<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>SEER POETS</title>
</head>

<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style='tab-interval:.5in'>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td>

<div class=Section1>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'>
<span lang=EN style="mso-ansi-language:EN"><b><font size="4">SEER POETS</font><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>

<div align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
center;mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p align=right style='margin:0 0in; text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><i>
<span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><font size="4">A Vedic Story</font></span></i></b><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin:0 0in; line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><b>
<span lang=EN style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>(RIGVEDA – X. 51.)</span></b><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN'>THE </span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>gods are in a great
fix. Where is Agni? How is it that the comrade has disappeared all on a sudden?
The Sacrifice – the great work has to be undertaken. And he is to be the
leader, for he alone can take up the burden. There is no time to be lost,
everything is ready for the ceremony to start and just at the moment the one
needed most is nowhere. So the gods organise a search party to find out the
whereabouts of the runaway god.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:11.6pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The search party consists of Varuna, Mitra and
Yama. We shall presently understand the sense of the selection. They look about
here and there – in ten directions, it is mentioned – and at last spot the
defaulting god hiding within a huge thick strong cloak or caul. They hail him
and ask him to come out and take up his charge. Agni refuses: he says he is not
competent to undertake the burden; indeed that is why he ran away and they must
not force him. The gods explain, entreat, encourage Agni. They say and assure
him that no harm will come to him, rather he will flourish and prosper and
become immortal. He is mighty and he will become almighty as he takes up his
work and proceeds with it. Agni accepts in the end and marches out with the
gods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>What does this parable mean? First of all then we
must know what Sacrifice – a Vedic sacrifice – is. Sacrifice symbolises the
cosmic labour, the march of the universe towards its goal, the conquest of
Light over Darkness, the ascent of manhood to godhead, the flaming rise and
progress of consciousness to its supreme expression and embodiment. It is the
release out of Inconscience and Unconsciousness to consciousness and finally
into the superconsciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in'>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Page – 157</span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:10.75pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Sacrifice consists essentially in lighting the
fire and pouring fuel – offerings – into it so that it may burn always and
brighter and brighter. It calls the gods, also, it is said, ascends to them,
brings them down here to live among men, in men. It lifts men from the ordinary
life and consciousness, takes them to the abode of the gods. In other words its
function is to bring down and infuse into the human vessel the godly
consciousness and delight and power. Its purpose is to divinise human life.
Through the sacrifice man offers his present possessions, his body and life and
mind to the Deity and deities and by this surrender and submission constant and
unfailing <i>(namas) </i>he awakens the Divine in him – the Agni that is to
lead him to the divine consummation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Fire then is the energy of consciousness secreted
in the heart of things. It is that which moves the creation upward, produces the
unfolding evolution that is history, both individual and collective. It is
kindled, it increases in volume and strength and purity and effectiveness, as
and when a lower element is offered and submitted to a higher reality and this
higher reality impinges upon the lower one (which is what the rubbing of the <i>ara</i></span><i><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Luxi Serif";mso-ansi-language:EN'>ņ</span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>i </span></i><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>or the pressing of the <i>soma </i>symbolises);
the limitation is broken, the small enters into and becomes the vast, the
crooked is straightened and lengthened out, what was hidden becomes manifest.
This is described as the progression of the sacrifice <i>(adhvara-advance </i>on
the path). That is also the victorious battle waged against the dark forces of
Ignorance. The goal, the purpose is the descent and manifestation of the gods
here upon earth in human vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>But this Fire is not normally available. It is
lost, imbedded in the thick petrified folds of unconsciousness and
inconscience. Man's soul is not an apparent reality. It has to be found out,
called forth, brought to the front. Even so, in the normal consciousness, the
soul, the divine fire is a flickering, twinkling, hesitating spark; it is not
sure of itself, not certain of its destiny. Yet when the time is ripe and the
call comes, the gods, the luminous forces from above descend with all their insistence
and meet the hidden godhead: Agni is reminded of his work and destiny which
nothing can frustrate or cancel. He has to consent and undertake his
sacrificial labour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in'>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Page – 158</span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Agni feared and tried to escape from the burden of
his responsibility. He wrapped himself in a thick and vast cloak and hid in the
depths of far waters. That is the parable way of describing the difficulty, the
apparent impossibility of the undertaking Agni has to shoulder. Curiously
however he has taken shelter just in the spot which seemed safest to him, from
where begins his work, whose nature and substance he has to transform, that is
to say, the nether regions of inconscience which is to be raised and
transfigured into the solar region of the supraconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:11.9pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>One interesting point in the story is the choice
of the gods who formed the search party. They were Mitra, Varuna and Yama.
Varuna is the god of the vast consciousness (Brihat), the wide universal, the
Infinite. His eye naturally penetrates everywhere and nothing can escape his
notice. Mitra is harmony and rhythm of the infinity. Every individual element
he embraces and he holds them all together in loving union-his is the friendly
tie of comradeship with all. Finally Yama is the master of the lower regions,
the underworld of physical and material consciousness, where precisely Agni has
taken refuge. Agni is within the jurisdiction of this trinity and it devolves
upon them to tackle the truant god.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:11.9pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>There is another point which requires
clarification. As a reason for his nervousness and flight he alleges that
greater people who preceded him had attempted the work, but evidently failed in
the attempt; so how can he, a younger novice, dare to go the same way? Putting
the imagery back to its psychological bearing, one play explain that the
predecessors refer to the deities of the physical, vital and mental
consciousness who ruled the earth before the emergence of the psychic or soul
consciousness. It is precisely because of the failure or insufficiency of these
anterior – in the evolutionary movement – and inferior gods that Agni's service
is being requisitioned. Mythologically also a parallelism is found in the Greek
legends where it is said that the Olympian gods – Zeus and his company – were a
younger generation that replaced, after of course a bloody warfare, their
ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras
and Rakshasas who reigned upon earth before the advent of the mental – sattwic
– human being, Manu, as referred here.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in'>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Page – 159</span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Now, here 1 give you the original text in
translation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>THE COLLOQUY OF AGNI AND THE GODS <o:p></o:p> </span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>(Rigveda - X. 51.)</span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The gods</span></b><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>1. Huge and
firm was that covering with which you shrouded yourself and entered into the
waters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>O Agni! You
are conscious from your very birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The One God
saw you in all your multiple universal body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>2. Who saw me?
Which of the gods saw my multiple body all around? 0 Mitra! 0 Varuna! Tell me,
where do they dwell – all the blazing fuel that move to the gods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The gods</span></b><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>3. O Agni! god
self-conscient, we seek you, you who have entered variably into the waters and
into the growths of the earth. You shine richly. Yam a has seen you as you
flame out of your ten seats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>4. O Varuna! I
fled because I was afraid of the work of the priest. The gods must not yoke me
to that work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>That was why I
imbedded my body variably so that I as Agni may not know of that pathway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The gods</span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-.85pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>5. Come, O Agni! Man, the mental being,
desires to do the sacrifice, he has made everything ready, and you dwell in obscurity!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Make
easy-going the path that leads to the gods, with a happy mind carry the
offering.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 8.0pt 0in'>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Page – 160</span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0'>
<span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>6. There were
elders before Agni who covered the same path, even as charioteers do their way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The gods</span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;
orphans: 0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>7. We shall
make your life undecaying, O Agni! so that no harm comes to you when engaged in
the work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>So, carry to
the gods their share of the offering; a happy birth you have, a happy mind you
must carry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;
orphans: 0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>8. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>O gods! Long
life to the being shining in the waters, to Agni himself lying in the growths
of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p align=center style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;
line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0'>
<span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>The gods</span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;
orphans: 0'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;
margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;
widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>9. The
offerings that precede, the offerings that follow, offerings pure and
simple-all forceful, may you enjoy. May this sacrifice be yours entirely. The four
quarters bow down to you, O Agni!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 9.0pt 0in'>

<p align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;
line-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 9.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0'>
<span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Page – 161</span><span
lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

  <p align=right style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:right;text-indent:-28.65pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN
style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href="-01-Index"><span
style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'></span><span
style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><a href="-00_Ccontent"><img border=0 width=39
height=50 id="_x0000_i1028" src="/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif"></a></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

  <div align=center> 
	<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </div>

</div></td>
	</tr>
</table>

</body>

</html>
