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THE SECOND HYMN TO MITRA-VARUNA
V.63
THE GIVERS OF THE RAIN
[Mitra and Varuna are by their united universality and harmony
the guardians of the divine Truth and its divine Law eternally
perfect in the ether of our supreme being; thence they rain
down the abundance of the heavens and its bliss upon the
favoured soul. Seers in man of that world of Truth, as they are,
by their guardianship of its law, rulers of all this becoming, they
give us its rain of spiritual wealth and immortality. The Life-powers range with the voice of the truth-seeking thought through
earth and heaven and the two Kings come to their cry with the
brilliant clouds full of the creative waters. It is by the Maya, the
divine truth-knowledge of the Lord, that they thus rain down
heaven; that divine knowledge is the Sun, the Light, the weapon
of Mitra and Varuna ranging abroad to destroy the ignorance.
At first the Sun, the body of the Truth, is concealed in the very storm of its
outpourings and only the sweetness of their streaming into the life is felt; but the Maruts as Life-Powers and
Thought-Powers range abroad seeking in all the worlds of our
being for the brilliant rays of the concealed knowledge to be
gathered as a shining wealth; the voice of the Rain is full of the
flashings of the Light and the movement of the divine Waters;
its clouds become robes for the Life-Powers. Through it all by
the formative knowledge of the mighty master of Truth and by
the law of the Truth, the two kings maintain the divine workings
in us, governing by the Truth all our being, and finally set in its
sky the Sun, now revealed, as a chariot of the richly varied splendours of the knowledge, the chariot of the journey of the spirit
to the highest heavens.]
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Guardians of the Truth, you ascend your car and the law of
the Truth is yours in the supreme ether.¹ He whom here you
cherish. Masters of the wideness and the harmony, for him
increases full of the honey the rain of heaven.
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Emperors²,
you rule over this world of our becoming, O
Mitra and Varuna, in the getting of knowledge you are seers
of the realm of Light; we desire from you the rain, the felicitous wealth, the immortality, and lo! the Thunderers³
range abroad through earth and heaven.
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Emperors, strong Bulls of the abundance. Masters of earth
and heaven, O Mitra and Varuna, universal in your workings, you approach their cry with your clouds of varied light
and you rain down Heaven by the power of the knowledge4
of the Mighty One.5
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This is your knowledge, O Mitra and Varuna, that is lodged
in heaven; it is the Sun, it is the Light; it ranges abroad as
your rich and varied weapon. You hide it in heaven with
the cloud and with the raining. O Rain, full of the honey
start forth thy streamings.
¹The infinity of the superconscient being.
²Samraf, having perfect kingship over the subjective and objective existence.
³The Maruts, Life-Powers and Thought-Powers who find out the light of truth for all our
activities. The word may also mean formers or builders.
4Maya, the creative knowledge-will of the Deva.
5Asura, a word used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the Deva (Ahuramazda), but also
for the gods. His manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans,
by another and fictitious derivation, a-sura, the not-luminous, the not-gods.
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The Life-Powers yoke their happy car for the bliss, even as
might a hero for battle, O Mitra and Varuna, in their seekings for the herds of Light; thundering they range the varied
worlds, and you pour out on us, rulers imperial, the water
of Heaven.
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O Mitra and Varuna, the Rain speaks its language¹ rich and
varied and full of the light and the movement; the Life-
Powers have put on your clouds for raiment. Utterly by the
knowledge you rain down Heaven ruddy-shining and sinless.
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O Mitra and Varuna illumined in consciousness, by the
Law, by the knowledge of the Mighty One you guard the
workings ;² by the Truth you govern widely all the world of
our becoming; you set the Sun in heaven, a chariot of various splendour.
¹Here we see the subjective sense of the thunder in the symbol of the storm; it is the
outcrashing of the word of the Truth, the Shabda, as the lightning is the outflashing of its sense.
²Vratāni, called the Aryan or divine workings, those of the divine law of the Truth to be
revealed in man. The Dasyu or un-Aryan, whether human or superhuman, is he who is void
of these diviner workings, opposes them in his darkened consciousness and tries to destroy
them in the world. The Lords of Darkness are therefore called Dasyus, the Destroyers.
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