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480 Hymns of the Atris
godhead who is the vision of Mitra and Varuna; he is the large
and invincible eye of that Wideness and that Harmony; the eye
of Mitra and Varuna is the great ocean of vision of Surya. His
is that large truth-vision which makes us give to its possessors
the name of seer. Himself the “wide-seeing”, “the Sun, the Seer
who knows the triple knowledge of these gods and their more
eternal births”, he sees all that is in the gods and all that is in
men; “beholding the straight things and the crooked in mortals
he looks down upon their movements.” It is by this eye of light
that Indra, who has made him arise in heaven for far vision,
distinguishes the Aryan powers from the Dasyu, separating the
children of light from the children of darkness so that he may
destroy these but raise those to their perfection.
But seerhood brings with it not only the far vision but the
far hearing. As the eyes of the sage are opened to the light,
so is his ear unsealed to receive the vibrations of the Infinite;
from all the regions of the Truth there comes thrilling into him
its Word which becomes the form of his thoughts. It is when
“the thought rises from the seat of the Truth” that Surya by
his rays releases into the wideness the mystic Cow of Light.
Surya himself is not only “the son of Heaven who is the farseeing
eye of knowledge born of the gods”, but he is the speaker
also of the supreme word and the impeller of the illumined
and illuminating thought. “The truth that thou rising free from
sin, O Sun, speakest today to Mitra and Varuna, that may we
speak and abide in the Godhead dear to thee, O Aditi, and thee,
O Aryaman.” And in the Gayatri, the chosen formula of the
ancient Vedic religion, the supreme light of the godhead Surya
Savitri is invoked as the object of our desire, the deity who shall
give his luminous impulsion to all our thoughts.
Surya Savitri, the Creator; for the seer and the creator meet
again in this apotheosis of the divine vision in man. The victory
of that vision, the arising of this Light to “its own home of the
truth”, the outflooding of this great ocean of vision of Surya
which is the eye of the infinite Wideness and the infinite Harmony,
is in fact nothing else than the second or divine creation.
For then Surya in us beholds with a comprehensive vision all the