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The Secret Of The Veda Aurobindo - HolyBooks.com

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384 Hymns of the Atris<br />

godward Thought that arises from the secret abysses of the heart<br />

is a priest and a creator and chants a divine hymn of luminous<br />

realisation and puissant fulfilment. We seek for the shining gold<br />

of the Truth; we lust after a heavenly treasure.<br />

<strong>The</strong> soul of man is a world full of beings, a kingdom in<br />

which armies clash to help or hinder a supreme conquest, a<br />

house where the gods are our guests and which the demons<br />

strive to possess; the fullness of its energies and wideness of its<br />

being make a seat of sacrifice spread, arranged and purified for<br />

a celestial session.<br />

Such are some of the principal images of the <strong>Veda</strong> and a very<br />

brief and insufficient outline of the teaching of the Forefathers.<br />

So understood the Rig <strong>Veda</strong> ceases to be an obscure, confused<br />

and barbarous hymnal; it be<strong>com</strong>es the high-aspiring Song of<br />

Humanity; its chants are episodes of the lyrical epic of the soul<br />

in its immortal ascension.<br />

This at least; what more there may be in the <strong>Veda</strong> of ancient<br />

science, lost knowledge, old psycho-physical tradition remains<br />

yet to be discovered.

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