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The Human Fathers 189
Guest that lodges in the bliss has become conscious in knowledge
in the gated house of the hero rich (in felicity), when Agni is
perfectly satisfied and firmly lodged in the house, then he gives
the desirable good to the creature that makes the journey” or, it
may be, for his journeying.
The hymn is therefore an invocation to Agni for the journey
to the supreme good, the divine birth, the bliss. And its
opening verse is a prayer for the necessary conditions of the
journey, the things that are said here to constitute the form
of the pilgrim sacrifice, adhvarasya pe´sah. , and among these
comes first the forward movement of the Angirases; “Forward
let the Angirases travel, priests of the Word, forward go the
cry of heaven (or, of the heavenly thing, cloud or lightning),
forward move the fostering Cows that diffuse their waters, and
let the two pressing-stones be yoked (to their work) — the form
of the pilgrim sacrifice,” pra brahmān. oa˙ngiraso naks.anta, pra
krandanur nabhanyasya vetu; pra dhenava udapruto navanta,
yujyātām adrī adhvarasya pe´sah. . The Angirases with the divine
Word, the cry of Heaven which is the voice of Swar the luminous
heaven and of its lightnings thundering out from the Word, the
divine waters or seven rivers that are set free to their flowing by
that heavenly lightning of Indra the master of Swar, and with the
outflowing of the divine waters the outpressing of the immortalising
Soma, these constitute the form, pe´sah. ,oftheadhvara
yajña. And its general characteristic is forward movement, the
advance of all to the divine goal, as emphasised by the three
verbs of motion, naks.anta, vetu, navanta and the emphatic pra,
forward, which opens and sets the key to each clause.
But the fifty-second hymn is still more significant and
suggestive. The first Rik runs, “O Sons of the infinite Mother
(ādityāso), may we become infinite beings (aditayah. syāma),
may the Vasus protect in the godhead and the mortality
(devatrā martyatrā); possessing may we possess you, O Mitra
and Varuna, becoming may we become you, O Heaven and
Earth,” sanema mitrāvarun. ā sananto, bhavema dyāvāpr.thivī
bhavantah. . This is evidently the sense that we are to possess
and become the infinities or children of Aditi, the godheads,