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The Seven Rivers 121
lord and lover; but, though one, he still enjoys the manifold
movement of the rivers, the multiple cosmic energies (vs. 9-10).
Then we are told expressly that this infinite into which he
has entered and in which he grows, in which the many Waters
victoriously reaching their goal (ya´sasah. ) increase him, is the
unobstructed vast where the Truth is born, the shoreless infinite,
his own natural seat in which he now takes up his home. There
the seven rivers, the sisters, work no longer separated though
of one origin as on the earth and in the mortal life, but rather
as indivisible companions (jāmīnām apasi svas¯r.n. ām). In that
entire meeting of these great ones Agni moves in all things and
upbears all things; the rays of his vision are perfectly straight,
no longer affected by the lower crookedness; he from whom
the radiances of knowledge, the brilliant herds, were born, now
gives them this high and supreme birth; he turns them into the
divine knowledge, the immortal consciousness (vs. 11-12).
This also is his own new and last birth. He who was born as
the Son of Force from the growths of earth, he who was born as
the child of the Waters, is now born in many forms to the goddess
of bliss, she who has the entire felicity, that is to say to the divine
conscious beatitude, in the shoreless infinite. The gods or divine
powers in man using the mind as an instrument reach him there,
unite around him, set him to the great work of the world in
this new, mighty and effective birth. They, the outshinings of
that vast consciousness, cleave to this divine Force as its bright
lightnings and from him in the super-conscient, the shoreless
vast, his own home, they draw for man the Immortality.
Such then, profound, coherent, luminous behind the veil
of figures is the sense of the Vedic symbol of the seven rivers,
of the Waters, of the five worlds, of the birth and ascent of
Agni which is also the upward journey of man and the Gods
whose image man forms in himself from level to level of the
great hill of being (sānoh. sānum). Once we apply it and seize
the true sense of the symbol of the Cow and the symbol of the
Soma with a just conception of the psychological functions of
the Gods, all the apparent incoherences and obscurities and farfetched
chaotic confusion of these ancient hymns disappears in a