Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / Rig Veda Hymn to Creation Mandala X, Sukta 129 Sanskrit with English Translation by Sri Aurobindo and Nolini Kanta Gupta
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- 0:00Hymns from the rig Veda, with commentary by SRI, aurobindo and
- 0:06translations by free. Arbonne do and nalini Compton
- 0:10Gupta. The rig Veda is itself.
- 0:16The one considerable document that remains to us from the
- 0:20early period of human thought of which the historic illus tinian
- 0:26and orphic Mysteries, were the failing remnants.
- 0:30When the spiritual and psychological knowledge of the
- 0:34race was concealed for reasons, now difficult to determine in a
- 0:40veil of concrete and material figures and symbols, which
- 0:45protected the sense from the profane and revealed it to the
- 0:50initiated one of the leading principles of the mystics was
- 0:55the sacredness and secrecy of self-knowledge and the true
- 0:59knowledge of the Gods. The wisdom was they thought
- 1:04unfit perhaps even dangerous to the ordinary human mind or in
- 1:10any case liable to perversion and misuse and loss of virtue if
- 1:16revealed to vulgar and unpurified spirits.
- 1:20Penn State favored the existence of an outer worship effective,
- 1:25but imperfect for the profane And an inner discipline for the
- 1:31initiate and clothe their language in words and images,
- 1:36which had equally a spiritual sense for the elect a concrete
- 1:42sense for the mass of ordinary worshipers The Vedic.
- 1:46Hymns were conceived and constructed on this principle.
- 1:54Mandela 10, subduer 129 the hymn of creation.
- 2:03Who's he forgot about the parameter, T David.
- 3:38lomonosov, Reba pratunam Yeah, they were hard that he the
- 5:00one of you as your caption for AMI.
- 5:29Then existence was not nor non-existence the mid world was
- 5:36not nor The Ether. Nor what is beyond, what covered
- 5:43all. Where was it in whose Refuge?
- 5:49What was that ocean dense and deep?
- 5:54Death was not nor immortality nor the knowledge of day and
- 6:01night. That one lived without breath by
- 6:06his self long. There was nothing else, nor off
- 6:12Beyond it. In the beginning, Darkness was
- 6:17hidden by Darkness. All this was a notion of
- 6:21incontinence. when Universal being was concealed by
- 6:26fragmentation, then by the greatness of its energy, that
- 6:32one was born that moved at first as desire within which was the
- 6:40Primal seed of mind. The seers of Truth discovered
- 6:46the building of being in non-being by Will in the heart.
- 6:52And by the thought There re was extended horizontally.
- 6:59But what was there below? What was there about there were
- 7:05Casters Of The Seed. They were greatnesses.
- 7:10There was salt law below. There was Will above, who knows?
- 7:18And Truth, who would tell us here below From where was it?
- 7:24Born whence the surging creation.
- 7:29The gods stand below this surging out abroad, who knows?
- 7:35Then from where this took birth, That from where this creation
- 7:41has sprung, does that even contain it?
- 7:46Or does it? Not, he who is its Overlord in
- 7:51the Supreme Infinity? Does he even know or he too
- 7:56knows? Not Oh peace.
- 8:02Peace, peace. Oh peace.
- 8:02Peace, peace.