In English
Fire is present everywhere
Man has in his stomach the latent Fire that digests food. God resides in man as this Fire. "," says . "Having become the Fire, I enter the body of living beings." So, it is God that keeps all the limbs 'trim. and makes keenness and knowledge possible. The latent Fire causes eight functions' It hardens and strengthens the muscles. It develops energy. It ensures healthy progeny. It makes one patient and therefore a better instrument, it increases the duration of life. It sharpens and deepens memory. It confers boldness of thought and action. In order to light the Fire in the sacrificial enclosure, a churning rod of hardwood is used on a block of similar hardness. The timber has to be banyan or . The block is the mother and the churner is the father. or Fire is the child' It consumes the parents - the mother and , the father - when it is born! They are reduced to ashes, that is to say, that child becomes one with them and they become one with their progeny. All three are inseparably related. The son of God, Jesus, declared, "I and my Father are One." The religion of the also considers the highest truth as "I am the Light" and "The Light is in me." The has a name for , Tiger! When is treated without faith and reverence, it destroys the very person who feeds it, just as the tiger which tears its own cubs with its deadly claws. Another characteristic of is its presence everywhere. Scientists and technologists today are proud that they have grasped the secrets of the five elements - sky, wind, fire, water and earth. But, they are still unaware of the intimate kinship each of them has with man and his daily life. The sages of the past have delved into the mystery and revealed it to the world. Notice, for example, that birds do not rest on the ground at night. They prefer tree tops. Why.? The of Vedhic times explain that they seek to avoid the heat latent in the earth but patent to them. Man is unaware of this fact but the birds know it.