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206 The Secret of the Veda
things and the crooked in mortals. Thereafter indeed they awoke
and saw utterly (by the sun’s separation of the straight from the
crooked, the truth from the falsehood); then indeed they held
in them the bliss that is enjoyed in heaven, ratna ˙m dhārayanta
dyubhaktam. Let all the gods be in all our homes, let there be
the truth for our thought, O Mitra, O Varuna”; vi´sve vi´svāsu
duryāsu devā, mitra dhiye varun. a satyam astu. This is evidently
the same idea as has been expressed in different language by
Parashara Shaktya, the pervasion of the whole existence by the
thought and impulse of the Truth and the working of all the
godheads in that thought and impulsion to create in every part
of our existence the bliss and the immortality.
The hymn closes thus: “May I speak the word towards Agni
shining pure, the priest of the offering greatest in sacrifice who
brings to us the all; may he press out both the pure udder of the
Cows of Light and the purified food of the plant of delight (the
Soma) poured out everywhere. He is the infinite being of all the
lords of sacrifice (the gods) and the guest of all human beings;
may Agni, accepting into himself the increasing manifestation
of the gods, knower of the births, be a giver of happiness.”
In the second hymn of the fourth Mandala we get very
clearly and suggestively the parallelism of the seven Rishis who
are the divine Angirases and the human fathers. The passage is
preceded by four verses, IV.2.11-14, which bring in the idea of
the human seeking after the Truth and the Bliss. “May he the
knower discern perfectly the Knowledge and the Ignorance, the
wide levels and the crooked that shut in mortals; and, O God, for
a bliss fruitful in offspring, lavish on us Diti and protect Aditi.”
This eleventh verse is very striking in its significance. We have
the opposition of the Knowledge and the Ignorance familiar to
Vedanta; and the Knowledge is likened to the wide open levels
which are frequently referred to in the Veda; they are the large
levels to which those ascend who labour in the sacrifice and they
find there Agni seated self-blissful (V.7.5); they are the wide being
which he makes for his own body (V.4.6), the level wideness, the
unobstructed vast. It is therefore the infinite being of the Deva
to which we arrive on the plane of the Truth, and it contains