| Ebenezer Burgess - 1871 - 510 pages
...more, that they * The GAYATRI, or holiest verse in the Vedas. This is merely a prayer, as follows : " Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, *rom whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright... | |
| Edward Balfour - 1873 - 1038 pages
...of the Gayatri, or holiest verse of the Vedas, «cuis in the thirteenth volume of his work. It is, " Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun. the Godhead, who illuminates all, »ho recreates all, from whom all proceed, to »bom all must return : whom we invoke to fcctour understandings... | |
| Edward Balfour - 1873 - 1030 pages
...light of the sun, to illumine the mind of the worshipper. Sir William Jones thus interprétâtes it. Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the godhead who illumines all, delights all, from whom all proceeds, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct... | |
| 1874 - 906 pages
...make him spring again to birth : God, who is perfect wisdom, perfect happiness. He is the final refnge of the man who has liberally bestowed his wealth,...re-creates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all rnnst return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright, in our progress toward his holy seat.... | |
| Godfrey Higgins - 1874 - 610 pages
...called the Gayatri: " Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the God" head who illuminates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must " return,...understandings aright in our " progress towards his holy seat."2 On this Sir William Jones says, " The many panegyrics on the Gayatri, the Mother, as it is... | |
| Henry Astbury Leveson - 1874 - 360 pages
...seems to be a kind of creed in a concentrated form, as, according to Sir William Jones, it signifies, " Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, from whom all things proceed, to whom all must return, and whom we invoke to direct our understandings... | |
| Augustus J. Thébaud - 1876 - 560 pages
...William Jones : " Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun," — not the msibU luminary, but — " the Godhead who illuminates all, who recreates all,...understandings aright in our progress towards His holy se.it." This was the most sacred verse of the Vedas, whose recitation, according to the code of Menu,... | |
| John Patterson Lundy - 1876 - 540 pages
...divine sun, (not the visible luminary,) the Godhead who illuminates all, who recreates all, from.whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke...to direct our understandings aright in our progress toward his holy seat." "What the sun and light are to this visible world, that are the supreme good... | |
| William Jones - 1876 - 136 pages
...GAYATRI OR HOLIEST VERSE OF THE^VEDAS. LET us adore the supremacy of that divine sun f the godhead J who illuminates all, who 'recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must'^return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our_ progress towards his holy... | |
| 1878 - 298 pages
...our lives ! WC Bryant; American, igth cent. AC Drapers* LET us adore the supremacy of that Spiritual Sun, the godhead, who illuminates all, who re-creates...whom all must return ; whom we invoke to direct our undertakings aright, in our progress toward his holy seat. . . . O thou, who givest sustenance to the... | |
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