David Frawley, Hymns From The Golden Age: Selected Hymns from the Rig Veda With Yogic Interpretation (Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1986):
The Muse is the presence of the Goddess within us, the presence of the cosmic feminine power which is the true creative power in life, the cosmic masculine force being more properly supracosmic transcendent being. To create we must have the favor of the Muse, the grace of the Goddess. For all true creation is the unfoldment of the cosmic feminine energy, the release of the Goddess-energy of Life for the culmination of its evolutionary transformations. The Muse is our faithfulness to the Divine, our faithfulness to the cosmic vision and the creative work; our creative being as human beings to bring the Divine creativity into the world for its deliverance. The Muse is our love of nature that is our openness to the cosmic creative force. She is the yearning of our life for the immortal life in which all is a play of harmony. As with creative endeavors so with the spiritual life; for the spiritual life is the projection of our creative energies inwardly fo the transformation of consciousness. [209]
It is only through the Goddess that one can know the Gods; for it is only by ourselves becoming inwardly receptive that there can be the matrix for their manifestation.... Our own soul, the receptive, devoted, intuitive feminine side of our nature is the high priestess of the inner art. She has the intuitive knowledge, the spontaneous sense of it. We have only to let her stream of transformations flow. She will pour on us the great inner ocean of light. All growth is not though our personal effort but through her aspiring force, through letting it gestate within us.... No artifice can aid it which is the labor of abandoning all artifice. This inner purity not of cultivated virtue but of the receptive mind, the motiveless heart, is the beauty of the Muse and Goddess. [210]
