{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02001.htm","path":"hin/av/av02001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02001.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Vena beholds That Highest which lies hidden, wherein this All\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0resumes one form and fashion.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thence Prisni milked all life that had existence: the hosts that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0know the light with songs extolled her.\n 2Knowing Eternity, may the Gandharva declare to us that highest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0secret station.\n \u00a0\u00a0Three steps thereof lie hidden in the darkness: he who knows\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0these shall be the father's father.\n 3He is our kinsman, father, and begetter: he knows all beings\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and all Ordinances.\n \u00a0\u00a0He only gave the Gods their appellations: all creatures go to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him to ask direction.\n 4I have gone forth around the earth and heaven, I have approached\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the first-born Son of Order.\n \u00a0\u00a0He, putting voice, as 'twere, within the speaker, stands in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world, he, verily is Agni.\n 5I round the circumjacent worlds have travelled to see the far-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0extended thread of Order.\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherein the Gods, obtaining life eternal, have risen upward to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one common birthplace.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 1: Glorification of the prime cause of all things","type":"page"}