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192 The Secret of the Veda
the cave of the subconscient in which they were penned; Indra
master of Swar is the Bull, the lord of these herds, gopatih. .
The Rishi continues to describe the Thought. It is “the
thought that when it is being expressed, remains wakeful in
the knowledge,” does not lend itself to the slumber of the Panis,
yā jāgr.vir vidathe ´sasyamānā; “that which is born of thee (or,
for thee), O Indra, of that take knowledge.” This is a constant
formula in the Veda. The god, the divine, has to take cognizance
of what rises up to him in man, to become awake to it in the
knowledge within us, (viddhi, cetathah. , etc.), otherwise it remains
a human thing and does not “go to the gods”, (deves.u
gacchati). And then, “It is ancient (or eternal), it is born from
heaven; when it is being expressed, it remains wakeful in the
knowledge; wearing white and happy robes, this in us is the
ancient thought of the fathers,” seyam asme sanajā pitryādhīh. .
And then the Rishi speaks of this Thought as “the mother of
twins, who here gives birth to the twins; on the tip of the tongue
it descends and stands; the twin bodies when they are born
cleave to each other and are slayers of darkness and move in
the foundation of burning force.” I will not now discuss what
are these luminous twins, for that would carry us beyond the
limits of our immediate subject: suffice it to say that they are
spoken of elsewhere in connection with the Angirases and their
establishment of the supreme birth (the plane of the Truth) as
the twins in whom Indra places the word of the expression
(I.83.3), that the burning force in whose foundation they move
is evidently that of the Sun, the slayer of darkness, and this
foundation is therefore identical with the supreme plane, the
foundation of the Truth, r.tasya budhnah. , and, finally, that they
can hardly be wholly unconnected with the twin children of
Surya, Yama and Yami, — Yama who in the tenth Mandala is
associated with the Angiras Rishis. 3
Having thus described the ancestral thought with its twin
3 It is in the light of these facts that we must understand the colloquy of Yama and
Yami in the tenth Mandala in which the sister seeks union with her brother and is put
off to later generations, meaning really symbolic periods of time, the word for later
signifying rather “higher”, uttara.