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Soma, Lord of Delight and Immortality 357
possible contacts of universal existence. Therefore it is divas
pade, in the seat of Heaven, that the Soma-strainer is spread out
to receive the Soma.
Thus received and purified these keen and violent juices,
these swift and intoxicating powers of the Wine no longer disturb
the mind or hurt the body, are no longer spilled and lost
but foster and increase, avanti, mind and body of their purifier;
avantyasya pavītāram ā´savo. So increasing him in all delight of
his mental, emotional, sensational and physical being they rise
with him through the purified and blissful heart to the highest
level or surface of heaven, that is, to the luminous world of Swar
where the mind capable of intuition, inspiration, revelation is
bathed in the splendours of the Truth (r.tam), liberated into the
infinity of the Vast (br.hat). Divas pr.s.t.ham adhi tis.t.hanti cetasā.
So far the Rishi has spoken of Soma in his impersonal manifestation,
as the Ananda or delight of divine existence in the human
being’s conscious experience. He now turns, as is the habit
of the Vedic Rishis, from the divine manifestation to the divine
Person and at once Soma appears as the supreme Personality,
the high and universal Deva. Arūrucad us.asah. pr. ´snir agriyah. ;
the supreme dappled One, he makes the dawns to shine: uks. ā
bibharti bhuvanāni vājayuh. ; he, the Bull, bears the worlds, seeking
the plenitude. The word pr. ´snih. , dappled, is used both of the
Bull, the supreme Male, and of the Cow, the female Energy; like
all words of colour, ´sveta, ´sukra, hari, harit, kr.s.n. a, hiran. yaya,
in the Veda it is symbolic; colour, varn. a, has always denoted
quality, temperament, etc., in the language of the Mystics. The
dappled Bull is the Deva in the variety of his manifestation,
many-hued. Soma is that first supreme dappled Bull, generator
of the worlds of the becoming, for from the Ananda, from the
all-blissful One they all proceed; delight is the parent of the
variety of existences. He is the Bull, uks.an, a word which like its
synonym vr.s.an, means diffusing, generating, impregnating, the
father of abundance, the Bull, the Male; it is he who fertilises
Force of consciousness, Nature, the Cow, and produces and
bears in his stream of abundance the worlds. He makes the
Dawns shine out, — the dawns of illumination, mothers of the