(RV 3.4.5)
nŗpeshaso vidatheşhu pra jātā abhīmam yajnam vi
charanta pūrvīĥ,
Wearing the forms of gods many powers born in the finding of
knowledge
move abroad to this sacrifice.
As the seeker opens up successive layers of his consciousness to
the Light and Knowledge in the deeper and higher levels of
existence, many of his latent faculties are awakened, formed and
set into activity by the appropriate presiding Powers. The gods
are born in him, Mitra the god of love and harmony; Varuna of
vastness and purity; Indra of luminous intelligence, and others
manifest and gather to partake of the choicest offering of the
sacrifice—Soma, the delight of life-experience.
God and Man
5.12.3)
vedā me deva ŗtupā ŗtūnām nāham
The God who is the guardian of the order and laws of the
Truths knows me, but I know him
not.
Man imagines in the pride of his intellect that he knows or can
know all with his mind. But he hardly knows himself; except his
surface nature, he knows precious little of the truth that lies
behind. He knows only a fraction of himself. So too he knows very
little of the universe around, the processes and movements of
Nature, the origins of its phenomena, the order of the cosmos, the
Powers that rule and work the organization—the gods. Man does not
know the Godhead that presides over the evolution of his world and
conducts it according to the imperatives of the Divine Truth. But
God knows him, in fact He has moulded him all along and He it is
who shapes his course of development. If only man becomes
conscious of this relation and learns to participate knowingly in
this effort, his life would become an ordered journey from light
to light, from joy to joy.
Growth of the Gods
(RV 5.81.3)
yasya prayāņam-anvanya
idyayur-devā
devasya mahimānam-ojasā,
In the wake of his march, the other gods
also reach by his force
to the greatness of the Divinity.
Surya,
the Divine Sun of Truth, illumines various parts of the being of
the seeker as he lays himself open to the rays of his revealing
Light. As more and more of his being comes under the occupation of
and energizing by this Light and Truth, the various faculties and
potentialities in him are activised and gather force. These gods
take shape and increase in him, growing towards their several
perfection in the ultimate Godhead.
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