HYMNS ON AGNI

42. SAKHYASTE VISHUNA AGNA

ETE SIVSAM SANTO ASIVA

ABHUVAN ADHURSHATA VACHO

UBHIRRUJAYATE VRIJINNI BRUVANTAH!

Oh Lord Agni! Your relatives are spread all over. They know your value. They tried to delink from you and found themselves to be weak and debilitated by such delinking. They therefore relinked to you. They relinked and regained their strength and valour. We are humble worshippers of you. People who heckle at us of our simplicity do invite problems.

Commentary:

All beings are beings of fire only. In all forms there is fire, though in different gradations. All is fire. When someone delinks with fire, he dies. In creation beings die due to their severance with fire. They are reborn by their re-association with fire. Through this process of severance and association they learn that severance brings debility and death, association manifests ability and life. The Devas therefore stay in eternal link with the fire and remain immortal. The humans and the diabolics go through the cycle of births and deaths. Having realised this we commence our very humble approach towards you through the fire ritual. The ritual we do could be very elementary. It could be with ignorance, nevertheless our intent is pure. Therefore it helps not people to laugh at our ritual due to its simplicity. Such ones would receive your wrath.

It is common knowledge when the truth and the truthful are heckled at or insulted, great calamities will fall. For the God of fire raises forth in anger. It is therefore necessary, wherever pain is caused there fire is worshipped to bring back harmony.

"SEVEN TIMES SEVEN THE WHEEL ROTATES"