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Hymn to the Mental Being

RIGVEDA

Mandala X: Sukta 58

(1)

THAT Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the solar world of Divine Law ­—

We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

(2)

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the Heaven, to the Earth­ —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

(3)

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to a realm whose four sides have crumbled down­ —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

(4)

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the great four quarters ­—

We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the flooding ocean —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the flowing splendour —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the Waters, to the healing plants —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the Sun, to the Dawn —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the vast mountains —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to all this entire moving world, (creation) —

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the farther than the farthest —­

 We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.

(12)

That Mind of yours which has gone afar, even to the past and to the future — ­

We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.
Mother has taken the body because a work of a physical nature ( including a change in the physical world ) had to be done.... - Sri Aurobindo

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