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HIRANYAGARBHA, GOLDEN GERM
A symbol of the Divine Monad,—the primordial
centre of manifestation arising from the Absolute.
"In the beginning there arose the germ of golden light,
Hiranyagarbha; he was the one born lord of all that is. He
established the earth and the heaven." - Rig-Veda, X. 121.
"Hiranyagarbha came first into existence, for that golden child did
come first into existence—born he was the one lord of being; he
upholdeth this earth and the sky." - Sata. Bráh., 4, VII. 4, 1, 19.
"When God determined to manifest Himself, He summoned into being a
glorious Radiance derived from His own light. . . God looked upon it
and loved it, and uttered this sentence,—'But for thee, verily I had
not created the heavens!' And it was through this Light and for its
sake, that all things were made" (Sufi Cosmogony). - GIBB, Hist. of
Ottoman Poetry, pp. 34, 35.
As the Absolute is symbolised by Darkness, so the first germ of
manifestation is symbolised by Light.
"All the gods are based upon that divine being Hiranyagarbha, out of
whom the sun rises, into whom the sun sets. No one is beyond
identity with that divine being. This is That." - Katha. Upanishad,
IV.
"Hiranyagarbha means literally the golden embryo, the golden germ or
child, or born of a golden womb, and was no doubt an attempt at
naming the sun. The golden child was supposed to have been so called
because it was Pragâpati, the lord of creation, when dwelling as yet
in the golden egg, and Hiranyagarbha became in the end a recognized
name of Pragâpati." - MAX Müller, Vedic Hymns, p. 6.
The symbols of the manifested Self are many. From that Self all
proceeds, and of that Self all consists. As the egg evolves the
life-form, so the germ-Self evolves the inner and the outer
universes.
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