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204 The Secret of the Veda
Vamadeva then goes on to tell us of the birth of this great,
first or supreme force, Agni, in the Truth, in its waters, in its
original home. “He was born, the first, in the waters, in the
foundation of the vast world (Swar), in its womb, (i.e. its seat
and birthplace, its original home); without head and feet, concealing
his two extremities, setting himself to his work in the
lair of the Bull.” The Bull is the Deva or Purusha, his lair is
the plane of the Truth, and Agni the Seer-Will, working in the
truth-consciousness, creates the worlds; but he conceals his two
extremities, his head and feet; that is to say, his workings act
between the superconscient and the subconscient in which his
highest and his lowest states are respectively concealed, one in
an utter light, the other in an utter darkness. From that he goes
forth as the first and supreme force and is born to the Bull or the
Lord by the action of the seven powers of the Bliss, the seven
Beloved. “He went forward by illumined knowledge as the first
force, in the seat of the Truth, in the lair of the Bull, desirable,
young, full in body, shining wide; the seven Beloved bore him to
the Lord.”
The Rishi then comes to the achievement of the human
fathers, asmākam atra pitaro manus.yā, abhi pra sedur r.tam
ā´sus. ān. āh. : “Here our human fathers seeking possession of the
Truth went forward to it; the bright cows in their covering
prison, the good milkers whose pen is in the rock they drove
upward (to the Truth), the Dawns answered their call. They
rent the hill asunder and made them bright; others all around
them declared wide this (Truth) of theirs; drivers of the herds
they sang the hymn to the doer of works (Agni), they found
the light, they shone in their thoughts (or, they accomplished
the work by their thoughts). They with the mind that seeks the
light (the cows, gavyatā manasā) rent the firm and compact hill
that environed the luminous cows; the souls that desire opened
by the divine word, vacasā daivyena, the firm pen full of the
kine.” These are the ordinary images of the Angiras legend, but
in the next verse Vamadeva uses a still more mystic language.
“They conceived in mind the first name of the fostering cows,
they found the thrice seven supreme (seats) of the Mother; the