Ritual fire itself - a further aspect of Agni - was conceived as having five aspects.Īccording to the I Ching, fire corresponds to south, the colour red, Summer and the heart.
In addition, there are two other fires, Vaishvanara, which penetrates and absorbs, and the fire -another aspect of Agni - which destroys. Agni, Indra and Siirya are, respectively, the fires of the terrestrial, intermediate and celestial worlds, in other words ordinary fire, lightning and the Sun. Hindu religious teaching, which gave it fundamental importance, contains most of the symbolical aspects of fire.
(This is the opposite of hell-fire, which has been described as burning without giving any light. In some contexts fire may be equivalent to light and may symbolize spirituality, truth, (self-)knowledge. Fire, like floods, is a fertilizer, making new things possible by destroying the old.ĥ. So, to find our true self we have to 'burn' the past. What we really are is eternal - that is, not conditioned by the past.
What we think we are is usually all those habitual responses that have been conditioned by past events and experiences. (The Hindu custom of burning the dead is a symbolic purging.) If, therefore, what is being burned in the dream can be seen as a symbol of yourself, the message will be about getting rid of whatever has been blocking the way to a fuller realization of your true self. Fire - which can change liquids and even some minerals into air - may symbolize purification and transformation. The same would apply if the fire was a conflagration - for example, a forest fire - threatening you.Ĥ. The dream will usually mean there is some (repressed) emotion that is liable to burst out destructively if it is not given your conscious attention. If the fire is destroying or threatening to destroy a house, the house will almost certainly represent yourself (or, in the case of 2, above, your body). It may symbolize a fever, and the dream may actually have been caused by a feverish bodily condition.ģ. Poking a fire may therefore mean arousing passion.Ģ.
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