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the gods (devayānāh. ) which lead to the infinite wideness of the
divine existence. “Before me the paths of the journeyings of the
gods have become visible, journeyings that violate not, whose
movement was formed by the Vasus. The eye of Dawn has come
into being in front and she has come towards us (arriving) over
our houses.” The house in the Veda is the constant image for
the bodies that are dwelling-places of the soul, just as the field
or habitation means the planes to which it mounts and in which
it rests. The path of man is that of his journey to the supreme
plane and that which the journeyings of the gods do not violate
is, as we see, in the fifth verse where the phrase is repeated,
the workings of the gods, the divine law of life into which the
soul has to grow. We have then a curious image which seems to
support the Arctic theory. “Many were those days which were
before the rising of the Sun (or which were of old by the rising of
the Sun), in which thou, O Dawn, wert seen as if moving about
thy lover and not coming again.” This is certainly a picture of
continual dawns, not interrupted by Night, such as are visible
in the Arctic regions. The psychological sense which arises out
of the verse, is obvious.
What were these dawns? They were those created by the
actions of the Fathers, the ancient Angirases. “They indeed had
the joy (of the Soma) along with the gods, 5 the ancient seers
who possessed the truth; the fathers found the hidden Light;
they, having the true thought (satyamantrāh. , the true thought
expressed in the inspired Word), brought into being the Dawn.”
And to what did the Dawn, the path, the divine journeying
lead the Fathers? To the level wideness, samāne ūrve, termed
elsewhere the unobstructed vast, urau anibādhe, which is evidently
the same as that wide being or world which, according
to Kanwa, men create when they slay Vritra and pass beyond
heaven and earth; it is the vast Truth and the infinite being of
Aditi. “In the level wideness they meet together and unite their
knowledge (or, know perfectly) and strive not together; they
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I adopt provisionally the traditional rendering of sadhamādah. though I am not sure
that it is the correct rendering.