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Chapter XXII
The Conquest over the Dasyus
THE DASYUS stand in opposition to both the Aryan gods
and the Aryan seers. The Gods are born from Aditi in the
supreme Truth of things, the Dasyus or Danavas from
Diti in the nether darkness; they are the Lords of Light and
the Lords of Night fronting each other across the triple world
of earth, heaven and mid-air, body, mind and the connecting
breath of life. Sarama in X.108 descends from the supreme
realm, parākāt; she has to cross the waters of the Rasā, she meets
the night which gives place to her for fear of her overleaping it,
atis.kado bhiyasā; she arrives at the home of the Dasyus, dasyor
oko na sadanam, which they themselves describe as the reku
padam alakam, the world of falsehood beyond the bound of
things. The supreme world also surpasses the bound of things
by exceeding or transcending it; it is reku padam, but satyam not
alakam, the world of the Truth, not the world of the falsehood.
The latter is the darkness without knowledge, tamo avayuna ˙m
tatanvat; Indra when his largeness exceeds (ririce) heaven and
earth and mid-world creates for the Aryan the opposite world
of truth and knowledge, vayunavat, which exceeds these three
domains and is therefore reku padam. This darkness, this lower
world of Night and the Inconscient in the formed existence of
things symbolised in the image of the mountain which rises from
the bowels of earth to the back of heaven, is represented by the
secret cave at the base of the hill, the cave of the darkness.
But the cave is only the home of the Panis, their field of
action is earth and heaven and the mid-world. They are the sons
of the Inconscience, but themselves are not precisely inconscient
in their action; they have forms of apparent knowledge, māyāh. ,
but these are forms of ignorance the truth of which is concealed
in the darkness of the inconscient and their surface or front is
falsehood, not truth. For the world as we see it has come out