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The Guardians of the Light 513
the soul; it is the bliss of Mitra and Varuna that has to increase
in us. By their law that vast plane of our consciousness shines
out upon us and heaven and earth are the two paths of their
journey. For Aditi of the Truth, their mother, has borne them
omniscient and great for almightiness; and it is luminous Aditi,
the undivided being, whom they, wakeful from day to day, cleave
to, she who holds for us our habitations in that world of light
and they attain to its luminous forcefulness. They are the two
Sons perfect in their birth from of old who support the law of
our action; children are they of a vast luminous power, offspring
of the divine discerning thought and perfect in will. They are the
guardians of Truth, possessed of its law in the supreme ether.
Swar is their golden home and birth-place.
Mitra and Varuna have an unwounded vision and are better
knowers of the Path than our sight; for in the Knowledge they
are seers of Swar. They take by the passion of their discerning
thought the concealing falsehood away from the Truth to which
the path has to lead. They proclaim the vast Truth of which
they are possessed. It is because they possess it and with it the
perfection of the will which is its effect, that they are seated in
us for empire and uphold our action as the masters of might.
By Truth they come to the Truth, nourishing in their lordship of
things our thoughts, and in their purified judgment they open
the eye of consciousness to all wisdom by the perception in men.
Thus all-seeing and all-knowing they by the law, by the Maya
of the mighty Lord, guard our actions, even as they govern the
whole world in the power of the Truth. That Maya is established
in the heavens, it ranges there as a Sun of light; it is their rich and
wonderful weapon. They are far-hearers, masters of true being,
true themselves and increasers of truth in each human creature.
They nourish the shining herds and loose forth the abundance
of heaven; they make heaven to rain down by the Maya of the
Mighty Lord. And that celestial rain is the wealth of the spiritual
felicity which the seers desire; it is the immortality. 9
9 Vr.s.t.i ˙m vā ˙m rādho amr.tatvam īmahe.