Agni yoga
[Sanskrit Agni : feu. Yoga : atteler, apparenté au latin jungere joindre ; union divine] L'union de l'homme avec Dieu par le biais du feu sacré. L'Agni yoga, ou le yoga du feu, est un yoga d'action plutôt que d'ascèse.
Comme expliqué dans le livre Agni Yoga,
Le feu n'éloigne pas de la vie, il est un guide fiable vers les mondes lointains.... Celui qui veut nager doit plonger sans crainte dans l'eau. Et celui qui a décidé de maîtriser l'Agni Yoga doit transformer sa vie entière grâce à lui.... En vérité, toutes les actions doivent être imprégnées de l'ardeur purificatrice de l'effort....
Tout comme le feu est le principe qui englobe tout, l'Agni Yoga imprègne l'ensemble de la vie. On peut remarquer comment la conscience s'aiguise progressivement, comment les valeurs réelles de l'environnement émergent, comment l'immuabilité de la coopération des mondes grandit. La vie est ainsi remplie des signes de la plus haute compréhension. La vérité en tant que concept réel entre dans la vie quotidienne.[1]
Les maîtres ascensionnés enseignent que la voie de l'agni yoga est l'expression du feu du Verbe et de l'Œuvre de l'Éternel. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de l'invocation du feu sacré par la science de la parole et de la flamme violette, de l'élévation du feu sacré de la Kundalini du chakra de base à la couronne, mais aussi d'une action ardente pour le droit, la vérité et la défense du Christ vivant dans les enfants de Dieu.
Le yoga le plus élevé
Le yoga le plus élevé est l'agni yoga. C'est le yoga du feu - le feu sacré. Il dépasse les quatre types de yoga qui s'appliquent aux quatre corps inférieurs, car il mène à l'ascension. Ce yoga a été enseigné par tous les messagers de la Grande Fraternité Blanche. Même les prophètes d'Israël pratiquaient le yoga du feu.
Dans les années 1920, Nicholas et Helena Roerich ont commencé à diffuser les enseignements d'El Morya et d'autres maîtres de la Grande Fraternité Blanche par le biais de livres publiés par la Société d'Agni Yoga. L'agni yoga est le yoga du feu sacré de la Mère, du feu sacré du Verbe incarné en tant que Verbe parlé (le décret dynamique), du feu sacré du Père et du Saint-Esprit. El Morya parle de l'agni yoga comme du yoga de l'ère à venir :
All preceding Yogas, given from the highest Sources, took as their basis a definite quality of life. And now, at the advent of the age of Maitreya, there is needed a Yoga comprising the essence of the entire life, all-embracing, evading nought, precisely like the unignitible youths in the biblical legend who valiantly sacrificed themselves to the fiery furnace and thereby acquired power.[2]
You may suggest to Me a name for the Yoga of life. But the most precise name will be Agni Yoga. It is precisely the element of fire which gives to this Yoga of self-sacrifice its name.... Fire will not lead away from life; it will act as a trustworthy guide to the far-off worlds....
Let us see in what lie the similarities and differences between Agni Yoga and the preceding Yogas. Karma Yoga has many similarities with it when it acts with the elements of Earth. But when Agni Yoga possesses the ways to the realization of the far-off worlds, then the distinction becomes apparent. Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga are all isolated from the surrounding reality; and because of this they cannot enter into the evolution of the future. Of course, an Agni Yogi should also be a Jnani and a Bhakta, and the development of the forces of his spirit makes him a Raja Yogi. How beautiful is the possibility of responding to the tasks of the future evolution without rejecting the past conquests of spirit!”[3]
Internalizing the sacred fire
There is no progress without fire. This is what the path of the saints is all about. Those who do not internalize the sacred fire—for they have not bent the knee before our God who is a consuming fire[4]—experience the fire as stress. They seek to escape both the fire and the stress by “getting away from it all.”
Those who experience fire as fire learn to internalize it through interludes of meditation, communion with the Earth Mother, yoga, breathing exercises, devotions, decrees or physical activities that balance and quicken the organs. Other methods that stimulate the assimilation of fire in the four lower bodies are listening to classical or religious music, engaging in rhythmic and creative activities, raising the Kundalini[5]—even deep sleep during which you take leave of the body temple for service with the heavenly hosts on the etheric plane. Work itself is a means of assimilation of fire.
In the book Heart we read, “Even the highest beings must become aflame in spirit in order to act.”[6] When you reach a certain level on the path of spirituality, unless you become a flame in that moment and ever thereafter, you may suffer setback and disaster in your life. It is impossible to retain and manifest a certain level of spirituality without acquaintance with the fire.
See also
Sources
Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 33, no. 44.
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and the Spiritual Path.
- ↑ Agni Yoga, 5ème éd., rév. (New York : Agni Yoga Society, 1980), pp. 101, 103, 108
- ↑ See Daniel 3.
- ↑ Agni Yoga, pp. 100–102.
- ↑ Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29.
- ↑ Some whose desire to raise the Kundalini fire is inordinate resort unwisely to a haphazard use of various forms of yoga or even illegal drugs. The raising of the Kundalini under the ascended masters’ tutelage is not a sudden burst of fire, but a gentle rising of strength and consciousness. The key to unlocking this energy of the Kundalini is adoration of the Mother Principle. The rosary is a safe and effective method of raising the Mother light by the fervent heat of love and adoration, without a violent eruption of energy.
- ↑ Heart (New York: Agni Yoga Society, 1944), p. 244.