Writings on the Veda and philology, and translations of Vedic hymns to gods other than Agni not published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime.
On Veda
Writings on the Veda and philology, and translations of Vedic hymns to gods other than Agni not published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. The material includes (1) drafts for 'The Secret of the Veda', (2) translations (simple translations and analytical and discursive ones) of hymns to gods other than Agni, (3) notes on the Veda, (4) essays and notes on philology, and (5) some texts that Sri Aurobindo called 'Writings in Different Languages'. Most of this material was written between 1912 and 1914 and is published here for the first time in a book.
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(1) O wine of Delight, flow forth in thy sweetest and most rapturous stream, pressed out for the Mind to drink.
(2) Slayer of the Rakshasa, doer of all works in the womb of its birth when it [is] smitten with the stone may it arrive by its wooden vessel to the place of our perfectioning.
(3) Becoming a perfect placer in us of the supreme good, fulfilled in plenitude, destroying utterly all that covers and conceals, bring over the joyous wealth of the lords of the plenitude.
(4) Arrive by the ambrosia at the disclosure in man of the vast gods, arrive at the inspiration and the plenitude.
(5) Towards thee we tread that very field day by day; O Bliss, all our aspirations are in thee.
(6) The daughter of the Sun purifies thy wine with her desirable and eternal body.
(7) Thee in the mighty labour the subtle Energies seize upon, the Women ten, sisters in the heaven that man must transcend.
(8) Thee the advancing streams of Life impel and they swell out (or forge) the [ ], the triple honey.
(9) This is the Child whom brightly rejoin the fostering herds of unslayable Light,—delight for Mind to drink.
(10) In the ecstasies of Joy the God in the Mind slays all the Powers that conceal from him and withhold and grows heroic in force, rich in plenitudes, packed with his fullnesses.
The joy of existence is called on to flow in a rapid, intense and abundant flood of delight beyond the limits of the sensational being and reveal or mount into the supramental consciousness which will then be manifest with all its divine powers. This
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comes by the abundance of the pure delight pouring into the luminous mind and awakening all its energies.
(1) Disclosing the godhead do thou flow out of the sheath of the purifying and beyond, O Delight, rushing swiftly. Enter in thy masterful abundance,1 O Lord of sweetness, into the god in the mind.
(2) Masterful in thy abundance and full of a luminous Energy express thy form as a vast enjoying; take thy seat as our firm upholder in the womb whence thou wast born.
3III. The streams of the Disposer of things when he is pressed out milk for us this honey of Love and he becomes perfected in the will and wears the waters of our being for his robe.
(4) Wide those waters as they flow and move to thy wideness, because thou shalt clothe thyself with the Light.
(5) In the waters is purified the Ocean within that is the support and upholder of our heavens; it becomes that wine of Delight that desires us in the place of its purifying.
(6) That bright bay and masterful embracer of our energies shouts aloud becoming vast like Love that has the vision; it shines out brilliant with the light of that Sun.
(7) By energy of that joy, O Power in the mind, thy Words are cleansed of soil and become powerful for the work, by them thou becomest happy and ready for rapture.
(8) Even such we desire thee for that rapture fiery bright who buildest in us that wider world; for all that thou expressest of thy self is wide and great.
(9) Seeking that Mind, O Sweetness, flow pure for us with the stream of thy honey even as the Lord of abundance with all his rains.
(10) O Bliss, the Light thou winnest for us and winnest the Powers of the soul and plenties thou winnest and winnest the swift steed of Life; thou art the self of the world-sacrifice highest and first.
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(1) Lo this divine and immortal that shines out like one that opens wings of delight, to settle in his homes and vessels.
(2) Lo this god in us that is formed by our illumining passes in his race beyond the crookednesses, pure flowing, indomitable.
(3) Lo this god flowing into purity that by the seekers of illumination, by the seekers of the Truth is cleansed of soil for the plenty, the brilliant Lord.
(4) Lo how flowing pure like a fighter charging with all his men wins control over all desirable things.
(5) Lo this divine thing that becomes a movement as of chariots, that in its pure flow becomes a discerning and brings into manifestation.
(6) Lo this divinity affirmed by the illumined enters utterly into the waters of being, holding the Delights for the giver.
(7) Lo this that covers our heavens in its race for he reaches beyond these lower lights in his stream, pure-streaming, crying aloud.
(8) Lo his flood overspreads our heavens beyond the lower shining worlds [ ], pure-flowing, perfect in the journey and the sacrifice.
(9) Lo he who in the pristine birth is pressed out divine for Powers divine, and in the place of purifying is the brilliant one who travels to our goal.
(10) Lo this is he that is born with many laws for his action and gives being to our impulsions and is pressed out and then flows pure in his stream.
(1) Lo the movements of the Joy advance flowing into purity, placing aright the thought and create a conscious felicity.
(2) O Sweetness, become an increaser of the luminous energy in our heaven and in our earth, become the lord of many plenties.
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(3) Pleasant for thee blow the winds of life, pleasant for thee its rivers flow; O Joy, they increase thy Vast.
(4) Be fostered, O Joy; let the might of thee come together from every side; become in the meeting of plenty.
(5) O ruddy Joy, for thee radiant Herds have milked that warm-bright imperishable food on life’s most fecund plateau-tract.
(6) O armèd God, master of what is and what becomes, O Sweetness, thee for companion we desire.
(1) Forward move the streams of the Joy raining ecstasy full of plenitude giving us the Inspiration pressed out in the Knowledge.
(2) With the stones of the pressing the girls of Trita send coursing the brilliant lord of sweetness for the Power in the mind to drink.
(3) As the Swan that seeks the flock it yearns after the mentality in every man, as speed of the vital force it brightens itself with the rays of Thought.
(4) O Joy, looking down from above on the heaven of mind, on the body’s earth like a beast that is spurred thou hastenest on to take thy seat in the womb of the Truth.
(5) The brilliant Herds yearn after thee like [a] woman for a beloved paramour, that they may attain an action that helps the soul.
(6) In us confirm luminous and victorious energy, in the masters of plenitude and in myself, when thought-power and inspiration are won.
(1) Forward go the clear-discerning forces of Joy as waves of the Rivers, as Bulls of the Vastness that seek earth’s pleasant growths.
(2) Ruddy, pure is their brightness, they in a stream of the Truth pour on these vessels full plenty of its rays.
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(3) Poured out for the God in the mind, for the God in the Life, for Varuna the wide, for the Masters of Thought-power, travel its delights, for Vishnu, the pervading Lord.
(4) The Three Words mount upward, the fosterers low, the radiant herds; bright Joy goes shouting aloud.
(5) The mighty Ones of the soul, they who are mothers of the Truth, yearn towards him, they bathe clean the Child of Heaven.
(6) Let stream on us with their thousand ripples, O Joy, the four seas of felicity from all things that are.
(1) Delight pressed in its stream, in its body, travels coursing and its force breaks down all firm-established things.
(2) Poured out for Indra in the mind, for Vayu in the life, for Varuna the wide, for the Masters of Thought-power, travel its delights, for Vishnu, the pervading Lord.
(3) With the stones of the pressing they press out Joy, the Strong one compelled by the Strong; by Power they milk out the food of the gods.
(4) May it become for the Triple Trita a thing for brightening, may it become for the Master of mind a power for ecstasy. Bright Joy adorns itself with many forms.
(5) Him a bright and beloved oblation the many-hued mothers milk out in the heaven of the Truth.
(6) To him all these Words of our Thought move in their undeviating streams; he full of desire yearns after the fostering Herds.
(1) Stream on us in thy continuous flood, O Streamer into purity, a wide felicity, thy flood by which thou findest for us the Light.
(2) O Sweetness, drive in its channel the sea of our existence, set it streaming, put all in motion, be the sustainer of felicity in thy force.
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(3) With thee for our energy of battle we fight and conquer the supreme good. Pour on us the desirable thing.
(4) The Lord of sweetness drives forward, winning control of the plenty, for he is a seer and can win it, he knows the laws of his action, he finds his arms.
(5) Him by our speech we clothe in the expressive Word that flowing pure moves all, Delight that is master of the Light for the world.
(6) For in the law of that Delight every creature is able to hold it, Delight that is lord of the order of things, that in its pure stream is the riches of being born into the world.
(1) He parts in his race like a chariot’s courser pressed into the place of purifying, into the two vessels of the Wine; he progresses in his strength in the path of his labour.
(2) O Joy, upbearing all, awake do thou stream onward and beyond manifesting the gods in the sheath from which the honey drips.
(3) Illumine in us the lights of heaven, O streamer into purity, O ancient and supreme; towards will, towards high discerning impel our march.
(4) The seekers of truth brighten his gladness, the two arms of the light cleanse him from soil as he runs pure in the covering of the higher Sense.
(5) So for the giver, O pure-flowing Joy, all riches of that heaven and this earth and of the world between.
(6) O Joy, right to the heavenly plain thou climbest seeking swiftnesses, seeking light, seeking hero-energies, O thou Master of illumined force.
(1) So pressed out for the drinking the strong abundance of the wine of delight pours into the place of the purifying, destroying the giant powers, desiring in us the gods.
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(2) So into the vessel of the purifying the Bright Joy with its perfect vision hastens all-upholding, crying aloud to the place of its birth.
(3) So pure-streaming he is the steed that gallops over the luminous realms of Heaven slaying the Rakshasas to its covering of the higher Sense.
(4) So on the triple Trita’s plane pure-streaming he makes with his companions that Sun to shine.
(5) So slaying the Coverer pressed strong and abundant out, finder of the supreme good, indomitable, the Lord of Joy moves as to a goal of plenty.
(6) So divine, missioned by the Master of Wisdom he races to his vessels, the Lord of sweetness, for the plenitude of the Power in the mind.
(1) Lo the keen goers that advance as loaded herds of Light and cleave away the black skin.
(2) Our minds strain beyond the bridge of the good journey, the bridge that is hard to build and overpower the Enemy who does not the Law.
(3) The sound of the Joy in its strength is heard like the voice of an abundant Rain; lightnings run about in our heavens.
(4) Stream on us a vast energy rich in the sun’s herds, rich in that gold, rich in the steeds of swiftness, rich in the plenty, O Sweetness, when they have pressed thee out.
(5) Stream pure, O accomplisher of all works, fill with thyself a vast heaven and a vast earth, even as the Dawn of our light has filled them and our Sun with his rays.
(6) [Not translated.]
(1) He gives being to the luminous tracts of heaven, he gives being to the Sun in the Waters, he wears the rays and the waters,—the brilliant Lord,—as a robe.
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(2) This divine one by the ancient thought is pressed out in all the divine powers and he runs pure in his continuous flood.
(3) To the soul increasing and hastening to its goal, towards the winning of its wealth, pure flow the streams of the wine of the Delight in its thousand strengths.
(4) It is the pristine food that it milks out as it drizzles into the place of the purifying; shouting aloud Soma gives being to the gods.
(5) Towards all supreme boons, towards all the gods who increase in the Truth, purifying himself into streams moves the Lord of delight.
(6) Stream out on us the luminous and the mighty, stream out on us all that has vital speed and copious plenty, O Soma, as they press thee out; stream out on us impulsions vast.
(1) This with the Words let us clothe, this that appears as a life-movement cleansed pure of soil, by Light, for Rapture.
(2) This all our words that seek the being’s growth make glad as of old, delight for the Mind to drink.
(3) Purifying its streams bright-rejoicing moves this Bliss perfected by the Words from Medhyatithi’s luminous mind.
(4) O pure-flowing Wine, win for us a felicity, O Lord of delight, entirely glorious and thousand-energied in its brilliant power.
(5) Joy neighs aloud in the sheath of its purifying like the Horse that gallops towards plenty, when desiring the godhead it flows through it and beyond.
(6) Stream pure towards the winning of our plenty, towards the increase of the illumined who declares thee; O Joy, enrich him with an utter force.
(1) Towards a vast formation, O Joy, thou bearest us forward like the sea bearing forward a wave; thou movest becoming
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Ayasya towards the gods.
(2) Clasped in the mentality, made firm by the understanding Joy is impelled towards the supreme and holds seerhood by the illumined mind.
(3) It is this that is awake in the gods and it comes pressed from them into the sheath of the purifying, Delight in his movement accomplishing every work.
(4) So do thou flow pure for us desiring the plenty, effecting a shining sacrifice. Thee man on his fullness places, on all his seats.
(5) May its energy be utterly displayed, may this be ever increasing for the Lord who enjoys and the Lord in the vitality, may Delight labour controlling all in the gods.
(6) Today for possession of the soul’s substance, do thou, finder of the will, discoverer of the Way, conquer for us the plenitude, yea, the inspiration vast.
(1) Stream pure for our rapture with the soul’s strong vision that the godhead may be manifest in us, O Delight for the mind to drink.
(2) Arrive at the goal of thy embassy; let the god in the mind be satisfied; arrive for thy lovers to the godhead, arrive to the highest good.
(3) Ruddy art thou and we will adorn thee with the illuminations of the light for ecstasy. Open wide for us the gates to Bliss.
(4) He has flowed beyond the sheath of the purifying, he is the Steed of Power that flings in its strength its yoke behind on the road. Delight gallops towards the gods.
(5) To him his lovers cry aloud as beyond the senses he sports in the woodlands of his delight. For the lord of the sweetness they yearn who raise the song.
(6) Flow in that pure stream of thine by which when men drink of it thou givest them perfect vision. O Joy of God, for him who affirms thee an utter strength.
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(1) Like horses that gallop and do swiftly their work they are loosed in their race for the manifesting of the gods, they stream, they increase our linked formations.
(2) Powers of sweetness perfected, adorned like a woman by her father’s clan, the outpourings of bliss join and cleave to the vital god.
(3) Lo these outpourings of the delight and the sweetness full of the love and pleasure are poured into their vessels and increase the Power in the mind by works.
(4) O ye bright Energies run and with strong hands seize Soma’s soul-upheaving ecstasies; join his rapture with your rays.
(5) So stream pure, O winner of our wealth, enforcer for us of the vast treasure of felicity, O Joy, find for us the heavenly path.
(6) The ten who impel cleanse this that has to be cleansed, flowing into purity, for the god in the Mind an intoxicating wine.
(1) Lo, by this perfect working Bliss that was great, has increased; full of its own intoxication it aspires upward in its abundance and its mastery.
(2) All that it has done, all that it shall do becomes conscious in it by the beating down of all that opposes. So doing violence, it accumulates its gains of active Truth.
(3) May this Bliss become creme and essence of the Power of mind, even its electric force and win us our full thousand, now that its self-expression is born.
(4) For, seer of the Truth in the man who holds it of itself, it claims the Delight for his illumined mind when his thoughts become clear and bright.
(5) Thou art he who in the bringings, in the manifold plenty for the conquerors winnest possession of the felicities even as of these labouring powers.
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(1) Thou art that which brings to the seats of our fulfilment the mights of the Great Heaven and we seek thee in the beauty of thy brightness by perfection in our works,
(2) Thee, rapture entirely energised and its violent expressions, vast, with its motion of the snake, breaking open for us our hundred cities.
(3) Thence let the Bird of painless delight bring thee to be king of our heavens, O perfect in will, towards felicity.
(4) Him let the Bird bring who for every one that has vision of the luminous heavens is their common possession, transgressor of the lower Light, guardian of the Truth.
(5) Now driving forward he attains to a greater largeness of the Power in the mind, effects his possession of our energies and accomplishes all our endeavour.
(1) Stream down utterly on us thy rain, even the whole wave of the waters from all heaven; undecaying stream down those vast impulsions.
(2) Flow pure in that stream by which the herds of the Light come hither to this our house, they that belong to the creative Delight.
(3) The rich-offering stream down on us in that stream in the sacrifices and manifest entirely the godhead; stream on us the Rain.
(4) For Force race abroad in thy stream over all the sense-life where thou art purified; let the gods in us hear indeed.
(5) Let Bliss purifying itself in its streams flow upon us beating away the giant Devourers, illumining in us all luminousnesses with that pristine Light.
(1) Upward mount thy strengths and their voice is as the sound
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of the waves of the ocean of being. Urge the wheel of the wain.
(2) In thy pouring forth, when thou movest on the plane of the Sense, the three Words in us mount upward desiring their plenitude.
(3) In the veiling of the Sense they with the stones of the pressing send racing the Beloved and the Brilliant pure-flowing from whom sweetness rains.
(4) Flow in thy stream into the place of the purifying, O complete in ecstasy, O Seer, there to take thy seat where our illumination is born.
(5) So stream, O utter ecstasy, brightening thyself with the rays of the Light, with its active beams, O Lord of sweetness, that of thee the Mind may drink.
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