The Secret Of The Veda Aurobindo - HolyBooks.com

The Guardians of the Light
SURYA, LIGHT AND SEER
THE RIG VEDA rises out of the ancient Dawn with the
sound of a thousand-voiced hymn lifted from the soul of
man to an all-creative Truth and an all-illumining Light.
Truth and Light are synonymous or equivalent words in the
thought of the Vedic seers even as are their opposites, Darkness
and Ignorance. The battle of the Vedic Gods and Titans is a
perpetual conflict between Day and Night for the possession
of the triple world of heaven, mid-air and earth and for the
liberation or bondage of the mind, life and body of the human
being, his mortality or his immortality. It is waged by the Powers
of a supreme Truth and Lords of a supreme Light against other
dark Powers who struggle to maintain the foundation of this
falsehood in which we dwell and the iron walls of these hundred
fortified cities of the Ignorance.
This antinomy between the Light and the Darkness, the
Truth and the Falsehood has its roots in an original cosmic
antinomy between the illumined Infinite and the darkened finite
consciousness. Aditi the infinite, the undivided is the mother of
the Gods, Diti or Danu, the division, the separative consciousness
the mother of the Titans; therefore the gods in man move
towards light, infinity and unity, the Titans dwell in their cave of
the darkness and issue from it only to break up, make discordant,
wounded, limited his knowledge, will, strength, joy and being.
Aditi is originally the pure consciousness of infinite existence one
and self-luminous; she is the Light that is Mother of all things.
As the infinite she gives birth to Daksha, the discriminating and
distributing Thought of the divine Mind, and is herself born to
Daksha as the cosmic infinite, the mystic Cow whose udders
feed all the worlds.