#agnihotra sutra

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“Everyone always bends over backwards not to say 'die', don't you think?” Dunyarzad laughed, exasperated. “It's always metaphors and euphemisms. 'Pass on', 'visit Irminsul', 'go to a better place'...

“When I was a kid, I thought it was another one of those things adults think children aren't grown-up enough to know about, like where babies come from, or how much the maids get paid. But it turns out people just really don't want to think about death, much less talk about it. Not when it's up close and real. Not when I'm in the room.”

In the climactic chapter of Nara Agni, Hu Tao faces Marana, the memory of death, and seeks an answer to its riddle. Zhongli tells Dunyarzad tales from faraway lands. Zhongli and Dunyarzad talk about living in the shadow of death.

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

aranara web event my beloved i am sobbing

[idcallmyselfhuman]

just need to finish the last few parts of agnihotra sutra and varuna gatha, then land of lower setekh at 81%, and i'll be done with all of sumeru 'til the next content update.

my body despises me 💀

[navings]

anyways i feel so sad i finished the agnihotra sutra quest so long ago but aranakin and the other 2 aranaras arent showing up in varanara…. where are they i miss them………

[rubys-domain]

Reputation World Quests Tracker (Alt acc.)

*non-comprehensive

Mondstadt (22/22) [100%] [✓]

Liyue (44/52) [85%]

■ A Cliff-Side Hero's Past

□ An Ode to Yonder City

□ Luhua Landscape

□ Nine Pillars of Peace

□ Says He Who Seeks Stone

□ Stolen, by the Rightful Owner

■ The Millennial Mountains

□ The Missing Miner

□ The Yaksha's Wish

□ Trails in Tianqiu

■ Will of Stone

Inazuma (23/45) [51%]

□ Battle of Revenge

□ Clean House

□ Collection of Dragons and Snakes

□ Divine Plant of the Depths

□ Fertilizer... Salesperson?

□ "Heart of Watatsumi"

□ Hiromi's Watch

■ In Another Land

□ Lotus Eater

■ O Archon, Have I Done Right?

□ Reminiscence of Seirai

□ Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual: Yougou Cleansing

□ Sakura Arborism

■ Seirai Stormchasers

□ Solitary Sea-Beast

□ Storytelling Method

■ Tatara Tales: The Last Act

□ The Farmer's Treasure

■ The Gourmet Supremos: The Importance of Eating Well

□ The Narukami Trail

□ The Phaethons' Syrtos

□ The Saga of Mr. Forgetful

■ "The Seventh Samurai"

□ The Still Water's Flow

□ The Subterranean Trials of Drake and Serpent

□ The Sun-Wheel and Mt. Kanna

□ The Three Great Martial Trials

Sumeru (8/38) [21%]

□ A Short Encounter With a Rare Bird

□ Agnihotra Sutra

□ An Unwavering Culinary Dream

□ Aranyaka

□ Blooming Sands

□ Cost-Effective Hook

□ Courage Is in the Heart

□ Dreams Beneath the Searing Sand

□ Dual Evidence

□ Dune-Entomberd Fecundity

□ Even Beasts Stumble

□ Garcia's Paean: A Gift of Compatibility

□ Gourmet Supremos: Within Our Duties

□ Join the Eremites and Embrace a Wonderful New Life!

□ Memory's Final Chapter

□ Purbiruni's Commandment

□ Soheil's Wish

□ Static Views, Part II

□ The Eternal Dream, Ever Lush

□ The Foolish Fatuus

□ The Hymn of Tir Yazad

□ The Path of Papers

□ The Price

□ The Temple Where Sand Flows Like Tears

□ Treasures of Wisdom: A New Plan

□ Until Vana Is Healed

□ Varuna Gatha

□ Vimana Agama

□ Where Are the Fierce Creatures?

□ Wisdom Has Built Her House, She Has Hewn Out Her Seven Pillars

Fontaine (20/20) [100%] [✓]

[gumi-megpoidd]

Agnihotra Sutra is by far the most fun I’ve had playing genshin so far. there’s not too much dialogue (that’s hard to skip past at least) and there is great puzzles and combat. Best quiet ever so far. Only on starry night chapter so far tho

Nice!

[his-grapejuice]

OK i just finished agnihotra sutra im gonna do varuna gatha now

[hello-rambling-my-old-friend]

Honestly, the wind seems to have a lot of ties to Sumeru from what we’ve seen so far. A line about that in the Aranara quest stood out to me (I searched the direct dialogue up on the wiki):

Aranaga: Here, Aranaga's remembrance, is this flower. Cannot blow him away, the Ad Oblivione; cannot destroy him, the device that takes away dreams. 

Option: Ad Oblivione...?

Aranaga: Yes, the wind that flows forever, the thousand winds that return to one. But, on earth is the stream, and the ubiquitous is the wind. Everlasting, devastating.

- Agnihotra Sutra, The Final Chapter

The phrase “thousand winds” especially... something is going on here. That and the emphasis in Mondstadt on the wind bringing seeds of stories (a saying which is also tied to time, which itself is also heavily related to the Thousand Winds if the various temples in Mondstadt are anything to go on), to here where there is such an emphasis on stories and tales passed on through people and Aranara – and, if we’re at it, the emphasis on music and the ‘Sourcesong’ to the Aranara, when Venti canonically knows every song from the past, present and future, Sourcesong presumably included...

That has to be there for a reason.

so I haven't done the archon quest entirely yet, which means correct me if there's something I'm missing but

This is part of Candace's third voiceline about herself, before this specific part, she is referring to the late Scarlet King, but that's neither here nor there

These are Mondstadtian core beliefs, this is what the people of Mondstadt tell their children what happens when they die, but this line, with her specifically mentioning the four winds, implies that it's not just a Mondstadt belief.

Hu Tao's story quest claims that Liyue doesn't believe in the wind or Lord Barbatos guiding anyone to rest, and we literally go to the border of life and death with her.

So who is impacted and where is the wind the guiding hand into the afterlife a belief? What decides that factor? Is it just Mondstadt that believes it's Lord Barbatos himself, and other nations just believe it to be the wind?

[yogaadvise]

Letting go: 4 yogic practices

In three separate classes lately I observed a cumulative chuckle that rippled through the room when I pointed out releasing 2017 to make way for a brand-new and remarkable 2018. This chuckle (naturally, 'yogic-ly' launched on an exhale) was so loaded with significance: what a turbulent year for numerous - both directly as well as globally. This chuckle was a titter, a snicker, an audio of launch loaded with, 'heck yeah', 'oh lord', 'you ain't joking', and 'please, can we?'. After recognizing the depth of the desire to allow go of the insane trip 2017 exposed itself to be - with all its societal, political and also environmental upheavals - I took another look at the demand for allowing go with a few useful yogic devices and also techniques.

What does it mean to 'let go'?

In 'The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching', Thich Nhat Hanh writes, "Letting go provides us liberty, and also freedom is the only condition for joy. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - temper, anxiety, or properties - we can not be free."

To hold on to anything, to not let go out of anxiety of the unknown, encourages unavoidable discomfort and suffering. When we cling to an old feeling, an old pattern, or an old partnership, we urge a deep-rooted sense of possessiveness, breeding the experience of seclusion and separateness (which is the total reverse of yoga exercise's spiritual essence of union). In our clinging, our understanding of old, unnecessary and essentially dead experiences, we are not allowing ourselves the space as well as the freedom to experience something brand-new, fresh and also ALIVE.

4 Letting go practices

Is it feasible to really allow go of old and unnecessary feelings, feelings, behaviors as well as people? And if so, just how? Here are four techniques to welcome into your life if you are keeping to somebody or something that no longer serves you.

1. Aparigraha

In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali we have a word to explain the method of non-clinging: Aparigraha. This 5th yama (5 moral restrictions for day-to-day live) is specified as 'non-attachment', 'non-grasping', 'non-coveting', and also 'non-hoarding'. The majority of usually this yama is discussed as well as practised as concerning non-attachment or non-hoarding of physical/material items. Aparigraha can also be the technique of non-attachment to sensations, habits, patterns as well as people. It is the method of releasing both physical and also non-physical things that are old, unnecessary, as well as standing in our method people experiencing deep flexibility as well as profound peace.

Aparigraha - practising non-attachment

2. Substitute therapy: Positive ideas for negative thoughts

In Patanjali's Yoga exercise Sutras there is an additional useful tool for letting go: replacement treatment! In the second chapter (yoga exercise sutra 2.33) Patanjali composes, 'Vitarka-badhane pratipaksha-bhavanam' (When disrupted by adverse thoughts, grow the contrary attitude).

Replacing unfavorable thoughts as well as sensations with positive thoughts as well as sensations ... brilliant! Certainly, easier said than done but with persistent practise ... completely doable! When you locate yourself spinning around some old adverse idea pattern (feelings of rage, bitterness, disappointment, etc.) simply shift gears and consider something favorable, delighted, rejuvenating, as well as peaceful.

Mantra works marvels for this technique of growing the reverse. In my life I have actually been phoned call to deal with two different concepts. When I am out as well as about in my every day life, the Sanskrit rule from Tibetan Buddhism 'Om Mani Padme Hum' serves me well. This recovery concept assists me out of an inherently logical as well as judgmental mind of separateness right into a unifying heart-mind of compassion and also tranquility. In the evening, while in the process of dropping off to sleep, the concept 'So Hum' (breathing in 'so' which implies I AM and also breathe out 'hum' which indicates THAT) is so very helpful, specifically throughout those nights when I am captured up in a cyclical pattern of reasoning, preparing or fretting. Both of these rules have been incredibly valuable in replacing unfavorable thought patterns and emotions with positive ones.

Wisdom Mantra class - try this grounding class with Tashi Dawa to invite a smooth mind space utilizing an age-old Buddhist concept Om Mani Padme Hum.

3. Drop it like a hot potato

Upon reading the article "The Art of Letting Go' on Bernie Clarke's yin yoga exercise internet site I discovered a sentence that I right away fell in love with: 'One can not try to allow go, one needs only to allow go'. This advises me of my great friend and coach Vidya Heisel's guidance, 'Drop it like a hot potato'. Basically, that which you are hanging on to, that old tale that is holding you back from staying in your greatest reality and most extensive peace, merely drop it like a hot potato and also be below currently - in all your radiant splendor. It's as very easy as that. Make a decision. Let it go.

I shared this 'drop it like a hot potato' concept today in class with an asana-inspired exercise. I had my trainees hold a block in between their knees in Supported Bridge (a second block below the sacrum with feet on the flooring). While pressing the block between their knees I had them pick an old sensation they are still keeping (an undesirable experience that they just can't appear to allow go of). I had them press and really feel that unfavorable thought or feeling. And afterwards, when they felt they prepared, I informed them to drop it like a warm potato (and drop the block between the knees). It was so terrific to listen to that chuckle of relief ripple with the room.

4. Idam Na Mama: 'This is not mine'

Agnihotra is a wonderful as well as basic recovery fire from the ancient system of Ayurveda. Lit in the morning and at night, and with the addition of concept, it assists to detoxify all that is not ours. Just recently I have been including the intent of Agnihotra to my early morning reflection and early morning Sunlight Salutations. I begin by lighting a candle light as well as resting with the tiny candle light fire, listening to and reciting the following recovery concept:

Sooryaya swáahá, Sooryáyaidam na mama Prajápataye swáahá, Prajápatayeidam na mama

The significance of this rule is, 'To the sun I use this offering. This is not mine, this is yours.'

It is with so much gratefulness I feel I have released a life time of accumulated frustration, bitterness and also anger with the aid of these releasing practices. I am delighted to head into my new year light, satisfied and FREE!!!

After I rest some time with the rule I after that practice 6 to 12 Sunlight Salutations holding this same releasing intent in my heart's mind. I allow go of what is not mine, that which never ever was to stick to as my own. Effective stuff! It is with a lot thankfulness I feel I have allowed go of a life time of collected frustration, bitterness and also rage with the assistance of these allowing go methods. I am thrilled to head right into my brand-new year light, satisfied and also FREE!!!

Love and all ideal yearn for 2018

Jennilee

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“Death is just a one-time loss of memory,” the Aranara said.

Hu Tao laughed scornfully.

"Just?"

It was rude of her. She could have helped it, probably. But frankly, she was a little cross that she hadn't been informed.

"Sleeping in the earth, dirt burying their dreams: these parts of death scare many Nara," said Aragaru. "But our sacrifice has no wet dirt, no sleeping. Just forgetting. There is nothing to fear."

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The final chapter of Nara Agni and the Memory of Death is up! 🎉

I haven't talked about this fic as much as I ought to have since September 2022 (v3.0) when it began. Suffice to say, it's a Hu Tao fic: at times whimsical, at times wistful, at times deep with grief.

Join Hu Tao, Aragaru, Aranakin, and Aranaga, on their quest to save Mawtiyima, and, perhaps, die trying.

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[Lunja:] “What're you going to do, eulogise us to death?”

“If I gotta,” said Hu Tao. “I know some boring eulogies.”

Hu Tao! Lunja! Aranakin! Nahida and Zhongli! The only thing this chapter is missing is tonal consistency 🥲🍵

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Hu Tao and Zhongli visit Sumeru, and Hu Tao ends up helping save Mawtiyima. (Eventual spoilers for Aranara world quests, specifically Agnihotra Sutra.)

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"Yes," said Aragaru. "Nara left the stones but didn't leave memories."

"That's us Nara for you," said Hu Tao, "always leaving and never leaving much behind."

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A brief preview from Nara Agni Chapter 3, featuring one of my favourite NPCs from the Agnihotra Sutra quest.

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A cascade of bangs rang out from the cave entrance. Then, after half a minutes' pause, another series of bangs, this time louder.

"Shit," said Lunja, "we're out of time."

The explosive traps had detonated as planned, but if the second wave had gone off then odds were the adventurer was still alive.

She looked to her boys. "Minum, Ziri, get that splint tied off, then help support Isan. Anqa, still seeing stars? Can you manage a walk with us? Lean on me if you've gotta."

"Uh, boss..." said Minum, staring past her.

"What?"

"Yoohoo! Need any help?" interjected a new voice. "No? Well... Anyone in the market for a coffin?"

Shit.

Lunja closed her eyes, took a deep breath in and out, then turned to face Miss Hu, a.k.a. the Liyuean chick with the cute jacket.

"Hey there, friend," she said.

"Friend? This is how you treat your friends?" said Miss Hu, hands on her hips. "You tried to kill me! You know what kind of person attempts to kill someone then calls them 'friend' a minute later?"

"Someone who keeps business and friendship separate?"

Miss Hu rubbed her chin. "Hmm. I was gonna say 'crazy redheads', but I guess your answer works too..."

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[...]But in another sense, every funeral was an exorcism: not for the deceased, but for the mourners.

“Everyone always bends over backwards not to say 'die', don't you think?” Dunyarzad laughed, exasperated. “It's always metaphors and euphemisms. 'Pass on', 'visit Irminsul', 'go to a better place'...

“When I was a kid, I thought it was another one of those things adults think children aren't grown-up enough to know about, like where babies come from, or how much the maids get paid. But it turns out people just really don't want to think about death, much less talk about it. Not when it's up close and real. Not when I'm in the room.”

In the climactic chapter of Nara Agni, Hu Tao faces Marana, the memory of death, and seeks an answer to its riddle. Zhongli tells Dunyarzad tales from faraway lands. Zhongli and Dunyarzad talk about living in the shadow of death.