Thursday, October 19, 2017

Kala

We invoke the ten kalas of the fire. The kalas are all aspects of Devi. The first three are in the swaddisthana chakra. Yam dhumracise namah (smoke), ram usmayai namah(heat), lam jvalinyai namah (glow). The sanskrit letters listed in the beginning are pointers to the places where you put your imagination in yourself, in Devi's body and in the yantra. The yantra we are talking about is the viseshargya yantra. These bijaksharas are located in the Swaddhisthana chakra: Bam, Bham, Mam, Yam, Ram, Lam. Both the bijaksharas and their names could be substituted here for a local idiom. These are not the mantras, they are the aspects of the fire and you are trying to see where they are coming from. The parts that cannot be changed are the mantras of the earth, the sun and the moon. I am not going to affect any changes here, but you may do so if you so desire. The sanskrit alphabet has the advantage that it uses a single letter. Its disadvantage is that you do not know it. Working with the meanings of these things is more important then just working with the words.

The agni kalas reside as the digestive fire in the stomach and also as the lust in the human being just as the light resides in the fire. Agni also exists as time. Yam dhumracise namah. You are looking at the left top portion of the yoni. If you superimpose the yoni on the bijas, you will see that yam is the left side of the clitoris, ram is the middle of the labia and lam is the bottom of the labia. This invokes the lust, the kama. You are not invoking the right side here. In other versions of tantra, as you walk into the yajna sala, the door is there. On the lefthand side you worship bhairava bhairavaya namah. You worship lambodaraya namah on top and on right hand side you worship bhadrakalyai namah. So saying you enter the sala. The door is like the gate through which you are born and through which you enter the yoni.

The next four agni kala bijas are taken from the muladhara chakra. Vam jvalinyai namah (flame), Sam visphulinginyai namah (sparks issuing), Sam(sam susriyai namah (blessing), Samsurupayai namah (beautiful).

The last three bijas come from the ajna chakra, Ham, kapilayai namah (yellow) -  right eye; Lam havya vahayai namah (consuming ghee) -  third eye; Ksam (kavya vahayai namah) (consuming food offerings) - left eye.

So from the muladhara and swaddhisthana, the fire which starts as lust and goes up to the ajna . At this point it manifests as flowing time, past, present and future. The past is the right eye, the present is the 3rd eye and the future is the left eye. The right eye is the eye of Siva, he is called bhutanatha the lord of the past. The left eye is the eye of the Devi. Devi is the creatrix, the mother, she brings the future into the present.

The mantra for the Agni Kalas is:

Aim agin mandalaya dharmaprada dasa kalatmane sri mahatripura sundaryah visesharghya patra adharaya namah. Agnim dutam vrinimahe hotaram visva vedasam. Asya yagnyasya sukratum. Ram rim rum raim raum rah, ramalavarayum, agni mandalaya namah.

http://amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.in/2016/04/uscp-agni-kalas-surya-kalavahana.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Agni+Kalas

Gita

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Nitya

Sage Bhuti swas the ever-angry disciple of Angirasa Muni who was dreaded by even Devas. Surya Deva desisted from being too hot in his Ashram, and Vayu, Varuna and Chandra could ill-afford to display their extreme features. The Muni had no children and perhaps that was the cause of his frustration and temper. The responsibility of managing the affairs of the Sage’s Ashram was entrusted to one of his disciples named Shanti. Bhuti gave a special instruction to Shanti that there should be ‘Nityagni’ the Constant Fire in the Homa Kunda or the Fire-Pit. Shanti once went out to fetch ‘Samidhas’or twigs for the Homas as also flowers, fruits and other material for the Ashram, he returned late to the Ashram and to his utter dismay, the Nityagni was put off. Fortunately, Sage Bhuti was out to perform a Yagna to his elder brother’s Ashram as the latter too did not have a child. Shanti then prayed to Agni Deva without food for a week and the latter gave his appearance being pleased by his Stotras. Agni Deva was instantly materialised as ‘Nityaagni’ and he asked Shanti to choose any boon of his wish; Shanti requested for an illustrious son to his Guru. Agni was pleased with the selflessness of Shanti and granted the wish to bestow a glorious son to the Muni who would be a future Manu called Bhoutya; Agni also granted higher Lokas to Shanti.

https://www.youtube.com/results?q=Nithya+Agni
http://deathconqueror.blogspot.com/search/label/Purana

Sacred

Hall

karyam

Agnikaryam is the Yajna performed in a loukika agni (worldly fire) by brahmacharis (celibate bachelors). The Agnikarya is performed with the help of Samits or small wooden sticks or twigs usually of Arali (Ficus Religiosa) tree. This homa is performed daily twice: once in the morning and again in the evening. These two are respectively called Pratah Agnikaryam and Sayam Agnikaryam. Agnikaryam is also known as Samidadhanam. The method and mantras of performing the Agnikaryam are different for Rigveda and Yajurveda.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Agnikaryam

Dhuni

Panchagni

Chandogya Upanishad tells how King Pravahana taught sage Gautama the Panchagni Vidya, knowledge of the five fires, said M.K. Srinivasan in a discourse.
  1. The first fire is svargaloka. The sun is the samit (sacrificial stick) of this fire. The rays of the sun are the smoke, while the day is the flame. The moon is the ember. The stars are the sparks of this fire. When Agnihotra is performed, the jivas become Soma raja and enter svargaloka.
  2. The second fire is Parjanya. For this fire, vayu or the air is the samit. The cloud is the smoke. Lightning is the flame. The thunderbolt is the charcoal. The roars of the fire are the sparks. Somaraja (jiva) is the oblation in this fire.
  3. The third fire is the earth. For this fire, the year is the samit. Akasa, that is the sky, is the smoke. The night is the flame. The directions are the live charcoals. The directions are the sparks. The oblation in this case is rain. When the rains reach the earth, food is grown.
  4. The fourth fire is man himself. His speech (vaak) is the samit. His prana is smoke. His tongue is the flame. The eyes are the live charcoals, and his ears are the sparks. Here the oblation is food. From that food the seed of man is born.
  5. The fifth fire is woman. The interaction between man and woman is the live charcoal here. The small pleasures are the sparks here. The oblation here is the seed of man, and from this does a newborn emanate.

Thus the Chandogya Upanishad says that jivas go to svarga, but their stay there is temporary. From there they come down to the earth as rain and then become food, which then gets transformed into the seed of man, resulting in procreation. The important point to note is that while the jiva passes through all these various stages, its essential nature remains unchanged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchagni_Vidya
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Panchagni+vidya
https://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Panchagni

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Call

Agni is called upon:

* to sanctify the sacrificial fire or any fire,
* to send the sacrificial offers & prayers to other Gods and,
* to empower the metabolism,
* to bring wealth,
* to give more sexual stamina and virility,
* to empower vision, to bring happiness,
* to illuminate the spirit and bring wisdom,
* to help in starting any task,
* to bring enthusiasm and generally whenever fire (physical or spiritual) is needed.
* He also protects his devotees from evil beings, enemies.

Born

Agni is referred to as born from a lotus created directly from Great Lord Brahma, son of Power, son of Waters, son of Brahma.

Mantra

ऊँ महाज्वालाय विद्महे अग्नि मध्याय धीमहि |
तन्नो: अग्नि प्रचोदयात ||

Om Mahajwalay Vidmahe Agni Madhyay Dhimahi |
Tanno Agnih Prachodayat ||

Meaning : Om, Let me meditate on the great flame, Oh, God of fire, grant me with higher intellect, Oh, let the radiant God of Fire illuminate my mind.

Prana

Agni is an essential element to sustain life and also aids in physiological functions of the body. In Ayurveda, Agni is the first guardian of health and manifests through ‘Jatharagni’, the digestive fire. Each time we eat, we are in a sense making an offering to the digestive fire and these offerings are transformed into nutrition or Prana for the body.

Rigveda

surprisingly, also mentions that 'Agni dwells in the waters' and may even be born from it! This may appear confounding till we think of fire arising from lightening-strikes, natural gas surfacing through water, or even the under-water volcanic eruptions! Because of the same reason, the Persians called their fire god as Apam-Napat. The Vedic description is that of an immortal taking an abode with mortals as their guests. He is one who rises before dawn and attends to all sacrificial offices of Hindu rituals. He is the divinest among sages and intimately acquainted with all forms of worship and ceremonies. He enables humans to serve god in an acceptable manner which they could not perform
unaided. As a messenger he moves swiftly between earth and heaven. He is commissioned by both men and gods to maintain a mutual communication through hymns and convey to them oblations down from the sky to the sacrificial fires: Rig Veda 1.26.3. Thus oblations become fragrant without which the gods do not have satisfactory experience of the offering. When gods visit earth they are
accompanied by agni.

In Vedic hymns, Lord Agni is the Protector, King of Men; he dwells in every house. He shows no favoritism and despises none. Living in all homes, he is the silent witness and a mediator between the household and the gods. He participates in all auspicious and inauspicious occasions such as marriage and death. In the older hymns his abode is given to be in two pieces of wood, which rub together produce fire. Dry wood is supposed to be dead and it is remarkable that agni springs to life and consume the very forewood. A parallel is drawn when a child is born, and from that minute, he
‘consumes his parents.’

One of the hymns of the Rig Veda, Kravyad happens to be the demon causing havoc. He is a flesh eating Rakshasa. Indra and Visishtha are called upon to kill the demon.They approach agni. However Agni is also a consumer of flesh and in that he is also a rakshasa so agni takes a different character and represented under a form as hideous as the rakshasas. He sharpens his two iron tasks and puts the enemies into his mouth and devours them. He heats the edges of his shafts, and sends them into the hearts of the rakshasas, thus killing them.

Sons

Agni is also appointed as one of the Ashta-digpals and is the guardian of the South-East direction. His wife is Svaha and his sons are
  1. Pavak, 
  2. Pavaman, and  
  3. Shuchi, 
who according to the Vayu Puraan, stand for
  1. Electric fire, 
  2. the fire produced by Friction, and 
  3. the Solar fire respectively.

Form

Agni has three forms, namely 

  1. fire, 
  2. lightning and 
  3. the Sun, 
forms sometimes symbolized by giving his icon three heads or three legs.

Ten different forms of Agni is recognised:

  1. Regular Fire, 
  2. Sacrificial Fire produced from Arani or Idhma, which is by rubbing the fire-sticks, 
  3. Initiation Fire at Upanayana ceremony of a child coming of age, 
  4. Fire kept in the house for Domestic rituals, 
  5. Fire spread by Lightening, 
  6. Fire in the Sun, 
  7. Southern Fire for ancestors, 
  8. Funeral Fire used for cremation, 
  9. Digestive Fire, Jatharagni, and the last but most potent of all 
  10. Destructive Fire or Davagani which initiates the process of Maha-pralaya.

Friday, January 6, 2017

Wealth

"Narada said, 'Garuda then, that foremost of winged beings, addressed the cheerless Galava and said, 'Because it is created by Agni, in the bowels of the earth and augmented by Vayu, and because also the earth itself is said to be Hiranmaya, therefore, is wealth called Hiranya. And because wealth supports the world and sustains life, therefore, is it called Dhana. It is for serving these ends that Dhana (wealth) exists from the beginning in the three worlds. On that Friday, when either of the two constellations--the Purvabhadra or the Uttarabhadra--is ascendant, Agni, creating wealth by a fiat of his will, bestoweth it on mankind for the increase of Kuvera's stock. The wealth that is embowelled in the Earth is guarded by the deities called the Ajaikapats and the Ahivradnas, and also by Kuvera. Exceedingly difficult of attainment, that wealth, therefore, O bull among Brahmanas, is rarely attained. Without wealth there is no chance of thy acquisition of the promised steeds.

Source
http://garudainfo.blogspot.com/search/label/Galava

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