Agni: A Friend Of Man - Greatest n purest
“Om agnim ile purohitam yajnasya devam rtvijam hotaram ratnadhatamam”
I magnify God, the Divine Fire, the Priest, Minister of the sacrifice, the Offerer of oblation, supreme Giver of treasure...
opening lines- RigVeda I,1,1
“Om agnim ile purohitam yajnasya devam rtvijam hotaram ratnadhatamam”
I magnify God, the Divine Fire, the Priest, Minister of the sacrifice, the Offerer of oblation, supreme Giver of treasure...
opening lines- RigVeda I,1,1
Agni is d energy conduit between human n celestial realms. As we chant “Bhur Bhuvaha Swaha,” sacrificial fire transforms our worldly oblations into the food of the devas.On the bodily plane, Agni vaishvanara is the metabolic fire.Agni is usually shown as facing south.has a Ram
The last stanza of RV-“It comes back to the simplicity of the fact of being human: a union of hearts and a oneness of spirit,the overcoming of isolating individualism by harmoniously living together.." RV X, 191, 4
credit: Somayajna;the vedic soma sacrifice by Rekha Rao
credit: Somayajna;the vedic soma sacrifice by Rekha Rao
Also, In Greek mythology Prometheus stole fire and gave it to man .All religions hold fire as the absolute, purest and greatest of all elements as does the opening stanza of our very own Rig veda.
