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The Sixteenth Hymn to Agni
A HYMN TO THE BRINGER OF ALL DESIRABLE GOOD
[The Rishi affirms the Divine Will in man as the offering and
representative priest who brings light and strength and inspired
knowledge and every desirable good; for he is the aspirer by
works in whom is the puissance of all the gods and the full
plenitude of their force.]
bhd^ vyo Eh BAnv_cA dvAyA`ny .
y\ Em/\ n þfE-tEBmtAso dEDr p; r, 1
1. Sing thou out by the word a vast manifestation for the shining
Light, for the divine, for the Will whom mortals by their
expressions of his godhead as the Friend 1 put in their front.
s Eh ; EBjnAnA\ hotA d"-y bAh^ vo, .
Ev h&ymE`nrAn; q`Bgo n vArm vEt 2
2. The Will is the priest of offering of the peoples; by the
illuminations of the discerning mind he bears abroad in
both his arms the continuous order 2 of their offerings and
as the divine enjoyer 3 he moves to his good.
1 Mitra. Agni contains and is all the gods. Mortals have to discover in the action of the
divine Will the light, love and harmony of the true knowledge and true existence, the
Mitra-power; it is in this aspect that he has to be set in front of the human consciousness
as the representative priest in the sacrifice.
2 As the Purohit, the representative priest in the sacrifice and the leader in the van of
its march. He stands in front of our consciousness, leader of all our powers, to guide
and carry on our Godward work, so that there shall be no interruption, no gap in the
order of the sacrifice, the right stages of its march to the gods, the right placing of its
works according to the times and seasons of the Truth.
3 The Divine Will becomes the Enjoyer Bhaga, brother power of Mitra, who enjoys
all delight of existence but by Mitra’s power of pure discernment and according to the
light, truth and harmony of the divine living.