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116 The Secret of the Veda
holding thy bright and rapturous embodiments; out flow the
streams of the sweetness, the clarity, where the Bull of the
abundance has grown by the Wisdom. (8)
“He discovered at his birth the source of the abundance
of the Father and he loosed forth wide His streams and wide
His rivers. By his helpful comrades and by the Mighty Ones of
Heaven he found Him moving in the secret places of existence,
yet himself was not lost in their secrecy. (9)
“He bore the child of the Father and of him that begot him;
one, he fed upon his many mothers in their increasing. In this
pure Male both these powers in man (Earth and Heaven) have
their common lord and lover; do thou guard them both. (10)
“Great in the unobstructed Vast he increased; yea, many
Waters victoriously increased Agni. In the source of the Truth
he lay down; there he made his home, Agni in the working of
the undivided Sisters. (11)
“As the mover in things and as their sustainer he in the
meeting of the Great Ones, seeking vision, straight in his lustres
for the presser-out of the Soma wine, he who was the father of
the Radiances, gave them now their higher birth, — the child of
the Waters, the mighty and most strong Agni. (12)
“To the visible Birth of the waters and of the growths of
Earth the goddess of Delight now gave birth in many forms, she
of the utter felicity. The gods united in him by the mind and
they set him to his working who was born full of strength and
mighty for the labour. (13)
“Those vast shinings clove to Agni straight in his lustre and
were like bright lightnings; from him increasing in the secret
places of existence in his own seat within the shoreless Vast they
milked out Immortality.” (14)
Whatever may be the meaning of this passage, — and it is
absolutely clear that it has a mystic significance and is no mere
sacrificial hymn of ritualistic barbarians, — the seven rivers, the
waters, the seven sisters cannot here be the seven rivers of the
Punjab. The waters in which the gods discovered the visible
Agni cannot be terrestrial and material streams; this Agni who