The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter XI
Fire as Brahman
"Fire is, verily, greater than water. For, having seized
the air, it warms the akasa. Then people say: „It is hot, it
burns; it will rain.‟ Thus does fire first manifest itself
and then create water. Furthermore, thunderclaps roll
with lightning upward and across the sky. Then people
say: „There is lightning, there is thunder; it will rain.‟
Here also does fire first manifest itself and then create
water. Meditate on fire.
"He who meditates on fire as Brahman becomes radiant
himself and obtains radiant worlds, full of light and free
from darkness;
he can, of his own free will, reach as far as fire reacheshe
who meditates on fire as Brahman."
Narada said: "Venerable Sir, is there anything greater
than fire?"
"Of course there is something greater than fire."
"Please tell that to me, Venerable Sir."
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