Four great deities,—Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga, Aryaman,—constantly appear in the Veda as closely allied in their nature and in their action. It can be said that a solar character attaches to them all. Not only are the four closely associated among themselves; they seem to partake of each other's nature and attributes; evidently they are emanations of Surya Savitri the Creator, the divine being in his creative and illuminative solar form. According to the Truth of things, in the terms of the divine dynamism, the worlds are brought forth from the divine consciousness, from Aditi, goddess of infinite being, mother of the gods, the indivisible consciousness, the Light that cannot be impaired, the mystic Cow that cannot be slain. In that creation, Varuna and Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga are four effective Puissances. Varuna represents the principle of pure and wide being, Sat in Sachchidananda; Aryaman represents the light of the divine consciousness working as Force; Mitra representing light and knowledge, using the principle of Ananda for creation, is Love maintaining the law of harmony; Bhaga represents Ananda as the creative enjoyment, he taking the delight of the creation, the delight of all that is created. It is the Maya, the formative wisdom of Varuna, of Mitra that disposes multitudinously the light of Aditi brought by the Dawn to manifest the worlds. Surya Savitri, who is Bhaga, stands between the Infinite and the created worlds within us and without. All things that have to be born in the creative consciousness he receives into the Vijnana; there he puts it into its right place in the divine rhythm by the knowledge that listens and receives the Word as it descends and so he looses it forth into the movement of things, āśrāvayati ślokena pra ca suvāti. When in us each creation of the active Ananda, the prajāvat saubhagam, comes out of the unmanifest, received and heard rightly of the knowledge in the faultless rhythm of things, then is our creation that of Bhaga Savitri, and all the births of that creation, our children, our offspring, prajā, apatyam, are things of the delight, viśvā vāmāni. This is the accomplishment of Bhaga in man, his full portion of the world-sacrifice.

Sri Aurobindo has presented the Vedic hymn V.82 in The Secret of the Veda and revealed the veritable nature of these four mighty powers,—Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga, Aryaman,—who also took upon themselves the painful and difficult task of bringing out rather initiating a new creation from the Supreme’s pregnant Nothing. These four powers of Sat-Chit-Ananda-Vijnana by the process of intense inwardness lost contact with that Reality of theirs, the Reality from which they had sprung up. As soon as they lost contact with that Reality, the golden womb, hiraņya yoni, Origin of theirs, they turned into their own opposites. But the intensity of their deepening inwardness was such that, it was such concentration of the will, tapas, that from its heat of incubation sprang up the divine Soul to take another birth in fortune and opulence of the ever-growing wideness and joy and plenitude and perceptive experience of newer possibilities. In their tapas-will lies the entire mystery of Involution, it at once opening a way for this excellence of manifestation. But these four powers in their transcendental greatness also participate in the present cosmic working, even as they take the individual soul to the worlds of cherished immortality which should now become a part of the earthly or terrestrial creation, it dissolving the shadow that that clings to it as a false persona. The Vedic Rishis as individuals were concerned with it, they invoking the supreme Light of Truth to remove all Falsehood, ŗtasya jyotih dispelling all that is anŗta. In it indeed is all the greatness and all the worth of human aspiration, it giving meaning and content to it.

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