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

GRITSAMADA BHARGAVA SUKTA 8 As if to replenish³ him chant now the chariots of Fire and his yokings, Fire the lavish and glorious Godhead. He brings his perfect leading to the man who has given; he is invulnerable and wears out with wounds the foe. Fair is the front of him fed with the offerings. He is voiced in his glory and beauty at dusk and dawn in our homes. Never impaired is the law of his working. ³ Or, as one seeking for plenitude Page – 97 He shines rich with diverse lustres like the heavens of the Sun1 in his illumining splendour, shines wide with

kata vaishwamitra SUKTA 17 He is kindled and blazes out according to the first and supreme laws and is united with the Rays, he in whom are all desirable things. Fire with his tresses of flame and his raiment of light, the purifier, perfect in sacrifice, for sacrifice to the gods. O Fire, as thou hast accomplished in sacrifice thy priesthood for the earth, awaking to knowledge, O knower of the births, as thou hast accomplished it for heaven¹ so with this oblation do sacrifice to the gods, carry yet further beyond the sacrifice with the human being today. Three are thy

BHARGA PRAGATHA sukta 60 Page – 352 Come, O Fire, with thy fires, we choose thee as the Priest of the call, may the ladles extended, full of the offering anoint thee, strongest for sacrifice when thou sittest on the sacrificial seat. For, towards thee, O Son of force, O Angiras, the ladles move in the rite of the path; we seek the child of Energy with his hair of light, the supreme fire in the sacrifices. O Fire, thou art the seer and the ordainer, the Priest of the call, the purifier to whom must be given sacrifice, rapturous, strong for sacrifice, one to be p