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312 Selected Hymns
Vayu, of Surya have each their appropriate name. Indra’s horses
are hari or babhru, red gold or tawny yellow; Surya’s harit,
indicating a more deep, full and intense luminousness; Vayu’s
are niyut, steeds of the yoking, for they represent those dynamic
movements which yoke the energy to its action. But although
they are the horses of Vayu, they have to be driven by Indra, the
movements of the Master of nervous and vital energy guided by
the Master of mind.
The third verse 3 would seem at first to bring in an unconnected
idea; it speaks of a dark Heaven and Earth with all their
forms obeying or following in their labour the movements of
Vayu in his Indra-driven car. They are not mentioned by name
but described as the two black or dark holders of substance
or holders of wealth, vasudhitī; but the latter word sufficiently
indicates earth and by implication of the dual form Heaven also,
its companion. We must note that it is not Heaven the father and
Earth the mother that are indicated, but the two sisters, Rodasi,
feminine forms of heaven and earth, who symbolise the general
energies of the mental and physical consciousness. It is their
dark states — the obscured consciousness between its two limits
of the mental and the physical, — which by the happy movement
of the nervous dynamism begin to labour in accordance with the
movement or under the control of Vayu and to yield up their
hidden forms; for all forms are concealed in them and they must
be compelled to reveal them. Thus we discover that this verse
completes the sense of the two that precede. For always when
the Veda is properly understood, its verses are seen to unroll
the thought with a profound logical coherence and pregnant
succession.
The two remaining riks indicate the result produced by this
action of Heaven and Earth and by their yielding up of hidden
forms and unmanifested energies on the movement of Vayu as
his car gallops towards the Ananda. First of all his horses are to
attain their normally complete general number. “Let the ninety-
3 Anu kr.s.n. e vasudhitī yemāte vi´svape´sasā.