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474 Hymns of the Atris
It is this divine daughter of Daksha who is the mother of
the gods. In the cosmos Aditi is the undivided infinite unity of
things, free from the duality, advaya, and has Diti the separative
dualising consciousness for the obverse side of her cosmic
creation, — her sister and a rival wife in the later myth. Here in
the lower being where she is manifested as the earth-principle,
her husband is the lower or inauspicious Father who is slain
by their child Indra, the power of the divine Mind manifested
in the inferior creation. Indra, says the hymn, slays his father,
dragging him by the feet, and makes his mother a widow. In
another image, forcible and expressive though repugnant to the
decorousness of our modern taste, Surya is said to be the lover
of his sister Dawn and the second husband of his mother Aditi,
and by a variation of the same image Aditi is hymned as the
wife of the all-pervading Vishnu who is in the cosmic creation
one of the sons of Aditi and the younger brother of Indra. These
images which seem gross and confused when we lack the key to
their mystic significance, become clear enough the moment that
is recovered. Aditi is the infinite consciousness in the cosmos
espoused and held by the lower creative power which works
through the limited mind and body, but delivered from this
subjection by the force of the divine or illumined Mind born
of her in the mentality of man. It is this Indra who makes Surya
the light of the Truth rise in heaven and dispel the darknesses
and falsehoods and limited vision of the separative mentality.
Vishnu is the vaster all-pervading existence which then takes
possession of our liberated and unified consciousness, but he is
born in us only after Indra has made his puissant and luminous
appearance.
This Truth is the light, the body of Surya. It is described
as the True, the Right, the Vast; as the luminous supramental
heaven of Swar — “vast Swar, the great Truth” — concealed beyond
our heaven and our earth; and as Surya, the Sun, “that
Truth” which dwells lost in the darkness, withheld from us in
the secret cave of the subconscient. This hidden Truth is the
Vast because it dwells free and manifest only on the supramental
plane where existence, will, knowledge, joy move in a rapturous