A new approach to the Vedas : an essay in translation and exegesis

A NEW APPROACH TO THE VEDAS

worlds are they movers-at-will (kamacarah,’ Chandogya Up., VII, 25, 2).

If we have seemed to compromise the liberty (adititva), lordship (aisvarya) or great-Self-hood (mahdimya) of the Person as he is in the world, all the more majestic, more desirable, becomes that Will that is indeed free, his will “ whose Will is him-Self,” as he is “‘ alone with him-Self,”’ ék jo apai ap, Kabir: “ self-intent,”’ and “ loving only himself,” Eckhart.4* For with the Eye that goes with that Will, he as overseer of kavma, and we denuded of our virtues, indistinct from and unanimous with Him, are in posse to survey the world-picture and to take an infinite delight therein*®: that picture being his and our eternal play and dalliance, his /#/a@, inhering in him-Self, our-Self“There has always been this play going on in the Fathernature . .. played eternally before all creatures. . . sport and players are the same,’ Eckhart, I, 148—“ not that this joy first began with the creation, no, for it was from eternity in the great mystery, yet only as a spiritual melody and sport in itself. The creation is the same sport out of himself, viz., a platform or instrument of the Eternal Spirit,’ Boéhme, Signatura Rerum, XVI, 2-3.46

Two Trinities (tvidha) are mentioned : it is to be understood that both are manifested (vyakia) and intelligible (veya) but the first (Fire, Supernal-Sun, and Spirit) is informal (aviipa), the second (the Three Worlds, Earth, Heaven, Firmament) aspectual, (v#pa) and perceptible (dysya). Here the Trinity is called an “ arrangement,” dha. In the Taitttirvtya Up., I, 3, 1-4, where five aspects of the fundamental Trinity are explained, the term samluta, “ grouping’”’ is employed. Eckhart speaks similarly of the Trinity as an “‘ arrangement ”’ and as “articulate speech,” the Persons being “ illuminations of the understanding.’’*’

In our text the body of the aspectual Trinity is conceived in the likeness of a horse. ‘‘ Meseems that thou art