Agni

Verily the shining sun is the Aswamedha sacrifice, and his body is the ear.

Agni is the sacrificial fire, Arka, and these worlds are his bodies.

These two are the sacrificial fire and the Aswamedha sacrifice and they are again one deity, namely death.

He who knows this overcomes another death.

Hence the Devas rose, the Asuras fell.

He who knows this rises by his self, and the enemy who hates him falls.

then they the devas said where was he then who thus stuck to us it was the breath within the mouth and therefore called ayasa he was the sap rasa of the limbs anga and therefore called that deity was called dur because death was far dhuran from it from him who knows this death is far off that deity after having taken away the evil of those deities namely death sent it to where the end of the quarters of the earth is there he deposited their sins therefore let no one go to a man let no one go to the end of the quarters of the earth that he may not meet there with evil with death that deity after having taken away the evil of those deities namely death carried them beyond death he carried speech across first when speech had become freed from death it became what it had been before agni fire That Agni, after having stepped beyond death, shines.

Then he carried breath sent across.

Like in Vedas, we see Indra and other, they are taking the test.

So then, soon after Pralambasur, there is a test taken by who else but Agni.

the fire god.

So it so happens that all the Gwal Bal and cows, there is a little aside to the story, it rains, so they have gone and then they find the cows who were in the cave and then they bring out.

And then, yes, there is suddenly this fire, because when you have decided to turn to the Lord, fire must come and test you.

It's the test of fire.

See, in Ramayana, it is described as Agni Pariksha.

But here it is that immediately after this, there is fire.

Let's say.

When you offer the power of the intellect into the Agni.

So what will Agni do? What is the nature of Agni? First it will purify.

Okay? Then Agni lifts everything apart.

It's the nature of Agni.

So when we put our mind, thoughts into the Yajna which is inside, it gets purified and uplifted.

By purified, it's not about moral purity and all that.

Verily the shining sun is the Aswamedha sacrifice, and his body is the ear.

Agni is the sacrificial fire, Arka, and these worlds are his bodies.

These two are the sacrificial fire and the asvamedha sacrifice and they are again one deity, namely death.

He who knows this overcomes another death.

the one became a ewe the other a ram he embraced her and hence goats and sheep were born and thus he created everything that exists in pairs down to the ants he knew i indeed am this creation for i created all this hence he became the creation and he who knows this lives in this his creation next he thus produced fire by rubbing from the mouth as from the fire hole and from the hands he created fire therefore both the mouth and the hands are inside without hair for the fire hole is inside without hair and when they say sacrifice to this or sacrifice to that god each god is but his manifestation for he is all gods now whatever there is moist that he created from seed This is Soma.

So far, verily, is this universe either food or eater.

Soma, indeed, is food, Agni, eater.

This is the highest creation of Brahman, when he created the gods from his better part, and when he who was then mortal created the immortals.

The syllable iha, the self.

The syllable ai is agni, fire.

The syllable iu is the sun.

The syllable ii is the nihava, or invocation.

He lives long, becomes great with children and cattle, great by fame.

His rule is, do not speak evil of the Brahmanas.

21st Kanda the hinkara is the threefold knowledge the prstava these three worlds the yudgita agni fire vayu air and aditya sun the pratihara the stars the birds under rays the nidhana the serpents gandharvas and fathers that is the saman as interwoven in everything he who thus knows this saman as interwoven in everything he becomes everything and thus it is said in the following verse there are the five-fold three the three kinds of sacrificial knowledge the three worlds etc in their five-fold form that is as identified with the hinkara the prastava etc and the other forms of the sermon greater than these there is nothing else besides he who knows this knows everything all regions offer him gifts his rule is let him meditate on the salmon knowing that he is everything yea that he is everything twenty second kanda the yudgita of which a poet said i choose the deep-sounding note of the salmon as good for cattle belongs to agni The indefinite note belongs to Prajapati, the definite note to Soma, the soft and smooth note to Vayu, the smooth and strong note to Indra, the heron-like note to Brihaspati, the dull note to Varuna.

Let a man cultivate all of this, avoiding, however, that of Varuna.

Verily, the shining sun is the Aswamedha sacrifice, and his body is the ear.

Agni is the sacrificial fire, Arka, and these worlds are his bodies.

These two are the sacrificial fire and the asvamedha sacrifice and they are again one deity, namely death.

He who knows this overcomes another death.

That deity, after having taken away the evil of those deities, namely death, carried them beyond death.

He carried speech across first.

When speech had become freed from death, it became what it had been before, Agni, fire, That Agni, after having stepped beyond death, shines.

Then he carried breath sent across.