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Hymns to Agni 419
y\ m(y, p; z-ph\ Evdd^ Ev[v-y DAys .
þ -vAdn\ EptnAm-ttAEt\ EcdAyv 6
6. Him shall mortal man come to know as the godhead who
has this multitude of his desires that he may establish in us
the all; for he reaches forward to the sweet taste of all foods
and he builds a home 7 for this human being.
s Eh mA D vAE"t\ dAtA n dA(yA pf; , .
EhEr[m ; , f; EcdàB; rEnB VtEvEq, 7
7. Yea, he teareth to pieces this desert 8 in which we dwell as
the Animal that teareth its food; the beard of this Beast is
of the golden light, his fang is a purity and the force in him
is not afflicted by his heats.
f; Ec, m y-mA aE/vt^ þ -vEDtFv rFyt .
s; qrst mAtA AZA ydAnf Bgm^ 8
8. Pure indeed is he for whom as for the eater of things there is
the flowing progression by Nature, 9 as by an axe, and with
a happy travail she, his Mother, brought him forth that he
may accomplish her works and taste of the enjoyment. 10
7
The home of man, the higher divine world of his existence which is being formed
by the gods in his being through the sacrifice. This home is the complete Beatitude into
which all human desires and enjoyings have to be transformed and lose themselves.
Therefore Agni, the purifier, devours all the forms of material existence and enjoyment
in order to reduce them to their divine equivalent.
8
The material existence not watered by the streams or rivers which descend from the
superconscient Bliss and Truth.
9
Again an equivoque on the double sense of svadhiti, an axe or other cleaving instrument
and the self-ordering power of Nature, Swadha. The image is of the progress of
the divine Force through the forests of the material existence as with an axe. But the axe
is the natural self-arranging progression of Nature, the World-Energy, the Mother from
whom this divine Force, son of Energy, is born.
10
The divine enjoyment, bhaga, typified by the god Bhaga, the Enjoyer in the power of
the Truth.