object:17.03 - Agni and the Gods
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
Hymn to the Sun Hymn to the Purusha
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta TranslationsSanskritAgni and the Gods
Agni and the Gods
(Rig-VedaMandala X, Sukta 51)
THE GODS
Huge and firm was that covering with which you shrouded yourself and entered into the waters.
O Agni! You are conscious from your very birth. The One God saw you in all your multiple universal body. [1]
AGNI
Who saw me? Which of the gods saw my multiple body all around? O Mitra! O Varuna! Tell me, where do they dwell-all the blazing fuel that move to the gods? [2]
THE GODS
O Agni! god self-conscient, we seek you, you who have entered variably into the waters and into the growths of the earth. You shine richly. Yama has seen you as you flame out of your ten seats. [3]
AGNI
O Varuna! I fled because I was afraid of the work of the priest. The gods must not yoke me to that work.
That was why I embedded my body variably so that I as Agni may not know of that pathway. [4]
THE GODS
Come, O Agni! Man, the mental being, desires to do the sacrifice, he has made everything ready, and you dwell in obscurity!
Make easy-going the path that leads to the gods, with a happy mind carry the offering. [5]
AGNI
There were elders before Agni who covered the same path, even as charioteers do their way.
That is why, O Varuna! out of fear I have come away so far, even as an animal shrinks and shivers at a shooting arrow. [6]
THE GODS
We shall make your life undecaying, O Agni! so that no harm comes to you when engaged in the work.
So, carry to the gods their share of the offering; a happy birth you have, a happy mind you must carry. [7]
AGNI
Then bring to me my share of the mighty offerings, those that are given before, those that are given after and those that are simply given.
O gods! Long life to the being shining in the waters, to Agni himself lying in the growths of the earth. [8]
THE GODS
The offerings that precede, the offerings that follow, offerings pure and simpleall forceful, may you enjoy.
May this sacrifice be yours entirely. The four quarters bow down to you, O Agni! [9]
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