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118 The Secret of the Veda
varied inspiration.” Agni is the Deva, the All-Seer, manifested
as conscious-force or, as it would be called in modern language,
Divine or Cosmic Will, first hidden and building up the eternal
worlds, then manifest, “born”, building up in man the Truth
and the Immortality.
Gods and men, says Vishwamitra in effect, kindle this divine
force by lighting the fires of the inner sacrifice; they enable it to
work by their adoration and submission to it; they express in
heaven, that is to say, in the pure mentality which is symbolised
by Dyaus, the knowings of the Seers, in other words the
illuminations of the Truth-consciousness which exceeds Mind;
and they do this in order to make a passage for this divine force
which in its strength seeking always to find the word of right
self-expression aspires beyond mind. This divine will carrying in
all its workings the secret of the divine knowledge, kavikratuh. ,
befriends or builds up the mental and physical consciousness in
man, divah. pr.thivyāh. , perfects the intellect, purifies the discernment
so that they grow to be capable of the “knowings of the
seers” and by the superconscient Truth thus made conscient in
us establishes firmly the Beatitude (vs. 2-3).
The rest of the passage describes the ascent of this divine
conscious-force, Agni, this Immortal in mortals who in the sacrifice
takes the place of the ordinary will and knowledge of man,
from the mortal and physical consciousness to the immortality
of the Truth and the Beatitude. The Vedic Rishis speak of five
births for man, five worlds of creatures where works are done,
pañca janāh. , pañca kr.s.t. īh. or ks.itīh. . Dyaus and Prithivi represent
the pure mental and the physical consciousness; between them is
the Antariksha, the intermediate or connecting level of the vital
or nervous consciousness. Dyaus and Prithivi are Rodasi, our
two firmaments; but these have to be overpassed, for then we
find admission to another heaven than that of the pure mind —
to the wide, the Vast which is the basis, the foundation (budhna)
of the infinite consciousness, Aditi. This Vast is the Truth which
supports the supreme triple world, those highest steps or seats
(padāni, sadā ˙msi) of Agni, of Vishnu, those supreme Names of
the Mother, the cow, Aditi. The Vast or Truth is declared to be