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202 The Secret of the Veda
of one action, the achievement of the truth and immortality by
men, r.ta ˙m sapanto amr.tam evaih. .
It is now perfectly clear that the achievement of the Angirases
is the conquest of the Truth and the Immortality, that
Swar called also the great heaven, br.hat dyauh. , is the plane
of the Truth above the ordinary heaven and earth which can
be no other than the ordinary mental and physical being; that
the path of the great heaven, the path of the Truth created by
the Angirases and followed by the hound Sarama is the path
to the Immortality, amr.tatvāya gātum; that the vision (ketu) of
the Dawn, the Day won by the Angirases, is the vision proper
to the Truth-consciousness; that the luminous cows of the Sun
and Dawn wrested from the Panis are the illuminations of this
truth-consciousness which help to form the thought of the Truth,
r.tasya dhītih. , complete in the seven-headed thought of Ayasya;
that the Night of the Veda is the obscured consciousness of the
mortal being in which the Truth is subconscient, hidden in the
cave of the hill; that the recovery of the lost sun lying in this
darkness of Night is the recovery of the sun of Truth out of
the darkened subconscient condition; and that the downflowing
earthward of the seven rivers must be the outstreaming action
of the sevenfold principle of our being as it is formulated in the
Truth of the divine or immortal existence. Equally then must the
Panis be the powers that prevent the Truth from emerging out
of the subconscient condition and that constantly strive to steal
its illuminations from man and throw him back into the Night,
and Vritra must be the power that obstructs and prevents the
free movement of the illumined rivers of the Truth, obstructs
the impulsion of the Truth in us, r.tasya pres. ā, the luminous
impulsion, jyotis.matīm is.am, which carries us beyond the Night
to the immortality. And the gods, the sons of Aditi, must be
on the contrary the luminous divine powers, born of the infinite
consciousness Aditi, whose formation and activity in our human
and mortal being are necessary for our growth into the godhead,
into the being of the Deva (devatvam) which is the Immortality.
Agni, the truth-conscious seer-will, is the principal godhead who
enables us to effect the sacrifice; he leads it on the path of the