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The Guardians of the Light 495
harm their knowledge becomes as if snares wide-spread, for to
him light is a cause of blindness, the divine movement of good
an occasion of evil and a stumbling-block; but the soul of the
Aryan seer passes beyond these dangers like a mare hastening
with a chariot. In the leading of the gods he avoids all stumblings
into evil like so many pitfalls. Aditi, Mitra and Varuna forgive
him whatever sin he may have committed against their vast
oneness, purity, harmony so that he can hope to enjoy the wide
and fearless Light and the long nights shall not come upon him.
That the Vedic gods are no mere physical Nature-powers, but
the psychic conscious forces behind and within all cosmic things,
is made clear enough by the connection between their cosmic
character and this deliverance from sin and falsehood: “Since ye
are they who rule over the world by the power of their mind of
knowledge, thinkers of all that is stable and mobile, therefore,
O gods, carry us beyond the sin of that which we have done and
that which we have not done to the felicity.”
There is always the image of the path and the journey, the
Path of the Truth on which we are led forward by a divine
leading. “O Sons of the Infinite, effect for us the fearless peace,
make us good paths of an easy going to the felicity.” “Easy
of going is your path, O Aryaman, O Mitra, it is thornless, O
Varuna, and perfect.” “They whom the Sons of Infinity lead with
good leadings pass beyond all sin and evil to the felicity.” Always
that goal is the felicity, the wide bliss and peace, the unbroken
Light, the vast Truth, the Immortality. “O ye gods, put far from
us the hostile (dividing) force, give us wide peace for the felicity.”
“The Sons of Infinity give us the imperishable Light.” “Create
the Light, O ye minds of knowledge of our sacrifice.” “That
increasing birth of you we would know today, O sons of the
Infinite, which creates, O Aryaman, even in this world of fear
the beatitude.” For it is the “fearless Light” that is created, where
there is no peril of death, sin, suffering, ignorance, — the light of
the undivided, infinite, immortal, rapturous Soul of things. For
“these are the rapturous lords of Immortality, even Aryaman
and Mitra and Varuna all-pervading.”
Still, it is in the image of Swar, the world of the divine