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\n


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


\nTHE
\n<\/span>A<\/font>TRIS<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\nBUDHA AND GAVISHTHIRA<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>1 <\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


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

1.
\nFire is awake by the kindling of the peoples, he fronts the dawn that comes to
\nhim like a fostering milch-cow; like the mighty ones casting upward their
\nbranching his lustres spread towards heaven. <\/p>\n


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

2.
\nThe Priest of the call is awake for sacrifice to the gods. Fire with his right
\nthinking has stood up high ablaze. The red-glowing mass of him is seen: a great
\ngod has been delivered out of the darkness. <\/p>\n


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

3.
\nWhen he put out the long cord of his troop. Fire in his purity reveals all by
\nthe pure herds of his rays; the goddess of understanding is yoked to her works,
\nshe supine he standing high, he has drunk from her breasts with his tongues of
\nflame. <\/p>\n


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

4.
\nThe minds of men who seek the godhead converge towards the flame even as their
\nseeings converge in the sun; when two dawns of different forms give birth to
\nthis Fire the white Horse is born in front of the days. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013201<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n


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

5.
\nHe was born victorious in front of the days, established in established things,
\nruddy-bright in the woodlands of our pleasure; in house and house founding the
\nseven ecstasies the Fire took up his session as a Priest of the call strong for
\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n


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

6.
\nStrength has taken his seat as the Priest of the offering mighty for sacrifice
\nin the lap of the Mother, in that rapturous other world, the youth, the seer,
\nmanifold in his fixed knowledge, possessed of the Truth, the upholder of the
\npeoples; in between too, is he kindled. <\/p>\n


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

7.
\nMen pray with their prostrations of surrender that illumined seer, who achieves
\nperfection in the pilgrim-sacrifices. Fire, the Priest of the call, for he has
\nextended earth and heaven by the Truth, they rub bright with the Light the
\neternal Horse of power. <\/p>\n


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

8.
\nThe purifier he is rubbed bright and pure, he who is proclaimed by the seers,
\none who is the dweller in his own house, and is our benignant guest; the bull of
\nthe thousand horns because thou hast the strength of That, O Fire, thou
\nprecedest in puissance all others. <\/p>\n


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

\nPage \u2013202<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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9.
\nAt once thou goest forward, O Fire, and. overpassest all others in whomsoever
\nthou hast become manifest in all the glory of thy beauty; adorable, great of
\nbody, wide of light thou art the beloved guest of human beings.  <\/p>\n


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

10.
\nTo thee, O ever youthful Fire, all the worlds and their peoples bring the
\noffering from near and from far; awake to that right-mindedness of man’s
\nhappiest state: vast and great and happy is that peace of thee,\u00b9 O Fire. <\/p>\n


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

11.
\nToday, O luminous one, mount the luminous wholeness of thy car with the lords of
\nsacrifice, thou knowest the wide mid-world with all its paths, bring here the
\ngods to partake of our sacrifice. <\/p>\n


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

12.
\nTo the seer, the understanding one, we have uttered the word of our adoration,
\nto the Bull, the male; the Steadfast in Light has taken refuge, in his laud as
\nin a far-reaching mass of gold. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n
\nKUMAR ATREYA OR VRISHA JANA<\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>2 <\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00b9Or, is thy
\nhouse of refuge,                                                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013203<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n1. The young Mother carries the boy suppressed in the secret cavern and she
\ngives him not to the father; his force is un-diminished, men see him in front
\nestablished inwardly in the movement. <\/p>\n

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

\n2. Who is this boy, O young mother, whom thou earnest in thyself when thou art
\ncompressed into form, but when thou art vast thou hast given him birth? Through
\nmany years grew the child in the womb, I saw him born when the mother brought
\nhim forth. <\/p>\n

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

\n3. I saw him in a distant field, one golden-tusked and pure-bright of hue
\nshaping his weapons: to him I am giving immortality in my several parts and what
\nshall they do to me who possess not Indra and have not the word ? <\/p>\n

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

\n4. In that field I saw ranging apart what seemed a happy herd in its many forms
\nof beauty; none could seize on them, for he was born, even those of them who
\nwere grey with age became young again. <\/p>\n

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

\n5. Who were they that divorced my strength from the herds of light ? Against
\nthem there was no protector nor any fighter in this war. Let those who seized
\nthem release them back to me, he has become aware and is driving back to me my
\nherds of vision. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013204<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

\n6. The hostile powers have hidden within in mortals the king of those who dwell
\nin creatures in whom all creatures dwell;  let the wisdom-words of Atri release
\nhim, let the binders themselves become the bound. <\/p>\n

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

\n7. Shunahshepa too was bound to the thousandfold post of sacrifice, him didst
\nthou release and he attained to calm;\u00b9 so do thou take thy seat here in us, O
\nconscious knower, O Priest of the call, and loose from us the cords of our
\nbondage. <\/p>\n

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

\n8. Mayst thou not grow wroth and depart from me: he who guards the law of
\nworking of the gods declared it to me;  Indra knew and sought after and saw
\nthee, and taught by him, O Fire, I have come to thee. <\/p>\n

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

\n9. This Fire shines with the Vast Light and makes all things manifest by his
\ngreatness. He overpowers the workings of knowledge that are undivine and evil in
\ntheir impulse, he sharpens his horns to gore the Rakshasa. <\/p>\n

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

\n10. May the voices of the Fire be sharp weapons to slay the Rakshasa. In his
\necstasy his angers break down, all the <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n       \u00b9Or, he achieved the
\nwork; <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013205<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

undivine obstructions
\nthat besiege us cannot hem him in. <\/p>\n

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

\n11. O thou of the many births, I the sage, the thinker, the man of perfect works
\nhave fashioned for thee this laud like a chariot. If, indeed, O god, thou
\nshouldst take an answering joy in it, by this we could conquer the waters that
\ncarry the light of the sun-world. <\/p>\n

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

\n12. The bull with the neck of might, whom no enemy can oppose, grows and comes
\ndriving from the foe the riches of knowledge. So have the immortals spoken to
\nthis Fire that he may work out peace for man when he prepares the sacred seat,
\nwork out peace for man when he brings the offering. <\/p>\n


\n
\nVASUSHRUTA<\/a> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>3 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n1. Thou art Varuna, O Fire, when thou art born, thou becomest Mitra when thou
\nblazest high; in thee are all the gods, O son of Force, thou art Indra for the
\nmortal giver. <\/p>\n

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

\n2. O holder of the self-law, thou becomest Aryaman when thou bearest the secret
\nname of the Virgins; they reveal thee <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013206<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

   
\nwith the Rays as Mitra firmly founded when thou makest of one mind the Lord of
\nthe house and the Spouse. <\/p>\n

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

\n3. For the glory of thee, O Rudra, the life-powers make bright thy birth into a
\nrichly manifold beauty. When that highest step\u00b9 of Vishnu is founded within,
\nthou guardest by it the secret name of the Ray-cows. <\/p>\n

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

\n4. By the glory of thee who hast the true seeing, the gods hold a multiple
\ncompleteness and taste\u00b2 immortality; men take up their session with Fire, the
\nPriest of the call, aspiring, making a gift of the self-expression of the human
\nbeing. <\/p>\n

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

\n5. There is none who precedes thee as priest of the call, O Fire, none mightier
\nfor sacrifice, there is none supreme over thee in the seer-wisdoms, O master of
\nthe self-law, and of whatsoever man thou becomest the guest, he conquers by
\nsacrifice, O godhead, those who are mortals. <\/p>\n

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

\n6. May we who seek the Riches win them by the offering, we guarded by thee and
\nawakened, O Fire, \u2014 we in the clash of the battle, in our discoveries of
\nknowledge through days, we by the Treasure overcome mortal men, O son of Force.\n<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n      
\n<\/span>\u00b9<\/span>The supreme plane of the three.    <\/b><\/span>
\n\u00b2<\/span>Or, touch <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013207<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

\n7. He who brings sin and transgression upon us, on him who gives expression to
\nevil, on himself may there be put that evil; O thou who art conscious, slay this
\nhostile assault, O Fire, even him who oppresses us with the duality.\u00b9<\/p>\n

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

\n8. Thee in the dawning of this night, O godhead, the ancients made their
\nmessenger and gave sacrifice with their oblations; for thou art the godhead
\nkindled by mortals who have the light\u00b2 and thou travellest to the House of the
\nTreasures. <\/p>\n

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

\n9.<\/i> Rescue thy father, in thy knowledge keep him safe, thy father who
\nbecomes thy son and bears thee, O son of Force. O conscious knower, when wilt
\nthou look upon us ? When with thy Truth-Consciousness wilt thou set us to our
\njourney? <\/p>\n

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

\n10. The father adores and establishes the mighty name because thou, O shining
\none, bringest him to accept and take pleasure in it; once and again, the Fire
\nincreases and desiring the bliss of the godhead he conquers it by force. <\/p>\n

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

\n11. O youthful god, thou, indeed, carriest safe thy adorer beyond  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

     
\n\u00b9The division or the twofoldness of the nature
\ndivided between good and evil.
\n <\/span>\u00b2Or, the riches <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013208<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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\nall stumblings, O Fire; for the hostile beings are seen, the thieves, even they
\nwho know not the light of intuitive knowledge and turn to crookedness. <\/p>\n

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

\n12. These journeys have turned towards thee, that evil in us has been declared
\nto the Shining One, O this Fire as he grows will not deliver us to the assailant
\nand the hurter.  <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>4 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n1. O Fire, O king, towards thee the Wealth-master of the riches I turn and
\ndelight in thee in the pilgrim-sacrifice; replenishing thee may we conquer the
\nplenitude, may we overcome the battle-hosts of mortals. <\/p>\n

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

\n2. The ageless Fire that carries the offering is the father of us, he in us is
\npervasive in his being, extended in light, perfect in vision. Accomplished in
\nthe works of the master of the house blaze out thy forces, form and turn towards
\nus thy inspirations. <\/p>\n

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

\n3. The seer, the master of men, lord of the human peoples, Fire, pure and
\npurifying with its back of light set within you as the omniscient priest of the
\ncall; he shall win our desirable things in the godheads.  <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013209<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

\n4. Of one mind with the goddess of revelation take pleasure in us, O Fire,
\nlabouring with the rays of the sun; accept with pleasure our fuel, O knower of
\nall things born, and bring the gods to us to, partake of our sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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

\n5. A cherished guest domiciled in our gated house come to this sacrifice of ours
\nas the knower; O Fire, slaying all who assail us bring to us the enjoyments of
\nthose who make themselves the enemy. <\/p>\n

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

\n6. Drive away from us the Destroyer with thy stroke making free space for thy
\nown body; when thou earnest the gods over safe, O son of Force, us, O Fire,
\nstrongest godhead, guard in the plenitude. <\/p>\n

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

\n7. O Fire, may we worship thee with our words, thee with our offerings, O
\npurifier, O happy light; into us bring the treasure in which are all desirable
\nthings, in us establish substance of every kind of riches. <\/p>\n

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

\n8. Accept our pilgrim-sacrifice, O Fire, accept, O son of Force, O holder of the
\ntriple world of thy session, our offering. May we be doers of good deeds before
\nthe godheads, protect us with a triple armour of peace. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013210<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

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

\n9. O knower of all things born, carry us through all difficult passages, through
\nall calamities as a ship over the ocean. O Fire, voiced by us with our obeisance
\neven as did Atri, awake and be the guardian of our bodies.  <\/p>\n

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

\n10. I think of thee with a heart that is thy bard and mortal I call to thee
\nimmortal; O knower of all things born, establish the glory in us, by the
\nchildren of my works, O Fire, may I win immortality. <\/p>\n

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

\n11. The doer of great deeds for whom thou shalt make that happy other world, O
\nknower of all things born, reaches in peace a wealth in which are the Horses of
\nswiftness, the Ray-Cows, the Son, the Heroes. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


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

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

1.
\nOn the high-kindled flame pour as offering a poignant clarity, to Fire, the
\nknower of all things born. <\/p>\n


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

\n2. The spokesman of the godhead, the inviolable hastens the sacrifice on its
\nway, for this is the seer who comes with the wine of sweetness in his hands. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013211<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n


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

\n3. O Fire, we have sought thee with our adoration, bring hither Indra the rich
\nin light, the beloved with his happy chariots to protect us. <\/p>\n


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

\n4. Spread wide, O seat, soft as wool the songs of illuminations sound high; O
\nbright one, be with us for the conquest. <\/p>\n


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

\n5. Swing wide, O divine doors; be easy of approach that you may be our guard:
\nlead further further and fill full our sacrifice. <\/p>\n


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

\n6. Dawn and night we seek with desire the two mighty Mothers of the Truth with
\ntheir fair front to us who increase our being’s space. <\/p>\n


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

\n7. O worshipped twain, O divine priests of man’s call, arrive on the path of the
\nwind to this our sacrifice. <\/p>\n


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

\n8. May Ila, Saraswati, and Mahi,\u00b9 the three goddesses who create the bliss sit
\non the sacred seat, they who never err. <\/p>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

   
\n\u00b9Ila, goddess of revelation;
\nSaraswati, goddess of inspiration; Mahi, goddess of the Vast Truth, Mahas or
\nr<\/i><\/span>̣tam br<\/span>̣hat.<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013212<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\n9. O maker of forms, hither benignant arrive all-pervading in thy fostering to
\nus and in thyself; in sacrifice on sacrifice us upward guard. <\/p>\n


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

\n10. O Tree,\u00b9 there where thou knowest the secret names of the gods make rich our
\nofferings. <\/p>\n


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

\n11. Swaha to the Fire and to Varuna, Swaha to Indra and the Life-powers, Swaha
\nto the gods be our offering. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>6 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n1. I meditate on the Fire who is the dweller in things,\u00b2 to whom the milch-cows
\ngo as to their home, to their home the swift war-horses, to their home the
\neternal steeds of swiftness.\u00b3 Bring to those who laud thee the force of thy
\nimpulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n2. This is the Fire who is the dweller in things voiced by me, in whom meet the
\nmilch-cows, and in him the swift galloping war-horses and in him the illuminates
\nwho have come to the perfect birth. Bring to those who laud thee the force of
\nthy impulse. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

   
\n<\/b>\u00b9Or, O master of delight,    <\/span>
\n\u00b2<\/span>Or, who is the Shining One,     <\/span>
\n\u00b3<\/span>Or,
\nsteeds of the plenitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013213<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\n3. The all-seeing Fire gives the steed of the plenitude to man, Fire the horse
\nthat conies swiftly to him for the riches; when he is pleased he journeys to the
\ndesirable good. Bring to those who laud thee the force of thy impulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n4. O Fire, we kindle thy luminous and ageless flame; when the fuel of thee
\nbecomes more effective in its labour, it blazes up in heaven. Bring to those who
\nlaud thee the force of thy impulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n5. O Fire, O Master of the brilliant Light, the offering is cast to thee with
\nthe word of illumination, O bearer of the offering, O master of the creature,
\nachiever of works, O delightful Flame. Bring to those who laud thee the force of
\nthy impulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n6. In thy fires those greater fires of thee nurse every desirable good; they,
\nthey race, they run, they drive on in their impulse without a break. Bring to
\nthose who laud thee the force of thy impulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n7. O Fire, those rays of thine, thy steeds of plenitude greaten the Vast; they
\ngallop with tramplings of their hooves to <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013214<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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\nthe pens of the ray-cows. Bring to those who laud thee the force of thy impulse.\n<\/p>\n

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

\n8. Bring to us who laud thee, O Fire, new impelling forces that lead to happy
\nworlds; may we be of those who with thee for their messenger sing the hymn of
\nillumination in home and home. Bring to those who laud thee the force of thy
\nimpulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n9. O delightful Flame, thou turnest both the ladles of the streaming clarity
\ntowards thy mouth; then mayst thou carry us high beyond in the utterances, O
\nMaster of might. Bring to those who laud thee the force of thy impulse. <\/p>\n

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

\n10. Thus have they driven and controlled the Fire without a break by their words
\nand their sacrifices; may he found in us the perfect hero-might and the perfect
\npower of the Horse. Bring to those who laud thee the force of thy impulse.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nISHA<\/a><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>7 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nO comrades, in you an integral force and complete laud to Fire the most powerful
\namong the peoples, <\/b>to the <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013215<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

mighty child of energy.\n<\/p>\n

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

2.
\nWhom wheresoever they come into contact with, him men who have the power
\nrapturously set alight in this house of man and all beings born strive to bring
\nto birth. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nWhenso we win completely the impulsions of force, completely the offerings human
\nbeings must give, then he gathers to himself the Ray of the light and the might
\nand the Truth. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nYea, he creates the light of intuition even for one who is far off in the night,
\nthe purifying and imperishable Fire ravages the trees of the forest. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nWhen in his service men cast down their sweat on the paths, they ascend to a
\nself-born ground as if to wide levels. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nHim mortal man must come to know as one who holds the multitude of his desires
\nso that he may establish in him all; he moves towards the sweet taste of the
\ndraughts of the wine and to the building of the house for man. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013216<\/span><\/p>\n

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

7.
\nPure and bright, verily, is he and he tears our desert dwelling place,\u00b9 like a
\nbeast who tears, a beast with golden beard and tusks of bright purity, he is
\nlike a smith whose force is un-afflicted by ,the heat of the Fire. <\/p>\n

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

8.
\nYes, he is pure and bright and he is as one whose axe is like an eater and ever
\nenters deeper; with a happy delivery his mother bore him, for he is an achiever
\nof the work and wins enjoyment of the bliss. <\/p>\n

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

9.
\nO Fire, to whom is poured the running stream of the offering of light, the man
\nwho is a happy ground for establishing thee, \u2014 in such mortals found the light,
\nand the inspiration and the knowledge. <\/p>\n

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

10.
\nEven so, irresistible born, I receive the force of mind, the cow of vision given
\nby thee. O Fire, then may Atri overcome the destroyers who satisfy thee not, may
\nhe overcome forces and men. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SUKTA 
\n<\/span>8 <\/b><\/p>\n

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


\n    <\/b>\u00b9Or, the-solid ground on; which we dwell, <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013217<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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1.
\nO Fire, created by our force, thee the Ancient One, the ancient seekers of Truth
\nset blazing for their guard the master of sacrifice with his many delights who
\nestablishes all, Fire who dwells in the house, master of the house, the
\nsupremely desirable. <\/p>\n

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2.
\nThee, O Fire, men seated within as the ancient guest, the master of the house
\nwith his tresses of light, \u2014 vast is his intuition, many are his forms, he
\nbrings out the riches, he is a giver of perfect peace and protection and a
\ndestroyer of the foe. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nThee the human people pray, O Fire, who knowest the word of invocation, who hast
\nthe just discernment, who art strongest to found the ecstasy, \u2014 thee who
\ndwellest in the secret cave, O happy Flame, and hast the vision of all things,
\nthe perfect sacrificer with the multitude of thy voices and the glory and beauty
\nof thy light. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nThee, O Fire, who upholdest all things in every way we voicing thee with our
\nwords have approached with obeisance ; so do thou accept us, O Angiras, a
\ngodhead kindled by the glory of a mortal and by his high illuminings. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nO Fire, thou takest many forms for man and man and thou foundest for him his
\ngrowth as of old, O thou lauded by <\/p>\n

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\nmany voices; many are the things on which thou feedest and thou illuminest them
\nall with thy force, and none can do violence to the fury of thy blaze when thou blazest up in thy might. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nThee O youthful Fire, in thy high kindling the gods have made a messenger and a
\ncarrier of the offerings; thee <\/b>of <\/b>whom light is the native seat
\nand wide are the spaces through which thou movest, they have set when thou hast
\nreceived the offerings as a keen burning eye that urges the thought. <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nThee, O Fire, fed with offerings of light from the higher heaven the seekers of
\nbliss\u00b9 kindled with an entire kindling, so now growing on the herbs to thy full
\nmight thou spreadest over wide earth-spaces. <\/p>\n

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\n
\n
\nGAYA<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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SUKTA 
\n<\/span>9 <\/b><\/p>\n

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

1.
\nThee, O Fire, men bringing offerings pray, mortals the godhead; I meditate on
\nthee as the knower of all things born and as such thou earnest our offerings
\nwithout a break.  <\/p>\n

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\n    <\/b>\u00b9Or, from of old; or, the ancient seekers of bliss
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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2.
\nFire is the priest of the call in the house of the giver who has plucked the
\ngrass for the seat of sacrifice and in him our sacrifices meet and our
\nplenitudes of inspired knowledge. <\/p>\n

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

3.
\nVerily, the two tinders have brought to birth as if a new-born infant Fire who
\ndoes aright the pilgrim-sacrifice, to be the upholder of the human beings. <\/p>\n

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

4.
\nVerily, thou art hard to seize like a son of crookednesses; many are the trees
\nof the forest thou consumest, O Fire, like a beast in his pasture. <\/p>\n

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

5.
\nNow, verily, his rays with their smoke meet perfectly together when Trita, the
\ntriple one, blows upon him in heaven like a smelter, it is as if in the smelter
\nthat he whets his flame. <\/p>\n

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

6.
\nI by thy guardings, O Fire, and by thy utterances as the friend \u2014 like men beset
\nby hostile powers so may we pass beyond the stumbling-places of mortals.  <\/p>\n

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

7.
\nO forceful Fire, bring to us, to men, the treasure; may he cast his shafts, may
\nhe foster us, may he be with us for the conquest of the plenitude. Be with us in
\nour battles that we may grow. <\/p>\n

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SUKTA 
\n\t<\/span>10<\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n\t1. O Fire, bring to us a light full of energy, O unseizable Ray; for us by
\n\tthy opulence pervading on every side cut out in our front a path to the
\n\tplenitude. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t2. O Fire, O Wonderful, come to us with thy will and the growth of the
\n\tjudgment; in thee the sacrificial Friend, achiever of the work can climb to
\n\talmightiness. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t3. Increase for us, O Fire, the acquisition and the growth of these who are
\n\tmen that are illuminates and by their laudings of thee have attained to the
\n\tplenitudes of the riches, \u2014 <\/p>\n

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

\n\t4. who, O delightful Fire, have achieved the power of the horse and make
\n\tbeautiful their words of thee, strong men with their strength whose is the
\n\tVast that is greater even than heaven, for in them that glory by itself
\n\tawakes. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t5. These are those naming rays of thine, O Fire, and they go blazing and
\n\tviolent, like lightnings that run over all quarters,  <\/p>\n

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\n\tlike the voice of a chariot seeking the plenitude. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t6. Soon, O Fire, may alike those of us who are opposed and obstructed attain
\n\tto protection and the giving of the riches and our illuminates break through
\n\tall directions and beyond. <\/p>\n

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

\n\t7. Thou, O Fire, O Angiras, after and during the laud bring to us riches of
\n\ta far-reaching force, O Priest of the call, for those who laud thee and for
\n\tour further laud. Be with us in our battles that we may grow. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

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