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... themselves freely. So in VI.47.8, we have "Thou in thy knowledge leadest us on to the wide world, even Swar, the Light which is freedom from fear, with happy being," svar jyotir abhayaṁ svasti . In III.2.7, Agni Vaishwanara is described as filling the earth and heaven and the vast Swar, ā rodasī apṛṇad ā svar mahat ; and so also Vasishtha says in his hymn to Vishnu, VII.99, "Thou didst support firmly, O... together. This birth is his birth in conjunction with the Dawn, his birth out of the Night. It is by the sacrifice that this birth takes place,— indraḥ suyajña uṣasaḥ svar janat (II.21.4), "Indra sacrificing well brought to birth the Dawns and Swar"; it is by human aid that it is done,— asmākebhir nṛbhiḥ sūryaṁ sanat , by our "men" he wins the sun (I.100.6); and in many hymns it is described as the result... arkaiḥ ) Swar was found, entirely visible, when they (the Angirases) made to shine the great light out of the night, he (Indra) made the darknesses ill-assured (i.e. loosened their firm hold) so that men might have vision." In the first passage we see that Swar and Surya are different from each other and that Swar is not merely another name for Surya; but at the same time the finding of Swar and the ...

... satyadharma , which is a condition of immortality, and therefore himself the guardian of immortality. His world is Swar, the world of immortality, amṛte loke akṣite , where, as we are told in IX.113, is the indestructible Light, where Swar is established, yatra jyotir ajasraṁ, yasmin loke svar hitam . The hymn X.14 is indeed not a hymn of Death so much as a hymn of Life and Immortality. Yama and the ancient... three verses summarise the great achievement. "Severing the hill of heaven by the words he found them, yea, the radiant ones of the arriving Dawn went abroad; he uncovered those that were in the pen, Swar rose up; a god opened the human doors. The Sun attained widely to strength and glory; the Mother of the Cows (the Dawn), knowing, came from the wideness; the rivers became rushing floods, floods that... Cows and the Sun. We know already what they mean. The hill of our already formed triple existence which rises into heaven at its summit is rent asunder by Indra and the hidden illuminations go abroad; Swar, the higher heaven of the superconscient, is manifested by the upward streaming of the brilliant herds. The sun of Truth diffuses all the strength and glory of its light, the inner Dawn comes from the ...

... the fifth Mandala (V.80.1) which describes Usha dyutad-yāmānaṁ bṛhatīm ṛtena ṛtāvarīṁ svar āvahantīm , "of a luminous movement, vast with the Truth, supreme in (or possessed of) the Truth, bringing with her Swar". We have the idea of the Vast, the idea of the Truth, the idea of the solar light of the world of Swar; and certainly all these notions are thus intimately and insistently associated with no ...

... light of the divine Sun,— tat savitur vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya . 4 The lower mental existence is transformed into an image and reflection of the higher Divine. Aporṇuvantas tama ā parīvṛtaṁ, svar ṇa śukraṁ tanvanta ā rajaḥ . This verse closes the general description of the perfect and final movement of the Ashwins. In the third the Rishi Vamadeva turns to his own ascension, his own offering of... and run and race about over the whole field of our being to extend and build up the lower consciousness into the shining image of the world of free and luminous Mind. Ākenipāso ahabhir davidhvataḥ, svar ṇa śukraṁ tanvanta ā rajaḥ . The formula used is repeated without variation from the second Rik; but here it is the flames of the Will full of the fourfold satisfaction that do the work. There the free... is a chant of the delight of being. The great Light of lights, the Sun of Truth, the illumination of the Truth-consciousness is rising up out of the movement of life to create the illumined Mind, Swar, which completes the evolution of the lower triple world. Eṣa sya bhānur udiyarti . By this rising of the Sun in man, the full movement of the Ashwins becomes possible; for by the Truth comes the realised ...

... firm and strong places by their words, yea, the Angirases broke open the hill by their cry; they made in us the path to the great heaven; they found the Day and Swar and vision and the luminous Cows," cakrur divo bṛhato gātum asme, ahaḥ svar vividuḥ ketum usrāḥ , (I.71.2). This path, he tells us, is the path which leads to immortality; "they who entered into all things that bear right fruit formed a... achievement of the truth and immortality by men, ṛtaṁ sapanto amṛtam evaiḥ . It is now perfectly clear that the achievement of the Angirases is the conquest of the Truth and the Immortality, that Swar called also the great heaven, bṛhat dyauḥ , is the plane of the Truth above the ordinary heaven and earth which can be no other than the ordinary mental and physical being; that the path of the great... on to tell us of the birth of this great, first or supreme force, Agni, in the Truth, in its waters, in its original home. "He was born, the first, in the waters, in the foundation of the vast world (Swar), in its womb, (i.e. its seat and birthplace, its original home); without head and feet, concealing his two extremities, setting himself to his work in the lair of the Bull." The Bull is the Deva or ...

... there a deeper, a spiritual meaning? Is the winning of Swar simply the recovery of the sun from its shadowing by the storm-cloud or its seizure by eclipse or its concealment by the darkness of Night? For here at least there can be no withholding of the sun from the Aryans by human "black-skinned" and "noseless" enemies. Or does the conquest of Swar mean simply the winning of heaven by sacrifice? And in... But the Veda cannot be interpreted by separate passages or hymns. If it is to have any coherent or consistent meaning, we must interpret it as a whole. We may escape our difficulties by assigning to svar or gāḥ entirely different senses in different passages—just as Sayana sometimes finds in gāḥ the sense of cows, sometimes rays and sometimes, with an admirable light-heartedness, compels it to... herds, indicated by the word gāḥ . in the sense both of cows and rays of light, are the illuminations from the higher consciousness which have their origin in the Sun of Light, the Sun of Truth? Is not Swar itself the world or plane of immortality governed by that Light or Truth of the all-illumining Sun called in Veda the vast Truth, ṛtaṁ bṛhat , and the true Light? and are not the divine waters, āpo ...

... without exception stand in the way of the ascent to Swar and oppose the acquisition of the wealth by the Aryan seers. The refusal of the light is their opposition to the vision of Swar, svardṛś , and the vision of the sun, to the supreme vision of knowledge, upamā ketuḥ ; the refusal of the waters is their opposition to the abundant movement of Swar, svarvatīr apaḥ , the movement or streamings of the... and the three luminous worlds of Swar; for the attainment of the supreme knowledge-vision, upamā ketuḥ , is the final result of their action and this supreme knowledge is that which has the vision of Swar and stands in its three luminous worlds, rocanāni , as we find in III.2.14, svaṛdṛśaṁ ketuṁ divo rocanasthām uṣarbudham , "the knowledge-vision that sees Swar, that stands in the shining worlds... Panis, frequently so designed in other hymns) makest thyself bright in thy own home (Swar), by the thoughts of the Truth in thy home, saṁ mātṛbhiḥ marjayasi sva ā dame ṛtasya dhītibhir dame . As if the Sama (equal fulfilment, samāne ūrve , in the level wideness) of the higher world ( parāvataḥ ), is that (Swar) where the thoughts (of the Truth) take their delight. By those shining ones of the triple ...

... say the seven forms of divine consciousness are to be held in the seven forms or movements of divine being; dhiyaṁ vo apsu dadhiṣe svarṣām , I hold the Swar-conquering thought in the waters. That the making visible of Swar to the eyes of the Swar seers, svardṛśaḥ , their drinking of the honeyed well and their outpouring of the divine waters amounts to the revelation to man of new worlds or new states... it is indicated that it is only by the confirming of the thought which conquers Swar, the solar world, that the Rishis are able to get through the ten months, but this thought once found they become assured of the protection of the gods and pass beyond the assault of the evil, the harms of the Panis and Vritras. This Swar-conquering thought is certainly the same as that seven-headed thought which was... killing Vritra. This fourth world must be therefore Swar. The seven-headed thought of Ayasya enables him to become viśvajanya , which means probably that he occupies or possesses all the worlds or births of the soul or else that he becomes universal, identifying himself with all beings born,—and to manifest or give being to a certain fourth world (Swar), turīyaṁ svij janayad viśvajanyaḥ (X.67.1); and ...

... 4, of Agni, "Agni, born, shone out slaying the Dasyus, by the Light the Darkness; he found the cows, the waters and Swar"; VI.60.2, of Indra and Agni, "Ye two warred over the cows, the waters, Swar, the dawns that were ravished; O Indra, O Agni, thou unitest (to us) the regions, Swar, the brilliant dawns, the waters and the cows"; I.32.12, of Indra, "O hero, thou didst conquer the cow, thou didst conquer... prosperity, this fullness of cows, horses, gold, men, chariots, offspring, is not a final end in itself; all Page 138 this is a means towards the opening up of the other worlds, the winning of Swar, the ascent to the solar heavens, the attainment by the path of the Truth to the Light and to the heavenly Bliss where the mortal arrives at Immortality. Such is the undoubted substance of the Veda... herds are the herds of Light and the Light comes by the Dawn and by the Sun of whom Pushan is a form. Finally, Indra is the head of all these gods, lord of the light, king of the luminous heaven called Swar,—he is, we say, the luminous or divine Mind; into him all the gods enter and take part in his unveiling of the hidden light. We see therefore that there is a perfect appropriateness in the attribution ...

... of the rain, the abundance (for vṛṣṭi , rain, has both senses) of heaven, sometimes described as the solar waters, svarvatīr apaḥ , or waters which carry in them the light of the luminous heaven, Svar . But the ocean and the waters in the Veda, as this phrase itself indicates, are the symbol of conscient being in its mass and in its movements. The gods pour the fullness of these waters, especially... can see that it is this attainment of the Truth which is indicated in these three verses. The all-gods increase man, they uphold him in the great work, they bring him the abundance of the waters of Swar, the streams of the Truth, they communicate the unassailably integral and pervading action of the Truth-Consciousness with its wide formations of knowledge, māyāḥ . I have translated the phrase ...

... racing with your trampling steeds, O gods who bring,—to the pilgrim of the Light. 10 Page 528 × Swarnara. Swar is the solar world of the Truth and the herds are the rays of its solar illuminations, therefore it is compared to the pens of these shining Vedic cattle. ... g in men it shall strive to raise them up to its own proper station, the Truth-plane. × The gods. Swar is the "own house" of the Gods. × The divine force of the Truth-conscious being, called in the next ...

... × Heaven and Earth; there are three heavens and three earths and at the summit is the triple luminous world of Heaven called Swar and described lower down as the triple back or threefold level in the Dawn. That is the world of the "vast sun" and is itself described as the Truth, the Right, the Vast. ... with the "cows", that is, the illuminations or yield of Dawn, the shining Cow. × The three worlds of Swar. × Agni, Surya and Soma himself are said to be found in the waters or seven rivers. ...

... is the initiator of the upward effort of the mortal towards Immortality; to this divine consciousness that is one with divine power we arrive as the foundation of immortal existence. Indra, lord of Swar, the luminous intelligence into which we have to convert our obscure material mentality in order to become capable of the divine consciousness, is our chief helper. It is by the aid of Indra and the... effected. The Maruts take our animal consciousness made up of the impulses of the nervous mentality, possess these impulses with their illuminations and drive them up the hill of being towards the world of Swar and the truths of Indra. Our mental evolution begins with these animal troops, these "Pashus"; they become, as we progress in the ascension, the brilliant herds of the Sun, gāvaḥ , rays, the divine... principle which the Vedanta calls Vijnana, the perfect knowledge, the Veda Ritam, the Truth. But these rays descend also into the human mentality and form at its summit the world of luminous intelligence, Swar, of which Indra is the lord. For this Vijnana is a divine and not a human faculty. Man's mind is not constituted of the self-luminous truth, like the divine mind; it is a sense-mentality, Manas, ...

... adrī adhvarasya peśaḥ . The Angirases with the divine Word, the cry of Heaven which is the voice of Swar the luminous heaven and of its lightnings thundering out from the Word, the divine waters or seven rivers that are set free to their flowing by that heavenly lightning of Indra the master of Swar, and with the outflowing of the divine waters the outpressing of the immortalising Soma, these constitute... e.g. I.9.4, giraḥ prati tvām ud ahāsata vṛṣabhaṁ patim . The luminous Mind of Swar is the goal sought by the Vedic thought and the Vedic speech which express the herd of the illuminations pressing upward from the soul, from Page 191 the cave of the subconscient in which they were penned; Indra master of Swar is the Bull, the lord of these herds, gopatiḥ . The Rishi continues to describe... Vishwamitra, III.39; for it carries us right into the heart of our subject. It sets out with a description of the ancestral Thought, pitryā dhīḥ , the Thought of the fathers which can be no other than the Swar-possessing thought hymned by the Atris, the seven-headed thought discovered by Ayasya for the Navagwas; for in this hymn also it is spoken of in connection with the Angirases, the Fathers. "The thought ...

... are the outpouring of the luminous movement and impulse of the divine or supramental existence. × Swar, the world of divine solar light to which we have to ascend and which is revealed by the release of the luminous herds from the nether cave and the consequent uprising of the divine Sun. ...

... पत्नी । स्वजंनन्ती सुभगा सुदंसा आन्ताद्दिवः पप्रथ आ पृथिव्याः ॥४॥ Page 293 4) Dawn in her plenitude like one that lets fall from her a sewn robe moves, the bride of the Bliss; creating Swar, perfect in her working, perfect in her enjoying, she widens from the extremity of Heaven over the earth. अच्छा वो देवीमुषसं विभातीं प्र वो भरष्वं नमसा सुवृृक्तिम् । ऊर्ध्व मधुश्रा दिवि पाजो... Lord, svasarasya patnī . Full in her enjoyment of the felicity, full in her effectuation of all activities, subhagā sudaṁsāḥ , she brings into existence in us by her revelations Page 296 Swar, the concealed luminous mind, our highest mental heaven; and thus from the farthest extremities of mental being extends herself over the physical consciousness. As this divine Dawn pours out widely ...

... communication with all the planes of his own and of the cosmic existence. × The state of bliss of which Swar, the supramental plane of existence, is the basis. × The luminous gods in us must keep our consciousness ...

... Mitra of the harmonies the perfect joy of the energies of the Truth, its complete mightiness. × Or Swar of the vision, the world of light where is the full vision of the Truth. × Beyond the darkness and ...

... realms Of Dwita to the realms of Trita. × Swarnara, often spoken of as if it were a country; it is not Swar itself, the utter superconscient plane, but the power of itself which the light of that world forms in the pure mentality. Here its inspirations and illuminations descend and take their place round ...

... We have to cross beyond all these planes in order to arrive at the higher plane of that superconscient Truth which is the own home of the gods and the foundation of Immortality. This is the world of Swar, to which the Angirases have found the path for their posterity. The Angirases are at once the divine seers who assist in the cosmic and human workings of the gods and their earthly representatives... battle. For the sacrifice is a journey, a progression; the sacrifice itself travels led by Agni up the divine path to the gods and of this journey the ascent of the Angiras fathers to the divine world of Swar is the type. Their journey of the sacrifice is also a battle, for it is opposed by Panis, Vritras and other powers of evil and falsehood, and of this warfare the conflict of Indra and the Angirases ...

... physical, that her cows or rays of the Dawn and the Sun are the illuminations of the dawning divine consciousness and that therefore the Sun is the Illuminer in the sense of the Lord of Knowledge and that Swar, the solar world beyond heaven and earth, is the world of the divine Truth and Bliss, in a word, that Light in the Veda is the symbol of knowledge, of the illumination of the divine Truth. We now begin... It has to be won possession of like the Sun itself and the gods have to give their aid for that possession ( arkasya sātau ) as well as for the possession of the Sun ( sūryasya sātau ) and of Swar ( svarṣātau ). The Angiras, therefore, is not only an Agni-power, he is also a Brihaspati-power. Brihaspati is called more than once the Angirasa, as in VI.73.1, yo adribhit prathamajā ṛtāvā ... sun, satyaṁ tad ... sūryam ; the waters released from the environing darkness of Vritra are called some times the streams of the Truth, ṛtasya dhārāḥ and sometimes svarvatīr apaḥ , the waters of Swar, the luminous solar world. We see then that the Angiras is in the first place a power of Agni the seer-will; he is the seer who works by the light, by the knowledge; he is a flame of the puissance ...

... seems to bear also the sense of active or moving. × The plane of the superconscient Truth or world of Swar beyond mental Heaven and physical earth in which all is accomplished that here we strive after; it is described as the wide habitation and the wide and fear-free pasture of the shining cows. ...

... soul in its egoistic eagerness and the universal Powers which seek to fulfil the divine purpose of the Cosmos. The seer Agastya at such a moment confronts in his inner experience Indra, Lord of Swar, the realm of pure intelligence, through which the ascending soul passes into the divine Truth. Indra speaks first of that unknowable Source of things towards which Agastya is too impatiently striving ...

... Or, Godhead. × The Triple Bull is Indra, lord of the three luminous realms of Swar, the Divine Mind; Tryaruna Trasadasyu is the half-god, man turned into the Indra type; therefore he is described by all the usual epithets of Indra, "Asura", "Satpati", "Maghavan". The triple dawn is ...

... Maya, the divine and undivine, the formations of the truth and the formations of the falsehood. × Swar, the divine mind pure to the luminous Truth. × Or, many-necked. ...

... lords of Immortality, even Aryaman and Mitra and Varuna all-pervading." Still, it is in the image of Swar, the world of the divine Page 495 Truth that the goal is concretely figured. "Let us reach" is the aspiration, "the Light that is of Swar, the Light which none can tear asunder." Swar is the great, inviolable birth of Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman which is contained in the luminous heavens... after Indra has made his puissant and luminous appearance. This Truth is the light, the body of Surya. It is described as the True, the Right, the Vast; as the luminous supramental heaven of Swar—"vast Swar, the great Truth"—concealed be yond our heaven and our earth; and as Surya, the Sun, "that Truth" which dwells lost in the darkness, withheld from us in the secret cave of the subconscient. This... light of the world of Swar, the luminous world that Surya Savitri shall create for us. For because she is divine Dawn of the luminous paths, vast with the Truth and bringing to us its bright world, therefore the illumined adore her with their thoughts. Removing, as it were, a woven robe the bride of the Lord of beatitude by her perfect works and her perfect enjoyment creates Swar and spreads wide in ...

... (Tapoloka) 3) Pure Bliss—Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4) Knowledge or Truth—Vijnana World of the Vastness (Maharloka) 5) Mind World of light (Swar) 6) Life (nervous being) Worlds of various becoming (Bhuvar) 7) Matter The material world (Bhur) Now this system which in the Purana is simple enough, is a good deal... bliss is their foundation. They are supported by the vast regions Page 372 of the Truth whence a divine Light radiates out towards our mentality in the three heavenly luminous worlds of Swar, the domain of Indra. Below is ranked the triple system in which we live. We have the same cosmic gradations as in the Puranas but they are differently grouped,—seven worlds in principle, five in... in practice, three in their general groupings: 1) The Supreme Sat-Chit-Ananda The triple divine worlds 2) The Link-World Supermind   The Truth, Right, Vast, manifested in Swar, with its three luminous heavens 3) The triple lower world Pure Mind Life-force Matter Heaven (Dyaus, the three heavens) The Mid-Region (Antariksha) Earth (the three earths) And as each ...

... from his name. His special realm is Swar, a word which means sun or luminous, being akin to sūra and sūrya , the sun, and is used to indicate the third of the Vedic vyāhṛtis and the third of the Vedic worlds corresponding to the principle of the pure or unobscured Mind. Surya represents the illumination Page 73 of the ṛtam rising upon the mind; Swar is that plane of mental consciousness ...

... Truth, the Friend of all beings, therefore the Lord of Love. × Indra, Ruler of our being. Master of Swar which is the luminous world of the Divine Mind. × Aryaman, the aspiring power and action of the Truth ...

... of the Aryan is a sacrifice which is at once a battle and an ascent and a journey, a battle against the powers of darkness, an ascent to the highest peaks of the mountain beyond earth and heaven into Swar, a journey to the other shore of the rivers and the ocean into the farthest Infinity of things. The Aryan has the will to the work, he is the doer of the work ( kāru, kīri, etc.), the gods who put... the Pani for he is the wolf, that devours" (VI.51.13-14). His rising to the attack must be checked by the gods. "This god (Soma) in his birth with Indra for helper held back by force the Pani" and won Swar and the sun and all the riches, (VI.44.22). The Panis have to be slain or routed so that their riches may be ravished from them and devoted to the higher life. "Thou who didst sever the Pani in his ...

... system of the worlds and the functions of the gods. I found the clue to the symbolism of the worlds in the Vedic conception of the vyāhṛtis , the three symbolic words of the mantra, "OM Bhur Bhuvah Swah", and in the connection of the fourth Vyahriti, Mahas, with the psychological term "Ritam". The Rishis speak Page 44 of three cosmic divisions, Earth, the Antariksha or middle region and ...

... × The worlds in which, respectively, Matter, Life-Energy, Mind, Truth and Beatitude are the essential energies. They are called respectively Bhur, Bhuvar, Swar, Mahas and Jana or Mayas. × Divine Being, Consciousness, Bliss,—Sachchidananda. ...

... delight of his mental, emotional, sensational and physical being they rise with him through the purified and blissful heart to the highest level or surface of heaven, that is, to the luminous world of Swar where the mind capable of intuition, inspiration, revelation is bathed in the splendours of the Truth ( ṛtam ), liberated into the infinity of the Vast ( bṛhat ). Divas pṛṣṭham adhi tiṣṭhanti cetasā ...