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190 The Secret of the Veda
aditayah. , ādityāso. Mitra and Varuna, we must remember, are
powers of Surya Savitri, the Lord of the Light and the Truth.
And the third verse runs, “May the Angirases who hasten
through to the goal move in their travelling to the bliss of
the divine Savitri; and that (bliss) may our great Father, he of
the sacrifice, and all the gods becoming of one mind accept in
heart.” Turan. yavo naks.anta ratna ˙m devasya savitur iyānāh. . It is
quite clear therefore that the Angirases are travellers to the light
and truth of the solar deity from which are born the luminous
cows they wrest from the Panis and to the bliss which, as we
always see, is founded on that light and truth. It is clear also
that this journey is a growing into the godhead, into the infinite
being (aditayah. syāma), said in this hymn (verse 2) to come by
the growth of the peace and bliss through the action in us of
Mitra, Varuna and the Vasus who protect us in the godhead and
the mortality.
In these two hymns the Angiras Rishis generally are mentioned;
but in others we have positive references to the human
Fathers who first discovered the Light and possessed the
Thought and the Word and travelled to the secret worlds of
the luminous Bliss. In the light of the conclusions at which we
have arrived, we can now study the more important passages,
profound, beautiful and luminous, in which this great discovery
of the human forefathers is hymned. We shall find there the
summary of that great hope which the Vedic mystics held ever
before their eyes; that journey, that victory is the ancient, primal
achievement set as a type by the luminous Ancestors for the
mortality that was to come after them. It was the conquest of the
powers of the circumscribing Night (rātrī paritakmyā), Vritras,
Sambaras and Valas, the Titans, Giants, Pythons, subconscient
Powers who hold the light and the force in themselves, in their
cities of darkness and illusion, but can neither use it aright nor
will give it up to man, the mental being. Their ignorance, evil
and limitation have not merely to be cut away from us, but
broken up and into and made to yield up the secret of light and
good and infinity. Out of this death that immortality has to be
conquered. Pent up behind this ignorance is a secret knowledge