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<span
class=GramE><b><font size="4">THE THIRD SUKTA</font></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Life needs pure, calm and effectuating delight. It is
through delight that knowledge, work and truth at revealed. The</p>

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the inspiration of life-energy becomes divinely blissful and lasting, the more
the aspirant is endowed with the pure intelligence, divine power and
fulfilment, and at last he manifests in the waking consciousness the streams of
the Vast, of direct sight and creation beyond mind and intelli­gence.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">In the present <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> there
are four groups of three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> each, graded according
to the spiritual progression.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
first group begins with the invocation of the twin Riders. Who are these
Riders? According to the narration of the <span class=SpellE>Puranas</span>,
the <span class=SpellE>Aswinikumaras</span> are generally known as the twin
heavenly physicians. It means, they drive away disease, decay and incapacity
from the being and make the life-energy pure, sound and indomitable. In other
words, they are the gods of immortality. Their work is to found immortality and
an eternal youth of divinity in life. <span class=SpellE><i>Pranavayu</i></span><i>,
</i>which is the conveyance of the divine power, has been symbolically
expressed as the horses. It may be asked why they have the twin forms. Perhaps
it is because the one gives knowledge, the other the energy for work. Both are
the presiding deities of immortality and both of them embody the most
benevolent delight. Hence they are called <span class=SpellE><i>Subhaspati</i></span><i>.
</i>Also they are called <span class=SpellE><i>Purubhuja</i></span><i>, </i>for
they bring into life the divine enjoyment in. profusion. However, the one gives
much importance to the energy of work, the other to the powerful pure
intelligence. Whatever may be the difference in their outlook, they are the
twin faces of one and the same God. The two horsemen open the fount of that
very divine exhilaration in life by which there awakes and ascends an upward
flame in the being of the aspirant. As the aspirant has been the possessor of
an intense diversified delight, he is now able to proceed farther and farther,
higher and higher by sacrificing his lower aspiration to the higher one. It is
an <span class=SpellE>immortalised</span> life-energy that makes <span
class=GramE>all the</span> realisation effective, real and beautiful. It
infuses spirit and power into the intelligence. The aspirant</p>

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endowed with an occult power of hearing and is initiate with the power of
mantras which expresses and manifest the Truth. That is why the twin gods are
called <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><i>Nasatya<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span></i>(the Guides
on the path). They are the leaders in our spiritual adventure. They lead us
speedily through the different levels of consciousness to the vast ocean of the
higher truth</span></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
second group of <span class=SpellE>riks</span>: The spiritual delight and to
immortal power of life will found <span class=GramE>themselves</span> in a
calm, pill and firmly rooted basis of the entire being. And this immortal
delight will lead the spiritual <span class=SpellE>practicant</span> to the
Divine Mind, to the pure Intelligence, to the realm of Indra. An ordinary man
is unable to have a glimpse of the higher mind, the pure Intelligence because
he is confined to the narrow limits of the lower material world and his life
abounds wit restless, impure and hurtful desires. It is not by a gross inert
inspiration but by a subtle inward power that the enjoyment of life must be
purified and <span class=SpellE>divinised</span>. Then only the slot of the
mind will be replaced by the divine Intelligence. With the divine Intelligence
of Indra the aspirant enjoys a pure delight in life. It is Indra who fills the
different aspects each object with a luminous truth. The inspiration surcharged
with the effulgent knowledge of Indra will bring down and manifest in the
aspirant the delightful truth of the Self which is the main support of the
divine in the aspirant.</p>

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third group: After this the aspirant rises into the realm of Truth, the Right
and the Vast where his being will embody all the gods. The universal Godhead is
the collective power of all the gods. Each god has a different aspect and a
particular truth to stress. They at once carry out their own work and help one
another in performing their work. Thus in their combined efforts they give
shape t diversified expressions of the one great and vast Truth When the power
of these gods is established in the aspirant his aspiration rises higher and
higher unfalteringly an, infallibly. The body, life and mind which are the
different levels of the being are each a stream of truth and these are<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span class=GramE>imagined</span>
as river or water.</p>

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fourth group: <span class=SpellE>Saraswati</span>, the wealth of the <span
class=SpellE>fulles</span> inspiration of the complete Truth, signifies speedy
and rhythmic truth. She is the divine hearing. No doubt, we see and meet the
Truth with our divine vision, but to make, the Truth active and dynamic and
fill the creation with the power of Truth we needs must take the help of divine
hearing. As the truth possesses a form, even so it has a name. It is precisely
because of form and name that the truth becomes concrete. The form of truth is
Visible in the divine vision, the name of truth in the divine hearing. <span
class=SpellE>Saraswati</span> gives the divine name and <span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE>Ila</span> gives the divine form to the truth. Under the
inspiration of Saraswati the truth casts aside all
untruths. Hence she is called <i>Pavaka </i>(the Purifier). Above the mind there abides the vast <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>ocean</st1:PlaceType>
 of <st1:PlaceName>Truth</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. We have neither any
knowledge nor any experience of it. In a sense, we are quite unconscious of it.
Saraswati raises the intelligence into the vast <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>ocean</st1:PlaceType>
 of <st1:PlaceName>Truth</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and purifies it Afterwards
she brings it down to our understanding. She manifests the complete knowledge
in all its facets and <span class=GramE>make</span> them living.</span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
the Vedic literature, very often we get the reference to <span class=SpellE><i>vak</i></span><i>
</i>(Word). So it will be no exaggeration on our par to hold that the aim of
the Vedic spiritual discipline is to get the significant sound aspect of the
truth. And for this the Vedic seers of truth are called the seers of mantras 0
the creators of mantras. <span class=SpellE><i>Vak</i></span><i> </i>is
the living image of truth There lies a rhythm in the being of truth and the
movement of this rhythm produces a note which was later on called <span
class=SpellE><i>nada</i></span><i> </i>(the unsounded sound) or <span
class=SpellE>Shabda</span> Brahman (the Brahman manifested as Sound). When the
rhythm of this note is found in out intelligence and mind, it takes the form of
a sentence and this very thing is called a true mantra. The more a language can
express intimately and direct the primal form and rhythm of truth, the more the
mantra becomes living. Therefore the aspirant who has acquired<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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>this</span>
mantra has also acquired truth and the power of truth. The Vedic seers have
placed the name of truth in different categories, e.g., <span class=SpellE><i>Rk</i></span><i>,
Stoma, <span class=SpellE>Uktha</span>, Brahman, </i>etc. At the beginning of
the present <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> too, in the spiritual practice of
truth <span class=SpellE><i>gih</i></span><i>, </i>the <span class=SpellE><i>vak</i></span><i>
</i>or name that reveals the truth clearly in the consciousness of the aspirant
has been invoked with the help of the twin equestrians. Then with <span
class=SpellE>Indra's</span> help the Brahman, that is to say, the true message
of the inner Self was invoked. When man gets a purified mind and purified
intelligence, he discovers the real <span class=GramE>Being</span> within and
another name of this Being is <i>Brahmanaspati </i>(the Lord of the inner
Self). Finally comes in <span class=SpellE><i>Sarasvati</i></span><i> </i>who
is the power of the Infinite Truth in which the multiple aspects of the truth
of the universal God are manifest.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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