Rişhi: Ātreya (RV
5.1.5) dame-dame sapta ratnā
dadhāno-agnirhota
nişhasādā yajīyān,
Upholding in house
after house the seven Ecstasies,
Agni has
taken his seat as the Priest of the offering for the Yajna.
Agni is the great Priest who conducts the
Sacrifice the self-offering of man to the Divine and his journey
of life from the Earth of material existence to the supreme Heaven
of the Eternal Light. The sacrifice is conducted on all the levels
of the being, the seven planes or stations constituted of Matter,
Life, Mind, Truth—Light, Bliss, Consciousness and Pure Existence.
Corresponding to each plane there is a formulation of Delight that
underlies it. Agni brings out that Ecstasy and establishes it
overtly on each plane, in each body—in each house—in which he is
ignited.
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