Canto 8Dirghatamas Auchathya · Sukta 140
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Offer like a secure seat that womb to Agni the utterly bright
who sits upon the altar and his abode is bliss; clothe with
thought as with a robe the slayer of the darkness who is
pure and charioted in light and pure-bright of hue.
52. The twice-born Agni moves (intense) about his triple food;
it is eaten and with the year it has grown again; with the
tongue and mouth of the one (or with his tongue in the
presence of the one) he is the strong master and enjoyer,
with the other he engirdles and crushes in his embrace his
10delightful things.
3. He gives energy of movement to both his mothers on their
dark path, in their common dwelling, and both make their
way through to their child (or following their child), for
his tongue is lifted upward, he destroys and rushes swiftly
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4. For the thinker becoming man his swift-hastening impul-
sions dark and bright desire freedom; unequal, active, rapid-
quivering, they are yoked to their works, swift steeds and
driven forward by the Breath of things.
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form of light; when reaching forward he touches the Vast of
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6. He who when he would become in the tawny ones, bends
down and goes to them bellowing as the male to its mates,
— putting out his force he gives joy to their bodies (or he
makes blissful the forms of things) and like a fierce beast
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7. He whether contracted in being or wide-extended seizes on
them utterly; he knowing, they knowing the eternal Agni
lies with them, then again they increase and go to the state
130divine; uniting, another form they make for the Father and
Mother.
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him, they who were about to perish, stand upon high once
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9. Tearing about her the robe that conceals the Mother he
moves on utterly to the Delight with the creatures of pure
Being who manifest the Force; he establishes wideness, he
breaks through to the goal for this traveller, even though
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10. Burn bright for us, O Agni, in our fullnesses, be henceforth
the strong master and inhabit in us with the sisters; casting
away from thee those of them that are infant minds thou
shouldst burn bright encompassing us all about like a cuirass
215in our battles.
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11. This, O Agni, is that which is well-established upon the ill-
240placed; even out of this blissful mentality may there be born
to thee that greater bliss. By that which shines bright and
pure from thy body, thou winnest for us the delight.
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12. Thou givest us, O Agni, for chariot and for home a ship
travelling with eternal progress of motion that shall carry
our strong spirits and our spirits of fullness across the births
and across the peace.
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29013. Mayst thou, O Agni, about our Word for thy pivot bring
to light for us Heaven and Earth and the rivers that are
self-revealed; may the Red Ones reach to knowledge and
strength and long days of light, may they choose the force
and the supreme good.