object:4.2.4.05 - Agni
book class:Letters On Yoga III
author class:Sri Aurobindo
class:chapter
It is the Agni fire that you feel. Agni is at once a fire of aspiration, a fire of purification, a fire of tapasya, a fire of transformation.
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Agni in the form of an aspiration full of concentrated calm and surrender is certainly the first thing to be lighted in the heart.
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It [a feeling of warmth in the heart] comes sometimes from the approach of Agni fire, sometimes from that of love or Ananda, sometimes simply from a touch of the Force.
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The fear of the fire you saw is misplaced, for it is the fire of the purifying Agni that you see burning and that does no harm; it only clears away what should not be there. That is why it is followed by a lightness or an emptiness. You have only to be quiet and let the fire do its work. The heat one feels at that time is not the heat of fever or any other morbid heat. Afterwards, as you felt, all becomes cool and light.
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The burning is sometimes the heat of a difficulty and resistance, but then it disturbs. When it does not disturb, it is usually the purifying fire of Agni.
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It may be pressure of the Agni fire that you feel [around the head and shoulders] as the heat - especially if there is something that has to be purified or a difficulty burned away. The cool spray on the other hand comes as an accompaniment of the sense of purification.
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The Fire [felt in the forehead and eyes] is the power of the Yoga
- Yogashakti.
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That kind of pull [towards the Divine] is not the same thing as the lighting of Agni. Agni meets men who are not leading the religious life at all but who have Agni burning in them and are
Experiences Associated with the Psychic
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intent to keep the fire ablaze - scientists, artists etc. who have the intense will of perfecting what they do and all their central energies are thrown into this flame. The same intense fire should burn in the Yoga.
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It is the Mother's Force that works in the Agni.
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