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Soma, Lord of Delight and Immortality 359
born in him by the divine knowledge against the attacks of
the enemies, the powers of division, the powers of undelight
(dvis.ah. , arātīh. ), against the undivine hosts with their formations
of a dark and false creative knowledge, Avidya, illusion, (adevīr
māyāh. ).
For he seizes these invading enemies in the net of the
inner consciousness; he is the master of a profounder and
truer setting of world-truth and world-experience than that
which is formed by the senses and the superficial mind. It
is by this inner setting that he seizes the powers of falsehood,
obscurity and division and subjects them to the law
of truth, light and unity; gr.bhn. āti ripu ˙m nidhayā nidhāpatih. .
Men therefore protected by the lord of the Ananda governing
this inner nature are able to accord their thoughts and actions
with the inner truth and light and are no longer made to
stumble by the forces of the outer crookedness; they walk
straight, they become entirely perfect in their works and by
this truth of inner working and outer action are able to
taste the entire sweetness of existence, the honey, the delight
that is the food of the soul. Sukr.ttamā madhuno bhaks.am
ā´sata.
Soma manifests here as the offering, the divine food, the
wine of delight and immortality, havih. , and as the Deva, lord
of that divine offering (havis.mah. ), above as the vast and divine
seat, the superconscient bliss and truth, br.hat, fromwhichthe
wine descends to us. As the wine of delight he flows about and
enters into this great march of the sacrifice which is the progress
of man from the physical to the superconscient. He enters into
it and encompasses it wearing the cloud of the heavenly ether,
nabhas, the mental principle, as his robe and veil. Havir havis.mo
mahi sadma daivya ˙m, nabho vasānah. pari yāsi adhvaram. The
divine delight comes to us wearing the luminous-cloudy veil of
the forms of mental experience.
In that march or sacrificial ascent the all-blissful Deva becomes
the King of all our activities, master of our divinised
nature and its energies and with the enlightened conscious heart
as his chariot ascends into the plenitude of the infinite and