Ram - The Inner Fire

Ram

Ram means soul or Atma, he was among 24 avatars of lord Vishnu whose life and deeds are recorded in Ramayana.

 

Ram means the pure soul. Ram was the prince of Ayodhya. He was embodiment of all noble merits.

Known as purshottama or the best among the men he had supreme personality and unlimited virtues. RAMA BRAHM PARAMARRTHA ROOPA in the language of saguna [manifest form] Moksha or Salvation is the name of Shri Ram.




Ram resides in Manipur chakra or at Solar-Plexus. The seed mantra for Manipur chakra is Ram and Vehicle is a ram. This chakra is the centre of whole body. All of the main nadis meet there. It is very important for functioning of body. A child in the womb is connected to the mother through the umbical cord near this centre and gets nourishment through it.

During astral travel the subtle body and physical body remain connected to each other by a very fine invisible silver chord coming through Manipur chakra.

Awakening of this chakra brings control over life and death, the creation of heat and knowledge of internal functions of physical body.

Qualities like keenness of perception, untiring activity, and the drive to action, inner energy and courage are due to proper function of Manipur chakra. It intensifies the flow of blood, helps proper oxygenation and develops organising power, leads to leader ship. This chakra plays an important role in character building of a child.

Fire

In Sanskrit Agni are the flames of something burning or something that creates light and gives energy or vitality of expression or the capacity of action or the will or power to perform work meaning strength or might.

Fire is among the five subtle fundamental elements responsible for the creation. Fire can be seen, heard and felt. In order of evolution, this is the first element that can be seen. This is why it is consider being the nearest form of creator in visible form and therefore considering sacred and employed for invoking the lord in all rituals.
 
Fire creates heat in the body. It regulates sight, provides strength to body by digestion, induces hunger and thirst and maintains suppleness of muscles and beauty of skin. It helps in thinking and facilitates the discrimination power of the brain. It helps the production of antibody. In lay man language we can say that the Fire element is the starter of our body-car.

Hindu philosophy is ---termed as Principle of Fire.

Analogy of Ram and Fire

Heat

Heat is the form of energy that causes raise in temperature in a body. By raising temperature heat causes fusion, evaporation, expansion.

The water in the body is controlled by the heat of the body depends upon one's digestive power. So whenever the digestive system weakens the internal temperature goes down.

When the kundalini Shakti is activated by chanting Ram mantra, the prana descends and apana ascends and they strike each other at Manipur chakra and heat is created all over the body. Due to this heat the nadis get purified. Thus creation of heat is essential for upward movement of kundalini Shakti. When the kundalini Shakti awakes it eats up the impurities in the body. The elements of water and earth become purified and dried and the body becomes rejuvenated.

Light

Light is brightness. Light makes vision possible. Light is electromagnetic radiation visible to human and all being eyes. Light is product of visibility and propagation of radiant power.

Ram as inner light is Gyan-agni or the fire of wisdom, which burns away the illusion of lower life and avidya or ignorance and leaves only the knowledge of the real.

Cosmic fire

The fire burn away any substance and reduce it to the irreducible minimum constituents under a particular set of circumstances.

Cosmic fire is the light of reality and is the source of divine consciousness, the root of mind and power. Ram as cosmic fire burns the illusion, ignorance and leaves the knowledge of Real.

Jathragani or the Gastric fire

The gastric fire disintegrates the food we take and reduces it to the essential simple elements which can be assimilated by the body for its normal functioning.

Ram as the seed mantra for Manipur chakra controls and regulates the fire element of the body and so controls spleen, liver and gall bladder and assist in the creation of bile's and digestive juices.

Jnanagni or the fire of Wisdom

The basic nature of the fire is to remove the non essential and leave the essential.

Ram as the fire of wisdom burns away all the illusion or Avidya or Ignorance and leaves only pure knowledge.

The Latent or Hidden fire
 
The latent fire is the fire hidden in an element like fire hidden in a match stick.

In Vedic philosophy God is called Agni or Fire because he is self -glorious, because he is incarnate knowledge, Indra because he is protector of all and the Almighty Lord of all, Prana because he is the fountain of life for all and Brahman because he is the all pervading principle of the cosmos.

Ram is the primal inner fire which contains within itself the light, the brilliance and the heat of thousands suns put together. The inner fire of Ram combines thousands of lightning bolts together.

BY
GEETA JHA 
INDIA