#fireandwind

I burned bright only to be put out by those who said they loved my light

I gave comfort

I gave warmth

I gave protection

I lit the path for others to walk in the darkness.

When my flame grew low and weak I noticed I was alone.

I searched for kindle only to be blown away and found in a colder place

I called for help, my breathe taking oxygen I didn’t realize I needed

I cried only for my tears to extinguish my light

As I grew cold ,Weak, alone my light sizzled away.

Ash I became and those I loved disappeared only to be left behind in the wind.

Wind picked me up whispering “ You are beautiful I see great things in you.”

Wind pushed me further than I knew I could go

Wind caressed me and I felt comfort by someone who wasn’t scared to get burned.

Wind set me high on a mountain so I could reach the stars.

Wind said “this is your home” and from my ash the ground began to sprout.

Greens pinks and blues. I watched my work proudly I felt my worth.

Wind came and went to watch me work.

Wind faded at times but always found ways to come back stronger.

Wind brings me up when I am low

Wind leans on me when he’s tired and low

We mix and make storms.

We laugh and spread seeds.

We love and make beauty.

We merge and see the stars.

I was fire,

I was light

I was fragile

I was weak

but now

I am fertile

I am kind

I can give myself and not run low

I am strong.

I am Earth not ash

— Inspired by Rishi Vamadeva, the Seer Who Became the Seen.

In the dense forests of primordial India, where silence was more ancient than language and the breath of the cosmos echoed through rivers and trees, a sage named Rishi Vamadeva sat—not to learn, but to remember.

He did not ask the Vedas for answers. He became the Veda.

He did not look at the fire. He was Agni.

He did not feel the wind. He was Vayu.

But even then, in a voice softer than a sigh yet sharper than thunder, he declared: “I am Agni, I am the Wind — and yet, I am beyond both.”

This wasn’t poetry. It was realization.

🔥 The Spiritual Pulse of Rishi Vamadeva’s Declaration

To say “I am Agni” is not to romanticize fire. It is to feel that the spark in the cell, the ambition in your veins, the burning truth you can’t ignore—all belong to you, and yet you are not limited by them.

To say “I am the Wind” is not to float, but to know that the movement of thoughts, the dance of desires, the drifting of identities—all happen through you, and yet you are not imprisoned by them.

But to say “And yet, I am beyond both” is where Rishi Vamadeva breaks the matrix of human limitation.

In that moment, he was not the elements. He was the awareness of them.

🌬️ You Are Not Just Fire and Wind — You Are the Witness

Spirituality often tries to simplify the complex: Be calm. Be focused. Meditate. But Rishi Vamadeva didn't tame fire or control the wind. He embraced their chaos and declared transcendence.

He realized that the elements—whether external or internal—exist as symbols of our deeper states:

Agni represents the drive, the restlessness, the urgency to become something.

Vayu symbolizes movement, transformation, the breath that keeps changing identities and emotions.

But Rishi Vamadeva shows us: 🌀 The Self is not bound by what it feels or moves through. It watches. It knows. And it is still whole.

You are not the anger, or the inspiration, or the anxiety, or the ambition. You are the one who sees all of them burn and flow—and still remains.

💎 Rishi Vamadeva Didn't Escape Life. He Became All of It.

Most teachings aim to help you ‘control’ the mind. Rishi Vamadeva transcended the need to control by realizing that the mind, the fire of desire, the breath of fear, even the ego—they are sacred, but not sovereign.

He didn’t run from the storm. He declared: “I am the storm. But I am also its sky.”

This is not detachment. This is embodied divinity.

Not self-control. Self-realization.

🛠️ Rishi Vamadeva’s Practical Toolkit: The Path of Embodied Transcendence

Here’s how you can live this wisdom in your everyday moments. Not in isolation, but in the raw middle of your life.

1. Daily Elemental Reflection (5 mins morning)

On waking, before checking your phone, close your eyes and say:

“I am Agni — What is burning in me today?”

“I am Vayu — What am I resisting or trying to control?”

Then finally: “I am the Witness — the one before the fire and the wind.”

Just observe without judgment. This creates elemental self-awareness.

2. The Inner Flame Ritual (Anytime tension rises)

Rub your palms together until warm. Place over your chest. Say silently: “This fire is not my enemy. It is my message.”

Translate your anger or stress into a question: What truth is trying to surface?

Then act—not from reaction, but from recognition.

3. Vayu Breath Practice (During transitions)

Before major meetings, conversations, or decisions:

Inhale slowly for 4 seconds.

Hold for 4 seconds.

Exhale for 6 seconds.

Hold for 2 seconds.

Repeat 3 times.

Whisper: “I am the air. I move without losing myself.”

4. Weekly Rishi Vamadeva Mirror Journal (Sundays)

Ask yourself:

“What fires did I feed this week?”

“What winds did I let push me?”

“Where did I remember I am more than both?”

This tracks your journey from identity to inner sovereignty.

🌟 Closing Reflection

Rishi Vamadeva didn't become divine because he renounced the world. He became divine because he remembered he was never just human.

His realization wasn’t a rejection of the elements. It was a reunion with the source behind them.

So the next time you're overwhelmed by emotion, by speed, by ambition or confusion— Don’t shrink. Don’t control. Don’t flee.

Say this to yourself:

“I am Agni. I am the Wind. And yet, I am beyond both.”

pay heed to all things only in passing

for there is no thingness to things

but see in these things the accumulation of fundaments accreted into indivisible, jumbled piles --

the things of matter, clumped of the elements of matter; but what of things not of matter? what elements comprise these but fire and wind

fire and wind

it is all rudimentary, after all childish in the end: wind feeds fire, stoking it to roar; fire sends the wind in turn surging

falseness and truth are altogether without thingness (as with all things)

-- but see the circuit to these words:

in a thing immaterial, like a feeling or a thought, there is that which is wind which feeds the fire of action, there is that which is fire which feeds the wind of speech, and there is that which is neither and naught which feeds nothing and the apathy to each;