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152 The Secret of the Veda
of the rays of the sun, in which the human being, freed from fear
and limitation, — it is a wide world, — has his desires satisfied
and possesses quite an unlimited number of horses, cows, sons
and retainers. But what we have set out to prove is that it is
not so, that on the contrary, this wide world, br.had dyau or
Swar, which we have to attain by passing beyond heaven and
earth, — for so it is more than once stated, e.g. I.36.8, “Human
beings (manus.ah. ) slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both
earth and heaven and made the wide world for their dwelling
place,” ghnanto vr.tram ataran rodasī apa uru ks.ayāya cakrire,
— that this supra-celestial wideness, this illimitable light is a
supramental heaven, the heaven of the supramental Truth, of
the immortal Beatitude, and that the light which is its substance
and constituent reality, is the light of Truth. But at present it
is enough to emphasise this point that it is a heaven concealed
from our vision by a certain darkness, that it has to be found
and made visible, and that this seeing and finding depends on
the birth of the Dawn, the rising of the Sun, the upsurging of
the Solar Herds out of their secret cave. The souls successful in
sacrifice become svardr. ´s and svarvid, seers of Swar and finders
of Swar or its knowers; for vid is a root which means both
to find or get and to know and in one or two passages the
less ambiguous root jñā is substituted for it and the Veda even
speaks of making the light known out of the darkness. For the
rest, this question of the nature of Swar or the wide world is
of supreme importance for the interpretation of the Veda, since
on it turns the whole difference between the theory of a hymnal
of barbarians and the theory of a book of ancient knowledge, a
real Veda. It can only be entirely dealt with in a discussion of the
hundred and more passages speaking of this wide world which
would be quite beyond the scope of these chapters. We shall,
however, have to return to this question while dealing with the
Angiras hymns and afterwards.
The birth of the Sun and the Dawn must therefore be regarded
as the condition of seeing or attaining to Swar, and
it is this which explains the immense importance attached to
this legend or image in the Veda and to the conception of the