GAUPAYANAS OR LAUPAYANAS SUKTA 24 1-2. O Will, become our inmost inmate, become auspicious to us, become our deliverer and our armour of protection. Thou who art the lord of substance and who of that substance hast the divine knowledge, come towards us, give us its most luminous opulence. 3-4. Awake! hear our call! keep us far from all that seeks to turn us to evil. O shining One, O Flame of purest Light, Page –236 thee for our comrades we desire that even now they may have the bliss and peace. Page –237

VASUSHRUTA SUKTA 3 1. Thou art Varuna, O Fire, when thou art born, thou becomest Mitra when thou blazest high; in thee are all the gods, O son of Force, thou art Indra for the mortal giver. O holder of the self-law, thou becomest Aryaman when thou bearest the secret name of the Virgins; they reveal thee Page –206 with the Rays as Mitra firmly founded when thou makest of one mind the Lord of the house and the Spouse. For the glory of thee, O Rudra, the life-powers make bright thy birth into a richly manifold beauty. When that highest step¹ of Vishnu is founded within, thou gu

TRISHIRAS TWASHTRA sukta 8 The Fire journeys on with his vast ray of intuition, the Bull bellows to earth and heaven; he has reached up to the highest extremities of heaven, the mighty one has grown in the lap of the waters. The Bull of the heights,1 the new-born rejoiced, the unfailing child worker rejoiced and shouted aloud; in the formation of the gods he does his exalted works and comes the first in his own abodes. He who grasps the head of the father and mother they set within in the pilgrim-sacrifice, a sea from the Sun-world; in his path are the shining

SHYAVASHWA ATREYA sukta 38 1. You (two) are the ritual-priests of the sacrifice, conquerors in our plenitudes and our works; to this awake, O Indra, O Fire. 2. O smiters who journey in the chariot, slayers of the coverer, ever unconquered — to this awake, O Indra, O Fire. 3. Men have pressed out for you by the stones this rapturous honey-wine — to this awake, O Indra, O Fire. 4. Take pleasure in the sacrifice, for the sacrifice come to the Soma-wine pressed out, gods to whom rises the common laud, O Ind

MANDALA EIGHT VATSA KANWA sukta 11 O Fire, thou art the guardian of the law of all workings, thou art the divine in mortals; thou art one to be prayed in the sacrifices. O forceful one, it is thou who art to be expressed in the findings of knowledge; O Fire, thou art the charioteer of the pilgrim-sacrifices. So do thou remove away from us the enemies, O knower of all things born, even the undivine and hostile forces, O Fire. Even when it is near, O surely thou

SUPPLEMENT The following notes and studies found among Sri Aurobindoʼs early manuscripts, evidently unrevised, are printed here for their intrinsic value. The First Rik of the Rig-veda Madhuchchhandas Vaishwamitraʼs Hymn to Agni written in the Gayatri metre in which the first verse runs in the devabhāṣā, Agnimīḷe purohitam yajñasya devamṛtvijam, hotāram ratnadhātamam. and in English, “Agni I adore, who stands before the Lord, the god who seeth Truth, the warrior, strong disposer of delight.ˮ So the Rig-veda begins with an invocation to Agni, with the ado

The Next Step THE condition of the poorer classes in this country is a subject which has till now been too much neglected, but can be neglected no longer if the blessing of God is to remain with our movement. The increasing poverty of the masses has been the subject of innumerable pamphlets, speeches and newspaper articles, but we are apt to think our duty done when we have proved that the poverty problem is there; we leave the solution to the future and forget that by the time the solution comes, the masses will have sunk into a condition of decay from which it will take the nation many decades to recover. We have been accustomed to deal only with the economical side of

About Unity OUR esteemed contemporary, the Bengalee, has recently been reading us eloquent sermons on the uses and advantages of unity. We confess we cannot follow our contemporary's argument. We gave utterance to the very obvious and we thought, undeniable sentiment that Unity is a means and not an end in itself. But the Bengalee asserts, and it has now got the strong authority of Mr. Myron Phelps to back it, that unity is an end in itself and not a means, but it seems to us that neither our contemporary nor his authority have anything but their ipse dixit to prove their assertion. We have great respect for Mr. Myron Phelps who is evidently a sincere well-wisher of o

Unity * AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE WHO DESPAIR OF THEIR COUNTRY TO THE sons of our mother Bharat who disclaim their sonhood, to the children of languor and selfishness, to the wooers of safety and ease, to the fathers of despair and death -- greeting. To those who impugning the holiness of their Mother refuse to lift her out of danger lest they defile their own spotless hands, to those who call on her to purify herself before they will save her from the imminent and already descending sword of Death, -- greeting. Lastly to those who love and perhaps have striven for her but having now grown themselves faint and hopeless bid others to despair and cease, -- to

The Situation in East Bengal WHILE commenting on the proceedings of the Berhampur Conference, we expressed our opinion that the leaders had been guilty of the most serious deficiency in statesmanship and courage in failing to understand and meet the situation created by the occurrences in Tipperah. Leadership in this country has hitherto gone with the fluent tongue, the sonorous voice, skill in dialectics and acute adroitness in legal draftsmanship. The leader has not been called upon to understand the great and urgent national needs or to meet the calls of a dangerous crisis. In the opposition-cum- cooperation theory these were functions of the alien Governmen