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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Introductory Sacrifice - A.B-9

Now the subject of the gods are brought in order which results in the subjects of men in order
, which brings all the subjects in order and thus this brings the sacrifice in order along with
the people . A hotr who knows this invokes the subject of gods; the maruts[RV.10.63.15]. [
the maruts are the path makers from earth to heaven, and the verses mentioned here from RV
is dedicated to vishwadeva ; the collection of devas which we invoked by offering the pap
with individual verses in the beginning. now just like a string that makes the pearls to form a
garland, the maruts is the string which brings the order of sacrifice]. With all the meters , he
says the offering verses for the gods and with the sacrifice of the meters , the gods originally
conquered the heaven with that. and once the person who performs the sacrifice of the all
meters thus ascends to heaven[RV.10.63.16 : svasti verses for pathya].[ the verses are in
tristup meter which provides the strength or force for the journey. In the physical body , the
water element predominates and the maruts control the flow and distribution of it. the tristup
meters offered here for maruts helps the ascend on this limited existence having control over
water and its limitations on human body]. Now the Agni is invoked and strengthened in
tristup verses as guide [RV.1.189.1 , RV.10.2.3], and soma is invoked and strengthened in
tristup verses as friend[RV.1.91.1, R.V.1.91.4], and savitr is invoked in gayatri meter as the
supporter[ RV.5.82.7 , RV.5.82.9] and aditi invoked in the jagati meter as the vehicle
[RV.10.63.10 and AV.7.6.2] [AV : Atharva Veda : the protection verses]. The meters
trishtup, gayatri, jagati are independent here and the others are dependent on them [the gods,
as their nature of invocation is determined by the meter]. By the means of meters the one who
sacrifice did the sacrifices for all meters thereby knowing what mentioned.