Rişhi: Shunahshepa (RV 1.24.12, 5.7.4)
ayam
keto hŗda ā vichaşhţe
sa smā kŗņoti ketum-ā naktam chid-dūra ā sate,
An
intuition in the heart sees that truth.
Yea, he
creates the light of intuition
even
for one who is far off in the night.
The truth of things cannot be found by the
logical intellect of the mind which is an imperfect groping
instrument. It can be perceived, however, by intuition, a faculty
that grasps the truth without effort; it is in fact an arrow of
truth that strikes the human consciousness. It works in the mind,
but with a handicap; the intellect seizes the flash of intuition
and colours it with its own movements and in the process its
infallibility is lost. But when the intuition dawns in the heart,
it is more direct; for the heart is the chamber of the soul—a
portion of the Divine—and there is less possibility of
interference by foreign elements.
The intuition in the heart sees the truth as it
is. This intuition that illumines and reveals is not a product of
human labour. It is a gift of God Agni, the flame of illumination
that lights up the ill-lit corridors of the being and awakens the
faculty of intuition in the consciousness that is surrendered to
its workings.
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