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and this "heat" have nothing "profane" from "natural" is the syndrome of the
appropriation of something sacred. The "mastery of fire"
22 Lama K. D. Samdup and W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Le Yoga Hbetam, ps. 168, 201, 205,
etc.
and "internal heat" are always associated with access to a state of ecstasy, or, in other
cutturales levels, with access to an unconditioned state of perfect spiritual freedom. The
"mastery of fire", insensitivity to heat, and therefore, the "hot magic" that makes bearable
the trio extreme eomo both the temperature of the grill, is a mystical and magical virtue
that acompafiada other hazafias no less remarkable (ascension, magic flight, etc.). clearly
indicates that the shaman has surpassed the human condi-tion is already involved in the
condition of the "ghosts".
Clearly, the early experience of power-religious magico so, resulted in the "anger" of the
information warriors or "ca-lor" of magicians, shamans or yogis, has been transformed,
differentiated, moderated by the later work of integration and "sublimation". Kratu the
Indian word, which began by designating the "fiery warrior energy, mainly from Indra",
then "the victorious power, strength and heroic ardor, the bravery, the pleasure of
combat" and by extension, the "power" and "ma-jester" in general, come to designate "the
strength of man pia-doso, making it able to follow the requirements of the RTA and to
achieve the" 28
It is clear however that the "anger" and "heat" caused by violent and excessive
development of power are feared by most mortals: this kind of power are mainly
interested in state "gross", magicians and warriors who seek religion in balance
confidence and defend themselves against the "heat" and "Fire" magic. The term santi,
which in Sanskrit refers to tranquility, peace of Aima, the absence of passion, the relief of
suffering, is derived from the root Satin, who originally had the sense to shut down the
"fire", the anger, the fever, "heat" caused by the powerful Indian demoniacas.2 * Man of
lpos Tiei
23 Kasten Rønnow, Ved. kratu, eine Untersuchung wortgeschichtliche (Le
Monde Oriental, vol. 26, 1932, p. 1-90), C. Dumézil, La naissance d'Archanges
(Paris, 1945), p. 145 et seq. In the Gatha, "the meaning of khratu corresponds
especially the latter moral sense, specifically religious, the Vedic kratu: khratu is the
pious religious effort, what could the bra * Vura Uamarse pious man in this fight against
the evil that is the life of the believer "(Dumézil , cited, p. 145).
24 D. J. Hoens, Santi. A Contribution to Ancient Indian religious terminology
'C'avenhage, 1951), esp. p. 177.
v ^ dicos perceived the danger of magic, defended himself against the temptation to overpower,
25 as well as, later, the yogi must veneer temptation of "miraculous powers"
(siddhi).
We have already observed that the "internal heat" is accompanied, in exercises tantric
yogi-in luminous phenomena (see p. 125; LeYoga tibetain, p. 204 et seq.). Also
registered are bright mystical ex-perience since the Upanishads, where the "inner light"
(antarjyotih) defines the essence of the atman (Brhad.
3, 28), in certain Buddhist meditation experiences, the mystical light of different colors
indicate the success of the operation (see p. 192). Not dwell on the immense space
occupied by the inner light mysticism and theology in the Christian and Islamic, nor we
intend to undertake here a study of comparative mysticism, our-after surveys were