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The Victory of the Fathers 203
Truth, he is the warrior of the battle, the doer of the work, and
his unity and universality in us comprehending in itself all the
other godheads is the basis of the Immortality. The plane of the
Truth to which we arrive is his own home and the own home of
the other gods, and the final home also of the soul of man. And
this immortality is described as a beatitude, a state of infinite
spiritual wealth and plenitude, ratna, rayi, vāja, rādhas, etc.; the
opening doors of our divine home are the doors of the felicity,
rāyo durah. , the divine doors which swing wide open to those
who increase the Truth (r.tāvr.dhah. ) and which are discovered for
us by Saraswati and her sisters, by the seven Rivers, by Sarama;
to them and to the wide pasture (ks.etra) in the unobstructed
and equal infinities of the vast Truth Brihaspati and Indra lead
upward the shining Herds.
With these conceptions clearly fixed in our minds we shall be
able to understand the verses of Vamadeva which only repeat in
symbolic language the substance of the thought expressed more
openly by Parashara. It is to Agni the Seer-Will that Vamadeva’s
opening hymns are addressed. He is hymned as the friend or
builder of man’s sacrifice who awakes him to the vision, the
knowledge (ketu), sa cetayan manus.o yajñabandhuh. (IV.1.9); so
doing, “he dwells in the gated homes of this being, accomplishing;
he, a god, has come to be the means of accomplishment
of the mortal,” sa ks.eti asya duryāsu sādhan, devo martasya
sadhanitvam āpa. What is it that he accomplishes? The next
verse tells us. “May this Agni lead us in his knowledge towards
that bliss of him which is enjoyed by the gods, that which by
the thought all the immortals created and Dyauspita the father
out-pouring the Truth”; sa tū no agnir nayatu prajānann, acchā
ratna ˙m devabhakta ˙m yad asya; dhiyā yad vi´sve amr.tā akr.n. van,
dyaus.pitā janitā satyam uks.an. This is Parashara’s beatitude
of the Immortality created by all the powers of the immortal
godhead doing their work in the thought of the Truth and in
its impulsion, and the out-pouring of the Truth is evidently the
out-pouring of the waters as is indicated by the word uks.an,
Parashara’s equal diffusion of the seven rivers of the truth over
the hill.