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THE PERSON WHO IS IN THE SUN, THAT IS ME
Yajur Veda 40. 17.

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·VEDIC MYSTICISM

·In this rhythmic activity I was
inspired and encouraged by my
dear friend Mr. Rudy B. Buys,
to whom I now lovingly dedi.
cate this harvest of songs.

·To-day I recite to the modern man in a modern tongue the noblest chants of the Vedas. Here the deepest depths and the highest altitudes are laid bare to the view of the understanding soul. The thought is bold and free: it leaps and bounds, and refuses to be enclosed in any detailed system of metaphysics. To explore into the mysteries of existence, to expand to the limits of limitlessness is the back-ground against which every human action is set and it is the measure that evaluates peoples and civilisations. And it is what the Veda would ask you this day "Have you and your possessions widened so far as you could declare ‘The unbounded ocean am l.'" Hitherto the philologists, men of colossal learning, had produced mummified versions of these hymns. They had found the dictionary and the grammar very handy, and for purposes of defence and attack very effective and safe. They had thought that pricking was the essence of a needle. They most carefully measured its dimensions and reproduced an exact copy. But could it be used for joining the edges of separate pieces of cloth? No, the eye which leads the thread was missing. It could create holes, but it missed the purpose of creating holes. The philologist had missed the eye, the vision that alone could unite him, his reader and the Vedic șshis in the ecstasy of the soul. Dipávali, the Day of Lights, RAGIU VIRA 29th Oct., 1932.

·एक एवाग्निबहुधा समिख
एकः सूर्यो विश्वमनु प्रभूतः।
एकैवोषाः सर्वमिदं वि भा-
त्येकं वा इदं वि बभूव सर्वम् ।।
ऋग्वेदे ८ । ५८।२॥
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·Kindled in numerous places the fire is one.
Lording over all the sun is one.
The dawn that illuminates this all is one.
And forsooth one is it that variously appears
as this all.
Rg-Veda 8. 58. 2.
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·अपूर्वेणेषिता वाचस्
वदन्ति यथायथम् ।
घदन्तीर्यत्र गच्छन्ति
ताहुना॑ह्मणं महत् ॥
अथर्ववेदे १०। ८ । ३३ ॥
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·The words are impelled forth by the Unpreceded, the Unparalleled. They speak of reality. Speaking where they reach, That they say is the Mighty Magnificent. Atharva Veda 10. 8. 33.

·त्वं स्त्री त्वं पुमानसि
त्वं कुमार उत वा कुमारी ।
त्वं जीर्णो दण्डेन वञ्चसि
त्वं जातो भवसि विश्वतोमुखः ॥
अथर्ववेदे १०।८ । २७ ॥
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·Thou art the woman, the man,
Thou art the boy, the girl,
Thou the worn-out man tottering onwards
with a staff.
When born Thou facest all directions.
Atharva Veda 10. 8. 27.

·स वा अहौऽजायत तस्मादहरजायत ।
स वै राज्या अजायत तस्माद्रात्रिरजायत ।
स वै वायोरजायत तस्माद्वायुरजायत ॥
स वै भूमेरजायत तस्माद्भूमिरजायत ॥
स वै दिग्भ्योऽजायत तस्मादिशोऽजायन्त ॥
स वा अग्नेरजायत तस्म मादग्निरजायत ॥
स वा अद्भयोऽजायत तस्मादापोऽजायन्त ॥
स वा ऋग्भ्योऽजायत तस्मादचौऽजायन्त ॥
स वै यज्ञादजायत तस्माद्यज्ञोऽजायत ।।
स स्तनयति स वि द्योतते स उ अश्मानमस्यति ॥
पापाय वा भद्राय वा पुरुषायासुराय वा ॥
अथर्ववेदे १३ । ४ । २६, ३०, ३२, ३५, ३४, ३६-३६, ४१, ४२ ॥
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·HE FLASHES AND THUNDERS

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·He is surely born of the day and the day is born of Him. He is just as well the creature and the creator of the night, the wind, the wide earth, the six directions, the fire, the waters, the hymns and the sacrifice. He roars and rumbles. He flashes and thunders. He hurls the bolt, And smites either the sinner or the pious, the man or the demon. Atharva Voda 13. 4. 29, 30, 32, 36, 34, 36-39, 41, 42. 9

·यो विद्यात्सूत्रं विततं
यस्मिन्नोताः प्रजा इमाः।
सूत्रं सूत्रस्य यो विद्यात्
स विद्याद् ब्राह्मणं महत् ॥
अर्थववेदे १०।८ । ३.॥
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·He who recognises the stretched-out thread,
The thread on which the creatures are strung,
Furthermore, he who penetrates deeper and
perceives the thread inside the thread,
knows truly the Mighty Magnificent.
Atharva Veda 10. 8. 37.
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·अयुतोऽहमयुतो म अात्माः युतं मे चक्षुरयुतं मे श्रोत्र- मयतो मे प्राणोऽयुतो मेऽपानो- ऽयुतो मे व्यानोऽयुतोऽहं सर्वः॥ देवस्य॑ त्वा सवितुः प्रेसवे...श्रा रमे अथर्ववेदे १६ । ५१।१, २ ॥ 12 ·Disjoined am I, disjoined my soul, My eye, my ear, and breaths incoming, outgoing and circulating within, The whole of me — disjoined. At the impelling of the Impelling Lord, thee - the gift- I hold. Atharva-Voda 19. 51, 1, 2. 13

·दूरे पूर्णेन वसति
दूर ऊनेन हीयते ।
महद्यशं भुवनस्य मध्ये
तस्मै बलिं राष्ट्रभृतो भरन्ति ॥
अथर्ववेदे १० । ८ । १५॥
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·A long way off He lives with the complete. A long way off He lives missing what is deficient. And that is the centre of the universe where the fosterers of empires pour their offerings to the Mighty, the Adored, the Adorable. Atharva-Veda 10. 8. 15. 15

·अवि नाम देवतर्तेनास्ते परीवृता ।
तस्या रूपेणेमे वृक्षा हरिता हरितम्रजः ॥
अथर्ववेदे १० । ।३१॥
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·SEEST THOU THE DIVINE POESY
AND ITS GRANDEUR
TODAY IS DEAD
HO WHO BREATHED ONLY YESTERDAY:
Atharva-Veda 9. 10. 9.

·- The keen eye of the scientist has pierced far into space, while his hands have been busy with the spade scraping the surface of the earth. The discoveries thus made have been wonderful. How easily the modern disciple of the Vedic mystics can negotiate with these is illustrated by pictures 2 and 4.

·Avi by name is the goddess, Around whom ambulates the law of cosmos and the order of truth. By her beauty are the trees green and greenlygarlanded. Atharva-Veda 10. 8. 31. 17

·कोऽदात
कस्मा अदात्
कामो
कामोऽदात
कामायादात्।
दाता
कामः प्रतिग्रहीता ॥
कामः समुद्रमाविशत् ।
कामेन त्वा प्रतिगृह्णामि ।
कामैतत्तै ॥
यजुर्वेद, वाजसनेयके ७ । ४८ ॥ का पिष्ठले ८ । १२ ॥
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·Who was it that gave the gift, And who was it to whom he gave ? Love to love, desire to desire, longing to longing- The giver the same, the recipient the same. Love and desire and longing-all one in Kama, dived into the sea. With Kama I accept thee. O Kama it is thine. Yajar-Veda, VajS, 7. 48, Kaps. 8. 12. 19

·अष्टाचा नवद्वारा
देवानां पूरयोध्या।
तस्यां हिरण्ययः कोशः
स्वर्गो ज्योतिषावृतः॥
तस्मिन्हिरण्यये कोशे
ज्यरे त्रिप्रतिष्ठिते ।
तस्मिन्यद्यक्षात्मन्वत्
तद्वै ब्रह्मविदो विदुः ॥
अथर्ववेदे ..।२।३१, ३२ ॥
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·Eight-wheeled and nine-portalled is the invincible fortress city of the gods. Within is stationed the golden bud, haloed with light, The golden bud, three-sepalled and triplypropped, seals within itself that Adored and Adorable One, the lord of the soul. It is He, who is revealed to the seer. Atharva-Veda 10. 2, 31, 32. 21

·यदा त्वष्टा व्यतॄणत्पिता त्वष्टुर्य उत्तरः ।
गृहं कृत्वा मयं देवाः पुरुषमाविशन् ॥
...पाप्मानो नाम देवता....॥
स्तेय दुष्कृतं वृजिनं सत्यं यज्ञो यशौ बृहत् ।
बलै च तत्रमोजश्च शरीरमनु प्राविशन् ॥
भूतिश्च वा अभूतिश्च ।
क्षुधश्च सर्वास्तृष्णाश्च शरीरमनु प्राविशन् ॥
निन्दाश्च वा अनिन्दाश्च यच्च हन्तेति नेति च ।
शरीरं श्रद्धा दक्षिणाश्रद्धा चानु प्राविशन् ॥
विद्याश्च वा अविद्याश्च यच्चान्यदुपदेश्यम् ।
अानन्दा मोदः प्रमुदोऽभीमोदमुर्दश्च ये ॥
या अापो याच देवता या विराट् ब्रह्मणा सह ।
शरीरं
हरीरेऽधि प्रजापतिः
सूर्यश्चक्षुर्वातः प्राणं पुरुषस्य वि भेजिरे ॥
तस्माद्वै विद्वान्पुरुषमिदं ब्रह्मेति मन्यते ।
सर्वा ह्यस्मिन्देवता गावो गोष्ठ इवासते ॥
ब्रह्म
प्राविशच्छ
': ॥
॥
अथर्ववेदे ११।८ । १८-२४, ३०-३२ ॥
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·When the divine architect bored his father who is supreme and fashioned the human form, All the gods entered the mortal frame and made it their home, The evil gods and the good ones. Theft, ignoble doings, sins, wickedness, And truth, sacrifice, great glory, Power, prowess, brilliance just as well Came to reside in this human form. Prosperity and calamity, the manifold hungers and thirsts, Jealousies and loves, ayes and noes, Faith and heresy, Knowledge and ignorance, Joys, pleasures, rejoicings and festivities rushed in just the same. The sun appropriated the eye, the wind appropriated the breath. The rest of the procession of divinities apportioned their lots in a similar wise. Thus it is that the knower knows the body as the veritable Brahma. The entire god-kind has resorted to it like unto the fold the kine. Atharva-Veda 11. 8. 18-24, 30-32. 23

·एवा
में
यथा द्योश्च पृथिवी च न बिभीतो न रिष्यतः ।
एवा में प्राण मा बिभेः॥
यथाहश्च रात्री च न विभीतो न रिष्यतः।
एवा में प्राण मा बिभेः॥
यथा सूर्यश्च चन्द्रश्च न बिभीतो न रिष्यतः ।
प्राण मा बिभेः॥
यथा ब्रह्म च क्षत्रं च न विभीतो न रिष्यतः ।
एवा
प्राण मा बिभेः॥
यथा सत्यं चानृतं च न विभीतो न रिष्यतः ।
प्राण मा बिभेः॥
या भूतं च भव्यं च न बिभीतो न रिष्यतः ।
एवा प्राण मा बिभेः॥
में
एवा
में
व
में
अर्थववेदे २ । १५ । १-६ ॥
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·MOON STANDS IN NO AWE AND COMES TO O GRIRE

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·As neither the heavens nor the earth stand in awe, So fear-free be my life. As the day, the night, The sun, the moon, The priest, the hero, The truth, the violation of truth, What's gone, what's yet to come- As these stand in no awe and come to no grief, So fear-free be my life. Atharva Veda 2. 15. 1.6. 25

·अन्ति सन्तं न जहा-
त्यन्ति सन्तं न पश्यति।
देवस्य पश्य काव्यं
न ममार न जीर्यति ॥
अथर्ववेद १०। ८ । ३२ ॥
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·He is near. He cannot be shed off.
He is near. He cannot be seen.
But O, you sons of the Immortal, see the
poetry of the Lord,
It neither dies nor decays.
Atharver Veda 10. 8. 32.
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·प्र तद्वचिदमृतस्य विद्वान्
गन्धर्वो धाम परमं गुहा यत् ॥
यत्र विश्वं भवत्येकरूपम् ॥
स नः पिता जनिता स उत बन्धु-
र्धामानि वेद भुवनानि विश्वा ।
यो देवानी
तं सैप्रश्नं भुवना यन्ति सौ ॥
नामध एक
अथर्ववेदे २ । १। २, १, ३ ॥
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·Knowing no death let the musician proclaim
aloud the Supreme Resort,
Secreted in the heart-cave.
In Him the multiform resolves into uniform.
He, our father, progenitor, brother, knows all
homes and beings,
The sole nomenclator of the gods.
To Him enquiringly resort all beings.
Atharva Veda 2. 1. 2, 1, 3.
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·हिरण्यगर्भ परम- मनत्युद्यं जना विदुः। स्कम्भस्तदने प्रासिञ्च- शिरण्यं लोके अन्तरा। अथर्ववेदे १०। ७।३८ ॥ 30 ·Him, the golden egg, the folk knew as the supreme. Of Him they could not speak much. He, the Pillar, that sprinkled gold in the worlds at the very beginning. Atharva Veda 10. 7. 28. 31

·परि विश्वा भुवनान्यायम्
श्रुतस्य तन्तुं विततं दृशे कम्।
पत्रं देवा अमृतमानशानाः
समाने योनाबध्यैरयन्त ।
॥
अथर्ववेदे २।१।।
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·To discover the thread of moral and cosmic
code
I circum-ambulated the worlds,
And saw the gods tasting of immortality at
the common spring, and going their round
of work.
Atharva-Veda 2. 1. 5.
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·प्राण
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प्राणाय नमो यस्य सर्वमिदं वशे ।
यो भूतः सर्वस्येश्वरो यस्मिन्त्सर्व प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
नमस्ते प्राण क्रन्दाय नमस्ते स्तनयित्नवे
नमस्ते प्राण विद्यते नमस्ते वर्षते
यत्प्राण ऋतावागतेऽभिक्रन्दत्योषधीः ।
सवै तदा प्र मोदते यत्किं च भूम्यामधि ॥
पशवस्तत्प्र मोदन्ते ॥
प्राणो विराट्।
प्राणो ह सूर्यश्चन्द्रमाः प्राणाहुः प्रजापतिम् ॥
प्राणो है सत्यवादिनमुत्तमे लोक आ दधत् ॥
प्राणो मृत्युः॥
प्राणे हे भूतं भव्य च प्राणे सर्व प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
पराचीनाय ते नमः प्रतीचीनाय ते नमः ॥
अष्टाचक्रं वर्तत एकनेमि
सहस्राक्षरं प्र पुरो नि पश्चा।
अर्धेन विश्वं भुवनं जजान
यदस्याध कतमः स केतुः ॥
अथर्ववेदे ११ । ४ । १, २, ४, ५, १२, ११, १५, ८, २२ ॥
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·Obeisance to the Life, that controls this all, The Being who overlords all, in whom all is established. Obeisance to Thee, O Life, obeisance to Thee, crashing and thundering, flashing and pouring rain, Quickening the earth with life, gladdening the beasts, Repeating the constant cycle of days, nights, fortnights, months, two-monthly seasons and years, Making the universe throb. Life is immense. Life is the sun, the moon and the creator, the dispenser of bliss to the truthful man. Verily Life Himself is death. Hail to Thee, O Life, who envelops the past, the present and the future, Who advances forwards, backwards, below and high, ever-revolving, eight-wheeled, single-rimmed, thousand-spoked. With Thine half Thou created the universe, and the other half overflows, where and how far who knows ? Atharva Veda 11. 4, 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 11, 15, 8, 22. 35

·उच्छिष्टे नाम रूपं चोच्छिष्टे लोक अाहितः ॥
सन्नुच्छिष्टे असैश्चोभौ मृत्युर्वाजः प्रजापतिः ॥
ऋक्साम यजुरुच्छिष्टे ।
अथर्ववेदे ११ । । १, ३, ५ ।।
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·Or it is in the overflow that the world of forms and names has its being. The existent, the non-existent, death and music play their games in the overflow. Atharva Veda. 11. 7. 1, 3, 5, 37

·स्कन्ना धौ स्कन्ना पृथिवी
स्कन्नं विश्वमिदं जगत्
स्कन्नादो विश्वा भूतानि
प्रस्कन्नं जायती हविः॥
यजुर्वेद कापिष्ठले ४८ । ।
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·The sky is split,
The earth is split,
All that moves is split,
And split and scattered are the beings.
May my spilled offering grow.
Yajur Vede, KapS. 48. 8.
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·दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज्
जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददा-
त्वर्थ पक्केन सह संभवेम ॥
अथर्ववेदे १३ । ३ । • ॥
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·Let my destiny here lead me on to old age,
and old age deliver me unto death.
And finally be I united with the Ripe One.
Atharva Veda 12, 3, 60.
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·परि द्यावापृथिवी सद्य आयम्
उपातिष्ठे प्रथमजामृतस्य ॥
अथर्ववेदे २।१ । ४ ॥
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·I HASTENED THROUGH THE SKIES

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·1 hastened through the skies, I trotted the worlds, And here stand in reverence before the Firstborn-of-truth-and-law. Atharva-Veda 2. 1. 4. 43

·समुद्रो अस्मि विधर्मणा
SAI
THE UNBOUNDED OCEAN AM I
Atharva Poda 16. 3. 6.
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