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The Guardians of the Light 487
in front; let him drive back to us that which we have lost.” So
also he brings back the lost Surya. “O shining Pushan, bring to
us, as if our lost herd, the God of the varied fullness of flame
who upholds our heavens. Pushan finds the shining King who
was hidden from us and concealed in the cave.” And we are
told of the luminous goad which this resplendent deity bears,
the goad that urges the thoughts of the soul and is the means of
accomplishment of the herd of the radiant illuminations. What
he gives to us is secure; for because he has the knowledge, he loses
not the herd and is the guardian of the world of our becoming.
He has the variously ordaining and comprehensive no less than
the complete unified vision of all our worlds and therefore he is
our fosterer and increaser. He is the lord of our felicity who loses
not our possession of knowledge and so long as we abide in the
law of his workings we shall suffer no hurt nor diminution. The
happy state of the soul that he gives removes from it all sin and
evil and makes today and makes tomorrow for the building up
of the whole godhead in our universal being.
Since Surya is the lord of the Knowledge, Pushan also is
especially the knower and thinker and guardian of the shining
thoughts of the seer — the keeper of the herds delighting in the
thought who is immanent in the whole world and all-pervading
fosters all the forms of creative knowledge. It is this Increaser
who stirs and impels the minds of the illumined and is the
means of accomplishment and perfection of their thoughts; he
is the seer set in man the thinker, the comrade of his illumined
mind who moves him upon the path. He manifests in us the
thought which wins the Cow and the Horse and all the plenitude
of the wealth. He is the friend of every thinker; he cherishes
the thought in its increase as a lover cherishes his bride. The
thoughts that seek the supreme felicity are the forces that the
Increaser yokes to his car, they are the “unborn ones” 1 who take
upon them the yoke of his chariot.
1 The word has the double meaning of goat and unborn. The words meaning sheep
and goat are used with a covert sense in the Veda like that which means cow. Indra is
called both the Ram and the Bull.