Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 312
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 312 The sun displays its countenance to divine Mitra and Varuna in the middle of the heavens. On the one hand, his rays spread his limitless and bright power and on the other hand, they bring forth the darkness of the night when they withdraw themselves. O gods, as soon as the sun rises, safeguard us against unworthy acts. May god Mitra, god Varuna, goddess Aditi, god Ocean, goddess Earth, and god Heaven, listen to this prayer of ours with attention. Now, the readers of this book should themselves decide whether all these verses that I have quoted, taking so many pages, reveal anything about God and let the A ryah Sam a jists be fair and tell us what elo- quence Rigveda has demonstrated in these verses in expressing its intent. Let them speak up; is this discourse forceful and reasoned—as an eloquent discourse should be—or is it simply absurd and worth- less? It could not have escaped the fair-minded readers that, instead of communicating their true intent in a lucid manner so as to spread the truth, the subject-matter of these verses themselves is so absurd and meaningless that the reader is rendered all the more confused. Sometimes the Veda regards something as the Creator and begs it to fulfil its desires, and at other times the same thing is portrayed as a creature which is dependent on others. At times it attributes divine qualities to an object, and at other times it ascribes to the same thing the qualities of mortals. It is obvious that there has been no mean- ingful result of its circumlocution; it claims to be the upholder of Divine Unity, yet it does not teach Unity. It claims to be the champion of creature-worship, yet it has failed to justify creature-worship too. Rather, like a confused and insane person, it has delivered such a base- less and self-contradictory discourse as has created a strange type of mess in the Hindu faith. Someone worships one god, another sings praises of another. Can such absurd and meaningless discourse be called eloquent and lucid by any sensible person? Perhaps some Hindus, who have only heard