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The Doctrine of the Mystics 381
and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all
our thoughts, acts and impulses, — this is Mitra; an immortal
puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, — this
is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all
things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering,
— this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya.
For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in
our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition
of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given
to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light,
drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of
maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts
of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for
an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has
for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who
by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high
dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help
mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind
Indra’s horses, the Ashwins’ chariot, the weapons of the Gods,
all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the
Light of truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts,
who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have
attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression.
They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and
they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme
Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and
Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively
executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the
gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness,
— Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings
us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal
word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati,
its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama,
the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern
of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations;