The Sages

From 'Thus Spake The Vedas'

1. Sages unfold the divine secret.

O Lord of sacred knowledge! When the sages uttered the first and foremost speech, giving a name to the nameless, it was their best and purest, and revealed with love the Divine Secret that lay hidden in their hearts. The Deity makes the sacred text. With prayer we approach Him who finds the way for us. He reveals the hymn in the heart. Like rain from the cloud, this noble song of praise has been produced from my soul. It is not by our human nature that we know of Him.

2. Truthful spirit of the Sages

These sages, endowed with insight, move one, while their truthful spirit shines brightly. United in their praised-song and chants and in their lustre divinely elected and God-like, the seven sages, with their deep insight, took up the reins like one seated on a chariot. Sublime are the rishis. Our homage to them, to their eyes and the truth of their spirit. The rishis, the world builders, chanted their sacred words and the seven sages prayed in session with ritual and austerity.

3. How the Sages spread the sacred words?

Of you whose help comes quickly, I ask for the wealth of spirit through which we may spread forth amidst men like light. Lord of light! fill me with the sweetness of honey so that I may speak the glorious words to the masses of the people. The Lord of the Seven Communities and of the Eighth which comprises all mankind make the pathways pleasant for me, and may have a companion with whom there will be full concord, so that I may speak these blissful words to the masses of people - to the man of knowledge, the ruler, the laborer and the trader, to my own people and to the foreigner.

4. Books of Knowledge

From the universal sacrifice (at creation) were born all the Vedas. The Vedas are omniform (dealing in all aspects of life and reality). The knower of Vedas (who carries on the oral tradition) is the highest heaven in which the revealed words of the Vedas abide. Endow me with the lustre that is in the truth of the Vedas,