FIRE: (sound + touch =) sight. We hear the crackle, feel the heat and then the fire lights up so we have vision.
- Gunas: hot, sharp, penetrating, light, always goes up and is bright/luminous (opposite of heavy and darkness), mobile, spreads, subtle and oily.
- Its expression of consciousness is concentration; “friction.”
- Is radiant energy (energy that travels in waves in atomic model).
- Found in gastric juices, HCl-, maintains body temperature & transforms food into body.
- Is associated with pitta and agni.