This is a paraphrase of the text of Chapter Seven of Sri Aurobindo’s The Secret of the Veda. It presents the role of Vayu and Indra and then of Varuna and Mitra in the Vedic conception of the supramental consciousness which is the condition of the state of immortality. If there is the preparation first of the vital forces represented by Vayu, and of the mentality by Indra, then Varuna and Mitra are two of the four gods who represent this working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament. It is by the thought that Indra and Vayu have been called upon to perfect the nervous mentality. But this instrument, thought, has itself to be perfected, enriched, clarified before the mind can become capable of free communication with the Truth-Consciousness. To realize this Varuna and Mitra, Powers of the Truth, are invoked for "accomplishing a richly luminous thought", dhiyam ghṛtācīm sādhantā. All this is based on the central Vedic conception of the Supramental or Truth-Consciousness towards which the progressively perfected mentality of the human being labours as towards a consummation and a goal. The two opening hymns of the Rig Veda already state this great conception of the supramental consciousness as the condition of the state of immortality. In the first hymn this is simply stated as the aim of the sacrifice and the characteristic work of Agni. The second hymn indicates the preliminary work of preparation, by Indra and Vayu, by Mitra and Varuna, of the ordinary mentality of man through the force of the Ananda and the increasing growth of the Truth.

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