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238 The Secret of the Veda
thought-vision, pa´susādhanī, cf.sādhantā ˙m dhiyah. in verse 4),
the delight of that we desire. Create for us the thought that
wins the cow, that wins the horse, that wins the plenitude of the
wealth.”
If we are right in our interpretation of this symbol of the
Panis, these ideas are sufficiently intelligible without depriving
the word of its ordinary sense, as does Sayana, and making it
mean only a miserly, greedy human being whom the hungerstricken
poet is thus piteously importuning the Sun-God to turn
to softness and charity. The Vedic idea was that the subconscient
darkness and the ordinary life of ignorance held concealed in it
all that belongs to the divine life and that these secret riches
must be recovered first by destroying the impenitent powers of
ignorance and then by possessing the lower life subjected to
the higher. Of Indra it has been said, as we have seen, that he
either slays or conquers the Dasyu and transfers his wealth to
the Aryan. So also Sarama refuses peace with alliance to the
Panis, but suggests their submission to the gods and the Aryans
by the surrender and ascent of the imprisoned cows and their
own departure from the darkness to a better place (ā varīyah. ).
And it is by the strenuous touch of the goad of the luminous seer,
Pushan, lord of the Truth, the goad that drives open the closed
heart and makes the sacred word to arise from its depths, it is
by this luminous-pointed goad which perfects the radiant cows,
accomplishes the luminous thoughts, that the conversion of the
Pani is effected; then the Truth-god in his darkened heart also
desires that which the Aryan desires. Therefore by this penetrating
action of the Light and the Truth the powers of the ordinary
ignorant sense-activity become subject to the Aryan.
But, normally, they are his enemies, not dāsa in the sense
of submission and service (dāsa, servant, from das to work),
but in the sense of destruction and injury (dāsa, dasyu, anenemy,
plunderer, from das to divide, hurt, injure). The Pani is the
robber who snatches away the cows of light, the horses of the
swiftness and the treasures of the divine plenitude, he is the wolf,
the eater, atri, vr.ka; he is the obstructor, nid, and spoiler of the
word. He is the enemy, the thief, the false or evil thinker who