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The Secret of the Veda, Chapter VI, Agni and the Truth
Sri Aurobindo describes Agni as "the most important, the most universal of the Vedic gods." (The Secret of the Veda, pg. 265). Agni is the divine will, the mystic fire, the flame of aspiration, and the "knower of all things born". Sri Aurobindo focuses considerable attention on Agni in both The Secret of the Veda and in his translation of the hymns to Agni in the volume titled Hymns to the Mystic Fire. He devotes an entire chapter in The Secret of the Veda to Agni. It is this chapter covered here with extracts from Sri Aurobindo's commentary and the first hymn of the Rig Veda, Mandala I…
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