SUKTA 28
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The Flame of Will burning high rises to his pure light in the heaven of mind; wide he extends his illumination and fronts the Dawn. She comes, moving upward, laden with all desirable things, seeking the gods with the oblation, luminous with the clarity.
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When thou bumest high thou art king of immortality and thou cleavest to the doer of sacrifice to give him that blissful state; he to whom thou comest to be his guest, holds in himself all substance and he sets thee within in his front.
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O Flame, put forth thy battling might for a vast enjoyment² of bliss, may there be thy highest illumination; create a well-governed union of the Lord and his Spouse, set thy foot
¹ Perfect and vast energy in the vital being corresponding to the infinite and immortal light of the Truth in the mental being.
² The Vedic immortality is a vast beatitude, a large enjoyment of the divine and infinite existence reposing on a perfect union between the Soul and Nature; the soul becomes King of itself and its environment, conscious on all its planes, master of them, with Nature for its bride delivered from divisions and discords into an infinite and luminous harmony.
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on the greatness of hostile powers.
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I adore, O Flame, the glory of thy high-blazing mightiness. Thou art the Bull with the illuminations; thou burnest up in the march of our sacrifices.
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O Flame that receivest our offerings, perfect guide of the sacrifice, high-kindled offer our oblation to the godheads; for thou art the bearer of our offerings.
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Cast the offering, serve the Will with your works¹ while your sacrifice moves forward to its goal, accept the carrier of our
oblation.
¹ Or, set the Will to its workings
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