THE COLLOQUY OF INDRA AND AGASTYA - II
ऋग्वेद 1.170.2
किं न इन्द्र जिघांससि भरातरो मरुतस्तव |
तेभिः कल्पस्व साधुया मा नः समरणे वधीः ||
why do you seek to smite us, o indra? the marutas are your brothers. by them accomplish perfection; slay us not in our struggle.
interpretation: agastya still does not understand why he is so violently opposed in a pursuit which is eventual aim of all being, and which all his thoughts and feelings demand. maruts are powers of thought which by strong and apparently destructive motion of their progress break down that which is previously established and help to attainment of new formations. indra, the power of pure intelligence is their brother, kin to them in his nature although elder in being. he should by their means effect the perfection towards which agastya is starving, and not turn enemy , not slay his friend in this terrible struggle towards the goal.
ऋग्वेद 1.170.2
किं न इन्द्र जिघांससि भरातरो मरुतस्तव |
तेभिः कल्पस्व साधुया मा नः समरणे वधीः ||
why do you seek to smite us, o indra? the marutas are your brothers. by them accomplish perfection; slay us not in our struggle.
interpretation: agastya still does not understand why he is so violently opposed in a pursuit which is eventual aim of all being, and which all his thoughts and feelings demand. maruts are powers of thought which by strong and apparently destructive motion of their progress break down that which is previously established and help to attainment of new formations. indra, the power of pure intelligence is their brother, kin to them in his nature although elder in being. he should by their means effect the perfection towards which agastya is starving, and not turn enemy , not slay his friend in this terrible struggle towards the goal.
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