair of flame we
\ndesire, the deep thinking Fire for a new and happy movement. <\/p>\n

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

14.
\nPure-bright, rapid of impulsion in his journeying, Fire that looks upon the
\nsun-world, heaven’s ray of intuition, standing in the luminous planes, waking in
\nthe Dawn, Fire, head of heaven, whom no darkness can cover, him we desire with
\nobeisance of surrender, the Fire of the plenitudes who is the Vast. <\/p>\n

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

15.
\nThe pure and rapturous Priest of the call in whom is no duality, the dweller in
\nthe house, the speaker of the word, the all-seeing, the visioned Fire set in the
\nthinking human being who is like a many-hued chariot  his embodiment, him ever
\nwe desire and his riches.  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nSUKTA <\/font>3<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

1.
\nFor the universal godhead, wide in his might, his illuminations\u00b9 create the
\necstasies to make a path on the foundations of things: because the immortal Fire
\nsets the gods to their work none can corrupt the eternal Laws. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, the illumined Ones<\/span><\/p>\n


\nPage \u2013 113<\/span><\/p>\n

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

2.
\nHe travels as the Messenger between earth and heaven, the doer of works, man’s
\nPriest of the call, seated within him, the vicar set in his front; with his
\nlight he envelops the Vast Home, the Fire missioned by the gods, rich with the
\nThought. <\/p>\n

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

3,
\nRay of intuition of their sacrifices, effective means of the finding of
\nknowledge, the illumined seers greatened the Fire by their awakenings to Wisdom;
\nthe Fire in whom his words have built into a harmony his works, in him the doer
\nof sacrifice desires the things of his happiness.  <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nThe Fire is the father of sacrifice, the Mighty Lord of the wise, he is the
\nmeasure and the manifestation of knowledge for the priests of the word: he
\nenters into earth and heaven with his manifold shape, many delightful things are
\nin him, he is the seer who has gladness of all the planes. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nThe gods have set in this world in his beauty and glory the delightful Fire,
\nwith his chariot of delight, luminous in the way of his workings, the universal
\ngodhead, who is seated in the waters, who is the discoverer of the sun-world,
\nwho enters into the depths and is swift to cross beyond, who is rapt in his
\nmights, who bears in himself all things. <\/p>\n


\nPage \u2013 114<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

6.
\nThe Fire with the gods and creatures born builds by the thought of man the
\nsacrifice in its many forms, he moves between earth and heaven as their
\ncharioteer bearing them to the achievement of their desires; he is the swift in
\nmotion and he is a dweller in the house who drives off every assailant. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nO Fire, come near to us in a life rich with offspring, nourish us with energy,
\nillumine our impulsions, animate in us the expanding powers of the Vast, O
\nwakeful Flame; thou art the aspirant strong in will for the gods and the
\nillumined seers. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nMen ever with obeisance, with swift urgings, give expression for their growth,
\nto the knower of all births, the mighty one, the lord of the peoples, the Guest,
\nthe driver of our thoughts, the aspirant in those who speak the word, the
\nwakener to consciousness in the pilgrim-sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nFire, the wide-shining godhead, joyful in his happy chariot, has enveloped in
\nhis might our abodes;\u00b9 with complete purification may we obey\u00b2 in the house the
\nlaws of work of this giver of our manifold increase. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, the worlds of our
\nhabitation;    <\/span>\u00b2Or,
\nmay we approach with reverence<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 115<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

10.
\nO universal godhead, I desire thy lights\u00b9 by which thou becomest, O all-seeing,\u00b2
\nthe knower of the sun-world: born, thou hast filled the worlds and earth and
\nheaven, thou art there enveloping them all with thyself, O Fire. <\/p>\n

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

11.
\nFire the One Seer by his seeking for perfect works\u00b3 released out of the actions4<\/span><\/sup>
\nof the universal godhead, the Vast: the Fire greatening both the parents, earth
\nand heaven, was born from a mighty seed.5<\/span><\/sup>\n<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nSUKTA <\/font>4<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

1.
\nAflame and again aflame in us awake with thy truth of mind, with light upon
\nlight grant us right understanding from the shining One. A god, bring the gods
\nfor the sacrifice; right-minded, a friend do sacrifice to the friends, O Fire.\n<\/p>\n

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

2.
\nO thou whom the gods, even Varuna, Mitra and the Fire, thrice in the day worship
\nwith sacrifice from day to day, O Son of the body, make this sacrifice of ours
\nfull of the sweetness, so that it may create the native seat of the light. <\/p>\n

 
\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, seats or planes   
\n<\/span>\u00b2Or, clear-seeing.   
\n<\/span>\u00b3Or, by his skill in
\nworks    4<\/sup>Or, detached from the actions    <\/span><\/p>\n

\n     5<\/span><\/sup>Or,
\nthe Fire was born greatening both the parents, earth and heaven, with his mighty
\nsteam<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
<\/div>\n

3.
\nThe Thought in which are all desirable things comes to this first and supreme
\nPriest of the call to offer our aspirations as a sacrifice, towards the mighty
\none to adore him with our prostrations; missioned, strong to sacrifice, may he
\ndo worship to the gods. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nIn the pilgrim-sacrifice a high path for you both has been made which departs to
\nthe high lustres, the mid-worlds; the Priest of the call has taken his seat in
\nthe navel-centre of heaven. We spread wide the sacred grass, a space of wideness
\nof the gods. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nAccepting with the mind the seven invocations, taking possession of all that is
\nby the Truth, they went towards their goal. Many powers born in the finding of
\nknowledge and wearing the forms of gods move abroad to this sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nMay night and dawn differently formed in their body be joined close and smile
\nupon us in their gladness, so that Mitra may take pleasure in us and Varuna or
\nwith his greatness Indra too with the life-gods.\u00b9 <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nI crown the two supreme Priests of the invocation. The <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00b9Or,
\nmay they so shine with their lights that Mitra may take pleasure in us and
\nVaruna and Indra with the life-gods.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 117<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

seven pleasures take
\ntheir rapture by the self-law of their nature; the Truth they express, the Truth
\nonly they speak, guardians of the law of its action according to that law they
\nshine. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nIn unison may Bharati with her Muses of invocation, Ila with gods and men and
\nFire, Saraswati with her powers of inspiration come down to us, the three
\ngoddesses sit upon this seat of sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nO divine maker of forms who hast the utter rapture, cast upon us that supreme
\ntranscendence cause of our growth, from which is born in us the hero ever active
\nwith wise discernment, the seeker of the gods who sets to work the stone of the
\nwine-pressing. <\/p>\n

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

10.
\nO tree, release thy yield to the gods; Fire the achiever of the work speeds the
\noffering on its way. It is he who does worship as the Priest of the call, the
\nmore true in his act because he knows the birth of the gods. <\/p>\n

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

11.
\nCome down to us, O Fire, high-kindled, in one chariot with Indra and swiftly
\njourneying gods; let Aditi, mother of mighty sons, sit on the sacred grass, let
\nthe gods, the immortals, take rapture in svāhā  <\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 118<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

SUKTA
\n<\/span>5 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nThe Fire is awake fronting the dawns; one illumined, he becomes aware of the
\npaths of the seers: kindled into a wide might by the seekers of godhead, the
\nupbearing flame opens the gates of the Darkness. <\/p>\n

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

2.
\nEver the Fire increases by the lauds, the words of those who hymn him by their
\nutterances, one to be adored with prostrations ; the Messenger who desires the
\nmany seeings of the Truth has shone out in the wide flaming of the Dawn. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nThe Fire has been set in the human peoples, child of the Waters, the Friend who
\nachieves by the Truth; luminous,\u00b9 a power for sacrifice, he has risen to the
\nsummits; he has become the illumined seer who must be called by our thoughts.\n<\/p>\n

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

4.
\nThe Fire when he has been kindled high becomes Mitra, the Friend \u2014 Mitra the
\nPriest of the call, Varuna, the knower of the births, Mitra, the Friend, the
\nPriest of the pilgrim-sacrifice, one rapid in his impulsions, the dweller in the
\nhouse, the friend of the Rivers, the friend of the Mountains. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, beloved and
\nadorable <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 119<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

5.
\nHe guards from hurt the beloved\u00b9 summit-seat of the being, mighty, he guards the
\ncourse\u00b2 of the Sun; Fire guards in the navel-centre the seven-headed thought,
\nsublime, he guards the ecstasy of the gods. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nA skilful craftsman, a god knowing all the manifestations of knowledge, he forms
\nthe beautiful and desirable Name, the luminous seat of the being in the movement
\nof the peace; that the Fire guards, not deviating from his work. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nDesiring it as it desired him, the Fire entered into that luminous native abode
\nwide in its approach; shining forth, pure, purifying, sublime, again and again
\nhe makes new the father and the mother. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nSuddenly born he is carried by the growths of the earth when the mothers who
\nbore him make him grow by the light. The Fire in the lap of the father and the
\nmother is as one who defends the waters gliding happily\u00b3 down a slope. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nLauded by us mighty he shone with his high flaming in the largeness4<\/span><\/sup>
\nof heaven, in the navel-centre of earth. The Fire  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, delightful   
\n<\/span>\u00b2Or, movement   
\n<\/span>\u00b3Or, gliding brightly 
\n<\/span>  4<\/span><\/sup>Or,
\nheight<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 120<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

is Mitra the Friend,
\nthe desirable one, he is life growing in the mother;\u00b9 may he as our messenger
\nbring the gods for the sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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

10.
\nThe Fire with his high flaming up-pillared, sublime, the firmament and became
\nthe highest of the luminous kingdoms,\u00b2 when for the flame-seers life, that grows
\nin the mother, kindled all around the carrier of the offerings who was hidden in
\nthe Secrecy. <\/p>\n

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

11.
\nO Fire, achieve at my call the Revealing Speech the many-actioned, the lasting
\nconquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in
\nhis birth;\u00b3 O Fire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>6<\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nThe Doers of the work, seekers of godhead, who find expression by the thought,
\nlead it on turned godwards; full of the plenitude, luminous, carrying the
\nUnderstanding, it journeys moving forwards, bringing the offering to the Fire.\n<\/p>\n

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

2.
\nEven in thy birth thou hast filled earth and heaven, and now  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, life that breathes
\nin the mother;    <\/span>\u00b2Or,
\nhighest of all     <\/span>\u00b3Or,
\nhimself a begetter;<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 121<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

thou hast exceeded
\nthem, O Flame that earnest on the sacrifice ; by the greatness of earth and
\nheaven may thy seven tongues find utterance, carriers of the word, O Fire. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nHeaven and earth and the lords of sacrifice set thee within as the Priest of the
\ncall for the house when human beings, seeking godhead, having the delight, ask
\nfor the resplendent Ray. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nMighty, he is seated steadfast in the world of his session, rejoicing between
\nthe two mightinesses of earth and heaven, the united wives of one wide moving
\nlord, ageless and inviolate, the two milch-cows giving their rich yield of milk.\n<\/p>\n

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

5.
\nGreat art thou, O Fire, and great the law of thy workings, by thy will thou hast
\nbuilt out earth and heaven; in thy very birth thou becamest the Messenger, O
\nmighty lord, and, thou the leader of men that see. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nSet under the yoke with the straps of the yoking the two maned steeds of the
\nTruth red of hue, dripping Light: thou, O God, bring all the gods; O knower of
\nthe births, make perfect the ways of the pilgrim-sacrifice. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 122<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

7.
\nFrom heaven itself thy lights blazed forth, thou shinest in the wake of many
\noutshinings of the Dawn\u00b9 when, O Fire, passionately burning\u00b2 in the woods, the
\ngods set the waters\u00b3 to their work for the rapturous Priest of the call. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nThe gods who take their rapture in the wide mid-world, or those who are in the
\nluminous world of heaven, or those lords of sacrifice who are helpful and ready
\nto the call, them thy chariot-horses have borne towards us. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nCome down to us with them in one chariot or in many chariots for thy horses
\npervade and are everywhere; according to thy self-law bring here with their
\nwives the gods thirty and three and give them to drink of the rapture. <\/p>\n

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

10.
\nHe is the Priest of the call for whose growing even wide earth and heaven speak
\nthe word at sacrifice on sacrifice; facing each other, fixed like two ends of
\nthe pilgrim-way, the Truth they keep in his truth who from the Truth was born.\n<\/p>\n

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

11.
\nO Fire, achieve at my call the Revealing Speech the many-actioned, the lasting
\nconquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in
\nhis birth;4<\/span><\/sup> O
\nFire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n     <\/i>\u00b9Or, in the wake of
\nmany wide-shining Dawns    <\/span>\u00b2Or,
\nflaming as dawn    <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b3Apas,<\/span><\/i>
\nwork<\/span>, would make a
\nclearer sense; it would then mean \u201cset in action the work of the rapturous
\nPriest of the call\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n4<\/span><\/sup>Or,
\nhimself a begetter<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 123<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

SUKTA
\n<\/span> 7<\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nThey who have climbed from the dark-backed foundation have entered the Father
\nand Mother, have entered into the seven voices. The Father and Mother who dwell
\nencompassing all move abroad and go forward to give by sacrifice long-extended
\nthe Life. <\/p>\n

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

2.
\nHe reached the milch-cows that dwell in heaven, the Mares of the male, the
\ndivine rivers that carry in their flow the sweetness. The one Light moves on the
\nway around thee when thou seekest thy dwelling in the house of the Truth. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nOn every side he ascends them and they become easy to control, he awakes to
\nknowledge and is the lord and discoverer of the riches. Fire with his blue back
\nand many diverse faces brings them from the ever-moving foundation to a settled
\ndwelling. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nThe rivers energised and bear his mighty force of formation firmly fixed and
\nundecaying; he shines out wide with his limbs in the world of his session and
\nhas entered earth and heaven as if they were one. <\/p>\n

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

\nPage \u2013 124<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

5.
\nThey knew the bliss of the ruddy-shining bull and they rejoice in the rule of
\nthe Great One; they are the lights of heaven luminously blazing and the Word of
\nRevelation is their mighty common speech. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nAnd great by the knowledge of the great Father and Mother they led his strength
\nin the wake of its proclaiming call, where the bull bears his worshipper round
\nthe hold of night towards its own seat. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nSeven illumined seers guard by the five priests of the pilgrim rite the beloved\u00b9
\nseat of the being that is set within: moving forward the imperishable bulls take
\njoy; the gods move according to the law of the workings of the gods.<\/p>\n

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

8.
\nI crown the two supreme Priests of the invocation. The seven pleasures take
\ntheir rapture by the self-law of their nature; the Truth they express, the Truth
\nonly they speak, guardians of the law of its action according to that law they
\nshine. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nThe many Rays well governed in their course, grow passionate for the great
\nHorse, the many-hued Bull. O divine Priest of the call, rapturous, awaking to
\nknowledge, bring here the great gods and earth and heaven. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00b9Or,
\ndelightful<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 125<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

10.
\nThe swift-running dawns have shone opulently bringing us our satisfactions, with
\ntheir true speech, their rays of intuition. And do thou, O Fire, by the
\ngreatness of the earth cut away for the Vast even the sin that has been done.\n<\/p>\n

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

11.
\nO Fire, achieve at my call the Revealing Speech, the many-actioned, the lasting
\nconquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in
\nhis birth;\u00b9 O Fire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine.  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>9 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nMortals we have chosen thee, a god, for our comrade to protect us, the Child of
\nthe Waters, full of happiness and light, victorious,\u00b2 to whom no hurt can come. \n<\/p>\n

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

2.
\nWhen leaving the woods thou goest to thy mother waters, that retreat turns not
\nto oblivion of thee,\u00b3 O Fire, for even though thou art far thou hast come into
\nbeing here.  <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nWhen thou hast carried beyond the rough ground4<\/span><\/sup> then  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, himself a begetter;   
\n<\/span>\u00b2Or, strong to break through.    <\/span>\u00b3Or,
\nto thy destruction,    4<\/sup>Or, beyond thirst<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 126<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

hast thou truth of
\nmind: some depart\u00b9 others remain seated around thee in whose comradeship thou
\nart lodged.  <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nWhen he has passed beyond the forces that make to err, beyond those that cling
\nperpetual, the long-lasting who have no hurt have followed and found him like a
\nlion who has taken refuge in the Waters. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nAs if one who of himself has sped away and utterly disappeared, this Fire Life
\ngrowing in the mother led from the Beyond, churned out on every side, for the
\ngods. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nThis is thou upon whom mortals have seized for the gods, O carrier of the
\nofferings, because thou guardest all sacrifices by thy will, O Flame in man, O
\nmost youthful god! <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nO Fire, thy action covers That Bliss from the ignorant when the Animals sit
\ntogether around thee, kindled against the night. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nOffer the oblation to the Fire intense with its purifying light, who does
\nperfectly the pilgrim-rite, the swift messenger,   <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, move forward<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 127<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

with his rapid pace;
\nwait soon upon the ancient and desirable godhead. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nGods three thousand and three hundred and thirty and nine waited upon the Fire.
\nThey anointed him with streams of the clarity, they spread for him the seat of
\nsacrifice, and seated him within as Priest of the call. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>10<\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nThee, O Fire, men who have the thinking mind kindle in the sacrifice, an emperor
\nover those who see, mortals set alight a godhead.<\/p>\n

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

2.
\nThee, O Fire, they pray in the sacrifices as the sacrificant of the rite, the
\nPriest of the call; shine out the guardian of the Truth in thy own home. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nHe who gives to thee with the fuel, to the knower of the births, holds the
\nhero-energy, he ever grows. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nHe is the ray of intuition in the sacrifices; may he, the Fire, come with the
\ngods, anointed by the seven priests of oblation, <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 128<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

to him who
\nholds the offerings. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nBring forward for the Fire, for the Priest of the call, the vast and supreme
\nword\u00b9 as for the creator and me who bring the lights of illuminations. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nMay our words make the Fire to grow when he is born, the Fire that carries the
\nutterance, visioned for the great plenitude, for the treasure. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nO Fire, most strong to sacrifice in the pilgrim-rite, worship the gods for the
\nseeker of the godhead; as the rapturous Priest of the call thou shinest wide,
\nbeyond the forces that make us err. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nSo, do thou, O purifying Flame, kindle in us the luminous hero-energy, to those
\nwho laud thee become most close for their weal. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nThis is thou whom the illumined seers who have the light, ever wakeful, kindle,
\nthe immortal bearer of the offering, increaser of our force. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     \u00b9Or, ancient word<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 129<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

\n\t\tSUKTA
\n\t\t<\/span>11 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t1. Fire is our all-seeing Priest of the call, our vicar set in front in
\n\t\tthe pilgrim-rite; he knows the uninterrupted course of the sacrifice.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t2. He is the immortal, the carrier of the offering, the aspirant, the
\n\t\tmessenger settled in the rapture; the Fire joins with our Thought. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t3. Agni wakes to knowledge companioning our Thought, he is the supreme\u00b9
\n\t\tray of intuition in the sacrifice; it is he who crosses through to man’s
\n\t\tgoal. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t4. Fire, the Son of Force, who hears the things that are eternal,\u00b2
\n\t\tknower of the births, the gods created as a carrier flame. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t5. The inviolable who goes in front of the human peoples the Fire is a
\n\t\tswift chariot that is ever new. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t     \u00b9Or,
\n\t\tancient<\/span>   <\/span>\u00b2Or,
\n\t\twho has the inspired knowledge of things eternal,<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 130<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t6. Overpowering all assailants the Fire is the will of the gods never
\n\t\tcrushed, filled with the multitude of his inspirations.  <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t7. By this bringer, of delights the mortal who gives, reaches and
\n\t\tpossesses the house of the purifying light.  <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t8. May we by our thought possess around us well-established all the
\n\t\tthings of the Fire, may we be illumined seers who know all things born.\u00b9<\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t9. O Fire, we shall win all desirable things in thy plenitudes, in thee
\n\t\thave moved towards us the gods. <\/p>\n

 \n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tSUKTA 
\n\t\t<\/span>12<\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t1. O Indra, O Fire, come to the offering of the wine, by our words, your
\n\t\tsupreme desirable ether; drink of it you who are missioned by the
\n\t\tThought. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t2. O Indra, O Fire, the conscious sacrifice journeys taking with it the
\n\t\tworshipper: by this word drink of this offered wine. <\/p>\n

 \n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t     \u00b9Or, in whom
\n\t\tknowledge is born.<\/span> \n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 131<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\n\t\t3. I choose by the swift impulse of the sacrifice Indra and the Fire
\n\t\twhose pleasure is in the seer; take here your content of the Soma-wine.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t4. The smiters<\/span>, the slayers of the coverer I
\n\t\tcall, the unvanquished<\/span>, the companions in
\n\t\tvictory, Indra and the Fire, most strong to win the plenitudes. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t5. Your adorers, speakers of the word, they who know the ways of the
\n\t\tguidance hymn you: O Indra, O Fire, I accept your impulsions. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t6. Indra and Fire shook down the ninety cities possessed by the
\n\t\tdestroyers, together by one deed.   <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t7. O Indra, O Fire, all around our work our thoughts go forward towards
\n\t\tyou along the paths of the Truth.  <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t8. O Indra, O Fire, your mights<\/span> are
\n\t\tcompanions and your delights; in you is founded all swiftness in the
\n\t\twork. <\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 132<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t           
\n\t\t\t    <\/p>\n

\n\t\t9. O Indra, O Fire, you encompass the luminous kingdom of heaven in the
\n\t\tplenitudes; it is your strength that is manifested<\/span>
\n\t\tthere.\u00b9<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t     \u00b9Or, that is
\n\t\tyour strength which wakes to knowledge.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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