THE SECRET OF THE VEDA

 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Contents

 

PRE CONTENT

PART ONE

I.

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION

 

XIII

DAWN AND THE TRUTH

II.

A RETROSPECT OF VEDIC     THEORY (1)

 

XIV

THE COW AND THE ANGIRASA LEGEND

iii.

— THE SCHOLARS (2)

 

XV

THE LOST SUN AND THE LOST COWS

III.

 MODERN THEORIES

 

XVI

THE ANGIRASA RISHIS

IV.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY

 

XVII

THE SEVEN-HEADED THOUGHT,    SWAR  ANDTHE DASHAGWAS

V

PHILOLOGICAL METHOD OF THE VEDA

 

XVIII

THE HUMAN FATHERS

VI

AGNI AND THE TRUTH

 

XIX

THE VICTORY OP THE FATHERS

VII

VARUNA-MITRA AND THE TRUTH

 

XX

THE HOUND OF HEAVEN

VIII

THE ASHWINS — INDRA — THE VISHWADEVAS

 

XXI

THE SONS OF DARKNESS

IX

SARASWATI AND HER CONSORTS

 

XXII

THE CONQUEST OVER THE DASYUS

X

THE IMAGE OF THE OCEANS AND THE RIVERS

 

XXIII

SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS

XI

THE SEVEN RIVERS

     

XII

THE HERDS OF THE DAWN

     

 

  PART TWO
SELECTED HYMNS

 

I

THE COLLOQUY OF INDRA AND AGASTYA : I. 170

 

VIII

VAYU, THE MASTER OF THE LIFE ENERGIES : IV. 48

II

INDRA, GIVER OF LIGHT : I. 4

 

IX

BRIHASPATI, POWER OF THE SOUL : IV. 50

III

INDRA AND THE THOUGHT-FORCES : L 171

 

X

THE ASHWINS, LORDS OF Buss: IV. 45 . . . 314

IV

AGNI, THE ILLUMINED WILL : I. 77

 

XI

THE RIBHUS, ARTISANS OF IMMORTALITY : 1.20 . 324

V

SURYA SAVITRI, CREATOR AND INCREASER: V. 81

 

XII

 VISHNU, THE ALL-PERVADING GODHEAD : 1.154 . 331

VI

THE DIVINE DAWN : III.

 

XIII

SOMA, LORD OF DELIGHT AND IMMORTALITY : IX. 83 339

VII

To BHAGA SAVITRI, THE ENJOYER: V. 82

 

 

 

   

PART THREE
HYMNS OF THE ATRIS

 

FOREWORD

 

HYMNS TO AGNI: V

 

Agni, the Divine Will-Force

 

The Fifteenth Hymn to Agni

The First Hymn to Agni

 

The Sixteenth Hymn to Agni

The Second Hymn to Agni

 

The Seventeenth Hymn to Agni

The Third Hymn to Agni

 

The Eighteenth Hymn to Agni

The Fourth Hymn to Agni

 

The Nineteenth Hymn to Agni

The Fifth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twentieth Hymn to Agni

The Sixth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-First Hymn to Agni

The Seventh Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Second Hymn to Agni

The Eighth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Third Hymn to Agni

The Ninth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Fourth Hymn to Agni

The Tenth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Fifth Hymn to Agni

The Eleventh Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Sixth Hymn to Agni

The Twelfth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Seventh Hymn to Agni

The Thirteenth Hymn to Agni

 

The Twenty-Eighth Hymn to Agni

The Fourteenth Hymn to Agni

 

 

 

 

THE GUARDIANS OF THE LIGHT:

 

HYMNS TO THE LORDS OF LIGHT : V

Surya, Light and Seer

 

The First Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

The Divine Dawn

 

The Second Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

Pushan the Increaser

 

The Third Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

Savitri the Creator

 

The Fourth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

The Four Kings

 

The Fifth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

Varuna

 

The Sixth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

Mitra

 

The Seventh Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

Aryaman

 

The Eighth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

Bhaga

 

The Ninth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

 

 

The Tenth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

 

 

The Eleventh Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

     

PART FOUR

 

OTHER HYMNS

 

HYMN IN PRAISE OF INDRA : I. 5

 

A HYMN TO SAVITRI: V. 81 

HYMN TO INDRA: 1.7-11

 

HYMN TO VARUNA (two versions): V. 85

HYMN TO INDRA: VIII. 54 

 

A VEDIC HYMN: VII. 60

HYMN TO INDRA : X. 54

 

THE GOD OF THE MYSTIC WINE : IX. 42,75

A VEDIC HYMN: 1.3

 

A HYMN OF THE THOUGHT-GODS : V. 52-58

FROM A VEDIC HYMN: 1.15

 

INTERPRETATION OF THE VEDA

HYMN TO BRAHMANASPATI: 1.18

 

INTERPRETATION OF THE VEDA

HYMNS TO THE DAWN : V. 79,80

 

THE ORIGINS OF ARYAN SPEECH

 

 

Bibliographic note

 

All references are to the Rig-veda unless otherwise stated.

THE FOURTEENTH HYMN TO AGNI  

A HYMN OF THE FINDER OF LIGHT AND TRUTH

 

[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.

¹This ladle is the constantly lifted movement of man's aspiration towards the Truth and the Godhead. '

²The Titans, dividers of our unity and completeness of being and sons of the Mother of Division, who are powers of the nether cave and the darkness.

³The Herds and the Waters are the two principal images of the Veda; the former are the trooping Rays of the divine Sun, herds of the luminous Consciousness; the waters are the outpouring of the luminous movement and impulse of the divine or supramental existence.

4 Swar, the world of divine solar light to which we have to ascend and which is revealed by the release of the luminous herds from the nether cave and the consequent uprising of the divine Sun.

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  1. 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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