Vedic and Philological Studies

Mandala Three

SUKTA 54

(1) There is this conquering force in us and men when they have [it], make it perpetual, they bring it forward for the godhead which is vast, desirable, born of the Knowledge; may the Flame inviolable respond to us with his powers that are of his supreme home, may he respond with his powers that are of his heavens.

(2) Let the hymn light up for our vast heaven of Mind and our wide earth that vastness of Matter; for in them my desire of it ranges with wish of it in the heart and perception of it in the mind; and by their firm affirmation and in the comings of the knowledge to men the gods serve the Will and are drunken together with its rapture.

(3) In you may there be the Law and the Truth; may you become to us a means for the great and happy attaining. O Will, this obeisance to Earth and Heaven; I serve them with the love and pleasure in me for their food and I march to the ecstasy.

(4) Yea, O ye our firmaments that keep the law of the Truth, the ancients found in you that knowledge of it, for their words gave expression to the Truth; and in your meeting and union that is the Hero’s conquest of the Light, men, O Earth, discovered the knowledge and adored you.

(5) Who knoweth it aright, who here shall declare what path leads utterly to the gods, so that here are seen their lower sessions and there those that are founded in their supreme and secret laws?

(6) Because the Seer who is the eye of the Soul, set vision everywhere upon them, in the source of the Truth they had clarity, they had ecstasy, therefore they fashioned variously the seat of this Session by a common will in their action and a common thought in their knowledge.

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(7) With mutual heart they stood awake, in the wide-flung firm seat of things that lost its ends in the distance; Heaven and Earth have become as young maidens, they have become two sisters and they declare twin names of all things.

(8) They distinguish all, all the Births, they bear the vastnesses of the gods and faint not with that burden; for one that is all moves in them, is the stable and the mobile, and that which walks and that which is winged; one is born everywhere but his form is divergent.

(9) Ever I move in thought to that ancient Truth of the mighty Father who begot us, for that is twin with our being and there the gods who labour penetrate by their movements to the wide path within the far-flung infinity.

(10) O ye our firmaments, I declare this hymn of your affirmation; let them hear it who contain truth in their inward parts and with the tongue of the divine Will taste their enjoyments, the Lord of Love and the Kings of the world and the Lord of Purity, the ever young children of the Infinite, Seers, who widen their being before us.

(11) The Creator with his hands of golden Light and his tongue of enjoyment moves in Heaven’s triple Knowledge and in the gods mayst thou attain to the creative rhythm and loose forth in us, O Projector of things, the all-formation.

(12) May the Framer of things, with his perfect hands that work perfectly, for he has perfect light and possesses the Truth, confirm these things in us for our increasing. O Artisans of Knowledge, ye who have the fostering Sun with you, lift high the pressing stones and grow full of ecstasy, for ye have shaped the march of the sacrifice.

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