In The Secret of the Veda there is a chapter entitled The Guardians of the Light in which Sri Aurobindo describes a few of the Vedic gods, their characteristics and their functions in the transcendental scheme of working. These gods of Truth and Light are there to support and take forward the soul and the spirit of the mortal to the worlds of immortality with its plenty of every kind in the divine expression and manifestation. They do so against the forces of the Darkness and the Ignorance pulling him back into their constant fold becoming thicker and thicker in the downward plunge. A darkness wrapped in greater darkness is the exact opposite of the truth covered by the greater truth and it is that greater truth which must enter into the greater darkness of the divine unawareness. This manifesting Truth is the body of the Sun-God or Savitŗ who is at once the True and the Right and the Vast. It is he who loses forth in this creation.

“What does he create? First the worlds. ...” In the process we see him as Savitri the Creator, Twashtri the Fashioner of things, Pushan the Nourisher and the Increaser. “Savitri manifests himself through four great and active deities Mitra, Varuna, Bhaga and Aryaman, the Lords of pure Wideness, luminous Harmony, divine Enjoyment, exalted Power.” In The Guardians of the Light Sri Aurobindo reveals the greatness of these four luminous and mighty Lords which is freely paraphrased and rendered in the following to get a general idea about the cosmic-transcendental working.

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