The Twentieth Hymn to Agni
A Hymn of the Work and the Attainment
[The Rishi desires a state of spiritual wealth full of the divine working in which nothing shall fall away to the division and the crookedness. So, increasing by our works the divine Force in us daily, we shall attain to the Bliss and the Truth, the rapture of the Light and the rapture of the Force.]
5.20.1
यम॑ग्ने वाजसातम॒ त्वं चि॒न्मन्य॑से र॒यिम् ।
तं नो॑ गी॒र्भिः श्र॒वाय्यं॑ देव॒त्रा प॑नया॒ युज॑म् ॥१॥
yam agne vāja-sātama tvam cit manyase rayim
tam naḥ gīḥbhiḥ śravāyyam deva-trā panaya yujam
O Will, O conqueror of our plenitude, the felicity which thou alone canst conceive in the mind, that make full of inspiration by our words and set it to labour in the gods as our helper.
5.20.2
ये अ॑ग्ने॒ नेरय॑न्ति ते वृ॒द्धा उ॒ग्रस्य॒ शव॑सः ।
अप॒ द्वेषो॒ अप॒ ह्वरो॒ऽन्यव्र॑तस्य सश्चिरे ॥२॥
ye agne na īrayanti te vṛddhāḥ ugrasya śavasaḥ
apa dveṣaḥ apa hvaraḥ anya-vratasya saścire
They who are powers increased of thee in the fierceness of thy flame and strength, yet impel us not on the path, they fall away to the division, they cleave to the crookedness of a law that is other than thine.
5.20.3
होता॑रं त्वा वृणीम॒हेऽग्ने॒ दक्ष॑स्य॒ साध॑नम् ।
य॒ज्ञेषु॑ पू॒र्व्यं गि॒रा प्रय॑स्वन्तो हवामहे ॥३॥
hotāram tvā vṛṇīmahe agne dakṣasya sādhanam
yajñeṣu pūrvyam girā prayasvantaḥ havāmahe
Thee, O Will, we take to us as the priest of the offering and the accomplisher of a discerning knowledge; holding for thee all our delights we call thee the ancient and supreme to our sacrifices by the word;
5.20.4
इ॒त्था यथा॑ त ऊ॒तये॒ सह॑सावन्दि॒वेदि॑वे ।
रा॒य ऋ॒ताय॑ सुक्रतो॒ गोभि॑: ष्याम सध॒मादो॑ वी॒रैः स्या॑म सध॒मादः॑ ॥४॥
itthā yathā te ūtaye sahasā-van dive-dive
rāye ṛtāya sukrato iti su-krato gobhiḥ syāma sadha-mādaḥ vīraiḥ syāma sadha-mādaḥ
Rightly and in such wise that, O forceful god, O perfect power of works, we may increase thee day by day, that we may have the Bliss, that we may have the Truth, that we may have perfect rapture by the Rays of the knowledge, that we may have perfect rapture by the Heroes of the Force.