Fire | The Purest Element

Agni [Sanskrit]… Means Fire… One of the Five basic elements “The Panch Tatvas”

It has so many faces…

Kind & Gentle as a father, when it’s a camp fire…

Nurturing one as a mother, when it cooks…

Illuminating as a Guru, when it is in a form of candle or lantern…

And turns into Shiva, as a roaring inferno to distroy the bad…

Agni is called a Paavak [Sanskrit], a cleanser and sanctifier…

Sanctifies all that come in touch with it…

Earth, Water, Air & Sky also cleanse… but they become unclean in doing so…

Fire sanctifies, and yet remains clean…

And that’s why Agni is the purest element…

I clicked the picture above during Holika Dahan in 2009. The Event of “Holika Dahan” is a sacred and mythologically vital event in India… It is carried out on the eve of Holi… the festival of colors…

The story behind it is something like this… “Prahlad” was a kid who worshiped the God… His father “Hiran-kashyapu” was a devilious king, and was against the worship of a GOD by his son… He asked his sister “Holika” to get rid of this rebelious kid… “Holika”, who had a fabric which would never burn, sits in a huge fire with the kid “Prahlad in her lap… But the Good always prevails and Bad parishes… Holika parished in the fire even after having the “Fireproof Cloak” and “Prahlad” prevailed… Fire did it’s job of Sanctifier…

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27 Feb This entry was published on February 27, 2010 at 10:10 am. It’s filed under Concepts, Speaking Pictures and tagged agni, biren, clean, culture, element, festival, fire, india, mythology, sanskrit, spiritual, spirituality, tatva. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.