O Agni, Lord of the sacrificial fire! Guide us to wealth through the right path, oh, knower of our activities! Liberate us from the attraction to sin, we offer You our most humble and respectful reverences.

"O Agni, Lord of the sacrificial fire!" This verse consists of a devotional prayer of the Vedāntist, offered with respect and veneration to a personal aspect of the Divine, which suggests harmony between bhakti and jñāna. According to the Vedic religion, Agni is the one who accepts the offerings of the devotees and transports them to certain devas, as well as the one who leads different devas to the ceremonies. Agni, according to the Vedas, is an intermediate between celestial devas and human beings (Ṛg Veda 5.11.4). This prayer refers to Agni as "the Lord of the sacrificial fire". On the path of the soul, it is important to understand that the offering to be offered is ourselves, what we think we are, the idea that we have about what we are, our ego...

The scriptures constantly remind us of the ideal of the Sanātana—dharma, which is Śaraṇāgati, or the absolute surrender to God...

sarva—dharmān parityajya

mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja

ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva—pāpebhyo

mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear".

Fire devours all that can be devoured; it burns all that can be burnt...

Fire is like the spiritual master, he does not burn in order to live or continue, but he devours with his flames, making others disappear, and then he himself fuses in the Whole and disappears...

"Guide us to wealth through the right path". Our desire for wealth is closed within the ambition to decrease our limitations and expand our possibilities. To elevate ourselves is to elevate our aspirations. As long as we identify ourselves with the coarse body, our aspirations will be limited to that which offers us the greatest pleasure on the level of the coarse senses. While identifying with the mind or the intellect, we will not try to accumulate riches on the level of money or jewels, but we will try to accumulate knowledge. While identifying with our feelings and emotions, we will look for romances and all kinds of emotive experiences. Only when we reach an evolutionary level at which a glimpse of our soul will be revealed, will our aspirations and ambitions be for the spirit... That is to say, our search for any certain kind of riches will greatly depend on our level of evolution and therefore, on our level of viveka or power of discrimination...

Spiritual wealth does not consist of possessing, but of ridding ourselves of our inclination and attraction towards anything that gives us pleasure but at the same time deprives us of bliss, which causes us enjoyment but limits our freedom; those painkillers taken as solutions, that make us forget our misery momentarily, causing temporary amnesia, without contributing anything beneficial with regard to our loneliness, pain and sorrow, but rather, perpetuating them...

There is a "right" or "appropriate path" in order to obtain wealth. Many times our problems are not only a product of what we wish for, but of the means or paths we use to obtain them. Especially when we have been programmed with an attitude of being unworthy, an attitude that leads us to try to acquire everything, from a relationship, to material things, promotions at work or achievements in sport, in a dishonest manner.