NO.1.   The Life Divine   BOOK I THE AFFIRMATIONS OF VEDANTA         She follows to the goal of those that arc passing on beyond, she is the firsts in the eternal succession of the dawns that are coming,— Usher widens bringing out that which lives, awakening someone who was dead...What is her scope when she harmonies with the dawns that shone out before and those that now must shine ? She desires the ancient mornings and fulfils their light ; projecting forwards her illumination she enters into communion with the rest that are to come. Kitsap Angoras. Rig Veda. CHAPTER I THE HUMAN ASPIRATION        Threefold are those su

No. 12 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER XII DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE: THE SOLUTION.     The name of That is the Delight; as the Delight we must worship and seek after It. Kena Upanishad.     In this conception of an inalienable underlying delight of existence of which all outward or surface sensations are a positive, negative or neutral play, waves and foaming of that infinite deep, we arrive at the true solution of the problem we are examining. The self of things is an infinite indivisible existence; of that existence the essential nature or power is an infinite imperishable force of self-conscious being ; and of that self-consciousness the essential natur

NO.8    THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER VIII THE METHODS OF VEDANTIC KNOWLEDGE.     This secret Self in all beings is not apparent, but it is seen by means of the supreme reason, the subtle, by those who have the subtle vision. Katha Upanishad     But what then is the working of this Sachchidananda in the world and by what process of things are the relations between itself and the ego which figures it first formed, then led to their consummation ? For on those relations and on the process they follow depend the whole philosophy and practice of a divine life for man.     We arrive at the conception and at the knowledge of a divine existence by exceeding the ev

AGNI PAVAKA sukta 140 O Fire, thy inspiration and thy growth and thy lights blaze in their greatness, O thou who shinest out with thy lustres; O great luminousness, O seer, thou foundest by thy strength for the giver a plenitude of utterance. Purifying is thy flaming energy, bright is thy energy, indeficient is thy energy as thou ascendest with thy light — a son thou rangest and protectest the Parents and thou joinest together earth and heaven. O son of energy, O knower of all things born, well-founded rejoice in our perfect utterances a

VASUYUS SUKTA 25 Raise thy song towards the Will, towards the divine for thy increasing, for he is our lord of substance and he lavishes; he is the son of the seekers of knowledge; he is the keeper of the Truth who ferries us beyond the surge of our destroyers. This is the true in his being whom the seers of old kindled, yea, the gods too kindled him with perfect outshinings into his wide substance of the light, the Priest of the oblation with his tongue of ecstasy. O Flame supremely desirable, so by our supreme thinking, by our brightest perfected mentality, by its utter cleaving away of all evi

A Great God has been Released TRANSLATION AND EXPLANATION : V. 1* Agni by the fuel heaped by the peoples has awakened towards the coming Dawn as towards the sun-cow coming; like the waters spouting up for wide flowing, his flames move towards the heaven. The Priest of the offering awoke for sacrifice to the gods, Agni stood up high in the dawn and perfect-minded; the gathered force of him was seen reddening when he was entirely kindled; a great god has been released out of the darkness. When so he has put forth the tongue of his multitude, pure is the activity of Agni with the pure herd of his rays; the

UTKILA KATYA SUKTA 15 Flaming out in a wide mass of strength press back the hostile powers that hurt and afflict. May I abide in the bliss of the all-blissful Vast, in the leading of the Fire who is swift to our call. Thou in the dawning of this dawn, thou when the Sun has arisen wake for us and be our protector. Take pleasure in the Son as if in an eternal birth. Accept my affirmation of thee, O Fire, perfectly born in thy body. Thou art the male with the divine vision, in the wake of many dawns shine out luminous in the black nights, O Fire. O prince of the riches, lead a

DYUMNA VISHWACHARSHANI SUKTA 23 O Fire, bring by the force of the light a forceful wealth which shall overcome by thy mouth in the plenitudes all the peoples. O forceful Fire, bring that wealth which overcomes armies, Page –235 for thou art the true, the wonderful, the giver of the plenitude of the Ray-Cows. All men who have plucked the sacred grass with one mind of acceptance approach thee, the beloved Priest of the call in their houses and reach in thee the multitude of desirable things. This is the labourer in all manʼs works and he h

Riks of Madhuchchhandas TRANSLATION AND NOTES : I.1.1-5 Agnimīḷe purohitam yajṇ̃asya devamṛtvijam, hotāram ratnadhātamam. Rik 1. ईळे (īḷe): to praise, in the ritualistic sense; but as a secondary root of ई (i) ईळ् (īḷ) meant to seek, go towards, attain, desire, adore, pray, ask for (cf. मातरमन्न्मैट्ट, mataramannamaiṭṭa, III. 48. 3). The former senses have been lost and only “to desireˮ, “prayˮ or “ask forˮ are left in later Sanskrit; but the other senses must have existed, as the idea of desiring, asking is never a primary sense of any root, but derived figuratively from the physical sense “to go, seek,

VATSA AGNEYA sukta 187 1. Send forth the word to the Fire, the bull of the worlds,² may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. 2. He who shines beyond the desert across the supreme Beyond, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. 3. He who destroys the Rakshasas, the bull with the brilliant ¹ Or, in the lap of the mother. ² Or, of the peoples, Page – 434 light, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. 4. He who looks upon all the worlds