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The Guardians of the Light 499
Bhaga on the other hand is the crown of our movement to
the possession of the hidden divine Truth of our existence; for
the essence of that Truth is beatitude. Bhaga is Savitri himself;
the All-Enjoyer is the Creator fulfilled in the divine purpose of
his creation. Therefore he is the result more than the agent, or
else the last agent of all, the possessor more than the giver of
our spiritual plenitude.
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The hymn of the Rishi Vamadeva to the All-Gods shows with
a clear lucidity the high-aspiring hope which these Vedic deities
were invoked to favour and bring to a happy culmination: —
“Who of you is our deliverer? who our defender? O Earth
and Heaven, free from division, deliver us; rescue, O Mitra, O
Varuna, from the mortality that is too strong for us! Who of you,
O gods, confirms for us the supreme good in the march of the
sacrifice? They who illumine our high original seats, they who
limitless in knowledge dawn out putting away our darkness,
it is they, imperishable all-ordainers, who order them for us;
thinkers out of the Truth, they shine forth in light, achievers.
I seek for my companion by the words illumining the flowing
river Aditi, she who is the divine felicity. O Night and Dawn
unconquerable, so do ye make it that both the Days shall utterly
protect us. Aryaman and Varuna distinguish the Path, and Agni
lord of the impulsion, the path of the happy goal. O Indra and
Vishnu, affirmed, extend to us perfectly the peace in which are
the Powers, the mighty protection. I embrace the increasings of
Parvata and of the Maruts and of Bhaga, our divine deliverer.
May the master of things protect us from the sin of the world
and Mitra keep us far from the sin against Mitra. Now shall one
affirm the goddesses Earth and Heaven with the Dragon of the
foundation by all the things desired that we must obtain; as if to
possess that Ocean by their wide ranging they have uncovered
the (hidden) rivers that are voiceful with the burning Light. May
goddess Aditi with the gods protect us, may the divine Deliverer
deliver us, unremitting; let us not diminish the foundation of