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... Vaisvámitra I Hymn to Agni 1) Agni I adore, the priest who stands forward for the sacrifice, the god who acts in the truth of things, the giver of the oblation who disposes utterly delight. 2) Agni adored by the ancient seers is adorable still to the new, for he brings here the gods. 3) By Agni one gets day by day energy&increase victorious and full of force. 4) O Agni, whatsoever material... prayer to Agni, Lord of Tejas, composed when the mind of the Yogin Madhuchchhanda was full of sattwic energy and illumination. 1) Agni the brilliant I adore who standeth before the Lord, the god that has the ecstasy of the truth, the fighter that fulfilleth utter bliss. 2) Agni adorable to the sages of old, adorable to the new, holds up the gods with force & might. 3) By Agni one enjoyeth... force. 4) O Agni, the Lord below about whom thou art on every side a flame encompassing, came by the gods into this world. 5) Agni the fighter, the strong in wisdom, the true, the manifold, the high of fame, has come to us, a god meeting with gods. 6) O beloved, that to the foe who would destroy thee thou, O Agni, doest good, this is the Truth of thee, O Lord of Love. 7) O Agni, to thee yearning ...

... this Yajna and what is this Agni? Yajna, the Master of the Universe, is the universal living Intelligence who possesses and controls His world; Yajna is God. Agni also is a living intelligence that has gone forth, is srishta , from that Personality to do His work and represent His power; Agni is a god. The material sense sees neither God nor gods, neither Yajna nor Agni; it sees only the elements and... Madhuchchhanda Vaisvamitra's Hymn to Agni written in the Gayatri metre in which the first verse runs in the devabhasha, "Agnim île puro hitam Yajnasya devam ritvijam, hotaram ratnadhatamam" and in English, "Agni I adore, who stands before the Lord, the god who seeth Truth, the warrior, strong disposer of delight." So the Rigveda begins with an invocation to Agni, with the adoration of the pure... on. So too the fire is not Agni in himself but Agni in manifestation and the world is not God in Himself but God in manifestation. The man is not manifested only by his body, but also and much more perfectly by his work and Page 522 action, thought is not manifested only by look and gesture, but also and much more perfectly by action and speech. So too, Agni is not manifested only by fire ...

... a passage in the first hymn of the first Mandala, the invocation to Agni with which the Rig Veda opens. Agni the god of the sacred flame, ruler of the sacrifice, is described there as the "shining guardian of the Truth increasing in his own home", gopâm ritasya dîdivim . If we wish to render this verse ritualistically and take Agni as nothing but the physical fire we must interpret rita otherwise... suggest a profound psychological character for the god Agni, the shining guardian of the Truth. It does not matter how we take kratu . Kavi is the seer, one who has vision of the revealed Truth and receives the inspired word, the drashtâ of the Vedic mantra with the inspired mind of knowledge. If kratu is sacrifice—Sayana often prefers "work"—then Agni is the priest whose sacrifice is that of the seer... way, cannot be disconnected; the phrase must mean therefore that Agni is guided in his will or his works by the seer's vision of the Truth because he is himself true in his being, free from the cosmic falsehood. What then of chitraҫravastamah ? Has it no connection at all with the two preceding words or does it mean that because Agni is true in being and has the seer-will, therefore he gives man all ...

... 17) Agni has won perfected energy for Kanwa and has won perfected enjoyment; Agni protects for him all friendly things, Agni keeps ever in safe being Medhyatithi who has confirmed him by the song of praise. अग्निना तुर्वशं यदुं परावत उग्रादेवं हवामहे । अग्निर्नयन्नववास्त्वं बृहद्रथं तुर्वितिं दस्यवे सहः ॥१८॥ 18) By Agni we call Turvasha and Yadu from the upper kingdoms; Agni has led... वर्धयामसि ॥११॥ 11) Even that Agni whom Medhyatithi Kanwa has kindled high upon the Truth, may his impulses blaze forth, him may these fulfilling Words, him, even Agni, may we increase. रायस्पूर्धि स्वधावोऽस्ति हि तेऽग्ने देवेष्वाप्यम् । त्वं वाजस्य श्रुत्यस्य राजसि स नो मूळ महाँ असि ॥१२॥ 12) Complete our felicities, O thou who hast the self-fixity; for with thee, O Agni, is effectivity in the... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala One Hymns to the Mystic Fire Kanwa Ghaura [ ] - blank left by the author to be filled in later but left unfilled, which the editors were not able to fill. SUKTA 36 प्र वो यह्वं पुरुणां विशां देवयतीनाम् । अग्निं सूक्तेभिर्वचोभिरीमहे यं सीमिदन्य ईळते ॥१॥ 1) The master of many peoples who labour towards ...

... Hymn to Agni. 1) सोमस्य मा तवसं वक्षि अग्ने वन्हिं चकर्थ विदथे यजध्यै । देवानच्छा दीद्यद्युंजे अद्रिं शमाये अग्ने तन्वं जुषस्व ॥१॥ Sayana renders the sloka—O Agni, since thou for sacrificing in the sacrifice hast made me the bearer of the Soma, therefore desire me who am powerful. O Agni, I shining towards the gods apply the stone (for pressing the Soma) and become calm (or praise). O Agni, cleave... सपत्नी शुचये सबंधू उभे अस्मै मनुष्ये नि पाहि ॥१०॥ Sayana. This Agni bears the world (herbs etc) of the Brahman, father of the whole world, which is the offspring (by rain) of the father (the mid-air); one Agni eats many which have grown; Heaven & Earth co-wives (of the Sun) & beneficent to men are friends to this raining & pure Agni. O Agni, protect them. The rendering of this verse also may be dismissed... very sweet water flow out. Sayana explains the passage to mean that when Agni is pleased with Page 620 the hymn of the sacrificer, then it rains. Possibly; but that is not what Viswamitra says. He says that when Agni increases, then streams of घृत flow out. The pluvial interpretation of the Agni & Indra legends (they are not legends but symbols & metaphors) suffers always from this defect ...

... ecstasies Agni, priest of the offering, takes seat in his might for the sacrifice. 6) Mighty for sacrifice Agni of the offerings takes his seat in the lap of theMother, in that rapturous middle world, young and a seer, seated in many homes of his dwelling, full of the Truth, upholding our actions and therefore kindled in the mid-spaces. Page 701 7) Verily, it is this Agni, the illumined... thousand horns of thy flame, strong with that Strength, O Agni, by thy might thou art in front of all others. 9) At once, O Agni, thou passest beyond all others in him to whom thou makest thyself manifest in thy splendid beauty, adorable and full of body and widely luminous, the beloved guest of the human peoples. 10) To thee,Ovigorous Agni, the continents (or the peoples) bring their oblation from... gaṇasya raśanám ajígah, Agni has put forth his collected power for an uplifted and perfect activity, ruśad adarśi pájo,—for redness is always the symbolic colour of action and enjoyment. This pájas, Agni's force or massed army, is again described in the gaṇasya raśanám, but while the idea in the second verse is that of their indistinctive mass, here the gaṇah or host of Agni's powers, the devatás of ...

... Vaisvámitra. I Hymn to Agni 1) Agni I adore, the priest who stands forward for the sacrifice, the god who acts in the truth of things, the giver of the oblation who disposes utterly delight. 2) Agni adored by the ancient seers is adorable still to the new, for he brings here the gods. 3) By Agni one gets day by day energy & increase victorious and full of force. 4) O Agni, whatsoever material... encompassest with thy being on every side, that goes to the gods. 5) Agni, he that offers the oblation, whose strength is in wisdom, the true, the rich in various inspiration, comes a god with the gods. 6) That thou, O Agni, wilt surely bring about good for the giver, that is the truth of thee, O lord of love. 7) To thee, O Agni, day by day, in darkness and in light we come in our minds bearing ...

... [24] RV IV.3 3. Vamadeva's third hymn to Agni. 1) आ वो राजानमध्वरस्य रुद्रं होतारं सत्ययजं रोदस्योः । अग्निं पुरा तनयित्नोरचित्ता- द्धिरण्यरुपमवसे कृणुध्वं ॥ The fierce king of the sacrifice, the offerer, who effects by sacrifice truth in the two firmaments, Agni for yourselves before the extending ignorance set in his brilliant form for your growth... सुमृळीकाय. ग्रावेव. Sy. interprets "Agni whom the Yajaman praises pressing out Soma as the stone presses it out". Applied to the Yajaman the image is wholly needless & becomes a stupid & inappropriate ornament; for what is meant by the Yajamana producing Soma with the stone just as the stone produces it by itself? The simile has force & propriety only if applied to Agni who produces the Ananda as the stone... hast thou declared that to Varuna,O Agni, how to Heaven? what sin in us dost thou rebuke? How to Mitra bounteous or to the earth hast thou said it or what to Aryaman & what to Bhaga? 6) कद् धिष्ण्यासु वृधसानो अग्ने कद्वाताय प्रतवसे शुर्भंये । परिज्मने नासत्याय क्षे ब्रवः कदग्ने रुद्राय नृघ्ने ॥ What hast thou said in the seats of being, O increasing Agni? what to Wind who driveth forward ...

... delightful and supreme offerer of sacrifice, and to him may we be dear and full of the strengths of Agni. स्वग्नयो हि वार्यं देवासो दधिरे च नः । स्वग्नयो मनामहे ॥८॥ 8) For when the gods are full of the strengths of Agni, then they hold firmly for us the supreme good; full of the strengths of Agni may we be in our meditation. अथा न उभयेषाममृतमर्त्यानाम् । मिथः सन्तु प्रशस्तयः ॥९॥ 9)... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala One Hymns to the Mystic Fire Shunahshepa Ajigarti SUKTA 26 वसिष्वा हि मियेध्य वस्त्राण्यूर्जां पते । सेमं नो अध्वरं यज ॥१॥ 1) Gird on thy robes, O thou adorable one,—master of all abounding mights, conduct this our oblation. नि नो होता वरेण्यः सदा यविष्ठ मन्मभिः । अग्ने दिवित्मता वचः ॥२॥ ... वचः । चनो धाः सहसो यहो ॥१०॥ 10) O Agni, enrich with all thy strengths and confirm, thou masterful user of force, this my sacrifice, this my speech, this delight. Page 125 SUKTA 27 अश्वं न त्वा वारवन्तं वन्दध्या अग्निं नमोभिः । सम्राजन्तमध्वराणाम् ॥१॥ 1) As the swift strength that bringeth blessings I adore thee with obeisances, the strong Agni, supreme and king over all below. ...

... hymns to Agni in a small book entitled Hymns to the Mystic Fire . Subsequent editions of this book included translations of hymns to Agni and other materials related to Agni from his manuscripts of various periods. PART I: HYMNS TO THE MYSTIC FIRE This part comprises the complete contents of Hymns to the Mystic Page 747 Fire : Hymns to Agni from the... Note on the Texts HYMNS TO THE MYSTIC FIRE consists primarily of translations of hymns to Agni (the "mystic fire") from the Rig Veda. It also contains prose pieces in which Sri Aurobindo commented on hymns to Agni or expounded his theory of Vedic interpretation with reference to Agni hymns. Other material on the Veda and on philology that was not published during the author’s lifetime... standard text of the Rig Veda. Translations of many of the hymns to Agni in Mandala One and almost all of those in Mandalas Three, Four, Five, Seven, Eight and Ten appear in this part of the present volume. (Translations of the Agni hymns in Mandalas Two and Six and some of those in the first Mandala appear in Part One. There are no hymns to Agni in the ninth Mandala.) The editors have followed tradition by ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala One Hymns to the Mystic Fire Gotama Rahugana SUKTA 74 उपप्रयन्तो अध्वरं मन्त्रं वोचेमाग्नये । आरे अस्मे च शृण्वते ॥१॥ 1) As we move forward to the path of the sacrifice let us speak out the word of our thought to Agni who hears us from afar and from within. यः स्नीहितीषु पूर्व्यः संजग्मानासु... tramp is heard of the horses of thy chariot in its going when thou goest on thy embassy, O Agni. त्वोतो वाज्यह्रयोऽभि पूर्वस्मादपरः । प्र दाश्वाँ अग्ने अस्थात् ॥८॥ 8) By thee fostered the horse of life goes undeviating, each one after that which preceded it, and the giver of sacrifices progresses, O Agni. Page 139 उत द्युमत् सुवीर्यं बृहदग्ने विवाससि । देवेभ्यो देव दाशुषे ॥९॥... ॥९॥ 9) Yea, and thou lodgest throughout his being for the giver and his gods, O God, Agni, a vast and luminous completeness of energy. SUKTA 77 कथा दाशेमाग्नये कास्मै देवजुष्टोच्यते भामिने गीः । यो मर्त्येष्वमृत ऋतावा होता यजिष्ठ इत् कृणोति देवान् ॥१॥ 1) How shall we give to Agni? For him what Word accepted by the Gods is spoken, for the lord of the brilliant flame? for him who in mortals ...

... n of far and near or far and within is common enough in the Veda; Agni is also constantly spoken of as in mortals, विक्षु, मर्त्येषु that this does not mean simply among—or here "from far and from among us"—is shown by I.60.2 where Agni is described as विश्पतिर्विक्षु वेधाः and the विक्षु is explained by 3, तं .. हृद आ जायमानं. Agni Page 559 created by the human Ritwiks and born from the... it is only when Agni is within it that the sacrificial house becomes worshipable, त्वय्यंतर्विद्यमाने सति हि यज्ञगृहं पूज्यते, therefore to ask Agni to worship his own house amounts to asking him to get into it! Page 575 Comment on such an absurdity is hardly needed. स्वं दमं. The ऋतं बृहत् in the form of the world called स्वः, उ लोक, उरु लोकः is the own home of Agni and all the gods... prepares the manifestation of the vast Truth; this wideness of the Rodasi is always a feature of the ascent of the gods, Agni or Indra, in that upward progress to the plane of the Truth, Swar, of which Agni here is the पुरएता, he who goes in front. Sayana's rendering. Come, O Agni, sit here as the summoning priest; because thou art beyond the injury (of the Rakshasas) be well he who goes in front ...

... be supplied by the editors. [?word] - doubtful reading. Gaya Atreya's Hymn to Agni— 1) O Agni, Light of our embodied being, bring to us an illumination most full of force; do thou by power of an all-environing felicity cleave for us towards the goal of possession our path in front. 2) Thou, O wonderful Agni, becomest by the Will the fullness in us of discernment and in thee the doer climbeth... 3) Do thou for us, O Agni, increase attainment and plenty in these who by the confirming mantras of praise, as Purushas of the Sun, enjoy the fullnesses. 4) They, O Agni rapturous, who by delight of the Steed of Life have joy of the words, are Purushas strong in all energies for whom even in heaven the full perfection of the vaster Being awakens of itself. 5) These, O Agni, are thy burning rays... prays to Agni, Lord of Tapas, the representative in Nature of the Divine Power that builds the worlds & works in them towards our soul's fulfilment in and beyond heaven—Agni, as játavedas, the self-existent luminosity of knowledge in this Cosmic Force—for Force is only Chitshakti, working power of the Divine Consciousness & therefore Cosmic Force is always self-luminous, all-knowing force. Agni Jatavedas ...

... follow Agni as on a path to a great riches रयिं which they find in him, and again in 4, where the thought is expanded and made quite clear, for there it is said the Rishis travel to (व्यंतः) the seat of the god and the wealth they find is श्रवः (श्रव आपन्नमृक्तं), the fullness of the outflowing of the Page 738 Truth which Agni leads us to and which is found in the very self of Agni, त्वे... S. interprets, giving wealth to Agni! This is a portentous feat of learning! I fail to understand how "being wakeful" can mean giving, or how it can govern the accusative रयिं. Evidently रयिं is governed by the sense of "going to" in अनु ग्मन्, an accusative of the destination reached,—in literal English, they followed Agni to the wealth, or in the wake of Agni reached the wealth. रुशंतं. S... to fill. [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors. I. Hymn to Agni 1) Thou, O Agni, art the supreme (or first) thinker (or giver of thought); and art the priest of invocation of this thinking, O doer of works (or,OPuissant); thou hast made an impassable strength for thyself ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala One Hymns to the Mystic Fire Medhatithi Kanwa [ note ] - situations requiring textual explication; all such information is printed in italics. SUKTA 12 अग्निं दूतं वृणीमहे होतारं विश्ववेदसम् । अस्य यज्ञस्य सुकतुम् ॥१॥ 1) We choose Agni, the summoner, the all-knowing, the messenger, the will effective... सोमपीतये । देवेभिर्याहि यक्षि च ॥१॥ 1) With all these gods, O Agni, thou who art the activity of speech, arrive and do thy work. आ त्वा कण्वा अहूषत गृणन्ति विप्र ते धियः । देवेभिरग्न आ गहि ॥२॥ 2) On thee, O Agni, the Kanwas have called, for thee, O master of wisdom, their movements of understanding become articulate; arrive, O Agni, with the gods. इन्द्रवायू बृहस्पतिं मित्राग्निं पूषणं... पायय ॥७॥ 7) Make them active to the Yajna, O Agni, they increase by truth, they have with them their female powers; make them drink the sweetnesses, O keen of tongue. ये यजत्रा य ईड्यास्ते ते पिबन्तु जिह्वया । मधीरग्ने वषट्कृति ॥८॥ 8) Those that are active to Yajna, those that are adorable, let both of them drink with thy tongue, O Agni, the heady sweetness of the wine. आकीं सूर्यस्य ...

... RV I.140 Dirghatamas' Hymn to Agni I.140. 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.    (शुक्र = a white brightness.) 2) The twice-born Agni moves (intense) about his triple food; it is eaten... 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 in our battles.    (श्वसिः is the Greek χάσɩς and an old variant of श्वसृ—wife or sister. Therefore it is coupled with वृषा—like पत्नी.) 11) This, O Agni, is that which... bright & pure from thy body, thou winnest for us the delight. 12) Thou givest us, O Agni, for chariot & 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. Page 601 13) Mayst thou, O Agni, about our Word for thy pivot bring to light for us Heaven & Earth and the rivers that ...

... electrical Man, of the Upanishads. In the vijnana, Surya as well as Vishnu is greater than Agni, but here he and Vishnu both work under the dominant energy of Agni and for the satisfaction of Indra,—Vishnu in the Upanishads being younger than Indra,—Upendra. Translated into the language of physics, this means that Agni, commanding as he does heat and cold, is the fundamental Page 472 active energy... essential light which is the basis of the satkosha, the electrical energy or vaidyutam, and the tejas of agni modified by the nature of Surya and determining all other forms of light. The prakasha and vaidyutam can only become active when they enter into Agni and work under the conditions of his being and Agni himself is the supplier of Surya; he creates jyoti, he creates tejas, he creates, negatively, chhaya... of Agni and are in a position to understand the hymn we are studying. The word Agni is formed from the root अग् with the nominal addition नि. The root अग् is itself a derivative root from the primitive अ meaning "to be", of which traces are found in many languages. The ग gives an idea of force and अग् therefore means to exist in force, preeminently—to be splendid, strong, excellent and Agni means ...

... म मननीयं शत्रूणां धनं    चित् पूजायां    अभ्यसि अभिभवसि    प्रतिरसि प्रवर्धयसि (देवताता Agni on high as Hotri of the Adhwara in the Devatati. Agni overpowers every मन्म and carries forward the intelligence of the Vedhâ.) S. High, very high for us stand, O summoner (or, performer of offering), O Agni, a great sacrificer in the sacrifice (in which the gods are extended). Tr. [Translation:]... द्युलोकस्योपरि S. The intelligent offering priest, the enrapturing Agni of great knowledge is settled among the peoples (the priests) in (for) the sacrifices; he resorts upward to his lustre like the sun; like a pillar he supports his smoke above the heaven. Tr. The offering priest inspired of mind has taken his seat in the peoples, Agni, the rapturous, the wise thinker in the gettings of knowledge;... सुमेकः सुदीप्तः सुधितः स्वधितिरित्यर्थः अनक्ति गच्छति. स्वरुणा पशु-मनक्तीति श्रुतेः S. The (ghee-giving) flame (or ladle?) controlled and very swift (or very old) is wealthy (ie full of ghee); he (Agni or the Adhwaryu) becomes or goes (round from left) to right, widening the sacrifice; and also the new-born post becomes high; approaching, very bright, the axe(?) goes to the animals (or the post excellent ...

... [20] RV III.1.1-12 Viswamitra's hymn to Agni. 1) O divine Strength, bear me up, thou who hast made me strong to bear in the knowledge the Soma for life's sacrifice; brightening towards the gods I yoke to them my settled being and tranquillise it; cleave, O Agni, to my body. वक्षि Sayana. कामयस्व- but elsewhere [वह] अद्रिं    Sayana    ग्रावाणं... attains calm", "tranquillising his heart he adores or desires", "That mortal, O Agni, sacrifices & becomes calm." तन्वं. Say. शरीरं । यद्दा कर्माणि तन्वंतं मां । 2) We have turned towards the supreme our sacrifice, may our expression increase! By fuel of his burning, by worship of submission they have set Agni to his workings, they have declared in the heaven of mind the perceptions of the... of Life worked at him, the gods in his very birth increased the body of Agni. शिशुं न । यथा जातं शिशुमश्वा वडवा अभ्यारुः । अभिगच्छंति तथा नद्य उत्पन्नमग्निमभिजग्मुः । जनिमन् । जन्मन्युदके वा । वपुष्यन् । वपुर्दीप्तिमकुर्वन् । I see no reason for taking janiman in the sense of water, when the whole talk is about Agni's birth, जनुषा, जज्ञानं, जातं, or वपुस् = light, when the whole talk is about ...

... seest, O god, beyond the darkness of the night. O Agni, secure in thy friendship may we come not to harm. सुप्रतीकः. With a beautiful face. सदृङ्. With the sight of the higher vision, drishti. प्रतीक is that which faces or confronts—so a face or figure. Agni as divine Tapas is everywhere, a thing of beauty & delight behind all being in activity. Agni as force of knowledge is like a flash of lightning... Page 598 forces. Agni is to drive them from the path & make the शंस smooth & easy. 10) When thou hast yoked the rosy and scarlet-red to the car driven by the Wind, thy cry is like a bull's; thou ravagest the forest-places of delight with thy flag of smoke, O Agni, secure in thy friendship may we not come to harm. अरुषा. The rose-red horses of Agni are physically the red flames... simpler senses in classical Sanscrit. "Let us forge strongly a hymn for Agni who deserves it" will make a good grammatical sense, but very poor poetry & no philosophical significance. The Buddhist Arhat certainly did not mean merely a deserving person; it meant one extremely exalted, or one who had risen high above the world. Agni, the high exalted, meaning ultimately one of those who dwell in the Parardha ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala One Hymns to the Mystic Fire Dirghatamas Auchathya SUKTA 140 वेदिषदे प्रियधामाय सुद्युते धासिमिव प्र भरा योनिमग्नये । वस्त्रेणेव वासया मन्मना शुचिं ज्योतीरथं शुक्रवर्णं तमोहनम् ॥१॥ 1) Offer like a secure seat that womb to Agni the utterly bright who sits upon the altar and his abode is bliss; clothe... us, O Agni, in our fullnesses, henceforth be 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 in our battles. इदमग्ने सुधितं दुर्धितादधि प्रियादु चिन्मन्मनः प्रेयो अस्तु ते । यत् ते शुकं तन्वो रोचते शुचि तेनास्मभ्यं वनसे रत्नमा त्वम् ॥११॥ 11) This, O Agni, is that... या च ॥१२॥ 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 cross the peace. अभी नो अग्न उकथमिज्जुगुर्या द्यावाक्षामा सिन्धवश्च स्वगूर्ताः । गव्यं यव्यं यन्तो दीर्धाहेषं वरमरुण्यो वरन्त ॥१३॥ 13) Mayst thou, O Agni, about our Word for thy pivot bring ...

... possessed of truth. It is the god Agni, not the physical fire who is described by these epithets. Therefore ते चेतनं in the last verse must mean Agni "awakening to knowledge" or Agni's awakening of man to knowledge,—for चेतयति means either to know or to cause to know, and cannot mean the burning of the physical flame. But what is this truth and knowledge of Agni? It is associated again in the next... least here, to put the thing in its lowest terms, a strong possibility of a deeper psychological functioning of Agni. These are the main points for solution. Let us see then how the physiognomy of Agni evolves in the Riks; keeping our minds open, let us examine whether the hypothesis of Agni as one of the Gods of the Vedic Mysteries is tenable or untenable. And that means, whether the Veda is a semi-barbaric... there is the day or the continuous knowledge, the illuminations of Agni are like stars in the nocturnal heavens. Heaven is the mental as earth is the physical being; all the truth and knowledge of Agni is there, but hidden now by the darkness of night. Men know that the Light is there pervading the skies but see only by the stars which Agni has kindled as his fires of illumination in those heavens. ...

... and prayer to Agni, Lord of Tejas, composed when the mind of the Yogin Madhuchchhanda was full of sattwic energy and illumination. 1) Agni the brilliant I adore who standeth before the Lord, the god that has the ecstasy of the truth, the fighter that fulfilleth utter bliss. 2) Agni adorable to the sages of old, adorable to the new, holds up the gods with force & might. 3) By Agni one enjoyeth... and a mastery full of force. 4) O Agni, the Lord below about whom thou art on every side a flame encompassing, came by the gods into this world. 5) Agni the fighter, the strong in wisdom, the true, the manifold, the high of fame, has come to us, a god meeting with gods. Page 465 6) O beloved, that to the foe who would destroy thee thou, O Agni, doest good, this is the Truth of thee... thee, O Lord of Love. 7) O Agni, to thee yearning if day by day we embrace thee with our mind and bear the law, then thou growest in mastery and might:— 8) To thee the shining one of the gods below who guardest the energy of the nectar and increasest in thy home. 9) Do thou therefore, O Agni, become lavish of thy approach to us as a father to his child; cleave to us for our heavenly bliss. ...

... troubler do violence to thee, O Agni. स्पश् is exactly expressed by the French éclaireur,—they are the flaming illuminations of Agni Jatavedas which help us to distinguish friend & enemy, Arya & unArya, truth & falsehood. 4) उदग्ने तिष्ठ प्रत्या तनुष्व न्यमित्राँ ओषतात्तिग्महेते । यो नो अरातिं समिधान चक्रे नीचा तं धक्षि अतसं न शुष्कं ॥ Rise up high, O Agni, spread thyself against them... may those protecting powers of thine continuously seated in us, O Agni, shield us, O illimitable Agni. अव्रृकाः. Sy. not tearing. अमूर—अमूढ सर्वज्ञ । यदूा अमूर अप्रति-हतगते । 13) ये पायवो मामतेयं ते अग्ने पश्यंतो अंधं दुरितादरक्षन् । ररक्ष तान्सुकृतो विश्ववेदा दिप्संत इद्रिपवो नाह देभूः ॥ Thy protecting powers, O Agni, which guarded the son of Mamatá from stumbling; the Omniscient guardeth... Annotated Translations Commentaries and Annotated Translations Mandala Four Hymns to the Mystic Fire [25] RV IV.4 4. Vamadeva's fourth hymn to Agni. 1) कृणुष्व पाजः प्रसितिं न पृथ्वीं याहि राजेव अमवानिभेन । तृष्वीमनु प्रसितिं द्रूणानो अस्तासि विध्य रक्षसस्तपिष्ठैः ॥ Make the mass of thy strength like a wide marching, go like a king strong ...

... in the gods as the worker of our perfection, Agni, priest of the offering strong in sacrifice by his might to purify, by the offerings of man to impel him on the path; 2) Iha twam súno sahaso no adya, játo játán ubhayán antar Agne; Dúta íyase yuyujána ṛishva, ṛijumushkán vṛishaṇah sh ukrán sh cha; Here born today, O child of Force, thou, O Agni, goest as our messenger between the births of... carrying him through some danger, so should Agni, similarly pleased by the praises & gifts of the sacrificer, carry him beyond evil or calamity. I suggest that हेम, हेम्या is from हि to rush, throw & when used of a horse in Veda, akin in sense to हयः, the charger, the swift charger. हेम्या will then mean impetuous in speed. स्वे दमे हेम्यावान् refers directly to Agni, not to अश्व, although the idea of the... Of whomsoever thou, O Agni, cleavest to the sacrifice, a god the sacrifice of a mortal, that well-established, thou full of delight, glad indeed becometh that Lady of the offering, O young & vigorous god, of whom disposing the action may we be the increasers. Sayana with startling coolness explains the feminine सा होत्रा as स होता! यस्य surely refers to Agni, who is alone mentioned in this ...

... it must be taken to mean nectar or immortality and Agni is the protector of the amrita in the body or of the immortality of the body; if with दीदिविम्, it must mean the Immortal, God, and Agni is a splendid energy of the Immortal. The general sense of the verse will be the same, since अमृतस्य दीदिविम् in the latter interpretation explains how Agni has the force to be the protector of all creatures... and अगस्ति,—the former term often applied to Agni. There was another signification, to cling, embrace, love, which we find in the Greek Page 525 ἀϒάπƞ, love, ἀϒανóς, tender, gentle, charming, which seems to have been another meaning of अंगिरः, loving, and appears in the mode of address अंग, in अंकः, अंगम् etc, & in अनंग the god of love. Agni is the bright and strong, the bright god of fire... need to take पुरोहितम् in any but its original and primitive sense. Agni may be described as the Purohita or representative of the gods in the sacrifice, he is in no sense a sacrificer at the ceremony, in no sense either Purohit or Ritwik. He is the eater of the sacrifice not its priest. Even if Yajna is taken to mean sacrifice, Agni cannot rightly be called its priest, and पुरोहितम् will still have ...

... be pleased = pleasure, satisfaction and is coupled with मयः bliss, happiness. Agni is the प्रिय अतिथि because he is अतिथिः सुप्रयाः, a force of work inhabiting us that gives perfect pleasure as the result of the working. Because he is सुप्रयाः, therefore he is मित्र इव. All these expressions must be taken in sequence. Agni is a force of will resident in man that gives a perfect light (सुद्योत्मानं)... house of the soul. Sayana's rendering. The gods established Agni who satisfies them among the human peoples when they were about to seek their home as men departing to seek wealth establish a friend; he shines in (or, illumines) the desiring nights, who is a giver for the giver of the offering in his house (of sacrifice). I render. "Agni the gods have set in the human peoples, a satisfying friend... billowing Nights, he who for the giver of the sacrifice dwells in his house as a power of discernment." The purpose of the gods and the action of Agni thus expressed explain verse 2) The vast worlds are the home of Mitra; in taking possession of them Agni is fulfilling the purpose of the gods in setting him here as well as the arrangement made by the Bhrigus; he is bringing Mitra to his home. And he ...

... thy embassy, O Agni. 8) By thee fostered the horse of life goes undeviating, each one after that which preceded it, and the giver of sacrifices progresses, O Agni. 9) Yea, and thou lodgest throughout his being for the giver and his gods, O God, Agni, a vast and luminous completeness of energy. The Hymn is a hymn of the Adhwara Yajna, the Sacrifice of the Path. Agni, the Divine Will-Force... speak out the word of our thought to Agni who hears us from afar and from within. 2) He who supreme (ancient, first) in the worlds of our action that pour forth the clarity meeting together (or, when our labours that drip their fruit combine together), protects for the giver his attaining (or movement). 3) Yea, let all creatures born (be able to) say, "Up Agni comes into being, slayer of Vritras... च नो वसो सचा । इंद्र यज्ञं च वर्धय ॥ which gives in a few words the theory of the divine acceptance of the Mantra. 2) सनीहितीषु. Sayana takes as "slaying", "those who slay" and he explains that Agni protects the sacrificer's wealth गय when the peoples who hurt come together in the battle to destroy or plunder. His note is वधकारिणीषु—ष्णिह स्नेहने । स्नेहयतीति वधकर्मसु पठितः । स्नेह्यंते हिंस्यंते ...

... sacrifice who stands in front of the consciousness and the action and conducts it. This is always the force of the "placing in front" which is so common an idea in the hymns. Normally this place belongs to Agni who leads the sacrifice. देवं. Sy. दनादिगुणयुक्तं. Sayana's dealing with the word देवः is peculiar; sometimes he renders it simply "god", sometimes he gives it some root value, दान, देवन, sometimes... Darkness. ऋत्विजं. "He who sacrifices at the right season" is the outward or ritualistic sense; but ऋतु in the Veda, as we shall see, is the order of the truth, its arranged law, time, circumstance. Agni is the representative priest who sacrifices according to the law, order, season of the Ritam. होतारं. Sy. "because he utters the Mantra" and he quotes अहं होता स्तौमि; but he renders it sometimes... offering, therefore the invocation or praise might also fall to Page 541 the part of the होता; but in the system of the Rigveda the proper name for the reciter of the Mantra is ब्रह्मा. Agni is the Hotri, Brihaspati the Brahma. रत्न. Sy. यागफलरूपाणां रत्नानामतिशयेन धारयितारं पोषयितारं वा. धा to hold and धा to nourish (cf धात्री nurse). But in other passages he takes रत्न = रमणीयं धनं ...

... Translations Mandala Four Hymns to the Mystic Fire [22] RV IV.1 1. Hymn to Agni. Subject. The final siddhi and liberation by true knowledge into the triple fullness of Sachchidananda. 1) Thee verily, O Agni, have the gods, thee too a god, ever & always (सदमित्) in their activity of mind sent down into the world (ni) as the worker (in man)... ar to fight, to labour, to drive on (Ashti)—Agni is the divine worker & fighter who pushes Page 634 man on in his journey. इतिशब्दो हेत्वर्थः—therefore men too send thee by the work (hymn). नि = नितरां according to Sy.; rather = in = into the strife & labour of the lower world. आदेवं—नानादेशवर्तिषु यज्ञेषु व्याप्तं. 2) So do thou, O Agni, by right thinking turn towards the gods Varuna... 4) Thou, O Agni, know and put away from us by thy workings the wrath of Varuna, the god; mightiest in the act of the sacrifice and in its upholding, burning bright, do thou deliver us from all hostile powers. Text. Twam no Agne Varuṇasya vidván, devasya heḍo ava yásisíshṭháh; Yajishṭho vahnitamah shosh ucháno, vi sh vá dweshá n si pra mumugdhi asmat. 5) So, O Agni, do thou with ...

... is ज्योतिः, भाम is rather तेजः. देवजुष्टा. S. सर्वैर्देवैः सेवितव्या वाक्. The gods have to be created by Agni in the mortal, therefore a revealing word is needed to which the cosmic deities will attach themselves, making it their dwelling-place, so that through its instrumentality Agni may create the corresponding godheads in the individual. गीः like Page 582 शंसः is the word which... which expresses, which brings out, makes प्रशस्त what is unexpressed in the state of अशस्ति and therefore latent. मर्त्येषु अमृतः. The usual description of Agni, the divine Will; he is the precondition of man's immortality, always present even in his mortality, always shining though smoke-obscured even in his state of night; it is this Will that wakened to greatness and clarity by the Dawn rises up... man is necessarily beyond the understanding of the ritualist; but what gymnastic feats are needed to wriggle out of the plain sense of a plain phrase! Sayana's rendering. How should we give to Agni, what praise that can be accepted by the gods is spoken to the shining one, who, Hotri immortal and possessed of sacrifice, a great sacrificer, dwelling in (among?) mortals makes the gods possessed ...

... Four Hymns to the Mystic Fire [26] RV IV.5 5. Vamadeva's fifth hymn to Agni. 1) वैश्वानराय मीळ्हुषे सजोषाः कथा दाशेम अग्नये बृहद्भाः । अनृनेन बृहता वक्षथेन उप स्तभायदुपमित्र रोधः ॥ Together how shall we give to Agni Vaishvanara in his bounty, who have gained the wide light (of the Truth); with a vast & illimitable upbearing he supporteth... who in his self-fixity has given to me, to a mortal this felicity, seizer of things immortal & wise in knowledge he has given it to my ripeness—the lord of universal strength, the mighty & mastering Agni. Sy. मा निंदत । स्तुतेत्यर्थः! पाकाय—परिपक्वज्ञानाय. गृत्सो. Sy. मेधाविनामैतत्. Page 666 3) साम द्विबर्हा महि तिग्मभृष्टिः सहस्ररेता वृषभस्तुविष्मान् । पदं न गोरपगृळ्हं विविद्वा-... नग्निर्मह्यं प्रेदु वोचन्मनीषाम् ॥ May the Bull of Force with his thousandfold seed of delight, fiery in his burning strength, express in me, he who has fullness of the two worlds, mighty Sama; may Agni express in me in speech the Intelligence as it were finding perfectly in knowledge the hidden place of the Cow of Light. दविबर्हा. Sy. द्वयोः स्थानयोः परिवृढः. तुविष्मान्. Sy. बहुधनः—तुविः, तवस् ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Ten Hymns to the Mystic Fire Agni Pavaka SUKTA 140 अग्ने तव श्रवो वयो महि भ्राजन्ते अर्चयो विभावसो । बृहद्भानो शवसा वाजमुक्थ्यं दधासि दाशुषे कवे ॥१॥ 1) O Fire, thy inspiration and thy growth and thy lights blaze in their greatness, O thou who shinest out with thy lustres; O great luminousness, O seer ...

... divine and immortal in mortals they brought to birth as the conscious knower divine within, they brought to birth the universal, the conscious knower divine within. त्वां हि thee indeed, अग्ने O Agni, समन्यवो देवासो the gods together-minded or like-passioned सदमित् ever indeed न्येरिरे sent in देवं the god, अरतिं the striver, इति therefore न्येरिरे they sent him in क्रत्वा by the will or the work... excel. I take it as connected in sense in the Veda with the words अर्य, अरि, आर्य and since the text immediately adds इति क्रत्वा = कर्मणा I understand it in the sense of "worker", or rather "striver". Agni is the divine worker or warrior. इति. S. says "the gods send him to war, therefore men send him to call the gods or carry the oblation". This seems to me sufficiently pointless and incoherently... the clauses; because they sent him as देवमरतिं the divine worker, therefore it was क्रत्वा by the work (of the Aryan?) or by the working power, strength or the will that they sent him. In other words Agni is the divine and immortal force that labours in the mortal, brought in, created either by the sacrificial work, the तपस्या of the mortal himself or by the will-force of the gods pouring itself into ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Five : The Atris Hymns to the Mystic Fire Gaupayanas or Laupayanas SUKTA 24 अग्ने त्वं नो अन्तम उत त्राता शिवो भवा वरुथ्यः । वसुरग्निर्वसुश्रवा अच्छा नक्षि द्युमत्तमं रयिं दाः ॥१ ॥२॥ 1-2) O Fire, be one inmost to us and our deliverer, one benignant and helpful and with defences to shield us. Fire is ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Ten Hymns to the Mystic Fire Devas and Agni Sauchika SUKTA 51 महत् तदुल्बं स्थविरं तदासीद्येनाविष्टितः प्रविवेशिथापः । विश्वा अपश्यद् बहुधा ते अग्ने जातवेदस्तन्वो देव एकः ॥१॥ 1) Large was the covering and it was dense in which thou wert wrapped when thou didst enter into the waters; one was the god ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Five : The Atris Hymns to the Mystic Fire Dyumna Vishwacharshani SUKTA 23 अग्ने सहन्तमा भर द्युम्नस्य प्रासहा रयिम् । विश्वा यश्चर्षणीरभ्यासा वाजेषु सासहत् ॥१॥ 1) O Fire, bring by the force of the light a forceful wealth which shall overcome by thy mouth in the plenitudes all the peoples. तमग्ने ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Ten Hymns to the Mystic Fire Ketu Agneya SUKTA 156 अग्निं हिन्वन्तु नो धियः सप्तिमाशुमिवाजिषु । तेन जेष्म धनंधनम् ॥१॥ 1) May our thoughts speed the Fire on his way like a swift galloper in the battles, by him may we conquer every kind of wealth. यया गा आकरामहे सेनयाग्ने तवोत्या । तां नो हिन्व ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Ten Hymns to the Mystic Fire Samvanana Angirasa SUKTA 191 संसमिद् युवसे वृषन्नग्ने विश्वान्यर्य आ । इळस्पदे समिध्यसे स नो वसून्या भर ॥१॥ 1) O Fire, O strong one, as master thou unitest us with all things and art kindled high in the seat of revelation; do thou bring to us the Riches. सं गच्छध्वं ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Five : The Atris Hymns to the Mystic Fire Vishwasaman SUKTA 22 प्र विश्वसामन्नत्रिवदर्चा पावकशोचिषे । यो अध्वरेष्वीड्यो होता मन्द्रतमो विशि ॥१॥ 1) O thou of the universal peace, as the Atri sing the word of illumination to Fire of the purifying light who is to be prayed in the pilgrim-sacrifices, the ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Ten Hymns to the Mystic Fire Vatsa Agneya SUKTA 187 प्राग्नये वाचमीरय वृषभाय क्षितीनाम् । स नः पर्षदति द्विषः ॥१॥ 1) Send forth the word to the Fire, the bull of the worlds, 1 may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. यः परस्याः परावतस्तिरो धन्वातिरोचते । स नः पर्षदति द्विषः ॥२॥ ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Five : The Atris Hymns to the Mystic Fire Vavri SUKTA 19 अभ्यवस्थाः प्र जायन्ते प्र वव्रेर्वव्रिश्चिकेत । उपस्थे मातुर्वि चष्टे ॥१॥ 1) State upon state is born, covering upon covering has become conscious and aware, in the lap of the mother he sees. जुहुरे वि चितयन्तोऽनिमिषं नृम्णं पान्ति । ...

... Other Hymns to Agni Other Hymns to Agni Mandala Five : The Atris Hymns to the Mystic Fire Sasa SUKTA 21 मनुष्वत् त्वा नि धीमहि मनुष्वत् समिधीमहि । अग्ने मनुष्वदङगिरो देवान् देवयते यज ॥१॥ 1) As the human we set thee within us, as the human we kindle thee; O Fire, O Angiras, as the human offer sacrifice to the gods for the seeker of the godheads. ...