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<font size="4">THE SIXTH SUKTA</font><o:p></o:p></b></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'>The theme of this <span
class=SpellE>sukta</span> is to awaken the power of Indra with the help of his
followers, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>. Who are the <span
class=SpellE>Maruts</span>? We find in the Puranas that <span class=SpellE>Vayu</span>
(the Wind-God) in the womb of <span class=SpellE><i>Diti</i></span><i> </i>(the
consciousness of duality) had been divided into forty-nine parts by the Lord
Indra. As a result, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>, sub-divisions or
various forms of Wind, came into existence. We also know that <span
class=SpellE>Vayu</span> is the life-energy and Indra is the divine mental
being. <span class=SpellE><i>Diti</i></span><i> </i>is the divided
consciousness, the source of multiplicity. <span class=SpellE><i>Aditi</i></span><i>
</i>means the undivided, indivisible and infinite consciousness. When the wave
of life-energy rises into the mind and expresses itself as multiple thoughts,
it turns into <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>. In the Rigveda the God <span
class=SpellE>Marut</span> has always been invoked and worshipped along with Indra.
That is to say, without Indra, the mental being, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>,
the mental faculties, have no separate existence.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>1.
The seat of pure mind is a chariot. The chariot signi­fies movement and it is the
emblem of the spiritual progress. The spiritual adventure of the purified mind
gradually rises up. The movement of the purified mind is at- once free and
vast. Division and littleness are not to be found there. It is fully illumined
by the light of knowledge. The purified mind is replete with thought-powers, in
other words, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>. And it is the <span
class=SpellE>Maruts</span> who help the mind in its march towards the Goal.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>2.
Spiritual progress takes place by the conjoint force of two powers. They are
nothing but the twin horses that carry farther the power of Indra. Of the two
horses one is the symbol of knowledge, the other is that of power. The more the
knowledge and the power of the aspirant increase, the more awakes in him the
divine mental being in all its virtues. And the pure thought-powers or the <span
class=SpellE>Maruts</span> turn the flow of knowledge and power towards an
inner spiritual discipline.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>3.
It is the power of pure-thoughts that manifests the light of knowledge in the
darkness of Ignorance. With the gradual development of such thoughts the true
mental being takes birth in the aspirant, <i>i.e., </i>it becomes vivid and
real to the aspirant.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>4.
The true nature of the pure thought-power is to reveal the mental being by
degrees. It is in the true mental being that the real existence and nature of a
creature abide. The mental being becomes more and more manifest by fresh
flowerings of the pure thought-power. The pure thought­ power, being manifest,
shapes a form of the mental being. Then it plunges into the heart of the
aspirant and emerges from there with a new form and truth. Thus the pure
thought-<span class=GramE>power,</span> supported by the presiding divine Deity
of sacrifice, of spiritual progress, manifests further truths. A 'name' is the
manifest power of truth, called '<span class=SpellE>numen</span>' in Latin. The
stream of sadhana does not proceed in a constant flow but in a sequence of
absorption and manifestation – it withdraws within itself and emerges again
with new truths from the secret regions of consciousness. The Vedic seers used
to express- this idea thus: Dawn follows Night, Night follows Dawn, Dawn
manifesting itself again and again in a never-ending series revealing infinite
truths.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>­</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:273.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>5. In the innermost recesses of consciousness, in the
depth of the Night, in inert matter lie hidden the Light of know­ledge. The
divine mental being, in search of <span class=GramE>that</span> <span
class=SpellE>kine</span> of Light, delivers them by breaking down those firm,
secret and dark recesses. It is he indeed who brings into the waking
consciousness the dawn of knowledge.</p>

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text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>6. What does actually happen when Indra reveals the Light
of knowledge dissipating the darkness of ignorance? There echo in the occult
hearing the concrete messages of the vast truth. And of what type are those
divine messages? They are the divine existences, they follow the divine na­ture.
They infuse the aspirant with a clear and pointed intellect which can discern
the quintessence of truth.</p>

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The true mental being and his pure thought-powers, Indra and <span
class=SpellE>Maruts</span>, are reflected in that pure divine mind.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>8. Indra
is the being of knowledge and delight and <span class=SpellE>Marut</span> is
his power of divine play. On one side is the pure mental existence, on the
other there rise and spread the pure thoughts from that mental existence. With
their united help the spiritual Sacrifice of the aspirant becomes a receptacle
of luminous fulfilment.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>9.
Then the truth and riches of all the levels and worlds of consciousness make
their appearance in the aspirant, the truth that comes from beyond the fourth
world or <span class=SpellE><i>Mahas</i></span><i> </i>- called in the
Upanishad as the <i>asau <span class=SpellE>lokah</span> </i>- the truth that
subsequently takes form in the pure mental world.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>10.
The process does not end here. The truth contained in the material earth which
&quot;is illumined by the mental light as well as the truth of the vital world
filled with pure enjoy­ment and inspiration are concretely apprehended by the
aspirant. Earth, mid-region, sky and <span class=SpellE><i>svar</i></span><i>, </i>that
<i>is </i>the body, life, mind and the vast Truth beyond mind become manifest
in their divine essence in the human aspirant inhabited by the mental being.
Indra is the divine mental being and Indra is the power of revealing the truth.</p>

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150%;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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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>NOTE<o:p></o:p></b></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
remaining <span class=SpellE>suktas</span> of <span class=SpellE><i>Madhuchchhandar</i></span><i>
<span class=SpellE>Mantramala</span> </i>also deal with Indra. So there is
hardly any necessity of commen­taries. The commentaries given from the fourth <span
class=SpellE>sukta</span> to the present one will serve as an aid to make the
subsequent <span class=SpellE>suktas</span> comprehensible.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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