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222 The Secret of the Veda
guardians, protecting man on the road by their divine vision, yau
te ´svānau yama raks.itārau caturaks.au pathiraks. īnr.caks.asau,
and Yama is asked to give them as an escort to the soul on
its way. These dogs are “wide-moving, not easily satisfied” and
range as the messengers of the Lord of the Law among men.
And the hymn prays, “May they (the dogs) give us back bliss
here in the unhappy (world) so that we may look upon the Sun.”
We are still in the order of the old Vedic ideas, the Light and
the Bliss and the Immortality, and these Sarameya dogs have the
essential characteristics of Sarama, the vision, the wide-ranging
movement, the power to travel on the path by which the goal is
reached. Sarama leads to the wideness of the cows; these dogs
protect the soul on its journey to the inviolable pasture, the field
(ks.etra) of the luminous and imperishable herds. Sarama brings
us to the truth, to the sun-vision which is the way to the bliss;
these dogs bring the weal to man in this world of suffering so
that he shall have the vision of the Sun. Whether Sarama figures
as the fair-footed goddess speeding on the path or the heavenly
hound, mother of these wide-ranging guardians of the path, the
idea is the same, a power of the Truth that seeks and discovers,
that finds by a divine faculty of insight the hidden Light and the
denied Immortality. But it is to this seeking and finding that her
function is limited.