The Secret Of The Veda Aurobindo - HolyBooks.com

468 Hymns of the Atris
yo m iEt þvoc(y[vmDAysry .
dddcA sEn\ yt dd mDAmtAyt 4
4. May he who answers to me with assent give to the illumined
giver of the Horse-sacrifice, 8 by the word of illumination
possession of the goal of his journey; may he give power of
intelligence to the seeker of the Truth.
y-y mA pzqA, ftm; d^ Dqy (y; "Z, .
a[vmD-y dAnA, somA iv ìyAEfr, 5
5. A hundred strong bulls of the diffusion 9 raisemeuptojoy;
the gifts of the sacrificer of the steed are as outpourings of
the wine of delight with their triple infusions. 10
i dý A`nF ftdA& y[vmD s; vFym^ .
"/\ DAryt\ bhd^ EdEv syEmvAjrm^ 6
6. May the God-Mind and the God-Will uphold in the sacrificer
of the Horse and giver of his hundred a perfect energy
and a vast force of battle even as in heaven the Sun of Light
indestructible. 11
8
The Horse-sacrifice is the offering of the Life-power with all its impulses, desires,
enjoyments to the divine existence. The Life-soul (Dwita) is itself the giver of this sacrifice
which it performs when by the power of Agni it attains to vision on its own vital plane,
when it becomes, in the figure of the hymn, the illumined seer Ashwamedha.
9
The complete hundred powers of the Life by whom all the abundance of the vital
plane is showered upon the growing man. The vital forces being the instrument of desire
and enjoyment, this diffusion is like the outpouring of the wine of delight that raises the
soul to new and intoxicating joys.
10
The delight extracted from existence is typified by the honey wine of the Soma; it is
mixed with the milk, the curds and the grain, the milk being that of the luminous cows,
the curds the fixation of their yield in the intellectual mind and the grain the formulation
of the light in the force of the physical mind. These symbolic senses are indicated by the
double meaning of the words used, go, dadhi and yava.
11
Perfect and vast energy in the vital being corresponding to the infinite and immortal
light of the Truth in the mental being.