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Hymns to Agni 395
6. Strength has taken his seat as the Priest of the offering
mightyforsacrificeinthelapoftheMotherandinthat
rapturous other world, 5 young and a seer, standing out in
his multitudes, possessed of the Truth, the upholder of those
that do the work; and also in between he is kindled.
þ Z; (y\ Evþm@vrq; sAD; mE`n\ hotArmF t nmoEB, .
aA y-ttAn rodsF tn En(y\ mjE t vAEjn\ Gtn 7
7. Men seek with their obeisances of submission this illumined
Strength that achieves our perfection in the progressing sacrifices
and is the priest of their oblation, because he shapes
in the power of the Truth both firmaments of our being.
Him they press into brightness by the clarity, 6 the eternal
steed of life’s plenitude.
mAjASyo m>yt -v dmnA, kEvþf-to aEtET, Efvo n, .
shúf½o vqB-tdojA Ev[vA a`n shsA þA-y yAn^ 8
8. Bright, he is rubbed bright, expressed by the seer, domiciled
in his own home 7 and our beneficent guest. The bull of the
thousand horns, because thou hast that force, 8 OStrength,
thou precedest in thy puissance all others.
þ s o a`n a(y y yAnAEvy-m{ cAztmo bBT .
I yo vp; yo EvBAvA Eþyo EvfAmEtETmAn; qFZAm^ 9
9. At once, O Strength, thou outstrippest all others, in whomsoever
thou art manifested in all the glory of thy beauty,
5
The mother is Earth, our physical being; the other world is the supramental existence;
the vital and emotional being is the world in between. Agni manifests in all of these
simultaneously.
6
The clarified butter, yield of the Cow of Light and symbol of the rich clarity that
comes to the mind visited by the Light.
7
That is to say, having taken his place on the plane of the Truth which is his own
proper home.
8
The force of the Truth, the perfect energy that belongs to this perfect knowledge.