Ashwins - Lords of Bliss - The Unicorns - Elohims from Mount Shasta


Hymns: Lo, the Light is rising up and the all pervading car is being yoked on the high level of this heaven; there are placed satisfying delights in their triple pairs and the fourth skin of golden hue overflows. Full of golden hue, upward rise the delights; upward horses and cars in the wide shining of the Dawn, and they roll aside the veil of darkness that encompassed on every side and they extend the lower world into a shining form like that of the luminous heaven. Drink of the golden hue with your golden hue drinking mouths, for the golden hue yoke your car beloved. With the golden hue, you gladden the movement and its path; full of golden hue, O Ashwins, is the skin that you bear. Full of the golden hue are the swans the bear you, golden winged, waking with the Dawns, and they come not to hurt; they rain forth the waters, they are full of rapture and touch that which holds the Rapture. Like bees to pouring of honey, you come to the soma offering. Full of the golden hue, the fires lead well the sacrifice and they woo your brightness, O Ashwins, day by day, when one with purified hands, with a perfect vision, with power to go through to the goal has pressed out, with the pressing stones, the golden hue soma wine. Drinking the wine near them, the fire ride and run, and extend the lower world into a shining form like that of the luminous heaven. The sun to goes yoking his steeds; by force of nature's self-arranging, you move consciously along all paths. I have declared, O Ashwins, holding the thought in me, your car that is undecaying and drawn by perfect seeds, your car by which you move at once over all the worlds towards the enjoyment rich in offering that makes through to the goal. Translation: Ashwins, they use the vitality of the human being, as the motive force of the journey; but also they work in the thought and lead it to the truth. They give health, beauty, wholesome to the body; they are the divine physicians. Of all the gods, they are the most ready to come to human beings and to create in them, ease and joy. This is a similar role that Ganesh possess. The chariot of Ashwins is very pervading, its motion goes everywhere, its speed runs freely on all planes, all universe, including our consciousness. They are the rendered food of the prana, which is the ritual interpretation, pleasure, fullness, satisfaction, delicacy, satisfying food, in the psychological sense of delight. They are the vitality, for the mind, body and life. They are part of the manifold activities, knowledge and will, consciousness and energy. They are beyond the three major states, waking, sleeping and dreaming, and the forth one, Turiya, waking but still dreaming and sleeping. The overflow of which can't be kept, rather overflows everywhere. The human being can hear the sound of nada, the sound of soul, the sound of Brahman, or God. "In the side shining of the Dawn" they rise, come to Dakshina, a female force. When the niggard lords of the sense action have hidden the radiant herds of the sun and gives information to Indra. Then comes the lord of luminous mind and breaks open the cave and drives upwards the herds. The lower mental existence is transformed into an image and reflection of the higher divine. In the upward movement, the horses that draw the chariot of the Ashwins, change into birds, into swans, of the soul liberated and up-soaring, no longer involved in the ordinary limited movement or laboring gallop of the life energy, the horse, Ashwa. Such are the energies that draw the free car of the lords of delight, when the dawns are on us, the Sun of the truth. They come to not hurt in their flight, or make any false or hurtful movements. They are golden winged; gold is the color of Surya, for these are the birds that awake with the dawns.