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A VEDIC HYMN
VII. 60
O Sun, O Light, because today blameless in thy rising thou hast
declared the Truth to the Lord of Love and the Lord of Purity, so may we abide in the godhead, dear to thee, O Mother infinite,
dear to thee, O Lord of Strength, in all our speaking. O Mitra, O Varuna, this is he that seeth for the soul, the Sun that rises
over earth and heaven in the pervading wideness, and he guards
all that is in motion and all that is stable; for he beholds the
straight things and the crooked in mortals. Seven shining energies has this
Bright One yoked today in the world of our achievement and they bear him on in their clarity, and he beholds the
homes of the soul and the places of its birth like a herdsman who
watches over his herds.
Upward rise your honied satisfactions; for our sun has
climbed into the ocean of pure Light and for him the Children
of the Infinite hew out his paths, even the Lord of Love and the
Lord of Strength and the Lord of Purity in one harmony. These
are they that discern and separate all the much falsehood in us;
they the Lords of Love and Strength and Purity. These grow in
the house of Truth, puissant and unvanquished Sons of the
Infinite. These are the Love and the Purity hard to repress who
by their discernings give knowledge to him who has no knowledge ; they bring to him their impulses of a will that has right
vision and they lead him by the good path beyond the evil. These
with sleepless eyes see and know in his earth for man that is ignorant and lead him: in his forward faring he comes to the fathom-
less pit in the river, yet shall they bear him across to the other
shore of this wideness. The peace and the protection and the
happiness which the infinite Mother and the Lords of Love and
Purity give to the servant of the sacrifice, in that let us found all
our creation and building, let us do no violence to the godhead, O ye swift Wayfarers.
He whom the Lord of Purity upholds, puts away from his
altar by the powers of sacrifice whatsoever hurters: cut away,
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O Lord of Strength, from the servant of the sacrifice the hurt
and the division, form in him that vast other world, O givers of
the abundance. A blazing strength and a world of illumination
is the coming together of these Godheads and they overcome
by their near and approaching force. Lo, we quiver with the
fear of you; set us at ease by the greatness of your discerning.
For when a man by sacrifice wins right-mindedness in the getting
of the plenitude, in the conquest of the supreme Felicity, the
strong Warriors, the Lords of the Treasure cleave to his heart
of emotion and they form there the Vast for his dwelling-place
making it of a perfect temper. For you we have made in front
this work of the divine representative in our sacrifices; lead us
safe through all difficult places. Keep us always with constant
felicities.
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