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Agni, master of pure tapas, works out all the actions of the Yoga, the inner sacrifice. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/16/rv-i-dot-94-dot-1-10#p14</ref>
Agni, the inner flame, the soul within us (for who can deny that the soul is fire?), the innate aspiration drawing man towards the heights; Agni, the ardent will within us that sees, always and forever, and remembers; Agni, ‘the priest of the sacrifice,’ the ‘divine worker,’ the ‘envoy between earth and heaven’ (Rig-veda III, 3.2) ‘he is there in the middle of his house’ (I.70.2). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-30-1961#p41</ref>
==Ahamkara/Ahankara==
The lower self is in bondage to its past; the higher is lord of the past, the present and the future. So the will of the lower self is born of ''ahankara'' and limited by ''ahankara'', but the will of the higher self is beyond ''ahankara'' and cannot be limited by it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/07/the-need-of-the-moment#p2</ref>
Under the conditions of mind, life & body, ahankara is born, the subjective or objective form of consciousness is falsely taken for self-existent being, the body for an independent reality & the ego for an independent personality; the one loses itself in us in its multiplicity & when it recovers its unity, finds it difficult, owing to the nature of mind, to preserve its play of multiplicity. Therefore when we are absorbed in world, we miss God in Himself; when we seek God, we miss Him in the world. Our business is to break down & dissolve the mental ego & get back to our divine unity without losing our power of individual & multiple existence in the universe. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/the-entire-purpose-of-yoga#p10</ref>
==Ānanda==