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358 Selected Hymns
radiant herds of the Sun; and he seeks the plenitude, that is to
say the fullness of being, force, consciousness, the plenty of the
godhead which is the condition of the divine delight. In other
words it is the Lord of the Ananda who gives us the splendours
of the Truth and the plenitudes of the Vast by which we attain
to Immortality.
The fathers who discovered the Truth, received his creative
knowledge, his Maya, and by that ideal and ideative consciousness
of the supreme Divinity they formed an image of Him in
man, they established Him in the race as a child unborn, a seed
of the godhead in man, a Birth that has to be delivered out of the
envelope of the human consciousness. Māyāvino mamire asya
māyayā, nr.caks.asah. pitaro garbham ā dadhuh. . The fathers are
the ancient Rishis who discovered the Way of the Vedic mystics
and are supposed to be still spiritually present presiding over
the destinies of the race and, like the gods, working in man for
his attainment to Immortality. They are the sages who received
the strong divine vision, nr.caks.asah. , the Truth-vision by which
they were able to find the Cows hidden by the Panis and to
pass beyond the bounds of the Rodasi, the mental and physical
consciousness, to the Superconscient, the Vast Truth and the
Bliss (R.V. I.36.7, IV.1.13-18, IV.2.15-18 etc.).
Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight,
and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of
the Ananda; gandharva itthā padam asya raks.ati. Heisthe
Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them,
other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme
and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them,
he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pāti devānā ˙m
janimāni adbhutah. . The “births of the gods” is a common phrase
in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine
principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the
godhead in its manifold forms in the human being. In the last
verse the Rishi spoke of the Deva as the divine child preparing
for birth, involved in the world, in the human consciousness.
Here he speaks of Him as the transcendent guarding the world
of the Ananda formed in man and the forms of the godhead