Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

11. Visions and Symbols

Fragment ID: 1908

As you were concentrating your attention on the electric light, it may have been the god of electricity you saw, Vaidyuta Agni. There is no reason why he should have many faces – the many-headed or many-armed figures belong usually to the vital plane – and it may not have been in his vital form that he was manifesting. As for the colours, colours are symbols of forces and Agni need not be pure red – the principle of Fire can manifest all the colours and the pure white fire is that which contains in itself all the colours.