MANDALA SEVEN VASISHTHA MAITRAVARUNI SUKTA 1 Men have brought to birth from the two tinders by the handsʼ fall the Fire voiced by the light of their meditations;¹ Fire that sees afar the flaming master of the house. The Shining Ones² have set within in our dwelling-house closely regarding all to guard us from whatever side — that Fire which in his home sits eternal and all-discerning. Verily shine out in front of us, O Fire, with thy perpetual radiance; to thee continuous come plenitudes. Fires come blazing out supremely from thy Fires

VIRUPA ANGIRASA sukta 43 Him pray our words, even these lauds of Fire, the illumined seer, the creator, invincible in his sacrifice. Such art thou for whom I bring to birth perfect laud and glad is thy response, O seeing Fire, O knower of all things born! Oh, like jets of light thy keen energies of flame devour with their teeth the woods. Bright, with smoke for their flag against heaven, urged by the winds, labour separate thy fires. Page – 342 These are those separate fires of thine that kindled are

VISHWAWARA SUKTA 28 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. 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. O Flame, put forth thy battling might for a vast enjoyment²

DEVAS AND AGNI SAUCHIKA sukta 51 Large was the covering and it was dense in which thou wert wrapped when thou didst enter into the waters; one was the god who saw thee but many and manifold were thy bodies which he saw, O Fire, O knower of all things born. Which of the gods was he who saw everywhere my bodies in many forms ? O Mitra and Varuna, where then dwell all the blazings of the Fire which are paths of the gods ? We desire thee, O Fire, O knower of all things born, when thou hast entered manifoldly into the growths of the earth an

gathina vishwamitra SUKTA 24 O Fire, overpower the hostile armies, hurl them from us; hard to pierce, pierce the enemy-powers, found thy splendour in him who carries through the sacrifice. O Fire, thou art kindled by the word of revelation, the immortal who comes to the offering, accept wholly our pilgrim-sacrifice. O Fire, ever-wakeful with thy light, O son of force, invoked sit on my seat of sacrifice. Page – 147 O Fire, with all thy divine fires greaten in our sacrifi

HAVIRDHANA ANGI sukta 11 Mighty from the mighty, strong and inviolable, he milked by the milking of heaven the streams of the Indivisible; Varuna knew all by his right thought. A lord of sacrifice, may he perform the order of the rites of the sacrifice. May the Gandharvi speak to me and the Woman born from the Waters, may her protection be around my mind midst the roar of the river; may the indivisible mother establish us in the heart of our desire: my brother the greatest¹ and first declares it to me. She the happy, and opulent and glorious, dawn has shone

ISHA SUKTA 7 O comrades, in you an integral force and complete laud to Fire the most powerful among the peoples, to the Page –215 mighty child of energy. Whom wheresoever they come into contact with, him men who have the power rapturously set alight in this house of man and all beings born strive to bring to birth. Whenso we win completely the impulsions of force, completely the offerings human beings must give, then he gathers to himself the Ray of the light and the might and the Truth. Yea, he creates the light of intuition even for one who is far off in the

PRAYASWATS SUKTA 20 Page –232 O Fire, O thou who art most strong to conquer the plenitudes, the wealth which thou boldest in mind that make full of inspiration by the words and set it to work in the gods as our ally. They have grown on thy forceful strength, O Fire, yet impel us not on the way, they fall away and cleave to the hostility, cleave to the crookedness of one who has a law alien to thine. Thee, O Fire, the ancient one, we choose in our sacrifices as the Priest of the call, one who accomplishes a discerning knowledge,

DHARUNA ANGIRASA SUKTA 15 I bring my word to the creator and seer, him whom we must know, the glorious, the ancient one; Fire the Mighty One seated in the light, full of bliss, the holder of the Treasure, the continent of the Riches. By the Truth they held the Truth that holds all, in the might of the sacrifice, in the supreme ether, they who reached the gods seated in the law that is the upholder of heaven, reached by the godheads born the unborn. They weave bodies that reject evil, they weave a vast expansion hard to cross for the ancient one; he new-born can Page –227

VATSAPRI BHALANDANA sukta 45 Above heaven was the first birth of the Fire, over us was his second birth as the knower of all things born, his third birth was in the waters, a god-mind; him continuously one kindles and with oneʼs thought perfectly fixed on him adores. O Fire, we know the triple three of thee, we know thy seats borne widely in many planes, we know thy supreme Name which is in the secrecy, we know that fount of things whence thou camest. He of the god-mind kindled thee in the Ocean, within the Waters, he of the divine vision kind