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The Guardians of the Light 483
of our forefathers in a long bygone age of humanity when the
dawns succeeded each other without the intervention of any
night, when they came to the Sun as to a lover and circled round
him, not returning again and again in his front as a precursor of
his periodical visitations. That shall be when the supramental
consciousness shines out fulfilled in the mentality and we shall
possess the year-long day enjoyed by the gods on the summit of
the eternal mountain. Then shall be the dawning of the “best” or
highest, most glorious Dawn, when “driving away the Enemy,
guardian of the Truth, born in the Truth, full of the bliss, uttering
the highest truths, fulfilled in all boons she brings the birth and
manifestation of the godheads.” Meanwhile each dawn comes
as the first of a long succession that shall follow and pursues the
path and goal of those that have already gone forward; each in
her coming impels the life upwards and awakens in us “someone
who was dead”. “Mother of the gods, force of the Infinite, the
vast vision that awakes from the sacrifice she creates expression
for the thought of the soul” and gives us the universal birth in
all that is born.
The Vedic Rishis, inspired poets penetrated with the beauty
and glory of physical Nature, could not fail to make the most of
the figures given to them by this splendid and attractive symbol
of the earthly dawning, so that if we read carelessly or with
too much attachment to the poetical figure we may miss or
repel their deeper meaning. But in no hymn to their beautiful
goddess do they forget to give us shining hints, illuminating
epithets, profound mystical phrases which shall recall us to the
divine sense of the symbol. Especially do they use that figure
of the rays that are herds of shining cows around which they
have woven the mystic parable of the Angiras Rishis. Dawn
is invoked to shine out on us as when she shone upon the
seven-mouthed Angiras, on the unity of the nine-rayed and the
ten-rayed seers who by the utter thought of the soul, by the
word that illumines broke open the fortified pens, “pens of the
darkness” in which the Panis, misers and traffickers of the Night,
had shut up the Sun’s radiant herds. Her rays are as loosings
forth of these shining ones; the Dawns themselves are as if the