{"id":887,"date":"2013-07-13T01:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:31:01","slug":"31-the-divine-dawn-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\/31-the-divine-dawn-vol-10-the-secret-of-the-veda-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"-31_The Divine Dawn.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nVI <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nTHE DIVINE DAWN <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nRig-veda III.61<\/font> <\/b><\/p>\n

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    \n\tDawn, richly stored with substance, conscious cleave
    \n\t<\/b>to <\/b>the affirmation of him who expresses thee, O thou of the
    \nplenitudes. Goddess, ancient, yet ever young thou movest
    \nmany-thoughted following the law of thy activities, O bearer
    \nof every boon.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      \n\tDawn divine, shine out immortal in thy car of happy light
      \nsending forth the pleasant voices of the Truth. May steeds
      \nwell-guided bear thee here who are golden-brilliant of hue
      \nand wide their might.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        \n\tDawn, confronting all the worlds thou standest high-uplifted
        \nand art their perception of Immortality; do thou move over
        \nthem like a wheel, O new <\/b>Day, travelling over an equal field.<\/font>
        \n\t<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          \n\tDawn in her plenitude like one that lets fall from her a sewn
          \nrobe moves, the bride of the Bliss; creating Swar, perfect in
          \nher working, perfect in her enjoying, she widens from the
          \nextremity of Heaven over the earth.<\/font> <\/font>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            \n\tMeet ye the Dawn as she shines wide towards you and with
            \nsurrender bring forward your complete energy. Exalted in
            \nheaven is the force to which she rises establishing the
            \nsweetness; ,she makes the luminous worlds to shine forth
            \nand is a vision of felicity.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \n <\/p>\n

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              \n\tBy heaven’s illuminings one perceives her a bearer of the
              \nTruth and rapturous she comes with its varied light into the
              \ntwo firmaments. From Dawn as she approaches shining out on thee, O Agni, thou seekest and attainest to the substance
              \nof delight.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                \n\tPutting forth his impulsions in the foundation of the Truth,
                \nin the foundation of the Dawns, their Lord enters the
                \nVastness of the firmaments. Vast the wisdom of Varuna,
                \nof Mitra, as in a happy brightness, orders multitudinously
                \nthe Light.<\/font> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                \nCOMMENTARY<\/b><\/font>
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                \nSurya Savitri in his task of illumination follows the progress of
                \nthe Dawn. In another hymn the movements of the mind have
                \nbeen described as growing conscient and brilliant by the bright
                \npower of the continuous Dawns. Throughout the Veda Usha,
                \ndaughter of Heaven, has always the same function. She is the
                \nmedium of the awakening, the activity and the growth of the
                \nother gods; she is the first condition of the Vedic realisation. By
                \nher increasing illumination the whole nature of man is clarified;<\/font>
                \n<\/font>through her he arrives at the Truth, through her he enjoys the
                \nBeatitude. The divine dawn of the Rishis is the advent of the
                \ndivine Light throwing off veil after veil and revealing in man’s
                \nactivities the luminous godhead. In that light the Work is done,
                \nthe sacrifice offered and its desirable fruits gathered by humanity.<\/font>
                \n<\/font><\/p>\n

                \nMany are the hymns, indeed, in which rich and beautiful
                \nfigures of the earthly dawn veil this inner truth of the goddess
                \nUsha, but in this hymn of the great Rishi Vishwamitra the psychological symbolism of the Vedic Dawn is apparent from
                \nbeginning to end by open expressions and on the surface of the
                \nthought. "O Dawn rich of store in thy substance," he cries to her,
                \n"conscient cleave to the affirmation of him who expresses thee, O thou who hast the plenitudes." The word pracetas<\/i> and the
                \nrelated word, vicetas,<\/i> are standing terms of Vedic phraseology;<\/font>
                \n<\/font>they seem to correspond to the ideas expressed in later language
                \nby the Vedsmtic praj\u00f1āna<\/i> and vij\u00f1āna.<\/i> Prajnana is the conscious  
                \nness that cognizes all things as objects confronting its observation; in the divine mind it is knowledge regarding things as their
                \nsource, possessor and witness. Vijnana is comprehensive know  
                \nledge containing, penetrating into things, pervading them in
                \nconsciousness by a sort of identification with their truth. Usha
                \nis to occupy the revealing thought and word of the Rishi as a
                \npower of Knowledge conscient of the truth of all that is placed
                \nby them before the mind for expression in man. The affirmation,
                \nit is suggested, will be full and ample; for Usha is vājena vājini,
                \nmaghoni;<\/i> rich is the store of her substance; she has all the
                \nplenitudes.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

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                \nThis dawn moves in her progression always according to
                \nthe rule of a divine action; many are the thoughts she brings in
                \nthat motion, but her steps are sure and all desirable things, all
                \nsupreme boons, the boons of the Ananda, the blessings of the divine existence, \u2014 are in her hands. She is ancient and eternal,
                \nthe dawn of the Light that was from the beginning, purāṇi,<\/i> but in
                \nher coming she is ever young and fresh to the soul that receives
                \nher.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

                \nShe is to shine wide, she that is the divine Dawn, as the light
                \nof the immortal existence bringing out in man the powers or the
                \nvoices of Truth and Joy, (sūnṛtāḥ, \u2014<\/i> a word which expresses at
                \nonce both the true and the pleasant); for is not the chariot of her
                \nmovement a car at once of light and of happiness ? For again,
                \nthe word candra<\/i> in candrarathā, \u2014<\/i> signifying also the lunar
                \ndeity Soma, lord of the delight of immortality pouring into man, ānanda<\/i> and amṛta,<\/i> \u2014means both luminous and blissful. And
                \nthe horses that bring her, figure of the nervous forces that sup  
                \nport and carry forward all our action, must be perfectly con  
                \ntrolled; golden, bright in hue, their nature (for in this ancient
                \nsymbolism colour is the sign of quality, of character, of temperament) must be a dynamism of ideal knowledge in its concentrated luminousness; wide in its extension must be the mass of
                \nthat concentrated force, \u2014pṛthupājaso ye.<\/i><\/font>
                \n<\/font><\/p>\n

                \nDivine Dawn comes thus to the soul with the light of her
                \nknowledge, praj\u00f1āna,<\/i> confronting all the worlds as field of that
                \nknowledge, \u2014 all provinces, that is to say, of our universal
                \nbeing, \u2014 mind, vitality, physical consciousness. She stands up  
                \nlifted over them on our heights above mind, in the highest
                \nheaven, as the perception of Immortality <\/b> or of the Immortal,
                \namṛtasya ketuḥ,<\/i> revealing in them the eternal and beatific existence or the eternal all-blissful Godhead. So exalted she stands
                \nprepared to effect the motion of the divine knowledge, progressing as a new revelation of the eternal truth, navyasi,<\/i> in their
                \nharmonised and equalised activities like a wheel moving smoothly
                \nover a level field; for they now, their diversities and discords re  
                \nmoved, offer no obstacle to that equal motion.<\/font>
                \n<\/font><\/p>\n

                \nIn her plenitude she separates, as it were, and casts down
                \nfrom her the elaborately sewn garment that covered the truth of<\/font>
                \n<\/font><\/p>\n

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                \nthings and moves as the wife of the Lover, the energy of her
                \nall-blissful Lord, svasarasya patnī.<\/i> Full in her enjoyment of the
                \nfelicity, full in her effectuation of all activities, subhagā sudamsāḥ,,
                \n<\/i>she brings into existence in us by her revelations Swar, the concealed luminous mind, our highest mental heaven; and thus from
                \nthe farthest extremities of mental being extends herself over the
                \nphysical consciousness.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

                \nAs this divine Dawn pours out widely its light upon them,
                \nso have men by submission to the law other divine act and movement to bring forward for her the fully energised completeness of
                \ntheir being and their capacities as a vehicle for her light or as a
                \nseat for her sacrificial activities.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

                \nThe Rishi then dwells on the two capital works of the divine
                \nDawn in man, \u2014 her elevation of him to the full force of the
                \nLight and the revelation of the Truth and her pouring of the
                \nAnanda, the Amrita, the Soma-wine, the bliss of the immortal
                \nbeing into the mental and bodily existence. In the world of the pure mind, divi,<\/i> she rises into the full force and mass of the Light,
                \nūrdhvam pājo aśret,<\/i> and from those pure and high levels she
                \nestablishes the sweetness, madhu,<\/i> the honey of Soma. She makes
                \nto shine out the three luminous worlds, rocanā;<\/i> she is then or she
                \nbrings with her the beatific vision. By the effectual illuminations
                \nof the pure mentality, through the realising Word, divo arkaiḥ.,
                \n<\/i>she is perceived as the bearer of Truth and with the Truth she
                \nenters from the world above Mind, full of the delight, in a varied
                \nplay of her multiple thought and activity, into the mental and
                \nbodily consciousness, those established limits between which
                \nman’s action moves. It is from her, as she comes thus richly
                \nladen, vājena vājini,<\/i> that Agni, the divine Force labouring here in
                \nbody and mind to uplift the mortal, prays for and attains to the
                \nSoma, the wine of the Beatitude, the delightful substance.<\/font>
                \n<\/font><\/p>\n

                \nThe supramental world in us, foundation of the Truth, is
                \nthe foundation of the Dawns. They are the descent upon mortal
                \nnature of the light of that immortal Truth, rtamjyotih.<\/i> The Lord
                \nof the Dawns, Master of Truth, Illuminer, Creator, Organiser,
                \nputting forth in the foundation of Truth, above mind, the impulsion of his activities, enters with them by this goddess into a
                \nbodily and mental existence no longer obscured but released from<\/font>
                \n<\/font><\/p>\n

                 
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                \ntheir limits and capable of vastness, mahī
                \nrodasī.<\/i> The Lord of
                \nTruth is the sole Lord of things. He is Varuna, soul of vastness
                \nand purity; he is Mitra, source of love and light and harmony.
                \nHis creative Wisdom, mahī  mitrasya varuṇasya māyā,<\/i> unlimited
                \nin its scope, \u2014 for he is Varuna, \u2014 appearing, candreva,<\/i> as a
                \nlight of bliss and joy, \u2014 for he is Mitra, \u2014 arranges, perfectly
                \norganises, in multitudinous forms, in the wideness of the liberated nature, the luminous expansions, the serene expressions of
                \nthe Truth. He combines the various brilliancies with which his
                \nDawn has entered our firmaments; he blends into one harmony
                \nher true and happy voices.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

                \nDawn divine is the coming of the Godhead. She is the light
                \nof the Truth and the Felicity pouring on us from the Lord of
                \nWisdom and Bliss, amṛtasya ketuḥ, svasarasya patnī.<\/i><\/font>
                \n<\/font> <\/p>\n

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