Chapter 16The Fifteenth Hymn to Agni

A HYMN OF THE DIVINE UPHOLDER AND CONQUEROR [The Rishi hymns the Divine Will as the Seer and the Mighty One, the upholder of the Bliss and the Truth, by which men at- tain to the supreme-seated godheads. He breaks leonine through an army of opposers, sees and confirms for man all the possible births and manifestations of the soul, forms in him the secret superconscient plane and by knowledge delivers him into that vast beatitude.]

v Ds

kvy

v %Ay Egr

Br

yfs

p

4yA 'y

G

t so as

r s

f vo rAyo DtA ' DzZo vvo aEn

1. To the Seer and Ordainer who is the object of knowledge I bring the offering of the Word, to the glorious and vic- torious, to the pristine and supreme. He is the Mighty One accomplished in joy who goes forward to the clarities, the strength that is holder of the bliss and holder of the substance. !t n !t

DzZ

DAry t yy fAk

prm

4yomn

Edvo Dm 'n

DzZ

s d

qo n RAt rjAtA & aEB y

nn0

2. By the Truth they uphold the Truth that holds all, in the power of the Sacrifice, in the supreme ether, even they who by the godheads born in them travel to the godheads un- born, to the Powers who are seated for ever in the Law that upholds the heavens.

Hymns to Agni a hoy

vt vt vt

Ev vyo mhd

d

Vr

p

4yA 'y

s s vto nvjAtt

t

yA 't

Es h

n +

d

DmEBt pEr W

3. Putting evil away from them they create wide-extended forms and embodiments of the soul that are a vast birth and indestructible manifestation for this first and supreme godhead; new-born he shall break through armies that join like converging floods; they stand encompassing him like hunters who enring an angry lion. mAt v yd

Brs

p TAno jn jn

DAys

c0s

c

vyovyo jrs

yd

dDAn pEr mnA Evq

#po EjgAEs

4. Thou art even as a mother when in thy wideness thou bearest in thy arms birth after birth to the firm foundation and to the vision. When thou holdest in thee and enjoyest mani- festation after manifestation, thou movest abroad with thy self in many different forms. vAjo n

t

fvspAv tm

z

doG

DzZ

d v rAy

pd

n tAy

g

'hA dDAno mho rAy

EctyEmp

5. May our plenitude possess the furthest limit of thy might, O godhead, where in its wideness and all-yielding abundance it upholds the bliss. Thou art he that forms and upholds in himself that secret abode to which we move; by thy awak- ening of him into knowledge thou hast rescued the enjoyer of things for a vast beatitude.