Agni Yoga – the Fire of Life

AGNI YOGA – THE FIRE OF LIFE

As you read the books of Agni Yoga, you discover that at the heart of this Teaching there is an emphasis upon fire and upon evolution. Fire is about the creative life; evolution is about Infinity.

Fire is Life. The Fire of Space is the source of all life in any form. The ancient writings instruct, “Fire is Creative.” Creative Fire permeates all Space. In some Teachings the Creative Fire is called Kriyashakti: the Life-giving divine Fire, in all forms of life.

When we draw from the Life-giving Fire in the Universe, we direct our consciousness to the path of Self-Perfectment. It is the Flame in our heart, which links us with the Creative Fire in Space, with the Heart of the Universe. This same Creative Fire is also located within our own nature, “as above so below.”

We each have a Divine Spark, a seed of life. The Fiery Seed of Life is our spirit. It is indestructible because it is sacred. This is a very important point to remember. Your spirit is sacred and as such is indestructible. However the radiation of the fiery seed changes, depending on the growth of our consciousness, the expansion of our consciousness. The energy around our fiery seed is consciousness.

However, by making a conscious decision to travel the path of Self-perfectment and to illumine our life in such a way that each hour will be a beginning, we create an environment for our soul to evolve, to strive toward perfection, to strive toward graduation into the Supermundane life—the life of an Agni Yogi.

The Supermundane world is in the higher strata of the Universe; it is also within ourselves if we know how to contact this level of fire. All strata of the Universe are permeated with fire. The Subtle World is a world of fire, but this world reflects the earth and is a fire by friction. The Supermundane is the highest world of Creative Fire, electric fire.

If we want to travel beyond this earthly plane of existence, beyond the school of pain and suffering, from tests and trials, we are told that it requires breaking through and transforming the identifications our soul has constructed. It requires dis-identification from our habits, old outworn beliefs and ideologies, from fanaticism, pride, and vanity. Until this “awakening” occurs, our soul will be trapped and each day will be, as it were, an end, for our soul loses his freedom by identifying with his not-self—with his maya, glamor and illusions.

To graduate to the Supermundane world we must go through solar fire, the fire of the spiritual Hierarchy. This means we must create an environment where the fiery seed of the soul can make contact with the Hierarchy of Earth. What is the Hierarchy?

In the biblical sense the “Ladder of Jacob” symbolizes the Hierarchy. Each fiery seed, each human soul is impregnated, imbued by a ray of the Hierarch, which gives the soul a “knowingness” about its life direction. When our soul makes contact with a Ray of Hierarchy, he will have a yearning to change his life, to find his Teacher. He will search for the Mountain. The mountain in Agni Yoga is a symbol of the Teacher. When we reflect upon the Hierarchy, we think about the Brotherhood, about the Christ and his disciples. Agni Yoga calls the Hierarchy the “guiding hand.”

The task of the Teacher is “to give you indications within those limits which are permitted. He will uplift you, cleans you of outworn habits. He will warn you against all kinds of treason, superstition and hypocrisy. He will test you openly and in secret. He may also say Farewell, passer-by.” [1] The Teaching says, Friends, if you wish to approach Us, elect a teacher on earth and place in Him your guidance …. [E]ach one should have a Teacher on earth.” [2]

When we make a contact with the Christ or Master in your heart, we may remember having a dream where we had attended an inner plane classroom or we may remember being in an Ashram. We may recall speaking to someone, teaching someone, listening to a lecture. Such an experience will give deep joy.

Striving toward Self-perfectment, creating an illumined environment for our soul to evolve, making a contact with the Hierarchy and the Teacher will give us a fiery inspiration to dedicate ourself in service to all we meet. “Let the greatest among you be the servant to all,” said Christ.

When we study Agni Yoga, we study life, beauty, culture and creativity. We study how to improve on the life, how to heal, how to love, how to build right human relations. Some religious and spiritual Teachings prepare you for death, but they don’t teach you how to “live.” Agni Yoga believes in the continuity of life, in the continuing life of the spirit. It teaches us how to release the spirit that is enslaved in its past.

We are striving to the future, building a new consciousness, building new viewpoints, building new bodies in which to strive into the future to the Supermundane Worlds.

The Agni Yoga Teaching is the teaching of life applied to each necessity. It provides a solution to the daily problems. It does not teach Self-Indulgence; it inspires us toward Self-Perfectment.

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When you meet an Agni Yogi you will know it. This is a person of decision, of commitment, of responsibility, of integrity. You will not meet an Agni Yogi who says, “maybe yes or maybe no,” “perhaps it is this, perhaps it is that,” or “could be,” or “for the time being this is what I believe.” There is no indecisiveness found in an Agni Yogi. When an Agni Yogi says “yes” he means it. When he says “no,” he really means it.

A person whose soul has become identified with a life of maya, glamor and illusion is a person who is indecisive. He will change his mind saying, “Yes” today and “No” tomorrow. Such a person has not yet gained control over his lower nature; the lower nature is controlling the soul.

We must make right and creative use of our time to inspire others with culture, with beauty, with a vitality that will uplift and inspire with creative energy. Nicholas Roerich said, “We are asking our friends, each day to think, to pronounce and to apply the understandings of Beauty and Culture.” [3] He also said, “[W]e are not dreamers at all, but workers for life, and our apostolate above all is content in that we are striving to say to the people, Remember Beauty. Do not exile its image from life, but also actively call others to this feast of joy!’ [4] “In constant labor, we have no time for agitations. We construct. In positive affirmation and realization we aspire to make earthly life more sensitive and more beautiful.” [5]

You are invited to share your comments or even ask questions that sometimes are of more value than comments. Either way, it would lovely to hear from you.

With Love,

Joleen

[1] Agni Yoga, para. 103.©1952 Agni Yoga Society, Inc.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Realm of Light, Nicholas Roerich, p. 21. ©1931 Roerich Museum Press

[4] Himavat, Diary Leaves, Nicholas Roerich, p. 24 [period] First published in 1946; printed by J. K. Sharma at the Allahabad Law Journal Press, published by Kitabistahn, Allahabad.

[5]Ibid, p. 25.