![]() While all other rituals that came into being with the discovery of fire have died because they were products of circumstances, the pursuit of knowledge remains with us forever. If you rightly understand the significance of fire as a symbol, you will know that worship of knowledge is eternal. Worship of knowledge is like worship of fire. The visible part of reality is very tiny in comparison with its invisible part which is immense and infinite.įor all these reasons fire became a very useful and powerful symbol of knowledge. ![]() The same is the case with the knowledge of truth it is related with its knower only to a small extent and then it disappears into that which is unknowable. As the fire’s flame rises upward it is visible only to an extent and then disappears into the vast space it becomes invisible. There is yet another attribute of fire which is still more relevant to the knowledge of truth. Therefore, he alone can embark on a journey to knowledge who is prepared to become an utter emptiness, nothingness. ![]() ![]() It burns ignorance like fuel, and then burns the knower as an ego, who disappears into emptiness. So those who came to know the truth realized that knowledge is like fire. ![]()
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