{"id":878,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:58","slug":"24-the-conquest-over-the-dasyus-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\/24-the-conquest-over-the-dasyus-vol-10-the-secret-of-the-veda-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"-24_The Conquest over the Dasyus.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\"><b><font size=\"4\">C<\/font><font size=\"2\">HAPTER <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">XXII <\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\"><b><font size=\"4\">The Conquest over the Dasyus <\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 98pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\"><b><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">T<\/font><font size=\"2\">HE <\/font><\/b>Dasyus stand in opposition to both the Aryan gods and the Aryan<br \/>\nseers. The gods are born from Aditi in the Supreme Truth of things, the Dasyus or<br \/>\nDanavas from Diti in the nether darkness; they are the Lords of Light and the Lords<br \/>\nof Night fronting each other across the triple world of earth, heaven and mid-air,<br \/>\nbody, mind and the connecting breath of life. Sarama in X.108, descends from the<br \/>\nsupreme realm, <i>par&#257;k&#257;t;<\/i> she has to cross the waters of the <i>ras&#257;,<\/i><br \/>\nshe meets the night which gives place to her for fear of her overleaping it, <i>atis<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>kado bhiyas&#257;;<\/i> she arrives<br \/>\nat the home of the Dasyus, <i>dasyor oko na sadanam,<\/i> which they themselves describe<br \/>\nas the <i>reku padam alakam,<\/i> the world of falsehood beyond the bound of things.<br \/>\nThe supreme world also surpasses the bound of things by exceeding or transcending<br \/>\nit; it is <i>reku padam,<\/i> but <i>satyam <\/i>not <i>alakam,<\/i> the world of the<br \/>\nTruth, not the world of the false hood. The latter is the darkness without knowledge,<br \/>\n<i>tamah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span lang=\"VI\"> <\/span>avayunam tatanvat;<\/i> Indra, when his largeness exceeds <i>(ririce)<br \/>\n<\/i>heaven and earth and mid-world, creates for the Aryan the opposite world of<br \/>\ntruth and knowledge, <i>vayunavat,<\/i> which exceeds these three domains and is<br \/>\ntherefore <i>reku padam.<\/i> This darkness, this lower world of Night and the<br \/>\nInconscient in the formed existence of things symbolised in the image of the<br \/>\nmountain which rises from the bowels of earth to the back of heaven, is<br \/>\nrepresented by the secret cave at the base of the hill, the cave of the darkness.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">But the cave is only the home of the Panis, their field of action is earth<br \/>\nand heaven and the mid-world. They are the sons of the Inconscience, but<br \/>\nthemselves are not precisely inconscient in their action; they have forms of<br \/>\napparent knowledge, <i>m&#257;y&#257;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>, <\/i>but these are forms of ignorance the truth of which is<br \/>\nconcealed in the darkness of the inconscient and their surface or front is <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 224<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">falsehood, not truth. For the world as we see it has come out of the<br \/>\ndarkness concealed in darkness, the deep and abysmal flood that covered all<br \/>\nthings, the inconscient ocean, <i>apraketam salilam<\/i> (X.129.3); in that<br \/>\nnon-existence the seers have found by desire in the heart and thought in the<br \/>\nmind that which builds up the true existence. This non-existence of the truth<br \/>\nof things, <i>asat, <\/i>is the first aspect of them&#8217;that emerges from the<br \/>\ninconscient ocean; and its great darkness is the Vedic Night, <i>r&#257;tr&#299;m<br \/>\njagato nive&#347;an&#299;m<\/i> (1.35.1), which holds the world and all its<br \/>\nunrevealed potentialities in her obscure bosom. Night extends her realm over<br \/>\nthis triple world of ours and out of her in heaven, in the mental being. Dawn<br \/>\nis born who delivers the Sun out of the dark ness where it was lying concealed<br \/>\nand eclipsed and creates the vision of the supreme Day in the non-existence, in<br \/>\nthe Night, <i>asati pra ketuh<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> (1.124.11). It is therefore in these three realms that<br \/>\nthe battle between the Lords of Light and the Lords of the Ignorance proceeds<br \/>\nthrough its continual vicissitudes. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">The word <i>pan<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>i<\/i><br \/>\nmeans dealer, trafficker, from <i>pan<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> (also <i>pan<\/i><span>\u00b9<i>,<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span>cf. Tamil <i>pan,<\/i> Greek <i>ponos,<\/i> labour) and we may perhaps<br \/>\nregard the Panis as the powers that preside over those ordinary unillumined<br \/>\nsense-activities of life whose immediate root is in the dark subconscient<br \/>\nphysical being and not in the divine mind. The whole struggle of man is to<br \/>\nreplace this action by the luminous working of mind and life which comes from<br \/>\nabove through the mental existence. Whoever thus aspires, labours, battles,<br \/>\ntravels, ascends the hill of being is the Aryan <i>(&#257;rya, arya, ari<\/i><br \/>\nwith the various senses, to toil, to fight, to climb or rise, to travel, to<br \/>\nprepare the sacrifice); for the work of the Aryan is a sacrifice which is at<br \/>\nonce a battle and an ascent and a journey, a battle against the powers of<br \/>\ndarkness, an ascent to the highest peaks of the mountain beyond earth and<br \/>\nheaven into Swar, a journey to the other shore of the rivers and the ocean into<br \/>\nthe farthest Infinity of things. The Aryan has the will to the work, he is the<br \/>\ndoer of the work <i>(k&#257;ru, k&#299;ri,<\/i> etc.), the gods who put their<br \/>\nforce into his work <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;margin: 0;line-height:150%\"><font size=\"3\">\u00b9<\/font><font size=\"2\">Sayana takes <i>pan<\/i> in Veda \u2014 to praise,<br \/>\nbut in one place he admits the sense of <i>vyavah&#257;ra, <\/i>dealing. Action<br \/>\nseems to me to be its sense in most passages. From <\/font> <i><font size=\"2\">pan<\/font><span lang=\"VI\"><font size=\"2\">&#803;<\/font><\/span><\/i><font size=\"2\"> in the sense of action we have the earlier names of<br \/>\nthe organs of action, <\/font> <i><font size=\"2\">p&#257;n<\/font><span lang=\"VI\"><font size=\"2\">&#803;<\/font><\/span><font size=\"2\">i,<\/font><\/i><font size=\"2\"> hand, foot or hoof, Lat. <i>penis,<\/i> cf. also<br \/>\n<\/font> <i><span><font size=\"2\">p&#257;yu<\/font><b><font size=\"2\">.<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/i><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<\/font> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 225<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">are <i>sukratu,<\/i> perfect in power for the sacrifice; the Dasyu or Pani is<br \/>\nthe opposite of both, he is <i>akratu.<\/i> The Aryan is the sacrificer, <i>yajam&#257;na,<br \/>\nyajyu;<\/i> the gods who receive, uphold, impel his sacrifice are <i>yajata,<br \/>\nyajatra,<\/i> powers of the sacrifice; the Dasyu is the opposite of both, he is <i>ayajyu.<\/i><br \/>\nThe Aryan in the sacrifice finds the divine word, <i>g&#299;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>, mantra, brahma, uktha,<\/i><br \/>\nhe is the <i>brahm&#257; <\/i>or singer of the word; the gods delight in and<br \/>\nuphold the word, <i>girv&#257;hasah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>, girvan<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>asah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i> the Dasyus are haters<br \/>\nand destroyers of the Word, <i>brahmadvis<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i><br \/>\nspoilers of speech, <i>mr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>dhravacasah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>. <\/i>They have no force of<br \/>\nthe divine breath or no mouth to speak it, they are <i>an&#257;sah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>;<\/i> and they have no power<br \/>\nto think and menta lise the word and the truth it contains, they are <i>amanyam&#257;n&#257;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">:<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/i>but the<br \/>\nAryans are the thinkers of the word <i>manyamanah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>, <\/i>holders of the thought, the<br \/>\nthought-mind and the seer-knowledge, <i>dh&#299;ra, man&#299;s<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;&#299;<\/span>, kavi;<\/i> the gods<br \/>\nare also the supreme thinkers of the Thought, <i>prathamo manot&#257; dhiyah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>, kavayah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>.<\/i> The Aryans are desirers<br \/>\nof the godheads, <i>devayavah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>, u&#347;ijah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>;<\/i> they seek to increase their own being and the godheads<br \/>\nin them by the sacrifice, the word, the thought; the Dasyus are god-haters <i>devadvis<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i> obstructers of the godhead, <i>devanidah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i> who desire no increase,<br \/>\n<i>avr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>dhah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>.<\/i> The gods lavish wealth<br \/>\non the Aryan, the Aryan gives his wealth to the gods; the Dasyu withholds his<br \/>\nwealth from the Aryan until it is taken from him by force, and does not press<br \/>\nout the immortal Soma-wine for the deities who seek its rapture in man;<br \/>\nalthough he is <i>rev&#257;n,<\/i> although his cave is packed with cows and<br \/>\nhorses and treasures, <i>gobhir a&#347;vebhir vasubhir nyr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>s<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span lang=\"VI\"> <\/span><\/i>(X.108.7),<br \/>\nstill he is <i>ar&#257;dhas,<\/i> because his wealth gives no prosperity or<br \/>\nfelicity to man or himself, \u2014 the Pani is the miser of existence. And in the<br \/>\nstruggle between the Aryan and the Dasyu he seeks always to plunder and<br \/>\ndestroy, to steal the luminous cows of the latter and hide them again in the<br \/>\ndarkness of the cave. &quot;Slay the devourer, the Pani; for he is the wolf<br \/>\n(the tearer, <i>vr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span class=\"SpellE\">kah<\/span><span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>)&quot;<\/i><br \/>\n(VI.51.14). <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">It is evident that these descriptions could easily be applied to human<br \/>\nenemies who hate the cult and the gods of the Aryan, but we shall see that such<br \/>\nan interpretation is entirely impossible because in the hymn 1.33, in which<br \/>\nthese distinctions are most clearly drawn and the battle of Indra and his human<br \/>\nallies with <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 226<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">the Dasyus most elaborately described, these Dasyus, Panis and Vritras,<br \/>\ncannot possibly be human fighters, tribes or robbers. In this hymn of<br \/>\nHiranyastupa Angirasa the first ten verses clearly refer to the battle for the<br \/>\nCows and therefore to the Panis. &quot;Come, let us go seeking the cows to<br \/>\nIndra; for it is he that in creases the thought in us; invincible is he and<br \/>\ncomplete are his felicities, he releases for us (separates from the darkness)<br \/>\nthe supreme knowledge-vision of the luminous cows, <i>gav&#257;m ketam param &#257;varjate<br \/>\nnah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>.<\/i> I fly<br \/>\nto the unassailable giver of riches like a bird to its beloved nest, bowing<br \/>\ndown to Indra with the supreme words of light, to him to whom his affirmers must<br \/>\ncall in their journey. He comes with all his armies and has fastened firmly his<br \/>\nquivers; he is the fighter (the Aryan) who brings the cows to whomsoever he<br \/>\ndesires. O Indra who hast in creased (by our word), hold not back<br \/>\nfor thyself thy much delight, become not in us the Pani, <i>cos<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>k&#363;yam&#257;n<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span> indra bh&#363;ri v&#257;mam m&#257;<br \/>\npan<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ir bh&#363;r<br \/>\nasmad adhi pravr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ddha.<\/i><span>&quot;<\/span> The last phrase is a striking<br \/>\none and in the current interpretation its real force is avoided by rendering<br \/>\n&quot;do not become a miser with regard to us&quot;. But this is to ignore the<br \/>\nfact that the Panis are the withholders of the wealth who keep it for<br \/>\nthemselves and give it neither to god nor man. The sense obviously is,<br \/>\n&quot;Having thy much wealth of the delight, do not be a Pani, one who holds<br \/>\nhis possessions only for himself and keeps them from man; do not hold the<br \/>\ndelight away from us in thy superconscient as the Panis do in their subconscient<br \/>\nsecrecy.&quot; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">Then the hymn describes the Pani, the Dasyu and Indra&#8217;s battle with him for<br \/>\nthe possession of earth and heaven. &quot;Nay, thou slayest with thy weapon the<br \/>\nWealthy Dasyu, ranging alone with thy powers that serve thee, O Indra; they on<br \/>\nthy bow (the powers as arrows) sped diversely in all directions and they who<br \/>\nkeep possession and sacrifice not went unto their death. Their heads were<br \/>\nscattered far from them, they who do not sacrifice yet strove with the<br \/>\nsacrificers, when, O lord of the shining steeds, O strong stander in heaven,<br \/>\nthou didst cast out from Heaven and Earth those who observe not the law of thy<br \/>\nworking <i>(avrat&#257;n). <\/i>They fought against the army of the blameless<br \/>\none; the Navagwas set him on his march; like bullocks who fight against the <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 227<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">bull they were cast out, they came to know what was Indra and fled from him<br \/>\ndown the slopes. O Indra, thou foughtest them who laughed and wept on the other<br \/>\nside of the mid-world <i>(rajasah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span> p&#257;re,<\/i> i.e. on the borders of heaven); thou didst<br \/>\nburn down the Dasyu out of heaven from on high, thou didst foster the<br \/>\nexpression of him who affirms thee and gives the Soma. Making the circle of the<br \/>\nearth, they shone in the light of the golden gem (an image for the Sun); but<br \/>\nfor all their rushing they could not pass beyond Indra, for he set spies all<br \/>\naround by the Sun. When thou possessedst earth and heaven all around with thy<br \/>\nvastness; O Indra, by the speakers of the word <i>(brahmabhih<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>) <\/i>thou didst cast out the<br \/>\nDasyu, attacking those who can think not (the Truth) by those who think, <i>amanyam&#257;n&#257;n<br \/>\nabhi manyam&#257;naih<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>.<br \/>\n<\/i>They attained not to the end of heaven and earth; Indra,. the bull, made<br \/>\nthe lightning his helper, by the Light he milked the shining cows out of the<br \/>\ndarkness.&quot; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">The battle takes place not on earth but on the other shore of the<br \/>\nAntariksha, the Dasyus are driven out of heaven by the names of the<br \/>\nthunderbolt, they circle round the earth and are cast out of both heaven and<br \/>\nearth; for they can find no place in either heaven or earth, all being now full<br \/>\nof the greatness of Indra, nor can conceal themselves anywhere from his<br \/>\nlightnings because the Sun with its rays gives him spies whom he sets all round<br \/>\nand in the brightness of those rays the Panis are discovered. This can be no<br \/>\ndescription of an earthly battle between Aryan and Dravidian tribes; neither<br \/>\ncan the lightning be the physical lightning since that has nothing to do with<br \/>\nthe destruction of the powers of Night and the milking of the cows of the Dawn<br \/>\nout of the darkness. It is clear then that these non-sacrificers, these haters<br \/>\nof the word who are incompetent even to think it are not any human enemies of<br \/>\nthe Aryan cult. They are the powers that strive for possession of heaven and<br \/>\nearth in man himself; they are demons and not Dravidians. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">It is noteworthy that they strive, but fail to attain the &quot;limit of<br \/>\nearth and heaven&quot;; we may suppose that these powers seek without the word<br \/>\nor the sacrifice to attain to the higher world beyond earth and heaven which<br \/>\ncan be conquered only by the word and the sacrifice. They seek to possess the<br \/>\nTruth under <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 228<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">the law of the Ignorance; but they are unable to attain to the limit of<br \/>\nearth or heaven; only Indra and the gods can so exceed the formula of mind,<br \/>\nlife and body after filling all three with their greatness. Sarama (X.108.6)<br \/>\nseems to hint at this ambition of the Panis; &quot;May your words be unable to<br \/>\nattain, may your embodiments be evil and inauspicious; may you not violate the<br \/>\npath to travel upon it; may Brihaspati not give you happiness of the two worlds<br \/>\n(divine and human).&quot; The Panis indeed offer insolently to be friendly with<br \/>\nIndra if he will stay in their cave and be the keeper of their cows, to which<br \/>\nSarama answers that Indra is the overcomer of all and cannot be himself overcome<br \/>\nand oppressed, and again they offer brotherhood to Sarama if she will dwell<br \/>\nwith them and not return to the far world whence she has come by the force of<br \/>\nthe gods against all obstacles, <i>prab&#257;dhit&#257; sahas&#257; daivyena.<\/i><br \/>\nSarama replies, &quot;I know not brotherhood and sisterhood, Indra knows and<br \/>\nthe dread Angirasas; desiring the Cows they protected me so that I came; depart<br \/>\nhence, O Panis, to a better place. Depart hence, O Panis, to a better place,<br \/>\nlet the Cows ye confine go upward by the Truth, the hidden Cows whom Brihaspati<br \/>\nfinds and Soma and the pressing-stones and the illumined seers.&quot; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">We have the idea also of a voluntary yielding up of their store by the Panis<br \/>\nin VI. 53, a hymn addressed to the Sun as the Increaser Pushan. &quot;O Pushan,<br \/>\nLord of the Path, we yoke thee like a chariot for the winning of the plenitude,<br \/>\nfor the Thought. &#8230; O shining Pushan, impel to giving the Pani, even him who<br \/>\ngiveth not; soften the mind even of the Pani. Distinguish the paths that lead<br \/>\nto the winning of the plenitude, slay the aggressors, let our thoughts be<br \/>\nperfected. Smite the hearts of the Panis with thy goad, O seer; so make them<br \/>\nsubject to us. Smite them, O Pushan, with thy goad and desire in the heart of<br \/>\nthe Pani our delight; so make him subject to us&#8230;. Thy goad thou bearest that<br \/>\nimpels the word to rise, O shining seer, with that write thy line on the hearts<br \/>\nof all and sever them, (so make them subject to us). Thy goad of which thy ray<br \/>\nis the point and which perfects the herds (of thought-vision, <i>pa&#347;us&#257;dhan&#299;,<\/i><br \/>\ncf. <i>s&#257;dhant&#257;m dhiyah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> in verse 4), the delight of that we desire. Create for us<br \/>\nthe thought that wins the cow, that wins the <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 229<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">horse, that wins the plenitude of the wealth.&quot; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">If we are right in our interpretation of this symbol of the Panis, these<br \/>\nideas are sufficiently intelligible without depriving the word of its ordinary<br \/>\nsense, as does Sayana, and making it mean only a miserly, greedy human being<br \/>\nwhom the hunger stricken poet is thus piteously importuning the Sun-God to turn<br \/>\nto softness and charity. The Vedic idea was that the subconscient darkness and<br \/>\nthe ordinary life of ignorance held concealed in it all that belongs to the<br \/>\ndivine life and that these secret riches must be recovered first by destroying<br \/>\nthe impenitent powers of ignorance and then by possessing the lower life<br \/>\nsubjected to the higher. Of Indra it has been said, as we have seen, that he<br \/>\neither slays or conquers the Dasyu and transfers his wealth to the Aryan. So<br \/>\nalso Sarama refuses peace with alliance to the Panis, but suggests their<br \/>\nsubmission to the gods and the Aryans by the surrender and ascent of the<br \/>\nimprisoned cows and their own departure from the darkness to a better place, <i>var&#299;yah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><\/i> (X. 108.10,11). And it<br \/>\nis by the strenuous touch of the goad of the luminous seer, Pushan, lord of the<br \/>\nTruth, the goad that drives open the closed heart and makes the sacred word to<br \/>\narise from its depths, it is by this luminous-pointed goad which perfects the<br \/>\nradiant cows, accomplishes the luminous thoughts, that the conversion of the Pani<br \/>\nis effected; then the Truth-god in his darkened heart also desires that which<br \/>\nthe Aryan desires. Therefore by this penetrating action of the Light and the<br \/>\nTruth the powers of the ordinary ignorant sense-activity become subject to the<br \/>\nAryan. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">But, normally, they are his enemies, not <i>d&#257;sa,<\/i> in the sense of<br \/>\nsubmission and service <i>(d&#257;sa,<\/i> servant, from <i>das<\/i> the work),<br \/>\nbut in the sense of destruction and injury <i>(d&#257;sa, dasyu,<\/i> an enemy,<br \/>\nplunderer, from <i>das<\/i> to divide, hurt, injure). The Pani is the robber who<br \/>\nsnatches away the cows of light, the horses of the swiftness and the treasures<br \/>\nof the divine plenitude, he is the wolf, the eater, <i>atri, vr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>ka;<\/i> he is the obstructer,<br \/>\n<i>nid,<\/i> and spoiler of the word. He is the enemy, the thief, the false or<br \/>\nevil thinker who makes difficult the Path by his robberies and obstructions. &quot;Cast<br \/>\naway utterly far from us the enemy, the thief, the crooked one who places<br \/>\nfalsely the thought; O master of existence,&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 230<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">make our path easy to travel. Slay the Pani for he is the wolf, that<br \/>\ndevours&quot; (VI.51.13,14). His rising to the attack must be checked by the<br \/>\ngods, &quot;This god (Soma) in his birth with Indra for helper held back by<br \/>\nforce the Pani&quot; (VI.44.22), and won Swar and the sun and all the riches.<br \/>\nThe Panis have to be slain or routed so that their riches may be ravished from<br \/>\nthem and devoted to the higher life. &quot;Thou who didst sever the Pani in his<br \/>\ncontinuous ranks, thine are these strong givings, O Saraswati. O Saraswati,<br \/>\ncrush the obstructers of the gods&quot; (VI.61.1,3). &quot;O Agni and Soma,<br \/>\nthen was your strength awakened when you robbed the Pani of the cows and found<br \/>\nthe one Light for many&quot; (1.93.4). <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">When the gods awake in the Dawn for the sacrifice, the Panis must not awake<br \/>\nalso to interfere with its successful progress; let them sleep in their cavern darkness. &quot;O Dawn, queen of the<br \/>\nplenitudes, awaken those who fill us (the gods), but let the Panis sleep<br \/>\nunawakening. Richly dawn for the lords of the plenitude, O queen of the<br \/>\nplenitude, richly for him who affirms thee, O Dawn that art Truth. Young she<br \/>\nshines out before us, she has created her host of the ruddy cows; in the<br \/>\nnon-existent vision has dawned out wide&quot; (1.124.10,11). Or again in<br \/>\nIV.51.1-3, &quot;Lo, in front of us that supreme light full of the knowledge has<br \/>\narisen out of the darkness; daughters of heaven shining wide, the Dawns have<br \/>\ncreated the path for the human being. The Dawns stand in front of us like<br \/>\npillars in the sacrifices; breaking out pure and purifying they have opened the<br \/>\ndoors of the pen, the darkness. Breaking forth today the dawns awaken to knowledge<br \/>\nthe enjoyers for the giving of the rich felicity; within where there is no play<br \/>\nof light let the Panis sleep unwaking in the heart of the darkness.&quot; Into this<br \/>\nnether darkness they have to be cast down from the higher planes while the Dawns<br \/>\nimprisoned by them in that night have to be lifted to the highest planes. &quot;Panis<br \/>\nwho make the knot of the crookedness, who have not the will to v\/works, spoilers<br \/>\nof speech, who have not faith, who increase not, who do not sacrifice, them has<br \/>\nAgni driven farther and farther; supreme, he has made them nethermost who will not<br \/>\nsacrifice. And (the Cows, the Dawns) who rejoiced in the nether darkness, by his<br \/>\npower he has made to move to the highest&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 231<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">He has broken down by his blows the walls that limit, he has given the<br \/>\nDawns to be possessed by the Aryan&quot;, <i>aryapatnir us<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>asa&#347; cak&#257;ra<\/i> (VII.6.3-5).<br \/>\nThe Rivers and Dawns when in the possession of Vritra or Vala are described as <i>d&#257;sapatn&#299;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>.;<\/i> by the action of the gods<br \/>\nthey become <i>aryapatn&#299;h<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>,<\/i> they become the helpmates of the Aryan. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 24pt;line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">The lords of the ignorance have to be slain or enslaved to the Truth and its<br \/>\nseekers, but their wealth is indispensable to the human fulfilment; it is as if<br \/>\n&quot;on the most wealth-abounding head of the Panis&quot; (VI.45.31) that Indra<br \/>\ntakes his stand, <i>pan<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>&#299;n&#257;m<br \/>\nvars<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>is<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>t<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>he m&#363;rdhan asth&#257;t;<\/i> he becomes<br \/>\nhimself the Cow of Light and the Horse of Swiftness and lavishes an ever-increasing<br \/>\nthousandfold wealth. The fullness of that luminous wealth of the Panis and its ascent<br \/>\nheavenward is, as we know already, the Path and the birth of the Immortality. &quot;The<br \/>\nAngirasas held the supreme manifestation (of the Truth), they who had lit the fire,<br \/>\nby perfect accomplishment of the work; they gained the whole enjoyment of the Pani,<br \/>\nits herds of the cows and the horses. Atharvan first formed the Path, thereafter<br \/>\nSurya was born as the protector of the Law and the Blissful One, <i>tatah<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span><span lang=\"VI\"> <\/span>s&#363;ryo<br \/>\nvratap&#257; vena &#257;jani.<\/i> Ushanas Kavya drove upward the Cows. With them<br \/>\nmay we win by the sacrifice the immortality that is born as a child to the Lord<br \/>\nof the Law,&quot; <i>yamasya j&#257;tam amr<span lang=\"VI\">&#803;<\/span>tam yaj&#257;mahe <\/i>(1.83.4,5). Angirasa<br \/>\nis the Rishi who represents the Seer-Will, Atharvan is the Rishi of the journeying<br \/>\non the Path, Ushanas Kavya is the Rishi of the heavenward desire that is born from<br \/>\nthe seer-knowledge. The Angirasas win the wealth of illuminations and powers of<br \/>\nthe Truth concealed behind the lower life and its crookednesses; Atharvan forms<br \/>\nin their strength the Path and Surya the Lord of Light is then born as the guardian<br \/>\nof the divine Law and the Yama-power; Ushanas drives the herded illuminations of<br \/>\nour thought up that path of the Truth to the Bliss which Surya possesses; so is<br \/>\nborn from the law of the Truth the immortality to which the Aryan soul by its sacrifice<br \/>\naspires. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 232<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPTER XXII The Conquest over the Dasyus &nbsp; THE Dasyus stand in opposition to both the Aryan gods and the Aryan seers. 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