THE FOURTH HYMN TO MITRA-VARUNA

V.65

THE LORDS OF THE JOURNEY

[The Rishi invokes the two great increasers of the truth in our being to lead us in our journey to the plenitudes, to the vastness of our true existence which they conquer for us out of the narrow limits of our present ignorant and imperfect mentality.]

1. He who has awakened to the knowledge, becomes perfect in will; let him speak for us among the gods: Varuna of the vision and Mitra take delight in his words.

2. They are the Kings most glorious in light and most far in their hearing;¹ they are the masters of being in creature and creature and the increasers of the Truth in us, for the Truth is theirs.

3. Travelling on the path I call to them, the twain together, the ancient and first; with perfect steeds² as we travel we call to them, the perfect in knowledge, for the giving of the plenitudes.

¹They have the divine sight and the divine hearing, the Light and the Word.

²As usual, the symbol of the dynamic energies, life-powers, etc., by which our will and works and aspiration proceed.

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4. Even out of our narrow existence Mitra conquers for us the vastness, he conquers the path to our home; for the perfect mind¹ is of Mitra when he harmonises all and hastens forward through to the goal.

5. May we abide in the increasing of Mitra which gives us our perfect breadth; then are we free from hurt and sin, fostered by thee, children of the Lord of Wideness.

6. You twain, O Mitra, set this human creature travelling on your path and wholly you lead him. Set not your hedge around our lords of plenitude and our seers of the truth. Guard us in our drinking of the light.²

¹Amhoḥ, the narrowness full of suffering and evil, is the unenlightened state of our limited mentality; the perfect mentality, sumati, given by the grace of Mitra admits us to the wideness.

²Go, the Light or the Cow, meaning here the "milk" or yield of the Mother of Light.

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