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The Victory of the Fathers 209
(or, have robed themselves with the Truth), in the fullness of
Agni and his manifold delight, in the shining eye of the god in
all his brightness.”
The Angirases are again mentioned in IV.3.11, and some of
the expressions which lead up to this verse, are worth noting;
for it cannot be too often repeated that no verse in the Veda can
be properly understood except by reference to its context, to its
place in the thought of the Sukta, to all that precedes and all
that follows. The hymn opens with a call to men to create Agni
who sacrifices in the truth, to create him in his form of golden
light (hiran. yarūpam, the gold being always the symbol of the
solar light of the Truth, r.ta ˙m jyotih. ) before the Ignorance can
form itself, purā tanayitnor acittāt. The god is asked to awaken
to the work of man and the truth in him as being himself “the
Truth-conscious who places aright the thought”, r.tasya bodhi
r.tacit svādhīh. , — for all falsehood is merely a wrong placing of
the Truth. He is to refer all fault and sin and defect in man to
the various godheads or divine powers of the Divine Being so
that it may be removed and the man declared finally blameless
before the Infinite Mother — aditaye anāgasah. , or for the infinite
existence, as it is elsewhere expressed.
Then in the ninth and tenth verses we have, expressed in
various formulas, the idea of the united human and divine
existence, Diti and Aditi, the latter founding, controlling and
flooding with itself the former. “The Truth controlled by the
Truth I desire (i.e. the human by the divine), together the unripe
things of the Cow and her ripe and honeyed yield (again the
imperfect human and the perfect and blissful divine fruits of
the universal consciousness and existence); she (the cow) being
black (the dark and divided existence, Diti) is nourished by the
shining water of the foundation, the water of the companion
streams (jāmaryen. a payasā). By the Truth Agni the Bull, the
Male, sprinkled with the water of its levels, ranges unquivering,
establishing wideness (wide space or manifestation); the dappled
Bull milks the pure shining teat.” The symbolic opposition between
the shining white purity of the One who is the source, seat,
foundation and the variegated colouring of the Life manifested