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130 The Secret of the Veda
of the Ashwins when they find satisfaction in the ecstasy of the
Soma. Do ye, dwelling (or, shining) in the all-luminous Sun, by
the drinking of the Soma, by the Word come as creators of the
bliss into our humanity. Dawn comes to us according to your
glory when you pervade all our worlds and you win the Truths
out of the Nights. Both together drink, O Ashwins, both together
extend to us the peace by expandings whose wholeness remains
untorn.”
This is the straightforward and natural sense of the hymn
and its intention is not difficult to follow if we remember the
main ideas and images of the Vedic doctrine. The Night is clearly
the image of an inner darkness; by the coming of the Dawn the
Truths are won out of the Nights. This is the rising of the Sun
which was lost in the obscurity — the familiar figure of the lost
sun recovered by the Gods and the Angiras Rishis — the sun
of Truth, and it now shoots out its tongue of fire towards the
golden Light: — for hiran. ya, gold is the concrete symbol of the
higher light, the gold of the Truth, and it is this treasure not
golden coin for which the Vedic Rishis pray to the Gods. This
great change from the inner obscuration to the illumination is
effected by the Ashwins, lords of the joyous upward action of
the mind and the vital powers, through the immortal wine of
the Ananda poured into mind and body and there drunk by
them. They mentalise the expressive Word, they lead us into
the heaven of pure mind beyond this darkness and there by the
Thought they set the powers of the Delight to work. But even
over the heavenly waters they cross, for the power of the Soma
helps them to dissolve all mental constructions, and they cast
aside even this veil; they go beyond Mind and the last attaining
is described as the crossing of the rivers, the passage through the
heaven of the pure mind, the journey by the path of the Truth
to the other side. Not till we reach the highest supreme, paramā
parāvat, do we rest at last from the great human journey.
We shall see that not only in this hymn, but everywhere
Dawn comes as a bringer of the Truth, is herself the outshining
of the Truth. She is the divine Dawn and the physical dawning
is only her shadow and symbol in the material universe.