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496 Hymns of the Atris
Truth that the goal is concretely figured. “Let us reach” is the
aspiration “the Light that is of Swar, the Light which none
can tear asunder.” Swar is the great, inviolable birth of Mitra,
Varuna, Aryaman which is contained in the luminous heavens of
the soul. The all-ruling Kings, because they grow perfectly and
there is no crookedness in them, hold our habitation in heaven.
That is the triple world in which the uplifted consciousness
of man reflects the three divine principles of being, its infinite
existence, its infinite conscious-force, its infinite bliss. 6 “Three
earths they hold, three heavens, three workings of these gods in
the Knowledge within; by the Truth, O Sons of Infinity, great is
that vastness of yours, O Aryaman, O Mitra, O Varuna, great
and beautiful. Three heavenly worlds of light they hold, the
gods golden-shining who are pure and purified in the streams;
sleepless, unconquerable they close not their lids, they express
the wideness to the mortal who is straight.” These all-purifying
streams are those of the rain, the abundance, the rivers of the
heaven of Truth. “Charioted in light are they, aggressive in
knowledge, sinless and they clothe themselves in the rain and
abundance of heaven for the felicity.” By the pouring out of that
abundance they prepare our souls to ascend to its source, the
higher ocean from which the luminous waters descend.
It will be seen how largely the great triad, Varuna, Mitra,
Aryaman figure in the hymns to the All-Gods and to the sons of
the Infinite Mother. With Bhaga as a consummating fourth they
dominate the thought of the Rishis in their culminant aspiration
to the mass and apex of the perfect truth and infinity. This preeminence
they owe to their particular character and functions
which appear, not often indeed with any great prominence, but
as a background to their common action, their united nature
of light, their undifferentiated achievement. For they have one
light, one work, they perfect in us one indivisible Truth; and it
is this union of all the godheads in our consenting universality 7
that is the objective of the Vedic thought in these Aditya hymns.
6 Tridhātu.
7 Vi´svadevyam.