GAYA SUKTA 9 Thee, O Fire, men bringing offerings pray, mortals the godhead; I meditate on thee as the knower of all things born and as such thou earnest our offerings without a break. Page –219 Fire is the priest of the call in the house of the giver who has plucked the grass for the seat of sacrifice and in him our sacrifices meet and our plenitudes of inspired knowledge. Verily, the two tinders have brought to birth as if a new-born infant Fire who does aright the pilgrim-sacrifice, to be the upholder of the human beings. Verily, thou art hard to seize lik

TRYARUNA TRAIVRISHNA, TRASADASYU PAURUKUTSA, ASHWAMEDHA BHARATA SUKTA 27 O Will, O Universal Power,¹ the mighty One supreme in vision, master of his being, lord of his plenitudes has given me his two cows of the Light that draw his wain. He of the triple dawn, son of the triple Bull,² has awakened to knowledge with the ten thousands³ of his plenitude. He gives to me the hundred and twenty4 of the cows of dawn; his two shining5 horses he gives, yoked to the car, that bear aright the yoke. O Will, O Universal Power, do thou rightly affi

GATHIN KAUSHIKA SUKTA 19 Fire I choose the Priest of the call in the sacrifice, the wise, the seer, the omniscient, free from ignorance: he shall do worship for us strong for sacrifice, in the formation of the godheads; for the wealth, for the plenitude he wins all kinds of amassings. ¹ Or, as long as I have the power, Page – 141 O Fire, I mission towards thee a power of giving bearing my oblation, luminous, full of lustres. May he come to the sacrifice with his givings, with his treasures turning round it and widening the formation of the godheads.

SUDITI AND PURUMILHA ANGIRASA SUKTA 71 O Fire, guard us by thy lights¹ from every hostile force and from mortal foe. O beloved in thy birth, mortal wrath has no power over you: thou art master of the nights. So do thou with all the gods, O child of Energy, O happy light, give us the wealth in which are all boons. The hostile forces, O Fire, cannot divorce from the Riches the mortal giver whom thou rescuest. O Fire, O illumined seer, he whom thou in the winning of the purity speedest

BHARADWAJA BARHASPATYA SUKTA 16 O Fire, thou art set here in all as the Priest of the call in the sacrifice, set by the gods in the human being. Offer worship with thy rapturous tongues in the Rite of the Path to the Great Ones. Bring the gods to us, do them sacrifice. O ordainer of works, mighty of will, by thy revealing light¹ in the sacrifice thou knowest the tracks of the gods and their highways. ¹ Or, with thy straight going Page – 276 Now has the Bringer of the Treasure with his horses of swiftness

DEVASHRAVAS, DEVAVATA — BHARATAS SUKTA 23 Churned out and well-established in the house of his session, the Youth, the Seer, the leader of the pilgrim-sacrifice, imperishable in the perishing woodlands, the Fire, the knower of all things born, has founded here immortality. The sons of the Bringer, god-inspired and god-beloved, have churned out Fire of the perfect discernment. O Fire, look widely on us with the vast riches, become the leader of our impulsions throughout the days. The ten who throw the Light have brought to birth all around the Ancie

VIRUPA ANGIRASA SUKTA 75 1. O Fire, yoke like a charioteer the horses most powerful for Page – 365 the calling of the gods; take thy seat, O ancient Priest of the call! 2. And now, since thou hast the knowledge, speak for us towards the gods, make true to our aspiration all desirable things. 3. For thou, O Fire, O most youthful son of force, thou in whom are cast the offerings, art the possessor of the Truth to be worshipped with sacrifice. 4. This Fire is the lord of the hundredfold and thousandfold plenitude, the seer who is the head of the treasu

The Doctrine of the Mystics The Veda possesses the high spiritual substance of the Upanishads, but lacks their phraseology; it is an inspired knowledge as yet insufficiently equipped with intellectual and philosophical terms. We find a language of poets and illuminates to whom all experience is real, vivid, sensible, even concrete, not yet of thinkers and systematisers to whom the realities of the mind and soul have become abstractions. Yet a system, a doctrine there is; but its structure is supple, its terms are concrete, the cast of its thought is practical and experimental, but in the accomplished type of an old and sure experience, not of one that is crude and unc

RISHABHA VAISHWAMITRA SUKTA 13 Sing out some mightiest hymn to this divine Fire; may he come to us with the gods and, strong to sacrifice, sit upon the sacred grass. He is the possessor of the Truth to whom belong earth and heaven and their guardings accompany his mind of discernment; for him the givers of the oblation pray, for him for their protection when they would win the riches. He is the illumined seer and regent of these sacrifices, he and always he; that Fire set to his work who shall win and give the plenitude.

For the thinker becoming man his swift hastening impulsions dark and bright desire freedom; active, rapid, quivering, they are yoked to their works, swift steeds and driven forward by the Breath of things. They for him destroy and speed lightly on¹ creating his dark being of thickness and his mighty form of light; when reaching forward he touches the Vast of Being, he pants towards it and, thundering, cries aloud.² He who when he would become in the tawny ones, bends down and goes to them bellowing as the male to its mates, — putting out his forces he gives