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HYMN TO INDRA

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[Hymn of Brihaduktha Vamadevya to Indra, Master of Mental Force, when he exceeded Mind and entered Mahas, yet maintained the lower firmaments, — realising his unity with Sah the supreme Purusha.]

1. When thou hadst given wholly the fullness of the ideal to thy fame, O Maghavan of the fullness, when both the firmaments cried to thee in their terror, thou didst protect the gods, thou didst transfix the Enemy, by teaching the strength of the Spirit, O Indra, even for this creation.

2. When thou didst range abroad increasing in thy force of substance and progressing strength to the people, that force was sufficient for thy battles of which they tell, but for thee, thou knowest today no enemy nor before thou knewest.

3. Who were the sages before us that came to the end of thy greatness equal-souled ? Didst thou not give being to thy father and thy mother together out of thine own body?

4. Four, verily, are thy untameable mightinesses when thou

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dwellest in the Vastness; all of them thou knowest and by them thou hast done thy works, O Maghavan.

5. Thou boldest all these that are absolute existences, thou makest known the objects that are hidden in the Secret Places of Being; smite not asunder my desire, O Maghavan, thou art he that commands it and thou art he that giveth.

6. He who placed light in the heart of other light and joined sweetnesses to sweetness, to-that Indra this love, this force, this thought was spoken from Brihaduktha when he fulfilled in himself the Brahman.

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