NODHAS GAUTAMA
SUKTA
59
A HYMN OF THE UNIVERSAL DIVINE FORCE AND WILL
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Other flames are only branches of thy
stock, O Fire. All the immortals take in thee their rapturous joy. O universal
Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their inhabitants; all men
born thou controllest and supportest like a pillar.
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The Flame is the head of heaven and the
navel of the earth and he is the power that moves at work in the two worlds. O Vaishwanara, the gods brought thee to birth a god to be a light to Aryan man.
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As the firm rays sit steadfast in the
Sun, all treasures have been placed in the universal godhead and flame. King art
thou of all the riches that are in the growths of the earth and the hills and
the waters and all the riches that are in men.
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Heaven and Earth grow as if vaster worlds
to the Son. He is the priest of our sacrifice and sings our words even as might
a man of discerning skill. To Vaishwanara, for this most strong god who brings
with him the light of the
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sun-world, its many mighty waters because
his strength is of the truth.
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O universal godhead, O knower of all
things born, thy excess of greatness overflows even the Great Heaven. Thou art
the king of the toiling human peoples and by battle, madest the supreme good for
the gods.
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This is the universal godhead who by his
greatness labours in all the peoples, the lustrous master of sacrifice, the
Flame with his hundred treasures. This is he who has the word of the Truth.
PARASHARA
SHAKTYA
SUKTA
65
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He hides himself like a thief with the
cow of vision in the secret cavern, he takes to himself our adoration, and
thither he carries it.¹
The thinkers take a common joy in him, they follow him by his footprints; all
the Masters of sacrifice come to thee, O Flame, in the secrecy.
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The Gods follow after him the law of the
workings of Truth. He stands encompassing all as heaven the earth. The Waters
1 Or better, he takes to himself our surrender, he
carries with him our surrender.
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