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Hymns To The Mystic Fire Book Written by Sri Aurobindo from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, is Hymns to Agni from the Rig-Veda translated in their esoteric sense with original Sanskrit text, a Foreword and an essay, The Doctrine of the Mystics.

In the foreword and in the "Doctrine of the Mystics", Sri Aurobindo summarises the philosophic system of the Vedic mystics, the inner meaning of the Vedic rites, and the significance of the more important Vedic deities and symbols.

On his rendering of this soft-cover book of 762 pages, hymns to Agni, Sri Aurobindo comments: This is a literary and not a strictly literal translation. But a fidelity to the meaning, the sense of the words and the structure of the thought, has been preserved: in fact the method has been to start with a bare and scrupulously exact rendering of the actual language and adhere to that as the basis of the interpretation; for it is only so that we can find out the actual thoughts of these ancient mystics.

But any rendering of such great poetry as the hymns of the Rig-Veda, magnificent in their colouring and images, noble and beautiful in rhythm, perfect in their diction, must, if it is not to be a merely dead scholastic work, bring at least a faint echo of their poetic force, more cannot be done in a prose translation and in so different a language.

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh born on August 15, 1872, a yogi, seer, philosopher, poet and Indian Nationalist who propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution.

Essays on the Rig Veda and its mystic symbolism, with translations of selected hymns. These writings on and translations of the Rig Veda were published in the monthly review Arya between 1914 and 1920. Most of them appeared there under three headings: The Secret of the Veda, “Selected Hymns” and “Hymns of the Atris”. Other translations that did not appear under any of these headings make up the final part of the volume.

9 Rig Vedic Sites of Nepal is a spiritual pilgrimage book that takes you in a journey through the nine living Rig Vedic sites of Nepal — mountains, caves, rivers, and temples where ancient sages are said to have heard the hymns of the Rig Veda in their pure vibration. It’s not history retold; it’s living memory unveiled. Through meditation, sound, and intuitive study, the work shows how the same current that inspired the Rishis (Sages) still breathes through Nepal’s sacred geography.