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The Second Hymn to Agni
A HYMN OF THE LIBERATION OF THE DIVINE FORCE
[Nature in her ordinary limited and material workings holds the
Divine Force concealed in her secret or subconscient being; only
when consciousness enlarges itself towards the One and Infinite,
is it manifested, born for the conscient Mind. The clarities of
the higher illumination cannot be kept so long as there is not
this Strength to guard them, for hostile powers snatch them
away and conceal them again in their secret cavern. Divine Will
manifested in man, itself liberated, liberates him from the cords
which bind him as a victim in the world-sacrifice; we attain to
it by the teaching of Indra, the divine Mind, and it protects
the uninterrupted play of the Light and destroys the powers
of falsehood whose limitations cannot hem in its growth and
its out-flaming; it brings the divine waters from the luminous
Heaven, the divine wealth liberated from the attacks of the
Enemy, and gives the final peace and perfection.]
k; mAr\ mAtA y; vEt, sm; ND\ g; hA EbBEt n ddAEt Ep/ .
anFkm-y n Emn>jnAs, p; r, p[yE t EnEhtmrtO 1
1. The young Mother 1 bears the Boy pressed down in her secret
being and gives him not to the Father; but his force is not
diminished, the peoples behold him established in front 2 in
the upward working of things.
kmt\ (v\ y; vt k; mAr\ pqF EbBEq mEhqF jjAn .
pvFEh gB, frdo vvDA_p[y\ jAt\ ydst mAtA 2
1
The Mother and Father are always either Nature and the Soul or the material being
and the pure mental being.
2
As the Purohit who leads and conducts the work of the sacrifice.