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218 The Secret of the Veda
own doors,” pra sūnr.tā di´samāna r.tena dura´s cavi´svā avr.n. od
apa svāh. ; that is to say, he opens the doors of his own world,
Swar, after breaking open by his entry into our darkness (antah.
kr.s.n. ān gāt) the “human doors” kept closed by the Panis.
Such is this remarkable hymn, the bulk of which I have
translated because it both brings into striking relief the mystic
and entirely psychological character of the Vedic poetry and by
so doing sets out vividly the nature of the imagery in the midst of
which Sarama figures. The other references to Sarama in the Rig
Veda do not add anything essential to the conception. We have
a brief allusion in IV.16.8, “When thou didst tear the waters
out of the hill, Sarama became manifest before thee; so do thou
as our leader tear out much wealth for us, breaking the pens,
hymned by the Angirases.” It is the Intuition manifesting before
the Divine Mind as its forerunner when there is the emergence
of the waters, the streaming movements of the Truth that break
out of the hill in which they were confined by Vritra (verse 7);
and it is by means of the Intuition that this godhead becomes
our leader to the rescue of the Light and the conquest of the
much wealth hidden within in the rock behind the fortress gates
of the Panis.
We find another allusion to Sarama in a hymn by Parashara
Shaktya, I.72. This is one of the Suktas which most clearly reveal
the sense of the Vedic imagery, like most indeed of the hymns
of Parashara, a very luminous poet who loves always to throw
back something more than a corner of the mystic’s veil. It is
brief and I shall translate it in full. “He has created, within,
the seer-knowings of the eternal Disposer of things, holding in
his hand many powers (powers of the divine Purushas, naryā
purūn. i); Agni creating together all immortalities becomes the
master of the (divine) riches. All the immortals, they who are
not limited (by ignorance), desiring, found him in us as if the
Calf (of the cow Aditi) existing everywhere; labouring, travelling
to the Seat, holding the Thought they attained in the supreme
seat to the shining (glory) of Agni. O Agni, when through the
three years (three symbolic seasons or periods corresponding
perhaps to the passage through the three mental heavens) they,