You are my fire
The one desire
Believe me when I say
I want it that way
- 'Backstreet boys'
We often use 'fire', 'flame', 'hot' as adjectives to define a
steamy relationship or a person.
Ask a teen, they will say, ‘fire is someone really hot’. And
flames, well it’s a relationship predictor. Urgh, teens is such innocence! A fun desired game defining what your
relationship status is.
A grown up will coin it as a spark in the relationship even
wildness subjectively. Also as a metaphor for passion.
An encyclopaedia will define it as, ‘A flame is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by highly exothermic reaction taking place in a thin zone'.
We all talk about the implied and the actual meaning of it. Do
we ever realise the significance it holds as one of the elements of earth? Fire
defines purity.
Why do we light an oil lamp, or a candle? Our knowledge is so
conjectural. Childhood tails narrated by grandma always taught how symbolic it
is to lit a lamp when Sun sets. In a metamorphic
way it burns the negativity inside and around us, gives peace within. How
beautiful this believe is! Fire/flame is auspicious and spiritually significant.
As light removes darkness, flame removes the shadows of past and the handcuffs of
anger and anxiety.
Let the fire destroy all our evils.
Deepamjyothi Parabrahma
Deepamjyothi Janardhana
Deepo me hara tu paapam
Deepaa Jyothir Namastute
I salute the lord, the sustainer of the creation, in the form
of this light. I salute this light (the lord), may he destroy afflictions
resulting from my omissions and commissions.
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