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The Flame of Aspiration, the Mystic Fire · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The Rig Veda has a large number of hymns to Agni, the Mystic
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  Fire. Sri Orovindo translated and
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  commented on the hymns to Agni in his book Hymns to the Mystic
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  Fire. The importance of the Mystic
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  fire, which we may call the Flame of aspiration for the
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  spiritual seeker is evidenced by both the number of hymns
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  appearing in the Rig Veda as well as the fact that the very
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  first hymn is dedicated to Agni. This first hymn sets the tone of
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  the spiritual seer's devotion to the development of this flame of
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  aspiration as the basis for spiritual Sadhna.
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  Srioro Bindo translates this first hymn quote.
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  I adore the Flame, the vicar, the divine Ritwik of the
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  sacrifice, the Summoner who most founds the ecstasy.
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  The Flame, adorable by the ancient sages is adorable too by
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  the new he brings here the gods, By the Flame one enjoys a
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  treasure that verily increases day by day, glorious, most full
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  of hero power. O Flame, the Pilgrim sacrifice
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  on every side of which thou art, with the environing being that
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  truly goes among the gods, the Flame, the Summoner, the Seer,
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  will true and most full of richly varied listenings.
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  May he come a God with the gods. O Flame, the happy good which
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  thou shalt create for the Giver is that truth.
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  And verily thine, O ungar us to thee, O flame, we day by day, in
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  the night and in the light, come carrying by our thought the
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  obeisance to thee who reignest over our Pilgrim sacrifices,
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  luminous guardian of the truth, increasing in thy own home.
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  Therefore be easy of access to us as a father unto his Son.
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  Cling to us for our happy state. End Quote.
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  It is this deep, powerful inward flame of aspiration that makes
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  possible the advent of the transforming powers of the
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  higher spiritual Consciousness, Srioro Bindu observes quote.
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  The fire is the divine fire of aspiration and inner Tapasia.
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  When the fire descends again and again with increasing force and
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  magnitude into the darkness of human ignorance, it at first
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  seems swallowed up and absorbed in the darkness, but more and
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  more of the descent changes the darkness into light, the
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  ignorance and unconsciousness of the human mind into spiritual
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  consciousness. End Quote Reference Srioro
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  Bindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2. Faith, Aspiration, Surrender,
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  page 31.