Canto 59Aruna Vaitahavya · Sukta 91
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Adored by those who are wakeful, the dweller in the house
is kindled in the house aspiring in the seat of revelation, the
sacrificant of every offering, one Supreme,31 wide of being,
wide in light, a perfect friend to the man who seeks his
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302. In his visioned glory he lodges as the guest in every house,
as a bird in forest and forest; he disdains not the peoples,
universal he dwells in being and being, common to all he
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653. Thou art discerning in thy judgments, strong of will in thy
workings of will, O Fire, an omniscient seer in thy seer-
wisdoms; a possessor of riches thou rulest sole over all the
riches nourished by earth and by heaven.
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4. Thou hast known and reached thy luminous native seat
where is the order of the Truth in the plane of revelation; free
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like the white brilliances of the dawns,32 like rays of the sun.
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5. Thy glories like lightnings from a storm cloud break into
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pleasance thou seekest out thyself the food for thy mouth.33
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whom was the order of the Truth, the Waters become the
mothers of that Fire who gave him birth; he is the common
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thy food thou spreadest wide after thy desire, thy ageless
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8. Fire the creator of wisdom, the accomplisher of the dis-
covery of knowledge, Fire the priest of the call, the all-
embracing thinker, him they choose universal in the little
offering, him in the great, — not another, O Fire, than thou.
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9. The ordainers of the work, they who desire thee, choose
thee as priest of the call in their discoveries of knowledge
when the seekers of the godhead hold thy delight,34 human
beings who have plucked for thee the sacred grass of thy
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10. O Fire, thine are the call and the offering, thine the purifi-
cation and the order of the sacrifice, thine the lustration;
thou art the fire-bringer for the seeker of the Truth. The
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annunciation is thine, thou becomest the pilgrim-rite:35 thou
art the priest of the Word and the master of the house in our
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12. For him these thoughts and utterances go forth from us,
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lauds and meet together seeking the riches for the master of
riches, for the knower of all things born, and his desire is
towards them.
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13. I would speak to the ancient One a laud new to his desire,
may he hear us; may it avail to touch his heart deep within
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14. Fire to whom are loosed and offered our horses, our bulls
and oxen and heifers and our rams, to Fire the nectar-drinker
who bears on his back the Soma wine, to the ordainer of
things, I beget a thinking full of beauty from my heart.
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15. An oblation has been offered into thy mouth, O Fire, as if
37535 Or, thou art the priest of the pilgrim-rite:
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clarified butter in a ladle, as if Soma wine in a bowl. Found
in us the treasure in which are the heroes and which wins
for us the plenitudes, — the treasure excellent36 and glorious
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JAMADAGNI BHARGAVA
OR RAMA JAMADAGNYA