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284 Selected Hymns
brilliant energies. Let them create their plenty in us, pouring it
forth from the secret places of our being so as to be utilisable in
its daylight tracts and let their impulsions urge upward the divinising
thought in Mind, till it transfigures itself in the supreme
lustres.
The hymn closes. Thus, in inspired words, has the divine
Will, Agni, been affirmed by the sacred chant of the Gotamas.
The Rishi uses his name and that of his house as a symbolword;
we have in it the Vedic go in the sense “luminous”, and
Gotama means “entirely possessed of light”. For it is only those
that have the plenitude of the luminous intelligence by whom
the master of divine Truth can be wholly received and affirmed
in this world of an inferior Ray, — gotamebhir r.tāvā. And it is
upon those whose minds are pure, clear and open, vipra, that
there can dawn the right knowledge of the great Births which
are behind the physical world and from which it derives and
supports its energies, — viprebhir jātavedāh. .
Agni is Jatavedas, knower of the births, the worlds. He
knows entirely the five worlds 8 and is not confined in his consciousness
to this limited and dependent physical harmony. He
has access even to the three highest states 9 of all, to the udder
of the mystic Cow, 10 the abundance of the Bull 11 with the four
horns. From that abundance he will foster the illumination in
these Aryan seekers, swell the plenty of their divine faculties. By
that fullness and plenty of his illumined perceptions he will unite
thought with thought, word with word, till the human Intelligence
is rich and harmonious enough to support and become
the divine Idea.
8
The worlds in which, respectively, Matter, Life-Energy, Mind, Truth and Beatitude
are the essential energies. They are called respectively Bhur, Bhuvar, Swar, Mahas and
Jana or Mayas.
9
Divine Being, Consciousness, Bliss, — Sachchidananda.
10
Aditi, the infinite Consciousness, Mother of the worlds.
11
The divine Purusha, Sachchidananda; the three highest states and Truth are his four
horns.