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The Twelfth Hymn to Agni
A HYMN OF MAN’S ASPIRATION TO THE TRUTH
[The Rishi invokes this flame of the Divine Force, this vast Lord
of the superconscient Truth, this Truth-conscious One, to accept
thought and word into himself, become truth-conscient in man
and cleave out the many streams of the Truth. Not by mere
force of effort nor under the law of the duality can the Truth be
attained, but by the Truth itself. But there are not only powers of
this Force that battle with the falsehood and guard and conquer,
there are others also who have helped so far in the march, but
who would keep to the foundation of the falsehood because they
cling to the present self-expression of man and refuse to advance
beyond it; these in their self-will speak the word of crookedness
to the Truth-seeker. By the sacrifice and by submission in the
sacrifice man, the ever-advancing pilgrim, brings near to him his
wide dwelling-place beyond, the seat and home of the Truth.]
þA`ny bht yEâyAy t-y v Z as; rAy m m .
Gt\ n yâ aA-y s; pt\ Egr\ Br vqBAy þtFcFm^ 1
1. To Will, master of sacrifice, the Mighty One, the vast lord
and diffuser of the Truth I bring forward my thought as
an offering and it is as the clarified butter of the sacrifice
purified in the mouth of the flame; my word 1 I bring forward
that goes to meet its lord. 2
1
To turn thought and word into form and expression of the superconscient Truth
which is hidden beyond the division and duality of the mental and physical existence
was the central idea of the Vedic discipline and the foundation of its mysteries.
2
The Bull; the thought is symbolised as the shining cow fronting and offering itself to
the Godhead.