{"id":836,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=836"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:43","slug":"73-the-second-hymn-to-mitra-varuna-vol-10-the-secret-of-the-veda-volume-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/10-the-secret-of-the-veda-volume-10\/73-the-second-hymn-to-mitra-varuna-vol-10-the-secret-of-the-veda-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"-73_The Second Hymn to Mitra Varuna.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n       THE SECOND HYMN TO MITRA-VARUNA <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nV.63<\/b><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n

\nTHE GIVERS OF THE RAIN <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n[Mitra and Varuna are by their united universality and harmony
\nthe guardians of the divine Truth and its divine Law eternally
\nperfect in the ether of our supreme being; thence they rain
\ndown the abundance of the heavens and its bliss upon the
\nfavoured soul. Seers in man of that world of Truth, as they are,
\nby their guardianship of its law, rulers of all this becoming, they
\ngive us its rain of spiritual wealth and immortality. The Life-powers range with the voice of the truth-seeking thought through
\nearth and heaven and the two Kings come to their cry with the
\nbrilliant clouds full of the creative waters. It is by the Maya, the
\ndivine truth-knowledge of the Lord, that they thus rain down
\nheaven; that divine knowledge is the Sun, the Light, the weapon
\nof Mitra and Varuna ranging abroad to destroy the ignorance.
\nAt first the Sun, the body of the Truth, is concealed in the very storm of its
\noutpourings and only the sweetness of their streaming into the life is felt; but the Maruts as Life-Powers and
\nThought-Powers range abroad seeking in all the worlds of our
\nbeing for the brilliant rays of the concealed knowledge to be
\ngathered as a shining wealth; the voice of the Rain is full of the
\nflashings of the Light and the movement of the divine Waters;<\/font>
\n<\/font>its clouds become robes for the Life-Powers. Through it all by
\nthe formative knowledge of the mighty master of Truth and by
\nthe law of the Truth, the two kings maintain the divine workings
\nin us, governing by the Truth all our being, and finally set in its
\nsky the Sun, now revealed, as a chariot of the richly varied splendours of the knowledge, the chariot of the journey of the spirit
\nto the highest heavens.]<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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    \n\tGuardians of the Truth, you ascend your car and the law of
    \nthe Truth is yours in the supreme ether.<\/font>\u00b9<\/font> He whom here you
    \ncherish. Masters of the wideness and the harmony, for him
    \nincreases full of the honey the rain of heaven.<\/font>
    \n\t<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \n <\/p>\n

      \n
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      \n\tEmperors<\/font>\u00b2<\/font>,
      \n\tyou rule over this world of our becoming, O
      \nMitra and Varuna, in the getting of knowledge you are seers
      \nof the realm of Light; we desire from you the rain, the felicitous wealth, the immortality, and lo! the Thunderers<\/font>\u00b3<\/font>
      \nrange abroad through earth and heaven.<\/font>
      \n\t<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \n <\/p>\n

        \n
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        \n\tEmperors, strong Bulls of the abundance. Masters of earth
        \nand heaven, O Mitra and Varuna, universal in your workings, you approach their cry with your clouds of varied light
        \nand you rain down Heaven by the power of the knowledge<\/font>4<\/font><\/sup>
        \n\tof the Mighty One.<\/font>5<\/font><\/sup>
        \n\t<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \n <\/p>\n

          \n
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          \n\tThis is your knowledge, O Mitra and Varuna, that is lodged
          \nin heaven; it is the Sun, it is the Light; it ranges abroad as
          \nyour rich and varied weapon. You hide it in heaven with
          \nthe cloud and with the raining. O Rain, full of the honey
          \nstart forth thy streamings.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \n\u00b9<\/font>The infinity of the superconscient being. <\/font><\/p>\n

          \n\u00b2<\/font>Samraf,<\/i> having perfect kingship over the subjective and objective existence. <\/font><\/p>\n

          \n\u00b3<\/font>The Maruts, Life-Powers and Thought-Powers who find out the light of truth for all our
          \nactivities. The word may also mean formers or builders. <\/font><\/p>\n

          \n4<\/sup>Maya, the creative knowledge-will of the Deva. <\/font><\/p>\n

          \n5<\/sup>Asura, a word used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the Deva (Ahuramazda), but also
          \nfor the gods. His manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans,
          \nby another and fictitious derivation, a-sura,<\/i> the not-luminous, the not-gods. <\/font><\/p>\n

          \nPage \u2013 470<\/font><\/p>\n

          \n

          \n <\/p>\n

            \n
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            \n\tThe Life-Powers yoke their happy car for the bliss, even as
            \nmight a hero for battle, O Mitra and Varuna, in their seekings for the herds of Light; thundering they range the varied
            \nworlds, and you pour out on us, rulers imperial, the water
            \nof Heaven.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \n <\/p>\n

              \n
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              \n\tO Mitra and Varuna, the Rain speaks its language<\/font>\u00b9<\/font> rich and
              \nvaried and full of the light and the movement; the Life-
              \nPowers have put on your clouds for raiment. Utterly by the
              \nknowledge you rain down Heaven ruddy-shining and sinless.<\/font>
              \n\t<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              \n <\/p>\n

                \n
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                \n\tO Mitra and Varuna illumined in consciousness, by the
                \nLaw, by the knowledge of the Mighty One you guard the
                \nworkings ;<\/font>\u00b2<\/font> by the Truth you govern widely all the world of
                \nour becoming; you set the Sun in heaven, a chariot of various splendour.<\/font>
                \n\t<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                \n\u00b9<\/font>Here we see the subjective sense of the thunder in the symbol of the storm; it is the
                \noutcrashing of the word of the Truth, the Shabda, as the lightning is the outflashing of its sense. <\/font><\/p>\n

                \n\u00b2<\/font>Vratāni,<\/i> called the Aryan or divine workings, those of the divine law of the Truth to be
                \nrevealed in man. The Dasyu or un-Aryan, whether human or superhuman, is he who is void
                \nof these diviner workings, opposes them in his darkened consciousness and tries to destroy
                \nthem in the world. The Lords of Darkness are therefore called Dasyus, the Destroyers. <\/font><\/p>\n

                \nPage \u2013 471<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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