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The Victory of the Fathers 207
the thrice seven supreme seats of Aditi the Mother, the three
supreme births of Agni within the Infinite, anante antah. (IV.1.7).
The Ignorance on the other hand is identified with the crooked
or uneven levels 4 which shut in mortals and it is therefore the
limited, divided mortal existence. Moreover it is evident that
the Ignorance is the Diti of the next half-verse, diti ˙m carāsva
aditim urus.ya, and the Knowledge is Aditi. Diti, called also
Danu, means division and the obstructing powers or Vritras are
her children, Dānus, Dānavas, Daityas, while Aditi is existence
in its infinity and the mother of the gods. The Rishi desires a bliss
fruitful in offspring, that is in divine works and their results and
this is to be effected through the conquest of all the riches held
in itself by our divided mortal being but kept from us by the
Vritras and Panis and through the holding of them in the infinite
divine being. The latter is to be in us protected from the ordinary
tendency of our human existence, from subjection to the sons of
Danu or Diti. The idea is evidently identical with that of the Isha
Upanishad which declares the possession of the Knowledge and
the Ignorance, the unity and the multiplicity in the one Brahman
as the condition for the attainment of Immortality.
We then come to the seven divine seers. “The seers unconquered
declared the Seer (the Deva, Agni) holding him within
in the homes of the human being; thence (from this embodied
human being) mayst thou, O Agni, aspiring by the work (aryah. ),
behold by thy advancing movements these of whom thou must
have the vision, the transcendent ones (the godheads of the
Deva)”; kavi ˙m ´sa´sāsuh. kavayo adabdhā, nidhārayanto duryāsu
āyoh. ;atastva˙m dr. ´syān agna etān, pad. bhih. pa´syer adbhutān
arya evaih. . This is again the journey to the vision of the Godhead.
“Thou, O Agni, youngest power, art the perfect guide (on
that journey) to him who sings the word and offers the Soma and
orders the sacrifice; bring to the illumined who accomplishes the
4 Cittim acitti ˙m cinavad vi vidvān, pr.s.t.heva vītā vr.jinā ca martān. Vr.jina means
crooked, and is used in the Veda to indicate the crookedness of the falsehood as opposed
to the open straightness of the Truth, but the poet has evidently in his mind the verbal
sense of vr.j, to separate, screen off, and it is this verbal sense in the adjective that governs
martān.