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418 Hymns of the Atris
2. Wheresoever man’s soul comes to the utter meeting with
him, it becomes full of delight in its dwelling-place. Even
they who are adepts in the strength continue to kindle the
flame of him and all creatures born work to bring him to
perfect birth.
s\ yEdqo vnAmh s\ h&yA mAn; qAZAm^ .
ut ; ß-y fvs t-y rE[mmA dd 3
3. When wholly we possess and enjoy our strengths of impulsion,
wholly all that men offer as a sacrifice, then I receive
the ray of the Truth in its illumination and shining energy. 2
s -mA kZoEt kt; mA n?t\ Ecd^ dr aA st .
pAvko yd^ vn-ptFn^ þ -mA EmnA(yjr, 4
4. Verily he creates the light of perception even for one who
sits far off in the night, when himself undecaying the purifier
compresses the lords 3 of the woodland of delight.
av -m y-y vqZ -vd\ pETq; j; h^ vEt .
aBFmh -vj y\ BmA p Wv zzh; , 5
5. When in his circling men cast the sweat 4 of their toil as an
offering on the paths, then they ascend to him where he sits
self-joyous 5 like climbers who arrive upon large levels. 6
2
Or, “of the light, the luminous force, the truth.”
3
Vanaspatīn, in its double sense, the trees, the lords of the forest, growths of the earth,
our material existence, and lords of delight. Soma, producer of the immortalising wine,
is the typical vanaspati.
4
An equivoque on the double sense of the word, sweat and the rich droppings of the
food-offering.
5
Or, self-victorious.
6
These are the wide free infinite planes of existence founded on the Truth, the open
levels opposed elsewhere to the uneven crookednesses which shut in men limiting their
vision and obstructing their journey.