object:17.04 - Hymn to the Purusha
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
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Agni and the Gods Hymn to Hiranyagarbha
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta TranslationsSanskritHymn to the Purusha
Hymn to the Purusha
(Rig-VedaMandala X, Sukta 51)
He has a thousand heads, the Supreme Being, a thousand eyes and a thousand feet.
He has covered the entire extended universe and exceeded it by the measure often fingers. [1]
All this is the Supreme Purusha, all that has become, and all that will become.
He is the master of Immortality and through Matter crosses beyond it. [2]
All this is His mightiness and even greater than all this is the Supreme Being.
All the worlds are His feet, His other three steps are the Immortality in heaven. [3]
The Supreme Being with his three steppings went upwards, He came down again in his fourth stepping:
And then spread Himself out variously towards the living and the non-living (that which eats and that which does not eat). [4]
From That was born the Vast, the Wide-ruling, the Over-Lord.
Even as He is born, He transcends all, He is behind the earthly world and He is in front. [5]
Through the Supreme Being the Gods make the offering and accomplish the sacrifice.
The Spring is its first primal offering, Summer is its fuel and Autumn the final giving. [6]
The Supreme Being took birth in the forefront, He is the sacrifice, Him they sanctified seated on the altar.
Through Him they accomplish the sacrifice, the Gods, the demi-gods and the Rishis. [7]
All are offered unto Him and from Him are gathered the various elements of offering. [8]
And That created all the animals, all that are in the air, in the forests and the homesteads. [8]
All are offered unto Him and from Him are born Riks and Samas and the Chhandas and Yajuh. [9]
From Him are born the horses and they who are of either kind and the cows and from there are born even the goatkind.1 [10]
When they established Him vastly, in how many ways did they conceive Him? What was His face, how were His arms and how His feet they spoke of? [11]
The Brahmanas were His face, the royalties were made His arms, the traders were His thighs and the labourers (proletarians) were born of His feet. [12]
The moon was born from His mind, the sun from His eyes, the Lord of the senses and the Divine Fire from His mouth and air from the life-force. [13]
From the navel came out the mediate spaces, from His head rose the heavens, from the feet this earth, from His ears the ten directions. Thus were the worlds conceived. [14]
Seven were the circles around Him, the fuel made were three times seven. When the Gods were preparing the sacrifice, they tied the being as the offered animal.2 [15]
Through the sacrifice did the Gods perform the sacrifice; such were the primal laws.
Thus indeed they reached the heavens in their mightiness where dwell the the ancient Gods and demi-gods. [16]
Horses = vital energy; cows=light-energy; either kind = mixture of the two, e.g., mental energy; goat =aja = (lit.) unborn; the primal or pristine energy, that of Mother.
The Supreme Consciousness sacrificed Himself, descended into Matter and became the Inconscient.
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Agni and the Gods Hymn to Hiranyagarbha
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