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Aryaman : in Vedas, one of the four powers of the Truth of Surya; he represents the immortal puissance of the clear-discerning aspiration & endeavour. He is generally classed among the Ādityas & the Vishwadevas.

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... workings and by the force of the word and the affirmation embraces their law with all his being, is guarded in his progress by Aryaman. But the Rik most distinctive of the function of Aryaman is that which describes him as "Aryaman of the unbroken path, of the many chariots, who dwells as the sevenfold offerer of sacrifice in births of diverse forms." He is the deity of the human journey who carries... of our evolution, the many chariots of Aryaman. It is the journey of the human sacrifice which has a sevenfold energy of its action because there is a sevenfold principle in our being which has to be fulfilled in its integral perfection; Aryaman is the master of the sacrificial action who offers this sevenfold working to the godheads of the Divine Birth. Aryaman within us develops our various forms ... force and power of its fulfilment, over its rich, pure and abundant enjoyment and rapture the Sun-gods Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga cast the glory and protection of their divine gaze. The sacred poems in which the All-Gods and the Adityas, the sons of the Infinite, and Aryaman, Mitra and Varuna are praised,—not the mere hymns of formal invocation to the sacrifice,—are among the most beautiful, ...

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... the richly varied splendour of the knowledge, and the journey leads inevitably to the highest heavens of Light and Bliss. Aryaman Aryaman, the cosmic being who represents; the great power of upward endeavour and tapasya, has also to be fulfilled. The word aryaman is etymologically related to the words arya and ari which stand for the heroic traveller, Page 26 insistent ... darkness who obstruct the human journey. Aryaman is the cosmic being or godhead in whose divine power this aryahood is rooted; he is the Force of sacrifice, aspiration, battle, journey towards perfection and light and celestial bliss by which the path is created, travelled, pursued, beyond all resistance and obstruction to its luminous and happy goal. Aryaman is complete in the will, in the works of... to attain to the workings of Mitra and Varuna is guarded in his progress by Aryaman. He has been described in Rig Veda, as the one "of the unbroken path, of the many chariots, who dwells as the sevenfold offerer of sacrifice in births of diverse forms." 23 Each movement of the evolution of the yogin is a chariot of Aryaman, and these chariots are seven because the human being conducts his journey by ...

... passage of the Veda informed with the clear & unmistakable idea of the Ritam which so largely dominates the thinking of the Vedic sages. Varuna & Mitra again, but this time helped by their companion Aryaman, govern a second passage which we shall find of equal importance in forming our conceptions of the Truth towards which our ancestors lifted so strenuous an aspiration of prayer and sacrifice. It occurs... Yam yajnam nayathá nara, Áditya´ rijuná pathá    Pra vah sa dhítaye nashat. Sa ratnam martyo vasu, visvam tokam uta tmaná    Acchá gacchati astritah. I translate, “He whom Varuna, Mitra & Aryaman guard, they who see with the conscious mind, can that man at all be crushed? The mortal whom they like a multitude of arms fill with his desires and protect from his hurter, he unhurt grows to completeness... of my present subject. “How, O friends,” cries Kanwa to his fellow-worshippers, “may we perfect (or enrich) the establishment in ourselves (by the mantra of praise) of Mitra & Page 77 Aryaman or how the wide form of Varuna? May I not resist with speech him of you who smites & rebukes me while he yet leads me to the godhead; through the things of peace alone may I establish you in all my ...

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... done. Aryaman is the god of this mastery. Through him the highest effort is accomplished. He is total endurance. Without this endurance, we are like the unbaked jar, which will be broken at the touch of the Supreme Light. It will not be able to hold the nectar of immortality. The jar, our instrument, our body, our entire being, has to be baked, — baked fully by the heat and austerity of Aryaman. ... who shows man the path to the still higher realms and to the Supreme Reality. But before one can reach the Supreme or the Supreme Light, (Savitri), one has to cross the four gods: Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga. They are to be embraced and to be fulfilled before they lead the seeker to his goal. Varuna represents vastness, infinite wideness, limitlessness. The Truth that the Veda worships is... learn to bear not only the intensest effort but also the highest degrees of delight. The Supreme Reality itself is supreme delight. Bhaga is to be approached, and in unity with Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman, he has to be embodied. Highest Achievement of the Vedic Synthesis of Yoga In his upward journey, the seeker then proceeds to Savitri, the lord of the Supreme Light, the sun in which ...

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... reaches to by affirming Mitra, Varuna and Aryaman, the god-heads, in the "bodies" inhabited by the human soul.] बळित्था देव निष्कृतमादित्या यजतं बृहत् । वरुण मित्रार्यमन्वर्षिष्ठं क्षत्रमाशाथे ॥११॥ 1) In truth, O godheads, ye two sons of the infinite Mother, rightly perfected by you is the Vastness for which we sacrifice. O Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, you possess its most abundant force. ... destroyers of the enemy, reach for them the bliss. विश्वे हि विश्ववेदसो वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा । व्रता पदेव सश्चिरे पान्ति मर्त्यं रिषः ॥३॥ 3) Universal and all-knowing are Varuna and Mitra and Aryaman; they keep firm to the law of their workings, even as to the seats to which they arrive, and guard mortal man from his foes. ते हि सत्या ऋतस्पृश ऋतावानो जनेजने । सुनीथासः सुदानवोंऽहोश्चिदुरुचकयः ...

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... the God of harmony. As long as you quarrel, Page 67 you can never enter into that Light. That is certain. There must be harmony, a tapasya of harmony and vastness. Then comes Aryaman. Aryaman is the Lord of austerity. Great tapasya, the fullness of tapasya you must do, greatest effort, you must master the effort itself. And then Bhaga. Bhaga is the God of enjoyment. Unless... of the Vedic Rishis. The soul which is tied into hundred nets — the swan which wants to fly, which cannot fly and has to battle — goes beyond Indra into swah, and goes beyond swah to Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga, enters into Surya. And then comes soma. The highest is soma, the great delight. When that delight can be held in the body, that is Immortality. This was the greatest achievement of the Vedic ...

... deities constantly appear in the Veda as closely allied in their nature and in their action, Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga, Aryaman. Varuna and Mitra are continually coupled together in the thoughts of the Rishis; sometimes a trio appears together, Varuna, Mitra and Bhaga or Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman. Separate sūktas addressed to any of these godheads are comparatively Page 300 rare, although there... consciousness, the Light that cannot be impaired imaged by the mystic Cow that cannot be slain. In that creation, Varuna and Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga are four effective Puissances. Varuna represents the principle of pure and wide being, Sat in Sachchidananda; Aryaman represents the light of the divine consciousness working as Force; Mitra representing light and knowledge, using the principle of Ananda... Devāḥ , are by no means inconsiderable in number. These four deities are, according to Sayana, solar powers, Varuna negatively as lord of the night, Mitra positively as lord of the day, Bhaga and Aryaman as names of the Sun. We need not attach much importance to these particular identifications, but it is certain that a solar character attaches to all the four. In them that peculiar feature of the ...

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... These words by the force oblational of Agni I offer to the sons of Aditi who are for ever the Kings, words dripping with the richness; may Mitra hear us and Aryaman and Bhaga, Varuna born in strength and Daksha and Ansha. (2) May Mitra and Aryaman and Varuna with power today cleave to this my song of confirmation, the sons of Aditi pure, purified in the streams, who know not crookedness, who are freed... accumulate its movements. (5) May we know, O ye sons of Aditi, this your manifestation which even in the fear, O Aryaman, createth the bliss; in your leading, O Mitra and Varuna, may I leave aside all stumblings even as a voyager avoideth pitfalls. (6) For easy of going is your path, O Aryaman, O Mitra; it is thornless and perfect in effectivity; on that path, O sons of Aditi, give us expression, work... children carry us over all hostile powers, she and Aryaman by easy paths; may we approach the vast peace of Mitra and Varuna becoming wide-energied and untouched by all harms. (8) Three are the earths that they uphold, three the heavens, three are the laws of action within these in the knowledge; by the Truth, O Adityas, is that vast might of yours, O Aryaman, Varuna and Mitra, a bright and beautiful wideness ...

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... of those who give not to thee, and thou art a noble warrior; bring to us the possession they guard. SUKTA 90 (1) By a straight leading may Varuna lead us and Mitra with the knowledge and Aryaman, in harmony with the gods. (2) For they are the masters of substance who become in us substance of being and they are the illimitable by their vastnesses and they maintain the laws of their activity... (8) Full of sweetness to us be the Lord of Pleasure, full of sweetness Surya, the luminous; sweet become to us the herds of his rays. (9) O Mitra, be peace in us, peace Varuna, peace in us Aryaman; peace Indra and Brihaspati, peace Vishnu wide-striding. SUKTA 91 (1) Thou, O Soma, becomest subject to perception by the intelligence; thou leadest us along a path of utter straightness. By... s luminous and of puissant vision. (3) Thine now are the activities of Varuna the King, vast and profound, O Soma, is thy seat; pure art thou and delightful like Mitra; thou art powerful like Aryaman, O Soma. (4) The seats that are thine in our heaven and on our earth and on the hills of being and in its growths and in its waters, in those, even all of them, do thou, well-minded and free from ...

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... be realised in the trikaldrishti, in time, arrangement, place of action & event. Devabhava manifest as Vishnu with Agni prominent & in Agni Vayu, in Agni-Vayu Aryaman & Bhaga, Indra concealed in Agni Vayu, Mitra & Varuna behind Aryaman-Bhaga. Vishnu & Brihaspati are one. Surya is Vishnu working as Pushan & Yama. Rudra is a bhava of Vishnu. The Maruts are the host of Agni Rudra. Lipi 1)... Vani is established. Krishna. These vanis represent the mental voices of the Deva & principally the operation of fusion between the Indrabhava which is still independent and the Agni-Vayu-Aryaman bhava (Rudra-Vishnu) which is predominant. Karma—Tapas In Kriti the forces of opposition still prevail and have some notable successes. In Tapas the forces of resistance that prevent full... Krishna Kali The Krishna Kali consciousness is beginning to realise itself. It is indeed realised in the Saguna Brahman, but not in the Ishwara (Lilamaya). The fusion of Indra into the Agni-Vayu-Aryaman (containing already Mitra-Varuna-Surya-Bhaga-Aswins-Brihaspati-Twashtri-Maruts-Ribhus) seems to have been effected. The female energies have already been resumed in the Mahakali bhava. Only shadows ...

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... done. Aryaman is the god of this mastery. Through him the highest effort is accomplished. He is total endurance. Without this endurance, we are like the unbaked jar, which will be broken at the touch of the Supreme Light. It will not be able to hold the nectar of immortality. The jar, our instrument, our body, our entire being, has to be baked, baked fully by the heat and austerity of Aryaman. He... But before one can reach the Supreme or the Supreme Light, (Savitri), one has to cross the four Guardians, the four Kings guarding the light of the Truth. These are the four gods, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga. They are to be embraced and to be fulfilled before they lead the seeker to his goal. Varuna represents vastness, infinite wideness, limitlessness. The Truth that the Veda worships... Bhaga represents this supreme enjoyment. He is the god who presides over enjoyments, who is the eternal aspect of the joy of the Divine. He is to be approached, and -in unity with Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman, he has to be embodied. In his upward journey, the seeker then proceeds to Savitri, the lord of the Supreme Light, the sun in which 'all the gods unyoke their horses', the supreme in which ...

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... praj ā d, apatyam, are things of the delight, vi ś va v ā m ā ni. 43   Nay more: Savitri the creator, Surya Savitri, is not only Bhaga, but also three other divinities: Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman. Surya and Savitri are themselves a unity in difference, the passive and the active (rather like light and heat); Surya the light of Reality, which is satyam ritam brihat —or the truth, the right... is invoked to inspire and charge with his power and presence the thoughts of his worshippers.         It is Savitri who makes the human body the home of the affiliated deities—Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga—who signify graces and powers and functions of their own. Varuna is the power of the indefinable Infinite, from which is derived everything else; less distinct than the other gods because... foreground; he is beauty and grace, he is builder and harmoniser, he is embracer and container. And Varuna and Mitra Page 273 are complementary.-to each other. The third deity, Aryaman, is the patient executant, the traveller of the worlds of striving, the pathfinder who hews his way through the jungles of resistance and difficulty, and takes us in his wake to the threshold of the ...

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... वदिष्यामि । ऋतं वदिष्यामि । सत्यं वदिष्यामि । तन्मामवतु । तद्वक्तारमवतु । अवतु माम् । अवतु वक्तारम् । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ Hari OM. Be peace to us Mitra. Be peace to us Varuna. Be peace to us Aryaman. Be peace to us Indra and Brihaspati. May far-striding Vishnu be peace to us. Adoration to the Eternal. Adoration to thee, O Vayu. Thou, thou art the visible Eternal and as the visible Eternal I will... सत्यमवादिषम् । Page 214 तन्मामावीत् । तद्वक्तारमावीत् । आवीन्माम् । आवीद्वक्तारम् । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः । हरिः ॐ ॥ Be peace to us Mitra. Be peace to us Varuna. Be peace to us Aryaman. Be peace to us Indra and Brihaspati. May far-striding Vishnu be peace to us. Adoration to the Eternal. Adoration to thee, O Vaiou. Thou, thou art the visible Eternal & as the visible Eternal I have ...

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... the Maruts for the drinking of the Soma wine. (4) This is the Soma that has been distilled; of this the Maruts drink and they who are the self-ruling lords and the two Aswins. (5) Mitra and Aryaman drink and Varuna of this Soma that is purified by the extension in matter and established in the three seats of our being and has with it the daughter 2 of the worlds. (6) According to his acceptance... in rapture. (4) He who taketh not delight in the questioning nor in the calling back nor in the converse, from him protect us in the shock, with your arms protect. (5) Chant ye to Mitra and Aryaman a Word of force, 15 O thou rich in the Truth, a supreme and rhythmed word to Varuna, a song of affirmation to the Kings. (6) They have set in movement a substance of being active Page 323 ...

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... × Aryaman, the aspiring power and action of the Truth. × Probably, the unripe Radiances that our aspiration has to prepare for their union with the higher power of the soul; Aryaman holds their secret sense, the Name or Numen, which is manifested ...

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... Supreme Reality and its supreme Light, which is symbolised by Savitri is guarded by four guardians, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga. These four guardians have to be embraced and fulfilled. Varuna represents vastness and infinity of wideness; Mitra represents harmony; Aryaman represents austerity, tapasya, and Bhaga represents the divine enjoyment. The seeker has, therefore, to become ...

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... are primarily cosmic, and each one of them represents the Supreme Being of the Ultimate Reality or God; these cosmic beings are described as gods. The prayer starts with an address to Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman, and then to Indra, Brihaspati, Vishnu, Brahman and Vayu. These cosmic Page 79 beings are considered (in the psychological interpretation) to be the manifestations of those powers and qualities... that facilitate widening of consciousness and discipline and austerity as also through progressive harmonisation of various trends of consciousness. Mitra stands for harmony, Varuna for wideness, and Aryaman for austerity or tapasya (Sri Aurobindo, 1971, pp. 438-464). Again, as the aim of education is to sharpen and clarify the intellect and lead it to the state of illumination, and since illumined ... Supreme Reality which is the Object of Knowledge. Hence the prayer with which the Taittiriya Upanishad commences, reads as follows: "Hari OM. Be Peace to us Mitra. Be peace to us Varuna. Be peace to us Aryaman. Be Peace to us Indra and Brihaspati. May far-striding Vishnu be peace to us. Adoration to the Eternal. Adoration to thee, O Vayu.ˮ ( Chapter One)¹ After addressing the prayer to the gods, the ...

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... into the Worlds who manifests himself in the growth of the creature. He is Rudra and Vishnu, Prajapati and Hiranyagarbha, Surya, Agni, Indra, Vayu, Soma, Brihaspati,—Varuna and Mitra and Bhaga and Aryaman, all the gods. He is the wise, mighty and liberating Son born from our works and our sacrifice, the Hero in our warfare and Seer of our knowledge, the White Steed in the front of our days who gallops... Page 380 and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses,—this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour,—this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering,—this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss ...

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... perfection in their works the sacrificial share of the enjoyment among the Gods. Commentary The Ribhus, it has been suggested, are rays of the Sun. And it is true that like Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga and Aryaman they are powers of the solar Light, the Truth. But their special character in the Veda is that they are artisans of Immortality. They are represented as human beings who have attained to the condition... to man in his sacrifice. And with them come and sit Indra and the Maruts, the divine Mind and its Thought-forces, and the four great Kings, sons of Aditi, children of the Infinite, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, the purity and vastness of the Truth-consciousness, its law of love and light and harmony, its power and aspiration, its pure and happy enjoyment of things. 10 And there at the sacrifice ...

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... the ruddy-shining pair thou movest between you Gods and the mortal peoples. अर्यमणं वरुणं मित्रमेषामिन्द्राविष्णू मरुतो अश्विनोत । स्वश्वो अग्ने सुरथः सुराघा एदु वह सुहविषे जनाय ॥४॥ 4) Aryaman for them and Mitra and Varuna, Indra, Vishnu and the Maruts and the Ashwins do thou well-horsed, well-charioted, great in the joy of achievement, bring now, O Fire, for the giver of good offerings... कदर्यम्णे कद् भगाय ॥५॥ 5) How dost thou blame it, O Fire, to Varuna, to Heaven, what is that sin we have done? How wouldst thou speak of us to Mitra, the bountiful, how to earth? What wilt thou say to Aryaman, what to Bhaga? Page 224 कद् धिष्ण्यासु वृधसानो अग्ने कद् वाताय प्रतवसे शुभंये । परिज्मने नासत्याय क्षे ब्रवः कदग्ने रुद्राय नृघ्ने ॥६॥ 6) What, O Fire, growing in thy abodes, wouldst ...

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... with evil thoughts. Page 333 येन चष्टे वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा येन नासत्या भगः । वयं तत् ते शवसा गातुवित्तमा इन्द्रत्वोता विधेमहि ॥१६॥ 16) The light by which Mitra sees and Varuna and Aryaman, by which lords of the journey and Bhaga, that light may we worship, we made by thy force perfect knowers of the path guarded by the lordship of the Puissant. ते घेदग्ने स्वाध्यो ये त्वा विप्र... वरुण मित्रार्यमन्त्स्यामेदृतस्य रथ्यः ॥३५॥ 35) For you, the kings, who have power over seeing men, choose one or another to have mastery in the human ways,—such may we be, O Varuna, O Mitra, O Aryaman, charioteers, indeed, of the Truth. अदान्मे पौरुकुत्स्यः पञ्चाशतं त्रसदस्युर्वधूनाम् । मंहिष्ठो अर्यः सत्पतिः ॥३६॥ 36) The Terror of the Destroyers, son of the master of wide vision, has ...

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... it and cannot fill it. अर्यम्यं वरुण मित्र्यं वा सखायं वा सदमिद् भ्रातरं वा । वेशं वा नित्यं वरुणारणं वा यत्सीमागश्चकृमा शिश्रथस्तत् ॥७॥ 7) Whatsoever sin we have done against the law of Aryaman or the law of Mitra, against brother or friend, against constant neighbour or enemy, 4 cast it away from us, O Varuna. कितवासो यद्रिरिपुर्न दीवि यद्वा घा सत्यमुत यन्न विद्म । सर्वा ता वि... do violence to it; for into him, the one, the ocean, the bright fostering rivers 18 pour their waters, yet they cannot fill him. 7) All the sin that we have done against thee in thy power of Aryaman or thy power of Mitra or as brother or friend or the eternal indweller or the warrior, 19 that cast away from us. 8) The sin we have done as cunning gamesters offend in their play, our sin against ...

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... intensity is now manifesting more frequently, but with a power of impersonality & formlessness which makes the man appear as a mask of God. The other gods—up to the present Surya, Varuna, Usha, Bhaga, Aryaman, Mitra, Aranyani are manifest in their forms & activities. They have now been followed rapidly by the others; Prithivi revealing herself as Aditi, Rudra manifest in the chanda form of all the gods... fulfilled. Strong perception of the Master of the Yoga as the divine Reality behind Indra with the thunders. This, however is not Indra, Page 602 but the Lilamaya with Indra, Varuna, Aryaman & Surya united in him. Bhaga was perceived to enter into the presence. Rudra has preceded & will be taken up as soon as the Jehovah form is assimilated. 17 August 1914 Aishwarya— The Kriti ...

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... वदिष्यामि | ऋतं वदिष्यामि | सत्यं वदिष्यामि | तन्मामवतु | तदुक्तारमवतु | अवतु माम् | अवतु वक्तारम् | ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः | | Hari OM. Be peace to us Mitra. Be peace to us Varuna. Be peace to us Aryaman, Be peace to us Indra and Brihaspati. May far-striding Vishnu be peace to us. Adoration to the Eternal. Adoration to thee, O Vayu. Thou, thou art the visible Eternal and as the visible Eternal I will... such wise shalt thou practise religion yea, verily, in such wise do ever religiously. Page 47 Chapter Twelve Be peace to us Mitra. Be peace to us Varuna. Be peace to us Aryaman. Be peace to us Indra and Brihaspati. May far-striding Vishnu be peace to us. Adoration to the Eternal. Adoration to thee, O Vayu. Thou, thou art the visible Eternal and as the visible Eternal I have ...

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... अति नो विष्पिता पुरु You are the charioteers of Truth. 5 नेमादित्या अघस्य यत् 6 सुदानवः effective or powerful. You perfect in capacity. 7 एषां सजात्यानाम् . Kinship of Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman. 8 Bhratritwa — 84. [1] अग्निं रथं न वेद्यं Page 507 2 Agni doubles in knowledge in mortals as Kavi & Prachetas, so set by the gods 3 रक्षा तोकमुत तमना 5 Agni Master of ...

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... Indra for the mortal giver. त्वमर्यमा भवसि यत् कनीनां नाम स्वधावन् गुह्यं बिभर्षि । अञ्जन्ति मित्रं सुधितं न गोभिर्यद् दम्पती समनसा कृणोषि ॥२॥ 2) O holder of the self-law, thou becomest Aryaman when thou bearest the secret name of the Virgins; they reveal thee with the Rays as Mitra firmly founded when thou makest of one mind the Lord of the house and the Spouse. तव श्रिये मरुतो मर्जयन्त ...

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... meditate on in my thought so as to possess in mental faculty. 4) Aryamaṇam Varuṇam Mitram eshám, Indrávishṇú Maruto A sh winota; Sva sh wo Agne surathah surádhá, edu vaha suhavishe janáya. Aryaman, Varuna & Mitra of these, Indra&Vishnu, theMaruts and the Aswins, do thou, O Agni, good in thy steeds, good in thy chariot, good in thy delight, bear hither to men good in their offerings. 5) ...

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... पृथिव्यै ब्रवः कदर्यम्णे कद्भगाय ॥ How 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 ...

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... luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses,—this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour,—this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering,—this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss ...

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... c. January 1927 Amrita— Moses, Brihaspati, Hermes, Michael Angelo, Rudra, Pythagoras. Bijoy Child Krishna, St Jean, Kartikeya, child Vishnu Barin Nefdi. Apollo-Aryaman St Hilaire— Ramakrishna—(The Four) Kshitish Narada—Bach-Isaie Kanai Sukadeva—One of the Vital Four Tirupati One of the Vital Four Purani Trita. The Angel of Peace—One ...

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... Light and Love who takes all our activities of thought and feeling and will, links them into a divine harmony, charioteers our movement and dictates our works; called by this wideness and this harmony Aryaman appears in us, the Divine in its illumined power, uplifted force of being and all-judging Page 125 effective will; and by the three comes the indwelling Bhaga, the Divine in its pure bliss ...

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... " For further examples of the prayer for triple protection, we may cull from Griffith: "O Indra, grant a happy home, a triple refuge triply strong" (6,46,9) and "Grant us a home with triple guard, Aryaman, Mitra, Varuṇa!" (8,18,21). 228 Griffith has a footnote to 8,18,21: "With triple guard: or, triply defending or defended. 226.P. 212, fn. 141. 227. Op. cit., p. 233, col. 2. 228. ...

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... 379 Arsacid empire (of Parthia), 207 Arsasana, 330 Arya (arya/arya) (see also Aryans), 210, 213, 259-60, 320, 333, 359-60 arya varna, 339-40 Aryaman, 301 Aryan enemies (in the Rigveda), 353-62 Aryan Immigration into India: Russian conference, 153 Aryan invasion, see invasion, of India by Aryans ...

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... synthesis of four powers of the great Kings or sons of Aditi, namely, the powers of Varuna (purity and Page 54 vastness of Truth-Consciousness), Mitra (law of love and light and harmony), Aryaman (upward aspiration and power of endurance and endeavour) and Bhaga (pure and happy enjoyment of things). All these conditions are fulfilled by Ribhus, and they have thus fashioned immortality. ...

... and forming into harmony our thoughts, acts and impulses. But this is not enough; we have to establish in us an immortal Page 62 puissance of clear, discerning aspiration symbolised by Aryaman. The last condition is that of happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering. This condition is fulfilled by Bhaga. There are ...

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... prayer and vow of the teacher, which may be for the whole course of instruction or for separate hours of instruction or lessons. This prayer is addressed to Mitra, Varuna, Indra, Brihaspati, Vishnu, Aryaman, Vayu and Brahman. Then the teacher takes a vow: "Thou, thou art the visible Eternal and as the visible Eternal I will declare thee. I will declare Righteousness! I will declare Truth!ˮ And ...

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... and harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Page 207 Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same. And Mahasaraswati (or Aniruddha) must have given birth to and inspired the Ribhus, who are artisans of divinity. The Puranic trinity – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva ...

... of pranam. Sees a vision 'in which four beings appeared at the four comers of an immense plateau' and spoke to her. Sri Aurobindo identifies them as the Vedic Gods Mitra, Varuna, Bhaga and Aryaman. Visited by an artist friend, Johannes Hohlenberg, who takes a photograph of Sri Aurobindo in standing profile and also paints his portrait in oil. 1914 May 16 'All the circumstances of my ...

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... Agni, art Varuna when thou art born, thou becomest Mitra when thou art perfectly kindled, in thee are all the Gods, O Son of Force, thou art Indra to the mortal who gives the sacrifice. Thou becomest Aryaman when thou bearest the secret name of the Virgins. They make thee to shine with the radiances (the cows, gobhiḥ ) as Mitra well-established when Page 353 thou makest of one mind the Lord ...

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... Yakshas and Rakshasas, the serpent Ananta among the Nagas, Agni among the Vasus, Chitraratha among the Gandharvas, Kandarpa the love-God among the progenitors, Varuna among the peoples of the sea, Aryaman among the Fathers, Narada among the divine sages, Yama lord of the Law among those who maintain rule and law, among the powers of storm the Wind-God. At the other end of the scale I am the radiant ...

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... the two powers [ Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati ]. Page 458 I indicate the psychological powers which they [ six Vedic Gods ] bring with them: Mitra—Harmony. Varuna—Wideness. Aryaman—Power, Tapasya. Brihaspati—Wisdom (Word and Knowledge). Vishnu—Cosmic Consciousness. Vayu—Life. Post-Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva are only three Powers and ...

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... ion. Not only are there the obvious or the traditional identifications, Indra, the Maruts, the triple Agni, Surya, Usha, but we find that Mitra was identified with the Day, Varuna with the Night, Aryaman and Bhaga with the Sun, the Ribhus with its rays. We have here the seeds of that naturalistic theory of the Veda to which European learning has given so wide an extension. The old Indian scholars did ...

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... outline themselves in our waking consciousness. Then may those other mighty Ones who bring with them the plenitudes of the higher life, Indra and the Ashwins, Usha and Surya, Varuna and Mitra and Aryaman, assume with that formative extension of themselves in the human being their most Page 283 brilliant energies. Let them create their plenty in us, pouring it forth from the secret places ...

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... wide, thy lustres touch the heavens. देवासस्त्वा वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा सं दूतं प्रत्नमिन्धते । विश्वं सो अग्ने जयति त्वया घनं यस्ते ददाश मर्त्यः ॥४॥ 4) The gods even Varuna and Mitra and Aryaman light thee utterly, the ancient messenger; all wealth that mortal conquers by thee, O Agni, who to thee has given. मन्द्रो होता गृहपतिरग्ने दूतो विशामसि । त्वे विश्वा संगतानि व्रता ध्रुवा यानि ...

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... lover, as a comrade for his comrade, therefore is he the supreme offerer. आ नो बर्ही रिशादसो वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा । सीदन्तु मनुषो यथा ॥४॥ 4) May the destroyers of the foe, Varuna,Mitra and Aryaman, sit down on the sacred rushes as human friends might sit. पूर्व्य होतरस्य नो मन्दस्व सख्यस्य च । इमा उ षु श्रुधी गिरः ॥५॥ 5) Oancient Priest of the offering, rejoice in this our friendship ...

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... सत्पतिर्यस्य संभुजं त्वमंशो विदथे देव भाजयुः ॥४॥ 4) O Fire, thou art Varuna the king who holds in his hands the law of all workings and thou art Mitra the potent and desirable Godhead. Thou art Aryaman, master of beings, with whom is complete enjoying; O Godhead, thou art Ansha who gives us our portion in the winning of the knowledge. त्वमग्ने त्वष्टा विधते सुवीर्यं तव ग्नावो मित्रमहः सजात्यम् ...

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... his being is one and all these moving and hastening waters pour into it, yet can they not fill it with their waters. (7) O Wideness, cleave from us all sin that we have done against the law of Aryaman or the rule of Mitra, against comrade or brother or constant fellow or any fighter in this battle. Page 309 (8) The evil that has been done in us as by treacherous gamesters in the playing ...

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... Agni, art Varuna when thou art born, thou becomest Mitra when thou art perfectly kindled, in thee are all the gods, O son of Force; thou art Indra to the mortal who gives the sacrifice. Thou becomest Aryaman when thou bearest the secret name of the Virgins. They make thee to shine with the radiances as Mitra well-established when thou makest of one mind the Lord of the house and his consort. For the glory ...

... Angirasas, legend of, 64 Animism, 2, 3, 57 Apala, 31 Aranyakas,66,87,89 Architecture, 56 Art, 31,56 Artha, 49 Arthashastra, 105 Arum, 68,69, 70,78,80 Aryaman, 10,11,12 Aryan,12 Ashoka, 84 Ashram, 18,34 Ashwins, 12,13 Ashvamedha, 42 Astronomy, 44 Atharva Veda, 6,105 Atheism, 61 Adantis, 1 Atman, 30, 82 ...

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... Alexander, 56-7 Allies, the, 66 America, 133,214,421 Aniruddha, 44, 207-8 Apollo, 47 Ardhanarishwara, 84 Arjuna,9, 14,76-8,93, 112n., 116, 161 Arnold, Matthew, 92, 119 Aryaman, 208 Asia, 272 Asura, 19,45-6,80,98, 162,208-9,226, 253, 334, 349, 379 Axis Powers, the, 66 BABYLON, 199 Bach, 393,424,427 Ba1arama, 44, 207-8 Bankim (Chandra Chatterjee), 21 Beatrice ...

... • Intense power of austerity; and • Capacity to bear the highest bliss. Page 175 In their own language, Vedic Rishis named these four conditions are related to Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga. 5 Three important methods were further developed by the Vedic seers as a part of the practice of Sanatana Dharma. (a) Method of Meditative Concentration: ...

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... which various human powers can be intertwined, purified and developed, and they are symbolised under specific and discernible symbols of Agni, Indra, Usha, Pushan, Surya, Savitri, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Soma, Brihaspati, and many others in a systematic manner. And in the hymns relating to the Rihbus, we have a summary of the entire process of perfection, which can be repeated in human beings ...

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... which various human powers can be intertwined, purified and developed, and they are symbolised under specific and discernible symbols of Agni, Indra, Usha, Pushan, Surya, Savitri, Varuna, Mxtra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Soma, Brihaspati, and many others in a systematic manner. And in the hymns relating to the Rihbus, we have a summary of the entire process of perfection, which can be repeated in human beings ...

... all the worlds. May there be Peace and Grace for us in the twofold status as well in the fourfold status. (9) May Mitra be Peace and Grace to us. May Varuna be Peace and Grace to us. May Aryaman be Peace and Grace to us. May lndra be Peace and Grace to us. May Brihaspati be Peace and Grace to us. May the vast-ranging Vishnu be Peace and Grace to us. (10) May the Wind blow to us ...

... Mitra, is the lord of love and harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same. And Mahasaraswati (or Aniruddha) must have given birth to and inspired the Ribhus, who are artisans of divinity. The Puranic trinity —Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva—with ...

... us. May we share the friendship of the Gods. May they carry forward our span of life. (3) With the ancient mantra we invoke them all – Bhaga and Mitra and Aditi and the unstumbling Daksha, Aryaman too, and Varuna and the twin Aswins. May Saraswati, Mother of bliss, create happiness for us. (4) That healing draught, creative of Delight, may the Wind blow over to us; may Earth the mother ...

... the religion of the Dawn. 66 Page 400 It is a wonderfully apt phrase: 'the religion of the Dawn'. The Sun, Surya, Savitri—in his four differentiated forms, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga—is no doubt central to the Vedic religion, but the human approach to them is through the gateway of the Dawn. Kazantzakis, on the other hand, begins with a Prologue to the Sun and concludes ...

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... of a kingdom or the promise of increase and prosperity; this is a revolutionary change, this is a total victory. In Savitri are exemplified the powers and personalities of the Vedic Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga; and it is her adamantine purpose, arduous preparation, and inflexibly vigilant struggle in the dark spaces of Night, the quick-sands of Twilight, and the blinding regions of utter Day that ...

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... in translation, with an explanatory Introduction on 'The Doctrine of the Mystics' and several important notes on the 'Guardians of the Light': Surya, Usha the Dawn, Pushan, Savitri, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga. Long after the Arya had ceased publication, Sri Aurobindo published in 1946 Hymns to the Mystic Fire, a new or revised translation of the Hymns to Agni in the second and sixth Mandalas ...