SUKTA 102
1. Thou, O divine Fire, foundest a vast expansion for the giver, thou art the seer, the youth, the master of the house.
2. Do thou, O Fire of the wide light, who art awake to knowledge, go with our word of prayer and of works and call the gods.
3. With thee indeed as an ally, most strong in thy urge, we overcome for the conquest of the plenitude.
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4. Even as the Flame-Seer, Son of the Wideness, even as the Doer of Works I invoke the pure ocean-dwelling Fire.
5. I call the force which has the sound of the wind and the cry of the rain, the ocean-dwelling Fire.
6. I call like the creation of the Creator-Sun, like the delight of the Lord of Delight, the ocean-dwelling Fire.
7. For the forceful offspring of the pilgrim-sacrifices towards Fire as he grows in his multitudes, —
8. so that he may come to be with us like the Form-Maker coming to the forms he has to carve, us made glorious by his will at work.
9. This Fire travels in the gods towards all glories; may he come to us with the plenitudes.
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10. Laud here the most glorious of priests of the call, the supreme¹ Fire in the sacrifices.
11. The intense Fire with its purifying light who dwells eldest in our homes, shines out as one who hears from afar.
12. Declare him, O illumined sage, as the powerful and conquering war-horse, as the friend who takes man to the goal of his journey.
13. Towards thee come the words of the giver of the offerings marking thee out and stand firm as companions in the might of the wind.
14. Thou whose triple-seat of sacrifice is untied and unconfined and the waters also have established thy abode, —
15. the abode of the bounteous godhead with its inviolate safeties, like a happy regard of the Sun.
¹Or, the ancient
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16. O divine Fire, by our thinkings of the light, burning with thy flame, bring to us the gods and do them sacrifice.
17. The mothers bore thee, the gods brought thee to birth as the seer, the immortal, the carrier of offering, O Angiras.
18. O Fire, O seer, they set thee within as the thinker, the desirable messenger, carrier of the offerings.
19. Mine is not the cow unslayable, I have no axe at hand, so I bring to thee this little that I have.
20. What we place for thee, a few chance logs, them accept, O ever-young Fire.
21. What is eaten by the ant, what the white ant overruns, let all that be to thee as if thy food of light.¹
22. Kindling the Fire let mortal man cleave with his mind to the Thought; by things luminous² I kindle the Fire.
¹ Or, as if clarified butter. ² Or, by the shining ones
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