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<font size="4">THE FIFTH SUKTA</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The present <span
class=SpellE>sukta</span> also tells us that we are to conquer all the
terrestrial powers with the help of pure delight and establish in pure mind the
foundation of Truth, the concrete mani­festation of Force, Knowledge and the
Good, the manifold fullness and perfection of Indra.</p>

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diversity in the creation is a profound and sublime Truth. So the <span
class=SpellE>sadhaka</span> also has to manifest in his being and nature this
immensely diverse play. The manifoldness of Form is revealed consciously
through the mind. When the true mental being awakes, all the formations lose
their divided and mortal nature and appear as immortal, cadences and
expressions of the Truth. That is why the mental <span class=SpellE>Purusha</span>
or Indra is called <span class=SpellE><i>Purutamam</i></span><i> <span
class=SpellE>Purunam</span>. No </i>other god has so many diversified
forms as Indra. It is because he is at the root of all manifold diversities.
Indra comes with plenitude; he conquers for the <span class=SpellE>sadhaka</span>
<span class=SpellE><i>sahasrinam</i></span><i> <span class=SpellE>vajam</span>
</i><span class=GramE>(a <span class=SpellE>thousandfold</span>
plenitude). <span class=SpellE><i>Vajam</i></span><i> </i>is the
fullness-which is indivisible; it is the vessel of a <span class=SpellE>thousandfold</span>
movement of creation; Indra is the eldest of all, because the primal form of
the external manifestation appears first in the heart of the mental being.
Later on it becomes manifest in the outward nature. After his very birth Indra
wants to be the eldest of all, <i>i.e., </i>as soon as the pure mental being
awakes</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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the aspirant, it becomes the master and guide of his sadhana and his new
spiritual creation. For this reason Indra is called <span class=SpellE><i>Isana</i></span><i>
</i>(Lord) and <span class=SpellE><i>Sukratu</i></span><i> </i>(the all-accomplishing
Power of action). It is in him that all the masculine powers of God are
manifest. In accordance with the Will of the <span class=SpellE>Purusha</span>
all the forms of <span class=SpellE>Prakriti</span> take shape. The vessel and
foundation which Indra is shaping anew in the aspirant is firmly established on
Truth and Knowledge.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:210.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Pure mental being is endowed with knowledge which makes an
object stand revealed to the knower. This know­ledge of Indra is many-sided.
The real function of Indra is to <span class=SpellE>harmonise</span> the hidden
truth of all objects and movements. Hence he is called <span class=SpellE><i>Purarmdhih</i></span><i>
</i>or <span class=SpellE><i>Purudhi</i></span><i>, i.e., </i>a city made
of comprehensive intelligence as it were. Indra does not want dissolution in
the One Existent, but he wants a diverse and many-sided manifestation. In
unfolding or blossoming alone is his joy. He seeks for a vibrant cadence of the
Truth. The Bliss of Indra is founded on Truth. That is why this Bliss is pure
and tranquil and yet dynamic. The joy of sensuous pleasure of an ordinary man
is emotional and fleeting, Man cannot hold it and an aspirant cannot build
anything on it. That joy flows out and man spills it away in trying to hold it.
That is the reason why this joy of the senses has to be purified and made noble
with the light of pure mind, intellect and knowledge. Then alone that joy will
be beneficial, capable of doing works and yielding fruit. When the pure mental
being, immortal in this Bliss and supported by the pure vital energy, marches
forward driving his two luminous horses of knowledge and power to the
battlefield to advance in spirituality, the dumb material forces of Ignorance
fail to oppose them. Cutting asunder all limitations of the earthly
consciousness and the powers of Death, Indra founds a full-fledged bliss of
immortality in the aspirant. He enables the creative genius of the aspirant to
blossom in the <span class=SpellE>untrammelled</span> expanse of the infinite
consciousness.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

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