AGNI - The Digestive Fire
Ayurveda views the health of the body as the functioning of a biological fire governing metabolism.
It is called agni.
Agni is
not simply a symbol for the power of digestion.
In the broader sense, it is the creative flame that...
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AGNI - The Digestive Fire
Ayurveda views the health of the body as the functioning of a biological fire governing metabolism.
It is called agni.
Agni is
not simply a symbol for the power of digestion.
In the broader sense, it is the creative flame that works behind all life,
building up the entire universe as a stage by stage unfoldment of itself, which, thereby, contains within itself the key to all
transformations.
Agni is present not only in human beings but in all nature.
It has a special abode in plants, which contain the agni of
photosynthesis.
When agni is strong, food is digested properly, toxins of various kinds, largely from undigested food particles, (Called ama
in Ayurveda), accumulate and breed disease.
Plants contain agni, through which they digest sunlight and produce life.
Herbs can transmit their agni to us, their capacity
to digest and transform, and this may augment our own power of digestion, or give us the capacity to digest substances
we normally cannot.
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