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7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From<o:p></o:p></p>

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7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sanskrit<o:p></o:p></p>

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7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Bengali<o:p></o:p></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i><u><font size="4">Sanskrit</font><o:p></o:p></u></i></b></p>

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<font size="4">&nbsp;</font></o:p></i></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">HYMN TO DAWN</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rishi
<span class=SpellE>Kutsa</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda –
Mandala 1, Sukta 113)<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lo, the supreme
Light of lights is come:<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>a</span>
varied knowledge is born in front spreading far and wide.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She is born to
give birth to the Sun,<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>even</span> so Night opens her womb for the
Dawn. [1]</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With her reddening child, the white Mother comes blushing</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>red</span>: the dark Mother flings open her
dark chambers.<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Both have the same
Comrade, both are immortals, they<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>follow</span> each other, as they move measuring
out earth<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>and</span> heaven and the hue beyond. [2]</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They have the same path, the two sisters, the eternal Path</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>which</span>
they follow one after the other as ordained by the Supreme:</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They do not mingle, nor do they halt, the perfect Progenitors;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Night and Dawn unlike in
form are like in mind. [3]</p>
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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The shining One, the
Leader, she awakens the right<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>movements</span>: she opens wide for us many a variegated door.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She moves the creation <span class=GramE>forward,</span>
she discloses for us felicity;<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dawn
manifests here all the worlds. [4]</p>
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none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>He who lies crooked, him
you impel to walk straight,<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O
Goddess of Plenty: you are there for our wide<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>enjoyment</span>, for our right impulsion, for our felicity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;'>Page – 129<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He who sees small, for him you saw vastly,<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dawn manifests here all the worlds.
[5]<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You are for warrior strength, you are for the mighty<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>impulsion</span>, you are the Purpose of our <span class=SpellE>travelling</span>:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dawn fronts all creatures of all varieties,<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>she</span> manifests here all the worlds. [6]<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Behold, the Daughter of Heaven
appears in front,<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span> young damsel rises clothed in
white:<o:p></o:p></p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She is the Ruler of the
universe, Ruler of all earthly treasure: </p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Dawn, O
Perfect Delight, appear here today. [7]</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She follows the path of those
that are passing away,</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>she</span> is the first in the eternal
series that is coming.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She rises and impels the soul upward,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dawn
awakens someone who lay dead. [8]</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Dawn, you set the Fire to be perfectly kindled,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>through</span> the eye of the Sun, you manifest all:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You awaken mankind to 
perform the Sacrifice</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>all</span>
this happy work you accomplish for the sake of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>the gods. [9]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Since when has she been coming
nearer unto us?</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>when</span> did she rise in the past, since when has she been
rising now in the present?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She desires and follows after
those that are gone,</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>she</span> sets her thought forward and unites herself with the
others. [10]</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Earlier mortals who saw the
rising Dawn have departed;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>now</span> she appears before our eyes;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And they who shall see in other
dawns</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>are</span> yet to come. [11]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You disperse the enemies, you
foster the truth, <span class=GramE>you</span> are born</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>of</span> the truth, you are made of felicity, you impel the right
movements.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You are the supreme <span
class=GramE>Good,</span> you bear in you what the gods<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span class=GramE>desire</span>. O Dawn, appear here today
at your best and highest. [12]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess Dawn appeared always of yore:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>even</span> so, O Queen of Plenty, manifest all this here today.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And may she appear also in days to
come:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>ageless</span> and deathless she moves in her self-law. [13]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She shines with her <span
class=SpellE>gleamings</span> in the spaces of heaven, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>the</span> Goddess has discarded her dark robes.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Awakening all, Dawn comes with rosy
steeds</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>well-yoked</span> to her chariot. [14]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She is the Fosterer, she brings
desirable things:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>and</span> as she
awakes, she creates a varied knowledge.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'>The image of those that are passing endlessly,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span> 
first of those that are manifest, Dawn rises wide refulgent. [15]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Climb high, O soul; strength is come to us,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Darkness
has fled; behold, the Light approaches. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She has opened the path for the passage of the Sun:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
We go there where life is carried ever forward. [16]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The flame-bearers, the adorers sing to the rising Dawn,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>they</span> utter
the right-minded word.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Appear this day, O Goddess of Plenty, to him who expresses</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>Thee</span>, in me illumine a life rich with its fruitfulness. [17]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Dawns appear, luminous and omnipotent,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>for</span> the sake of the mortal who makes the offering.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Even like the God of Life, they bestow as the right
impulsions break forth, life's energies;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>and</span> 
these he enjoys who has the immortal drink purified. [18]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">O Mother of the gods, the very Army of Aditi, the flaming</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>knowledge</span> of sacrifice, shine forth in thy vastness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page-131</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">O Creator of the perfect expression, <span class=GramE>manifest</span>
yourself in us for the sake of the supreme word:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O All-desirable, bring us to birth
in the birth. [19]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The varied work which Dawns bring forward for him who
accomplishes the sacrifice,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>who</span> gives
the perfect expression- that is the Supreme Good,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">That may Mitra and Varuna, and Aditi, and the waters and
Earth and Heaven protect for us. [20]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>HYMN TO THE SUN<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rishi Dirghatama</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala
I, Sukta 164)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This is the delightful ancient One.
He is the Summoner. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Next to him is the second brother: he is the Devourer.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The third
brother is the one with blazing front: here I saw the Lord of the Universe with
his seven sons. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Seven yoke the chariot that has
one single wheel: the Horse with seven names draws it.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Wheel
has three naves. It is <span class=SpellE>unaging</span> and irresistible.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">All the worlds repose upon it. [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seven are they who drive the <span
class=GramE>chariot,</span> seven are he horses that draw the chariot with
seven wheels. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seven are the sisters who together
move there where the herds with seven names are pent in. [3]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who has been the First One taking
birth: boneless himself he <span class=SpellE>upbears</span> that with bones.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who was the Energy, the Blood, <span
class=GramE>the</span> Soul of this earth? And did any one ever approach the wise
with the question? [4]<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am young,
therefore do I ask: with my mind I am unable to know of those secreted seats of
the Gods.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Upon
the moving seat the Seers spread out the seven threads as warp and woof. [5]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have not the
consciousness, so do I ask here of the seers who have the consciousness: not
having the knowledge I ask for the knowledge.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Some one who is
one and single has transfixed these six worlds as forms of the Unborn. [6]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Here
let him speak who knows of the secret step of this delightful one in his wide
winging.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>From
his head the white herds draw sweet milk: they put on a covering and drink
water by their feet. [7]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the Truth the
Mother adores the Father: from the very beginning she has been united with him
in consciousness and thought.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She quivered,
her womb charged with streaming delight: they that carried their obeisances
approached and found the Word. [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Mother was
united to the yoke by the right side: the embryo lay within all that was
crooked.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The child
lowed after its mother and saw her as the world form in the three expanses.
[9]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Three are the
mothers, three the fathers, upborne by <span class=GramE>One</span> standing
above: they do not tire him down.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There, in that
heaven, they utter the word which has the knowledge of the universe, which the
universe cannot encompass. [10]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The wheel of
Truth with its twelve spokes rolls on round the heaven and decays not.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Agni, here the
sons stay in pairs, seven hundred and twenty in number. [11]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The father who
has five feet and twelve forms, they say, is on the higher hemisphere and he is
delight itself.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And there are those who say that
one with clear vision is placed high above upon the seven wheels and six
spokes. [12]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All the worlds repose upon that
wheel rolling on with its five spokes.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It axle is
never over-strained, in spite of the heavy load, it never wears out in the
course of eternity, fixed on its nave. [13]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The ringed wheel rolls on
undecaying: the ten are yoked and they carry it upward.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lo! <span class=GramE>there</span>
comes the sun's eye, encircled by the spaces. All the worlds are placed in
there<span class=GramE>.[</span>14]<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sevenfold are
they, born together: the seventh is born of the one, they say, and these six
are seers and gods.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Their movements
are fixed according to the status: they move out in varied forms for the sake
of him who upholds them. [15]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Women are they
and they are also men, it is said. He who has eyes is able to see, one blind
does not know.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Son, the
seer, is aware of it; and he who knows is the father of the father. [16]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The mother cow holds the hind legs
of her calf by her fore legs and its fore legs with her hind legs and moves
upward.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Whither, to
which hemisphere, she is stepping across? Where does she give birth to the
child? Not indeed in the midst of the herds. [17]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He, indeed, integrally knows the
Father who knows the lower by the higher and the higher by the lower.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who has the poet's vision to tell
us where does the Divine Mind take birth? [18]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They that turn
downward are said to turn upward and they that turn upward are said to turn
downward.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indra and thou,
O Soma, both together have done deeds that upbear the luminous worlds as though
joined to the yoke. [19]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The birds with wings of beauty
united together and as comrades cling to the same tree.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One of them eats
of the sweet fruit; the other does not eat and looks about. [20]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There, where the
birds with wings of beauty, in perfect knowledge, sing of their share in
immortality.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Lord and Protector of all the
worlds, the Supreme Intelligence, enters into one young and ignorant as I am.
[21]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Upon the tree
dwell the birds of beautiful wings who eat of honey; from there they made the
creation upon earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And on its top,
there is the sweetest fruit, they say; none can reach it who knows not the
father. [22]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Upon Gayatra is set the Gayatra,
the Tristubha is carved upon Tristubha.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And that which is called Jagat, is
set upon Jagat; they who know this attain immortality. [23]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The luminous
verse is fashioned after the rhythm of Gayatra and with the verse is fashioned
the chant of Soma and the Word with the rhythm of Tristubha.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Word is
fashioned with the Word, the Word has a two-fold and a four-fold stepping and
the seven vocables are fashioned with the syllable. [24]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With Jagat the Stream was
established firm in the Heaven; with Rathantara the Sun is seen all around up
above.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The rhythm of Gayatra, they say,
has a three-fold kindling; hence it goes farther beyond in its mighty
greatness. [25]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That giver of
milk, her I called here who yields milk readily: she is milked by a hand
skilled in milking.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May the creator
create for me the very best creation; the heat blazes; towards that I utter my
words. [26]<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Professor of all
wealth, she yearns with her mind and heart after her child: lo, she comes
uttering her cry.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Inviolable may
she yield the drink for the twin riders. May she grow and increase for the sake
of the vast felicity. [27]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The mother
answered back to her child that was gazing at her; she cried aloud, as though
to measure its head.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She desires after its foaming
mouth; she shapes its form giving it to drink all her milk. [28]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There he is who
cries out encompassing the white mother, he fashions the form seated secure
above all disruption.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She builds up
the mortal from within with her modes of consciousness. She has become the
lightning and has shaken off her covering. [29]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The living one
breathes and moves fast when it lies at rest: when it races along it holds
itself firm within its station.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The soul in the
mortal moves by its self-law; the immortal springs from the same source as the
mortals. [30]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I saw him who protects, who never
stumbles, <span class=GramE>who</span> moves by paths here below and beyond.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He is with all, he is around all, <span
class=GramE>he</span> circles under cover, within all the worlds. [31]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He who has created this does not
know it and he who has seen it is hidden away from it.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He is enclosed
within the womb of the Mother: he produced the many and entered into untruth.
[32]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Heaven is my
father who created me: here is my central cord: the Mother, this vast Earth,
binds me down.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The twin vessels
are turned upward; within there the Lord ordained the birth of the daughter.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>[33]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I ask you of the
farthest end of the earth; I ask you where lies the nave of this world.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I ask you of the
energy that the Horse rains down; I ask you of the supreme status of the world.
[34]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This altar is
the farthest end of the earth; this sacrifice is the nave of the world.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This Soma (the
immortal drink) is the energy that the Horse rains down; and Brahman is the
supreme status of the world. [35]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The seven
half-embryos are the energising sap of the world. As the infinite Lord ordained,
they became the varied laws.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They are the
knowers and with their intelligence and thought they encircle all around and
they take from everywhere. [36]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I do not know
what this is that I am, I am bound deep within and I roam about with my mind.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But the
first-born child of Truth came to me, I had then my portion of the Delight in
the Word it uttered. [37]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The one below
goes upward seized by its own self-law: the mortal is one with the immortal at
its origin.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They are eternal
and move about divergently; one knows the other within oneself, another knows
not the other within itself. [38]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the luminous
world, in the supreme status where the Gods have taken their seat over the
universe – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He who does not
know it, what can he do with the Word; but he who knows it sits in the company
of the Gods. [39]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You have eaten
of the sweet corn, may you possess the Divine Delight, <span class=GramE>may</span>
we too possess the Divine Delight.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>None can slay
you through all eternity: may you eat of the grass and drink of the pure water
and roam at ease. [40]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The luminous one
measures and gives form to the waters: she has a single status, a two-fold
status and a four-fold status.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She has an
eight-fold status, a nine-fold status and still becomes the thousand-fold
letters in the supreme status. [41]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From <span
class=GramE>Her</span> the oceans flow out everywhere; by that the four directions
live their life.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From there flow
out that which does not flow; based upon that the universe lives its life. [42]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I saw from afar
the smoke in its energy spreading high and wide.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The heroes
prepare the dappled Scatterer even like food; such were the first and pristine
laws. [43]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Three are the
Shining Ones who see widely in accordance with the law of the Truth: of them
one plants the seed throughout the year, another labours upon the world with
his effulgences, of still another the mighty rushing is seen, not the form.
[44]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Four-fold is the
Word as measured into steps: they are known to the poet-seers and to the great
minds.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Three are
embedded deep within and they do not move; the fourth is the speech that men
utter. [45]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They say, it is
Indra or Mitra or Varuna or Agni: it is the divine Bird with wings of beauty.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The One alone
exists: the wise speak of it variously, they call it Agni or Yama or Matarishwan.
[46]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The luminous
birds with wings of beauty have clothed themselves with waters and they surge
up along a dark path towards the heaven.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They have returned
from the seat of Truth and in their bright energy lift up the earth to the
wideness. [47]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Twelve are the
spokes, the wheel is one and four are the naves: who indeed has known of them?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With them fixed
together there are three hundred and sixty poles, that appear as though moving
and yet not moving. [48]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That eternal breast of yours yields
supreme delight: with that you nourish all desirable things.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That establishes felicity,
discovers treasures, gives lavishly; O Saraswati, that do thou here affirm. [49]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The gods carry
out the sacrifice with sacrifice; those were the first and pristine laws.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Those
greatnesses cleave to heaven, there where dwell the gods who have been the
ancient goal. [50]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 138</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The same waters
flow upward and again flow downward, day by day.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The
divine showers give life to the earth; the fires give life to heaven. [51]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The
Divine Bird, vast in its wings of beauty, is the source of the waters, the seer
of earthly growths.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With its showers pouring all around
<span class=GramE>he</span> brings felicity. He flows ceaselessly on and on:
him I call for the vast protection. [52]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>AGNI AND THE GODS<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala
X, Sukta 51)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE GODS<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Huge and firm was that covering
with which you shrouded yourself and entered into the waters.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Agni! You are conscious from
your very birth. The One God saw you in all your multiple universal body. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>AGNI</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who saw me? Which of the gods saw
my multiple <span class=GramE>body</span> all around? O Mitra! O Varuna! Tell
me, where do they dwell-all the blazing fuel that move to the gods? [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE GODS</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Agni! <span class=GramE>god</span>
self-conscient, we seek you, you who have entered variably into the waters and
into the growths of the earth. You shine richly. Yama has seen you as you flame
out of your ten seats. [3]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>AGNI</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Varuna! I fled because I was
afraid of the work of the priest. The gods must not yoke me to that work.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">¹ <span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Or,
is seen in the womb of the waters and of the earthly growths.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That was why I embedded my body
variably so that I as Agni may not know of that pathway. [4]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE GODS</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Come, O Agni! Man, the mental
being, desires to do the sacrifice, he has made everything ready, and you dwell
in obscurity!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Make easy-going the path that
leads to the gods, with a happy mind carry the offering. [5]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>AGNI</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There were elders before Agni who
covered the same path, even as charioteers do their way.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That is why, O Varuna! out of
fear I have come away so far, even as an animal shrinks and shivers at a
shooting arrow. [6]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE GODS</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We shall make your life
undecaying, O Agni! so that no harm comes to you when engaged in the work.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>So, carry to the gods their share
of the offering; a happy birth you have, a happy mind you must carry. [7]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>AGNI</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then bring to me my share of the
mighty offerings, those that are given before, those that are given after and
those that are simply given.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O gods! Long life to the being
shining in the waters, to Agni himself lying in the growths of the earth. [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE GODS</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The offerings that precede, the
offerings that follow, offerings pure and simple – all forceful, may you
enjoy.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May this sacrifice be yours
entirely. The four quarters bow down to you, O Agni! [9]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 140<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>HYMN TO THE PURUSHA<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala
X, Sukta 51)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He has a thousand heads, the
Supreme Being, a thousand eyes and a thousand feet.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He has covered the entire
extended universe and exceeded it by the measure often fingers. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All this is the Supreme Purusha,
all that has become, and all that will become.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He is the master of Immortality
and through Matter crosses beyond it. [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All this is His mightiness and
even greater than all this is the Supreme Being.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All the worlds are His feet, His
other three steps are the Immortality in heaven. [3]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Supreme Being with his three
steppings went upwards, He came down again in his fourth stepping:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And then spread Himself out
variously towards the living and the non-living (that which eats and that which
does not eat). [4]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From <span class=GramE>That</span>
was born the Vast, the Wide-ruling, the Over-Lord.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even as He is born, He transcends
all, He is behind the earthly world and He is in front. [5]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Through the Supreme Being the Gods make the offering and
accomplish the sacrifice.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The Spring is its first primal offering, Summer is its fuel
and Autumn the final giving. [6]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Supreme Being took birth in
the forefront, He is the sacrifice, Him they sanctified seated on the altar. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Through Him they accomplish the
sacrifice, the Gods, the demi-gods and the Rishis. [7]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 141<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All are offered unto Him and from
Him are gathered the various elements of offering. [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">And That created all the animals, all that are in the air,
in the forests and the homesteads. [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">All are offered unto Him and from Him are born Riks and
Samas and the Chhandas and Yajuh. [9]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From Him are born the horses and
they who are of either kind and the cows and from there are born even the
goatkiml.¹ [10]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When they established Him vastly,
in how many ways did they conceive Him? What was His face, how were His arms
and how His feet they spoke of? [11]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Brahmanas were His face, the
royalties were made His arms, the traders were His thighs and the labourers
(proletarians) were born of His feet. [12]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The moon was born from His mind,
the sun from His eyes, the Lord of the senses and the Divine Fire from His
mouth and air from the life-force. [13]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From the navel came out the
mediate spaces, from His head rose the heavens, from the feet this earth, from
His ears the ten directions. Thus were the worlds conceived. [14]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seven were the circles around
Him, the fuel made were three times seven. When the Gods were preparing the
sacrifice, they tied the being as the offered animal.² [15]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Through the sacrifice did the
Gods perform the sacrifice; such were the primal laws.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>¹ Horses = vital energy; cows=light-energy; either
kind = mixture of the two, e.g., mental energy; goat <i>=<span class=SpellE>aja</span>
</i>= (lit.) unborn; the primal or pristine energy, that of Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>² The Supreme Consciousness sacrificed <span
class=GramE>Himself,</span> descended into Matter and became the Inconscient.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thus indeed they reached the
heavens in their mightiness where dwell the the ancient Gods and demi-gods.
[16]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>HYMN TO HIRANYAGARBHA<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala
X, Sukta 121)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the beginning there was the
Golden Child in the Womb. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From the very birth he became the
sole Lord of creation. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He upheld the earth and this
heaven.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">He gives us our self, he gives us our strength!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">His is the law that all the gods, all obey and adore. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Deathlessness is his shadow, and to him also Death belongs. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">He by his greatness became the one king</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Of all that lives and breathes, indeed of the whole world. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">He is the Master of the race of men and of animals. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [3]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">These snowy mountain-ranges are his greatness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">His are these oceans with all their sweet streams,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">All these spaces are his, extended as his arms.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [4]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Through Him the heavens are high and the earth firm. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Through Him the world of light is steadied and the world of
Bliss beyond;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">In the inner ranges He measures the extensions.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [5]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Him the two firmaments in their vastness have transfixed: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">They gaze at Him with their luminous mind:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">There the sun rises up above and shines wide:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [6]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">As the vast waters came down filling the universe,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">They held Agni in their womb and gave him birth; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Then came forth the One Force of all the Gods:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [7]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">In his greatness He saw the waters all around,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Holding in himself the clear perception and ushering the sacrifice,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">He is One God, Lord over all the Gods:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">May He not hurt as, He who is the Father of the Earth, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">He the Lord of Truth who brought forth the heaven, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">He who brought forth the delightful wide Waters.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [9]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">O Lord of creatures, through none else, none else</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Are all these worlds born everywhere;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Whatever prayer we offer to you, may that be granted to us, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">May we become master of all delights. [10]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>HYMN OF THE SUPREME GODDESS<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala
X, Sukta 125)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I move with the Rudras and the
Vasus, with the Adityas, yea, with all the gods. I bear both Mitra and Varuna,
both Indra and Agni and the twin Aswins. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I bear the Soma that is to be
pressed, I bear the Fashioner and the Fosterer and the Enjoyer. I give the
Treasure to the sacrificer who carries the offering and delivers it, one who
has brought out the perfect Soma drink. [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am the Imperial Power, all
wealth I gather together. Being conscious of all, I am the first of all
sacrificial elements. Me the gods have established widely, in multiple places,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 144<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span class=GramE>me</span> who am seated multiply and
multiply entered into things. [3]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Through me he eats his food, whoever
sees, whoever hears. They who do not recognise me, perish. You who have ears,
who have faith, listen to what I tell you. [4]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I utter here that which is adored
by the gods and by men. The one I choose, I make him supreme and he knows the
Word and possesses the Knowledge. [5]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rudra's bow I bend for him to
slay the fierce enemies of the Truth; I am in the battle for the sake of the
peoples, I have entered into heaven and earth. [6]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have given birth to the Father,
whose head is my birthplace – in the waters, in the ocean. From there I have
entered into the worlds and have established myself wide and I touch with my
body the far heaven. [7]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I rush like the wind as I drive
all the worlds. That reaches beyond the heavens, beyond this earth, – such is
the greatness that has manifested. [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>ODE TO DARKNESS<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda-Mandala X,
Sukta <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>127)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Night spreads
wide, she comes everywhere, a Goddess with shining eyes – she looms over these
glories as their overlord. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Immortal
Goddess fills up the Vast above and below. She compels the darkness with her
light. [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Goddess
comes and veils her sister, the Dawn, and glows through the blackness. [3]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She is now that to us wherein we
shall rest even as birds do on a tree. [4]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In her repose all habitations, all
the footed and winged creatures, even the fast racing eagle. [5]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Ocean-born Goddess! Smite the
wolf, he or she, smite the robber! Carry us safely through. [6]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Black darkness
clings to me all around, it stands here firm. O Dawn! clear it even as you do
my debts. [7]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Daughter of
Heaven! A Herd of light is this hymn of victory that moves towards you. I have
made it for your sake. Do thou accept it, O Night. [8]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>LAST HYMN<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala
X, Sukta 191)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Flame! Master
Strength! O Leader! You gather around you all the peoples of the world and bind
them together. You burn bright in the high seat of Revelation, you bring us all
the riches. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Come together,
all of you, speak in one voice, know with one mind, even like the gods who, of
yore, knew with one mind and together had their share of enjoyment. [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Together may
they utter the mantra, may they unite together, may their mind be one, their
consciousness mingle.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I utter the same mantra with you
all, with you all equally I make the offering. [3]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May your
yearning be one, may your hearts be one, may your mind be one, so that your
union be perfect. [4]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">THE ABOVE HYMN AS TRANSLATED BY SRI AUROBINDO:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Fire, O strong one, as master
thou unitest us with all things and art kindled high in the seat of revelation;
do thou bring to us the Riches. [1]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Join together, speak one word,
let your minds arrive at one knowledge even as the ancient gods arriving at one
knowledge partake each of his own portion. [2]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Common Mantra have all these, a
common gathering to union, one mind common to all, they are together in one
knowledge; pronounce for you a common Mantra, I do sacrifice for you with a
common offering. [3]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One and common be your
aspiration, united your hearts, common to you be your mind, – so that close
companionship may be yours. [4]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>VICTORY TO THE WORLD MASTER</b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(THE TEN AVATARAS OF
GITA GOVINDA)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">In the waters of the Great Deluge, serving as a boat</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>untroubled
you upbear the Book of Knowledge.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Fish. Victory</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>to</span> the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The earth reposes on your far vaster back, heavily crusted</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>with</span> scales because of the load upon it.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Tortoise. Victory </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>to</span> the
Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The earth clings to the edge of your tusk, even as the lunar</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>stain</span> is imbedded in the moon.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Boar. Victory</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>to</span> the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The digits of your hands are like rose petals but the nails </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>at</span> the end
are like some strange horns, and these have </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>ripped</span>
open the body of the Asura, as through the body </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>of</span> a bee.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Man-Lion. Victory</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>to</span> the
Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">A strange Dwarf, you duped <st1:place>Bali</st1:place> with
your cunning; the</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>water</span> touched by your feet purifies human peoples.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Dwarf. Victory to</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>the</span> Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">In the streaming blood of the warrior tribe you have bathed </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>the</span> world,
washed out all its sins, soothed the burning</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>pain of
earthly life.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Parasurama. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">In the ten directions, to the ten godheads you have </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>distributed the ten heads of
Ravana, as a happy offering</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>desired by
them.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of the Prince of Raghus. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">On your white body you have put on a blue robe that </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>matches beautifully with the blue
Yamuna clinging to </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>you</span> for
fear of being dragged by your ploughshare.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Haladhara (the </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>wielder of the plough). Victory to
the Lord! Victory </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>to</span> the
Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Oh, you condemn the sacrificial rites as ordained by the </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Holy Scriptures, your heart melting at the sight of animals</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>being</span> slaughtered.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of the Enlightened One </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(<span class=GramE>the</span>
Buddha). Victory to the Lord! Victory to the</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Master of
the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">To slay the whole host of the Invaders, you have unsheathed </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>your</span>
sword, how frightful, even as a streaming comet!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Kalki.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Listen to the sublime hymn that brings happiness and </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>welfare, the very cream of
creation, sung by the </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>poet</span>
Jayadeva.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">I bow down to <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>, to his ten
incarnations, to him who </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>saves the Vedas, who bears the
world, uplifts the earth,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>slays the Titans, confounds <st1:place>Bali</st1:place>,
destroys the Kshattriyas, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>conquers the son of Pulastya,
wields the Plough, who </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>pours out his compassion, to him
who routs the Hostiles.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>A HYMN<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The high
Thought, the mighty Strength, the living Sap, the Delight streaming in the
hearts of things, the treasure-house <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Qf</span>
all that we gain and hold, all Fulfilment lie at her feet. We bow down to her.
She is the Mother, the nectar agleam in Sri Aurobindo's eyes: she upholds the
very frame of all existences, she is Mira, the luminous, the dispeller of inner
darkness, <span class=GramE>she</span> maintains this wide and entire earth.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Victory, to
Him, our Lord Sri Aurobindo, Reality whole and global! Victory to the sustainer
of the worlds, the Mother Mira <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Qf</span>
white radiance! To their integral Yoga all victory – may it manifest fully on
earth! And victory to those who follow it, the fortunate spiritual brotherhood!</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>His smile,
shadow less and luminous, lifts up the earth into a joyous blossoming; his
flaming eye of Light destroys the darkness; he carries in his hands the supreme
Good of the future in all its richness. Lo, our Lord and Master <span
class=GramE>shines</span> resplendent.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She brings into our path of vision
the Essence however difficult to perceive, she brings into the sphere of speech
even<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>that which is too remote for
words; she draws from the dry being the flow of the sap of life: she sustains
the smallest of the small to the end of the ages. A Force indefinable, of
marvellous plenitude, she is fostered and impelled – as though herself
possessing no autonomy of her own – by the ever-victorious golden glance
gleaming from the divine lotus-eyes of our Lord.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We bow, we bow
to the resplendent Light of the Master, the Light that has assumed the supreme
form of a woman, the Light that liberates the imprisoned power of humanity from
the bonds of weakness and ignorance and fashions it for the New Age.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Glory to Mother
Mira, in <span class=GramE>whom</span> are constellated the world-rejuvenating
radiances, Glory to the Lord, the Master, Sri Aurobindo, who reigns victorious
with the Gracious Mother.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>A PRAYER<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sweats of
passion flow in streams down his temples, Their fragrance draws swarms of bees
that swirl about driven by his fanning ears. Gods and angels and seraphs sing
to Him. He is Shiva's son, Shiva who bears the Goddess Ganges on his head. In
Him I take refuge.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He dwells in
the thousand-petalled lotus, luminous cool like the full orb of the moon, his
lotus-hands carry grace and protection. He wears a robe of pure sweet-scented
flowers, ever-smiling and gracious-looking. He embodies all the gods. He is the
Spirit, the soaring Bird on the crown of the head. Remember Him and worship Him
in any fair form. He is the Guru.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He shines bright
'within the lotus-centre of the head like the soothing moon; like the brilliant
sun he flashes; his arms extend to protect and to give. He is radiant like
burning camphor. He wears a white robe and white garlands, he is anointed
white. His consort gleams like lightning, as she clings to him athwart 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span class=GramE>one-half</span> of his body. He is the
Guru, full of Grace. I worship him in adoration.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He is the warp
with which this world of moving and unmoving things is woven, he is the woof
that runs through all. His grace releases even the animal-kind from all bonds.
He dwells in the sounds, as of <st1:place><span class=SpellE>Om</span></st1:place>,
that <span class=GramE>are</span> uttered as mantra, he is the light of all the
luminaries. He is vast as the skies, he is the Supreme, he is Shiva, he is the
fullness of Light, <span class=GramE>to</span> Him I surrender with a steadfast
thought.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Goddess,
protect us by your spontaneous Grace, forgive all our offences, against the
supreme Light of all lights. It is he who assumes a multitude of forms; he
dwells in the lotus heart of the universe, he makes the laws that upbear the
status and dynamism of the cosmos, he alone is able to awaken all to knowledge.
0 Goddess, remove all evil forthwith and for ever, be constantly present in us.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May the divine
Master, Guru Bhaskara, protect us from every evil and danger. May he manifest
himself to reveal the essential mystery of his path of worship and to spread
the true tradition of Knowledge.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>OM! I bow to the lotus feet of the
most revered Guru!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Supreme
Shiva is an intense and concentrated Delight, luminously aware of his integral,
infinite and supreme consciousness, with all the gathered rays of the supernal
awareness. He has no other form than that of light. He is whole and undivided.
But when he emits the rays of his light he assumes the form of the Eternal Benign,
replete with the manifoldness of his own Ananda. The Supreme God, the adorable
Shiva, thus took a manifest form to create the universe. He then brought forth
the eighteen Sciences and all the systems of philosophies; he assumed the forms
of various personalities by his own Lila.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thereupon
questioned by his Divine Consort who is All-awareness, who is one and
identical with him, he uttered five sacred scriptures with his five mouths, the
scriptures which are the essence of the true spiritual knowledge. He
introduced, established and spread them through the great preceptors, divine or
human, through those who are perfect or realised Beings, for the supreme good
of the world. This is what is called Tantric Process.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 151<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thus
in the path of Tantra, widely extended as it is through the long tradition of
its preceptors; the meditative concentration on the image, the repetition of
the sacred formulas, <i>Mantra-Japa, </i>and other various methods mentioned in
different scriptures are meant to provide easy ways suited to the sadhaks of
the different natures. They make no difference to the fundamental Truth and
principle which remains always the same. And this is called Sri Vidya which is
the essential substance of all the sacred Scriptures, the essence of the four
great steps of Tantra <i>(Charya, Kriya, Jnana </i>and <i>Yoga) </i>expounded
in all its precepts.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
High Knowledge (Vidya) has been very secretly taught by the different branches
of Yajurveda in their hymns and their <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>U</span>panishadic
versions. It has been mysteriously revealed by the various branches of Rigveda
in their hymns or their Upanishadic versions. It is mystically awakened through
a certain subtle duct in the body, evoked by manifold metrical hymns of the
Sarna Veda. This Vidya is commonly <i>found </i>in all the Vedas. It is the
essence of all Vedic mantras, Brahmanas and Upanishads. It is the Queen of the
Shaktichakra, a wave of supremely great light, a form or embodiment of supreme
consciousness. This is a mystic truth inherited from a tradition of Gurus.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
tradition enjoins that to realise this Maha-Vidya a sadhaka should take an
initiation and do the ceremonial worship as directed. And when initiated by a
true adept he must first meditate on the Holy Feet, Sri Mahapaduka, uttering
the sacred words that mean &quot;I adore the Sri Mahapaduka in the
eight-petalled white lotus that looks upward, that has twelve extremities and
that is established within the womb of the thousand-petalled lotus, spread out
like an umbrella and facing downward. The great Holy Feet is possessed of all
sciences, embodies the Powers of all deities. It represents the three strides
of the holy preceptor in the three centres, the crown (Brahma-randhra), the
heart and the lower abdomen, even as it is richly decorated with resplendent
ornaments.&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then
the sadhak must contemplate the Twin Deity, Shiva and Parvati, the aggregate of
all the gods, and possessed of the Gnostic Light displayed in the burning of
the three cities of demons. They wear red and white garlands and garments,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 152<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>ointments</span>
and ornaments. They shower the desirable boon of divine protection with the
twin hands outstretched in mysterious gesture of lotus embrace; delightful
face and eyes they have, the mind enraptured in knowledge and bliss, their form
is the very image of the supreme Guru, with his' red and white lotus-feet.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Next
the sadhak must think himself flooded in his body with the outpourings of
nectar from His lotus-feet; the immortalising streamings from the wash of those
Feet purge him of all evil and free him from all the impurities obstructing the
fulfilment, viz., the inflow of the Force <i>(Shakti-pata) </i>that must result
from the Shiva-Initiation, contemplation on the Supreme Shiva as Guru, uttering
the Japa-mantra of the Holy Feet. It is thus that the sadhak must adore the
divine Master.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then
he must contemplate, as force in his mantric vision, the Light wave ranging
from the lowest mystical circle to the opening in the crown he must know and
realise it as rising up from the bottom of the spine to the crown of the head.
He should meditate on it and realise that it is the tan-coloured point of
lightning and the golden rising sun; it is a flaming Force which is no other
than the Original Consciousness, it acts like a kindled fire that burns the
knots of sin. Then he should contemplate on himself and see that his tangles of
evil and sin that impede the fruition of Initiation and the flow of <span
class=GramE>shakti</span>, have all been burnt out by the gathered rays
reflected from the spontaneous Grace of the original consciousness-force. All
the bonds of evil and sin having thus been destroyed by its rays, he must
remember in his inner heart the original Divine Knowledge with the following
prayer:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;May
the Goddess Kundalini, luminous as the new-risen sun, rise up from her abode,
in her graceful movement to open the centres (lotuses) in succession on her way
upwards and kindle the spiritual light by the nectarous rays of the Abode of <span
class=GramE>Shiva.</span>&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;The
Kundalini Power rises up with all her immortal sweetness and through various
processes that consolidate the vehicle, by worshipping Shiva, the seed of the
three <span class=GramE>status</span>; may She, Shiva's consort, bring the
supreme good.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She
is Shiva's Consort. May she bestow on us an immeasurable <span class=GramE>splendour.</span>
She has the glow of a mass of vermillion and<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 153<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>the</span>
crescent moon as her crest ornament, her face agleam with the triple eyes of
bliss, bent with 'the weight of the full breasts, She is the supreme charm of
Love.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She
is Shiva's Consort. She shines like a Bandhuka-flower, may <span class=GramE>She</span>
manifest in my heart. She graces all quarters of the sky with her wide
eye-lotuses, her lotus-feet are swept by the crests on the crowns of Gods, as
they humbly bow down to her; she is heavy with her rounded breasts. She bears a
newly risen crescent. May she the Supreme Goddess of the three worlds create
bliss in the inner instruments of my consciousness. May she pierce and open the
six centres that are now closed and inhabited by ghouls and goblins; and may
she open them in an intimacy with the gods, Brahma and others, through the <span
class=SpellE>the</span> action of the mystical letters [numbered four, six,
ten, twelve, sixteen and two respectively, beginning with 'sa' to which 'ksha'
and 'ha' are also added.]</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;The
sadhaka, whose body is graced in quality and movement should contemplate on
Parvati. She will swiftly pierce the three knots from the lowermost centre
(Muladhara) upward, open the lotuses and awaken the dense intense bliss laden
with consciousness, she will come forth from the fountain of nectar that flows
from the nectared home of the vibrating heaven and shine like the impetuous
lightning.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;May
the embodied form of Parvati grant us the abode and status of Shiva which is
the crown of bliss and is constantly sought for by the highest scriptures,
Shruti; <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>that<i> </i></span>the
crescent moon illuminates, <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>that<i> </i></span>presides
over all the worlds, <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>that<i> </i></span>eliminates
the sufferings of the <span class=GramE>devotees.</span> May She constanly
bestow on us all the blessed things.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;Let
me take refuge in the Consort of Shiva (his left half), her anklets tinkle
sweetly, and <span class=GramE>She</span> is the origin of the Universe as also
of all speech.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;We
take shelter with the Consort of Shiva (his left half) who is not divided from
him. She is resplendent like a huge sapphire. Bended with the weight of her
orbed breasts, she looks harmoniously elegant with all the splendour of her
brilliant ornaments on her body, she is the sole origin of the Universe,
constantly sought by the highest scriptures.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;The
Yogi must dissolve all the five causes into the supreme Shiva, who is beyond
Time and Space etc., into the Void that<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 154<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>is</span> nothing else but Consciousness, and is not dependent on
anything. He must fix and finally settle himself into that Void Shiva with a
calm and steady mind and merge all his senses into it. Thus he attains easily
the fruit of the Yoga, viz., the ever-existing Immutable.&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>In this manner he must meditate on the Kundalini as his
Tutelary deity, remember the multitude of marshalled rays and complete the
remaining process. Then he must control the movements of his senses and his
consciousness in the self-existent and self-contained Void that is. <span
class=GramE>the</span> cause of all, and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>should</span> perform the worship in his outer body (in its
physical force) or in the twin life-principle or the essential consciousness
itself according to his stage of sadhana or his inner fitness. He must finally
settle himself in the wideness of the Highest Consciousness, from where there
is no beyond, and thus move freely and blissfully.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
is the highest truth of Tantra which can only be attained by the Grace of the
Guru. This has been expounded by Yogishananda Nath Nilakantha Sharma Joshi, the
disciple of Sri Amba Nanda Nath, as commanded by the Mother, the incarnate
Divine Force, for the delight of the sadhakas who are freed from all evil by a
single ray from the glance cast by the Grace of Sri Aurobindo, the great seer.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Bliss
for all!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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