object:17.02 - Hymn to the Sun
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
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Hymn to Dawn Agni and the Gods
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta TranslationsSanskritHymn to the Sun
Hymn to the Sun
Rishi Dirghatama
(Rig-VedaMandala I, Sukta 164)
This is the delightful ancient One. He is the Summoner.
Next to him is the second brother: he is the Devourer.
The third brother is the one with blazing front: here I saw
the Lord of the Universe with his seven sons. [1]
The Seven yoke the chariot that has one single wheel: the
Horse with seven names draws it.
The Wheel has three naves. It is unaging and irresistible.
All the worlds repose upon it. [2]
Seven are they who drive the chariot, seven are he horses
that draw the chariot with seven wheels.
Seven are the sisters who together move there where the herds
with seven names are pent in. [3]
Who has been the First One taking birth: boneless himself
he upbears that with bones.
Who was the Energy, the Blood, the Soul of this earth?
And did any one ever approach the wise with the question? [4]
I am young, therefore do I ask: with my mind I am unable
to know of those secreted seats of the Gods.
Upon the moving seat the Seers spread out the seven threads
as warp and woof. [5]
I have not the consciousness, so do I ask here of the seers who have the consciousness: not having the knowledge I ask for the knowledge.
Some one who is one and single has transfixed these six
worlds as forms of the Unborn. [6]
Here let him speak who knows of the secret step of this
delightful one in his wide winging.
From his head the white herds draw sweet milk: they put on a covering and drink water by their feet. [7]
In the Truth the Mother adores the Father: from the very beginning she has been united with him in consciousness and thought.
She quivered, her womb charged with streaming delight: they that carried their obeisances approached and found the Word. [8]
The Mother was united to the yoke by the right side: the embryo
lay within all that was crooked.
The child lowed after its mother and saw her as the world form in the three expanses. [9]
Three are the mothers, three the fathers, upborne by One standing above: they do not tire him down.
There, in that heaven, they utter the word which has the knowledge of the universe, which the universe cannot encompass. [10]
The wheel of Truth with its twelve spokes rolls on round the heaven and decays not.
O Agni, here the sons stay in pairs, seven hundred and twenty in number. [11]
The father who has five feet and twelve forms, they say, is on the higher hemisphere and he is delight itself.
And there are those who say that one with clear vision is placed high above upon the seven wheels and six spokes. [12]
All the worlds repose upon that wheel rolling on with its five spokes.
It axle is never over-strained, in spite of the heavy load, it never wears out in the course of eternity, fixed on its nave. [13]
The ringed wheel rolls on undecaying: the ten are yoked and they carry it upward.
Lo! there comes the sun's eye, encircled by the spaces. All the worlds are placed in there.[14]
Sevenfold are they, born together: the seventh is born of the one, they say, and these six are seers and gods.
Their movements are fixed according to the status: they move out in varied forms for the sake of him who upholds them. [15]
Women are they and they are also men, it is said. He who has eyes is able to see, one blind does not know.
The Son, the seer, is aware of it; and he who knows is the father of the father. [16]
The mother cow holds the hind legs of her calf by her fore legs and its fore legs with her hind legs and moves upward.
Whither, to which hemisphere, she is stepping across? Where does she give birth to the child? Not indeed in the midst of the herds. [17]
He, indeed, integrally knows the Father who knows the lower by the higher and the higher by the lower.
Who has the poet's vision to tell us where does the Divine Mind take birth? [18]
They that turn downward are said to turn upward and they that turn upward are said to turn downward.
Indra and thou, O Soma, both together have done deeds that upbear the luminous worlds as though joined to the yoke. [19]
The birds with wings of beauty united together and as comrades cling to the same tree.
One of them eats of the sweet fruit; the other does not eat and looks about. [20]
There, where the birds with wings of beauty, in perfect knowledge, sing of their share in immortality.
The Lord and Protector of all the worlds, the Supreme Intelligence, enters into one young and ignorant as I am. [21]
Upon the tree dwell the birds of beautiful wings who eat of honey; from there they made the creation upon earth.
And on its top, there is the sweetest fruit, they say; none can reach it who knows not the father. [22]
Upon Gayatra is set the Gayatra, the Tristubha is carved upon Tristubha.
And that which is called Jagat, is set upon Jagat; they who know this attain immortality. [23]
The luminous verse is fashioned after the rhythm of Gayatra and with the verse is fashioned the chant of Soma and the Word with the rhythm of Tristubha.
The Word is fashioned with the Word, the Word has a two-fold and a four-fold stepping and the seven vocables are fashioned with the syllable. [24]
With Jagat the Stream was established firm in the Heaven; with Rathantara the Sun is seen all around up above.
The rhythm of Gayatra, they say, has a three-fold kindling; hence it goes farther beyond in its mighty greatness. [25]
That giver of milk, her I called here who yields milk readily: she is milked by a hand skilled in milking.
May the creator create for me the very best creation; the heat blazes; towards that I utter my words. [26]
Professor of all wealth, she yearns with her mind and heart after her child: lo, she comes uttering her cry.
Inviolable may she yield the drink for the twin riders. May she grow and increase for the sake of the vast felicity. [27]
The mother answered back to her child that was gazing at her; she cried aloud, as though to measure its head.
She desires after its foaming mouth; she shapes its form giving it to drink all her milk. [28]
There he is who cries out encompassing the white mother, he fashions the form seated secure above all disruption.
She builds up the mortal from within with her modes of consciousness. She has become the lightning and has shaken off her covering. [29]
The living one breathes and moves fast when it lies at rest: when it races along it holds itself firm within its station.
The soul in the mortal moves by its self-law; the immortal springs from the same source as the mortals. [30]
I saw him who protects, who never stumbles, who moves by paths here below and beyond.
He is with all, he is around all, he circles under cover, within all the worlds. [31]
He who has created this does not know it and he who has seen it is hidden away from it.
He is enclosed within the womb of the Mother: he produced the many and entered into untruth. [32]
Heaven is my father who created me: here is my central cord: the Mother, this vast Earth, binds me down.
The twin vessels are turned upward; within there the Lord ordained the birth of the daughter.[33]
I ask you of the farthest end of the earth; I ask you where lies the nave of this world.
I ask you of the energy that the Horse rains down; I ask you of the supreme status of the world. [34]
This altar is the farthest end of the earth;this sacrifice is the nave of the world.
This Soma (the immortal drink) is the energy that the Horse rains down; and Brahman is the supreme status of the world. [35]
The seven half-embryos are the energising sap of the world. As the infinite Lord ordained, they became the varied laws.
They are the knowers and with their intelligence and thought they encircle all around and they take from everywhere. [36]
I do not know what this is that I am, I am bound deep within and I roam about with my mind.
But the first-born child of Truth came to me, I had then my portion of the Delight in the Word it uttered. [37]
The one below goes upward seized by its own self-law: the mortal is one with the immortal at its origin.
They are eternal and move about divergently; one knows the other within oneself, another knows not the other within itself. [38]
In the luminous world, in the supreme status where the Gods have taken their seat over the universe
He who does not know it, what can he do with the Word; but he who knows it sits in the company of the Gods. [39]
You have eaten of the sweet corn, may you possess the Divine Delight, may we too possess the Divine Delight.
None can slay you through all eternity: may you eat of the grass and drink of the pure water and roam at ease. [40]
The luminous one measures and gives form to the waters: she has a single status, a two-fold status and a four-fold status.
She has an eight-fold status, a nine-fold status and still becomes the thousand-fold letters in the supreme status. [41]
From Her the oceans flow out everywhere; by that the four directions live their life.
From there flow out that which does not flow; based upon that the universe lives its life. [42]
I saw from afar the smoke in its energy spreading high and wide.
The heroes prepare the dappled Scatterer even like food; such were the first and pristine laws. [43]
Three are the Shining Ones who see widely in accordance with the law of the Truth: of them one plants the seed throughout the year, another labours upon the world with his effulgences, of still another the mighty rushing is seen, not the form. [44]
Four-fold is the Word as measured into steps: they are known to the poet-seers and to the great minds.
Three are embedded deep within and they do not move; the fourth is the speech that men utter. [45]
hey say, it is Indra or Mitra or Varuna or Agni: it is the divine Bird with wings of beauty.
The One alone exists: the wise speak of it variously, they call it Agni or Yama or Matarishwan. [46]
The luminous birds with wings of beauty have clothed themselves with waters and they surge up along a dark path towards the heaven.
They have returned from the seat of Truth and in their bright energy lift up the earth to the wideness. [47]
Twelve are the spokes, the wheel is one and four are the naves: who indeed has known of them?
With them fixed together there are three hundred and sixty poles, that appear as though moving and yet not moving. [48]
That eternal breast of yours yields supreme delight: with that you nourish all desirable things.
That establishes felicity, discovers treasures, gives lavishly; O Saraswati, that do thou here affirm. [49]
The gods carry out the sacrifice with sacrifice; those were the first and pristine laws.
Those greatnesses cleave to heaven, there where dwell the gods who have been the ancient goal. [50]
The same waters flow upward and again flow downward, day by day.
The divine showers give life to the earth; the fires give life to heaven. [51]
The Divine Bird, vast in its wings of beauty, is the source of the waters, the seer of earthly growths.1
With its showers pouring all around he brings felicity. He flows ceaselessly on and on: him I call for the vast protection. [52]
Or, is seen in the womb of the waters and of the earthly growths.
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Hymn to Dawn Agni and the Gods
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