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120 The Secret of the Veda
of desires and instincts, all about the life of the Waters (vs.
4-5).
The sevenfold waters thus rise upward and become the
pure mental activity, the Mighty Ones of Heaven. They there
reveal themselves as the first eternal ever-young energies, separate
streams but of one origin — for they have all flowed from
the one womb of the super-conscient Truth — the seven Words
or fundamental creative expressions of the divine Mind, sapta
vān. īh. . This life of the pure mind is not like that of the nervous life
which devours its objects in order to sustain its mortal existence;
its waters devour not but they do not fail; they are the eternal
truth robed in a transparent veil of mental forms; therefore, it is
said, they are neither clothed nor naked (v. 6).
But this is not the last stage. The Force rises into the womb
or birthplace of this mental clarity (ghr.tasya) wherethewaters
flow as streams of the divine sweetness (sravathe madhūnām);
there the forms it assumes are universal forms, masses of the
vast and infinite consciousness. As a result, the fostering rivers
in the lower world are nourished by this descending higher
sweetness and the mental and physical consciousness, the two
first mothers of the all-effecting Will, become in their entire
largeness perfectly equal and harmonised by this light of the
Truth, through this nourishing by the infinite Bliss. They bear
the full force of Agni, the blaze of his lightnings, the glory and
rapture of his universal forms. For where the Lord, the Male, the
Bull of the abundance is increased by the wisdom of the superconscient
Truth, there always flow the streams of the clarity and
the streams of the bliss (vs. 7-8).
The Father of all things is the Lord and Male; he is hidden in
the secret source of things, in the super-conscient; Agni, with his
companion gods and with the sevenfold Waters, enters into the
super-conscient without therefore disappearing from our conscient
existence, finds the source of the honeyed plenty of the
Father of things and pours them out on our life. He bears and
himself becomes the Son, the pure Kumara, the pure Male, the
One, the soul in man revealed in its universality; the mental and
physical consciousness in the human being accept him as their