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DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 434. Through me he eats food, who sees,Who breathes, who hears what s spoken ;Not knowing me they stay by me,Hear thou of fame, I tell thee what s not easy to know.worthy of belief.5. It is I myself who declare this truth,Agreeable to gods and men alike ;I make him powerful, whom I love,Him a Brahma (Brahmana), a Rsi, a sage.(Affftr.)to be credited.(Whitney.)6. It s I who bend the bow for Rudra,That his arrow may strike the foe of Brahmana,It s I who fight for my peoples sake,It s I who have entered both heaven and earth.7. I create Father (Dyaus), first on the world s summit, 1My birth-place is in the waters, in the ocean ;Then I into all things existing enter,And touch yonder heaven with my body.8. It s I who blow forth like the wind,Spreading into being all that exist ;Beyond the sky, beyond this earth,So great have I by my glory become.The unity of existence could not be more simplyand emphatically pronounced than in these hymns.When the goddess Vac says in stanza 3,1 This line is difficult to translate quite accurately.The extant translations do not throw any light on it. Whitney too leaves it open to doubt in his Atharva-veda, Trans,and Notes, vol. i., p. 201.