दीया · The steady flame
Anger at its full force. The training is not to make it smaller. It is to hold it even.
If something red is near you, a thread or a cloth, tie it on your wrist. Red is Bharata's colour for raudra. Or begin as you are.
First the body, later the voice, later still only inside. Any of them, any time; nothing is locked.
The force was there the whole time. It was given a form.
In Bharata, karuṇa is born of raudra (VI.38 to 41). That road is there for another time.
Why this
Bharata shows a feeling in four ways, the four abhinayas: by the body (āṅgika), by the voice (vācika), by what is worn (āhārya) and from within (sāttvika) (Abhinayadarpaṇa 38; Ghosh 1957). This practice goes through them from the outside in, the way the japa goes from aloud to whispered to the mind.
Raudra's voice in Bharata is excited and its tempo quick (XIX.43 and XIX.58 to 59). So nothing here asks the voice to be soft, and the flame is never made smaller. It is only made steady. The two notes it sounds are Sa and Ri, the svaras Bharata gives raudra. Red is his colour for it (VI.42 to 45).
Of the inner signs he says they cannot be mimicked by an absent-minded man; they come by concentration of the mind (VII, in Ghosh's translation). That is the last door, and it is a yogic one.
The Mother, answering a question about the vital, the life-force in us (Questions and Answers, 2 June 1929; CWM 3): “The one thing to be done is to change it, not to suppress its movement or destroy it. For without it no intensity is possible anywhere.”
How even counts as even, and how loud as loud, are ours. The flame is a mirror, not a measurement. Nothing you do here is kept or sent.