Essays on the Rig Veda and its mystic symbolism, with translations of selected hymns.
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Essays on the Rig Veda and its mystic symbolism, with translations of selected hymns. These writings on and translations of the Rig Veda were published in the monthly review Arya between 1914 and 1920. Most of them appeared there under three headings: The Secret of the Veda, 'Selected Hymns' and 'Hymns of the Atris'. Other translations that did not appear under any of these headings make up the final part of the volume.
THEME/S
[The Rishi declares Agni as the Priest of the sacrifice, the slayer of the powers of Darkness, the finder of the world of the Sun of Truth, of his radiant herds and of his luminous waters; he is the seer in us who is increased by the clarities of right thought and speech.]
1) Awaken the Flame by the word that affirms him, kindle high the Immortal; let him place our offerings in the godheads.
2) Him in their pilgrim sacrifices mortal men desire and adore, the divine, the immortal, who is strongest for sacrifice in the human creature.
3) Him, the godhead, man's continuous generations adore with the ladle1 dripping with the clarities; the Will they adore that he may bear their offering.
4) Born, the Flame shines out slaying the Destroyers,2 yea, he smites the Darkness with the Light and he finds the shining Herds3 and those Waters and the luminous world.4
5) The Will serve and seek, the object of our adoration, the Seer with his surface of the clarities; may he come, may he hearken to my call.
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6) The Will men increase by the offering of their clarities, they increase the universal doer of their works by their hymns of affirmation which place aright the thought, which find the revealing word.
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