203."Those who seek out the yogi
for instruction in the Teaching
will not be of equal worthiness. A yogi must be able to understand
who comes by accident; who may become a pupil; who may in the
future
become a pupil-teacher, learning to perfect himself by helping
those
who come to him. It is worse for those who involve themselves
in the yoga
and then try to return to their old life. Truly it is easier
for the astral body
to return into the clutches of the physical body than for one
who has acquired even a grain of knowledge to return to the
darkness
of ignorance. Warn those who want to know about yoga.
We cannot permit people to keep their delusions."
—El Morya, Agni Yoga 1929
" . . . the heart of Agni—thence to the heart of
the Mother,
thence to the heart of Maitreya."— Nicholas
Roerich
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Agni Yoga. [Sanskrit. Agni: ’fire’.
Yoga: ‘yoking’, akin to Latin jungere ‘to join’;
divine union.] The union of man with God through the sacred fire.
Agni Yoga, or the yoga of fire, is a yoga of action rather than
asceticism. As explained in the book Agni Yoga, “Fire will
not lead away from life; it will act as a trustworthy guide to
the far-off worlds . . . He who would swim must dive fearlessly
into the water. And he who has decided to master Agni Yoga must
transform through it his entire life . . . Verily, all actions
must be infused with the purifying fiery striving . . .
Just as Fire is the all-embracing principle,
so does Agni Yoga permeate the whole of life. One can notice how
the consciousness is gradually sharpened, how the real values
of the surroundings emerge, how the immutability of the cooperation
of worlds grows. Thus life is filled with the signs of highest
understanding. Truth as a real concept enters the daily life”
(Agni Yoga, 5th ed., rev. [New York: Agni Yoga Society, 1980],
pp. 101, 103, 108).
The Ascended Masters teach that the path of Agni
Yoga is the expression of the fire of the Word and Work of the
Lord. Not only is it the invocation of the sacred fire through
the science of the spoken Word and the violet flame, the raising
up of the sacred fire of the Kundalini from the base chakra to
the crown, but it is also fiery action for the right, for the
truth and in defense of the living Christ in the children of God.
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In Hinduism, raja yoga is considered to be the “royal”
or highest path to union with God, hence “the royal road
to reintegration.” In raja yoga, one seeks to realize God
by the control of the mind and emotions through concentration
and meditation. It is looked upon as a psychological process or
experiment, wherein one enters into certain mental exercises and
observes the inner spiritual effects. The goal, as explained by
Huston Smith in The Religions of Man, is to attain the “direct
personal experience of ‘the beyond that is within.’”
As defined in The Pearl of the Orient by Geoffrey
A. Barborka, the term raja yoga “signifies ‘kingly
union’ or the royal union of man’s faculties, spiritual,
mental, moral and physical.” The Ascended Masters teach
that raja yoga is a means of attaining integration in all of the
chakras and in the I AM Presence; it is the royal road to reintegration
with one’s Divine Self. The key to this reintegration is
the violet flame and the science of the spoken Word, the resolution
of one’s psychology and demonstrating union with God through
acts beneficial to self and society. For the student of the Ascended
Masters, raja yoga, as well as all other forms of yoga, must include
the Path of the Ruby Ray under the Ruby Ray Masters
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" . . . Therefore energy superimposed with the Darkness of
mass hysteria does come tumbling into the vortex of Light of every
devotee. This is why, beloved, once you set your path to be that
of Agni Yoga and [your mind] to be that yogi or yogini, you must
know that you cannot cease, you must not cease. For the more that
fire is intensified in your heart, the more you become that flaming
cauldron into which there is poured the Darkness; and you become
the one who holds that vessel of world conflagration, world transmutation.
" . . . Leap into the fire, beloved, and
emerge unscathed. Then you will understand the mystery of Agni.
Blend into the flames and feel the mystical oneness with the lightning
and the stars.
" . . .The life of the spiritual guardian
is surely a life of the divine art. Let your expression be as
one of the many hands of the Divine Mother—as the hands
of Kuan Yin, even as the hands of Kali, of Shakti. The many hands
of the Mother find expression through you. And I am in the Mother
as the Mother is in my heart. This is the beauty of the Life everlasting."
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