Agnihotra
Healing the Planet
By Allen Morgan, Homa Therapist, Miami, Florida
Agnihotra is the smallest form of Yajnya. It is the basic form of purification of the atmosphere. By inducing change in the atmosphere you bring about changes in PRANA (Life Energy). PRANA and the mind are like two sides of the same coin and hence, the beneficial change is transposed to the realm of the mind.
For Agnihotra, a copper pyramid of prescribed size is recommended.
There are specific varieties of trees prescribed for firewood to prepare the fire. Some of these are medicinal trees. If they are not available you may use any firewood. However, firewood from trees with thorns or from trees bearing bitter fruit should be avoided.
Ghee prepared from cow's butter is another item required. It is a must. Take pure butter (unsalted, unadulterated butter from cow's milk) and heat it on low heat, bringing it to a slow boil. Remove the white substance that rises to the top and discard it. Pass the liquid through several layers of cheese cloth or a paper towel. What passes through is ghee. Store it in a container. It could be stored without refrigeration.
Apply a little ghee to firewood sticks and arrange the sticks in the pot in a log cabin fashion to allow air to circulate.
Take a few pieces of dry cow dung and keep one small flat piece at the bottom touching the pyramid and put the rest on top of the firesticks in the pot. How to prepare dry cow dung? By using a rubber hand glove, make pancake-like pieces from fresh cow dung and let them dry in the sun. If weather does not permit, then dry the pieces in the house under an electric sun lamp. Store the dry dung cakes for daily use.
Put a little ghee on cow dung pieces before lighting fire.
Sunrise and sunset are the timings for Agnihotra. You can find timings from an almanac which should be adjusted to local time. You may consult the nearest weather station (or www.almanac.com)About two minutes before sunrise or sunset, light the fire. The fire should be ablaze at sunrise or sunset time.
Utter the first Mantra and add the first portion of rice into fire. Then utter the second Mantra and add the second portion of rice into fire.
Raw rice, preferably brown rice, should be used for Agnihotra. The quantity of rice that you can hold in the tips of your fingers constitutes one portion. Keep enough rice ready for two portions. Apply ghee to the body of rice and put portions on fire after Mantras.
Try to spare as many minutes as you can for meditation after each Agnihotra.
Keep one corner of your room aside for Agnihotra. If you have plants growing in the room you will soon notice that Agnihotra gives nourishment to plant life. Agnihotra ashes should be kept aside for use as fertilizer for plants. With Agnihotra atmosphere and Agnihotra ash, you can grow large crops in a small area. The taste, texture, colour and quantity improve by this method of gardening which is known as HOMA THERAPY FARMING. Agnihotra is the smallest though basic form of HOMA.
Agnihotra removes the tension from the mind. It unburdens the mind. You will soon notice that anger and greed become less and you feel free. This brings about happiness. You will soon notice that you are moving in a happy atmosphere if you practice getting rid of your emotional cycles, which leads you to tranquility and peace.
Medicines are prepared from Agnihotra ash. Agnihotra is the basis for wholistic healing.
The mantras are in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. Every language contains words coming from Sanskrit. In Sanskrit there is not a single word that comes from any other language. Sanskrit was nobody's mother tongue at any time on earth.
Agnihotra is a process in the science of bioenergy given through Vedas. Vedas literally means knowledge. The word comes from the Sanskrit verb VID, meaning to know. English word WIT comes from the same root. Vedas are the ancient-most word combinations known to man.
Vedas describe Agnihotra as a process of fumigation also. Practice of Agnihotra nullifies the effect of pathogenic bacteria. Agnihotra, if practiced regularly, yields great HEALING POWER to the atmosphere as well as to the individual.
Thus, Agnihotra has three disciplines:
a. Burning of specific organic substances into fire;
b. Mantra;
c. Specific timings corresponding to one circadium rhythm of nature, i.e., sunrise, sunset.
If you miss the timing, then it is not Agnihotra.
Vibratory effects of certain metals such as copper and gold are known to the scientist. When specific substances are burnt in a pyramid made of copper with Mantra and the timings, for example, specific effect is guaranteed to occur.
The layer of useful atmosphere surrounding the earth is very thin. Automobile pollution, pollution due to factory exhausts, water pollution, noise pollution, the disturbance caused to marine biology due to the disposal of nuclear waste in the oceans, the effect of radiations on human physiology, indiscriminate cutting of forests for raw materials, indiscriminate probings into the bowels of earth for raw materials to feed the industrial complex, indiscriminate use of pesticides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers, deodorants, room freshener, all these adversely affect the atmosphere. This leads to tension on the mind and increase in the incidence of disease, nervousness and psychiatry. All this must go if we wish to be happy.
The Fivefold Path of the Vedas is a manual for happy living. The first aspect of the Fivefold path is Agnihotra for purification of the mind.
You may belong to any formal religion, you may be an athiest or agnostic ~ you will benefit from Agnihotra of the Fivefold Path. The Fivefold Path sets up life patterns based on the biophyschological techniques given through Vedic knowledge. You need not carry the hypothesis of God to practice the Fivefold Path. You start the practice and knowledge will be unfolded to you from within. Believe only what you experience. This is the approach of the true scientist.
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Last updated on 10/06/07 10:15 AM
