Neither under the authority of the situations that are currently ruling you, nor the conditioning you’ve received from the outside world. Only then you’re able to do what’s needed and what’s right.
This brings up the question. If I should be the ultimate authority for my mind and the body, who is this I? Am I not just the causal phenomenon that’s being fabricated by these two?
You’re partly right! The body’s whole pranic structure defines you — and, your behavior and mental patterns are implanted into you through several stages of life-development that has occurred through lifetimes of prarabdha (silo of memory). With such hard-coded conditioning, it looks like your destiny is already predetermined. And it is!
But there’s a catch! You can evolve, and you can mutate.
The 4 Primordial Fires
The human pranic system comprises of 4 fires that define the trajectory of one’s actions. These fires are as follows:
Jatharagni
This is associated with the digestive fires of the body. One with strong Jatharagni craves food too much. The fulfillment of this fire brings lethargy into the system. However, this is not a big problem in most humans because it naturally gets refined or transformed into Kamagni.
For those who are too obese, it is because their Jatharagni is not getting refined into Kamagni. I see a few reasons that may be causing this:
- Laziness
- An unhealthy mental state (depression, boredom, unfulfillment).
- Unhealthy knowledge/information gained from sources like the internet or toxic company.
If one is able to avoid the above three, their pranic system will reignite the Kamagni, and their body structure and posture will naturally begin to look more attractive to themselves and others.
Kamagni
This fire is associated with human desires, most of which fundamentally roots from lust. This fire, in its primitive state IS purely lust. However, it doesn’t stay in that form in a healthy individual. It often takes up various subtler forms and compels the person to act in a variety of ways in the world.
Kamagni has a broad spectrum and can greatly vary from person to person as it gets to find subtler expressions through each individual’s personal experience.
The world is ruled by this fire, however, even this can be refined to the point that it begins to lighten up the human mind.
An interesting quality of this fire is that it grows as it gets fed. The void of the heart continues to grow until it realizes the boundaries of the body and the mind. And when it reaches the ceiling, it makes you desperate.
The wisest thing to do in such desperation, is to stop feeding the void and walk away.
Chittagni
This fire requires deliberate practice of discipline and consumption of the right kind of knowledge to build dispassion toward the world and materialism.
Very few are able to achieve this. The Chittagni dries one up, meaning, when a person ignites this fire, their experience of emotions becomes very dry and lacking. Yes, the person is able to feel all emotions to the same depth as everyone else, but those emotions don’t create a chemical chain reaction within their bodies or compel them to take action.
For such a person, pain and pleasure, respect and disrespect, victory and defeat, sainthood and demonhood, all look the same.
When your Chitta (mind) gets lit up by the light of awareness, you gain full authority over your body and mind. You’re able to see what kind of mental patterns and habits have come into you from which person or experience.
With the knowledge you gain from this awareness, you’re truly able to take actions toward changing yourself and manifest the life you envision for yourself (to some extent).
Bhutagni
This fire is different from the other three. It becomes subtler and subtler as it grows stronger because it burns you up. As you burn, you feel lighter and lighter, and the space-time begins to lose its grip on you.
This fire initially introduces itself with incredible bliss, and as it burns further, it becomes subtler and subtler. And when only the embers remain, you realize that you are no more.
While the aforementioned qualities don’t look quite appealing, Bhutagni offers some tremendous advantages. Following are some of them.
You’re easily able to compel divine entities to favor you, and you gain many divine skills, such as skill-impartation, skill-transmission, divine-protection, telepathy, energy-transmission, astral-projection, astral-reading and writing, access to astral-records (also called akashic-records), you gain the ability to read pranic-systems, manufacture and implant subtle beings/mechanisms/yantras into spaces, objects and people, remind yourself of your past lives, decide when to leave the body, whether to reincarnate or not, see the future, and many more.
This is so outlandish for a normal individual that it is best kept in the dark. The desire for such abilities may work against one’s growth, but those who have attained these abilities in their past lives will be compelled to relearn and remind themselves of their forgotten knowledge. I’ve noticed that that’s how this works.
How to Refine These Fires?
Through yoga and through devotion. Yogasanas and meditation may help you evolve, but if you truly want to mutate yourself into someone else completely, then you need devotion.
Devotion is not straightforward, but this quality can be inherited from someone who has comprehended and realized the essence of it. Where will you find that person? I don’t know… Desire happens to be the only way to find devotion.
I’ve been quite busy working on a very interesting project. Hopefully, we’d initiate a non-profit through this website someday.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading.
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