The joy, the silence, the inner recollection, the deep emotion of gratitude, the hope, the certainty of a new world full of Light and Love ... is growing in the hearts ...

At the Homa Banana Farm "Joselito"  THANKS was given to Mother Nature with a Rudra Yajnya.
 Despite the pronounced climatic changes, the harvest is abundant.
It is advisable to spray the plants weekly with the Agnihotra ash water, which has been left for three days charging, before filtering and applying it.

"Increase of disease surpasses all scientists’ expectations. We provide the solution with such a simple process of purification i.e., AGNIHOTRA.
The atmosphere we are in determines our health and our state of mind."

- Master Shree Vasant -

"Continue all the disciplines as much as possible. Even when you are working you can observe some of the time. You will find this burden on the mind greatly reduced. If you strictly observe all disciplines whenever possible you will see great improvement in health and emotional nature."   

- Master Shree Vasant- 

"All that you seek is within you. You do not need to search once you have found truth. It is simple. Once you find truth you have to go about the business of living this truth. This incorporates the aspects of Tapa, Karma and Swádhyáya. This in essence is the spiritual Sádhana simplified. You are given easiest steps by which to attain peace in your life through calming and training the mind towards simple happiness. It is all so simple but in the process of becoming more simple we tend to further complicate things."
 
- Master Shree Vasant  -

"Agnihotra es el camino. La gente empezará a ver ahora. Pueden sentir fácilmente la tremenda paz que llega por la Gracia con el mero hecho de hacerlo."  

- Master Shree Vasant-

Agnihotris Cecilia y Francisco shared from Cochiguaz, La Alfalfa Alta Sector:

In our land, the Homa Resonance Point ehas been activated in la presence of Carlos and Tania, Marcela and Cristian (photo above in the middle Mr. Francisco) We want to share photos of the place and of some fruit harvested. 

Two couples on the Fivefold Path are celebrating their
"Golden Wedding Anniversary" with the Homa Fires:

Odell & Jamal Wilson, 52nd anniversary, practicing Agnihotra since 1973 (48 years).
Christa & Ricardo Mena, 50th Anniversary, practicing Agnihotra since 1990 (31 years).

Master Shree Vasants' advice for couples:

"Have no expectation of the other person even if he/she is your husband or wife. Forget about roles. Forget about the normal man. You have no way of knowing what this so called ‘normal man’ is experiencing. Have no expectation of this other person. If she cooks for you be grateful. If she cleans be grateful. At the same time refuse to harbour resentment of any kind towards this person. If they do something you don’t like simply walk away. Refuse to react to anger. This is a tall order but one which you are truly capable of filling."

"You are each other’s best teachers. Realize this. Learn the lesson. Work together daily and both of you will be given great Light and Understanding. Increase the fires, YAJNYAS."

"You cannot force anyone to change their ways. The more disciplined you become, the more you influence all others."

- Master Shree Vasant-

(Photos on the left and below of encounters with the practice of Agnihotra and other fires of Homa Therapy on moon days and other special days. These meetings are organized in Eggersdorf, Styria. Photos sent by Reiner and Manuela Szcypior.)

(Photos below: Dr. Juan Manuel Guevara from Colombia, on his visit to Unterwinstetten in Waldesruh, Bavaria, Germany, where he taught Agnihotra.)

In Malaysia, the number of our Agnihotris brothers is increasing, as in many other countries.
Datu Alan Yong (photo above left) and other Agnihotris in different parts of Malaysia feel the call and need to share this ancient technique for the benefit of all concerned.
They also use digital tools for teaching and invite lecturers, such as Prof. Abel, to deepen their knowledge of these Homa Therapy techniques.

(Photos on this page from Malaysia.)  

If the pandemic with its lockdowns and social (life) barriers , has taught us anything, at least: 1) we humans have very limited control ultimately, 2) if my life is to be purposeful, what needs to be added/subtracted?

Or am I here just to travel to as many places as possible, eat every imaginable form/type of food, be with as many partners as humanly possible, or ______________________
fill in your own blanks.?

Eat, drink and be merry —the Epicurean mantra--doesn’t end there. It continues, ”for tomorrow we die.”

If you plan on living longer than tomorrow,....

In the past 1 1/2 yrs, many more have died than perhaps ever in history. For we the living, our choices include 1–what life lessons may I learn from the suffering of others? 2–must pain and suffering visit me to teach me the lessons that caring and humility and appreciation for the plight of others might teach?

That these are the times that try (test) our souls is pretty much a foregone conclusion.

Will we pass the test or fall (remain) in the throes of the ‘insane’ behavior patterns that propel us from emergency to emergency, from lightness to darkness, from God to something much less?

Not only are the choices ours—whether we like it or not—but they are inexorable meaning they stay with us until the lessons are learned.

Were I truly dedicated to slaying my demons, I would persist until they are buried. The reward is everlasting peace, prosperity and purpose—or at the very least, something akin to happiness here and now.

Those are not easy concepts to grasp as many of us experience such conditions so rarely, if at all. That is where FAITH enters the picture.

“Faith is to believe in what we do not see. The reward is to see what we believe," wrote St. Augustine.

The punishment or, shall we say, the downside of bad choices is continued imprisonment in the cages of self-delusion, self sabotage and a dearth of self satisfaction and selflessness. Think of it. Dream not of sandy beaches but of fulfillment of your true purpose for being here, fulfilling the opportunities the miracle of your birth has bestowed on you.

Failure to do this continues our journey on the hamster wheel of life, expecting different outcomes to the same behaviors (a central tenet of the worlds of the addictive and mentally disturbed behavior.

Or are the hamsters simply exercising? To ponder on this is Swadhyaya. To dismiss or ignore this is like chewing bubble gum—good jaw exercise perhaps, but little for our minds and hearts to sink their teeth into—(if our minds and hearts had teeth, of course).

Chew on that for awhile, while your teeth are still yours.

The whole of Vedic Science has been transmitted since time immemorial (since the origin of all Universes according to classic Tradition) by means of spoken words, that is to say, from the lips of the Guru/Spiritual Master to the ears of the Śiṣya /Disciple.

This immense and remarkable corpus of Knowledge has been conveyed to all intelligent and sentient Beings in Sanskrit (Saṁskṛtaṁ), the Language of learned Sages and Mahāpundits, the perfect language to diffuse knowledge (Vidvat Bhāṣā).

If we examine attentively the act of transmitting knowledge to other people through words, we may observe and verify that the voiced information undergoes innumerable changes and distortions which depend on the one hand upon the inner qualities of every speaker (svabhāva/bhūmika) and on the other hand upon the inherent properties and features of phonetic production of languages.

This particular kind of phonetic alteration or distortion is what the Sprachwissenschaftler/Scientists of Language and the Informatics scientists and engineers call “information entropy”.

From the viewpoint of linguistics all kind of spoken and written language is liable to suffer significant transformations in course of time. This process of dialectization as a successive decay of pronunciation and meaning spread in time and space, very often leading to almost total non-intelligibility is caused by the continuous separation from the primeval source of language.

In order to avoid the phonetic entropy of the sounds of Mantras, the Ṛṣis, Ᾱrṣa or Ṛṣayaḥ of ancient vedic times created a set of smart and efficacious methods to preserve and transmit all the Vedic Mantras with their healing vibrations and pure meanings in an

unalterable and accurate way.

Thanks to these methods of chanting and recitation, the Vedic Mantras have been preserved pure and unaltered through the ages in terms of rhythm, accentuation, pause, modulation and original intonation.

We may affirm without any gender of doubt that the Vedic Mantras we utter and chant nowadays keep the same phonetic and prosodic features revealed in ancient times.

There are two great modalities of recitation and chanting of Vedic Mantras according to Chandas, the Science of Metrics and Versification and to Śīkṣaṁ, the Science of Pronunciation.

The first modality or Pāṭha, considered of natural character and pertaining to Prakṛti/Nature is the so called Vākyapāṭha or Saṁhitāpāṭha, id est: the chanting of the Mantras in a linear, straight way, following the normal modality of recitation or reading as they appear in the Saṁhitās or Mantra collections.

The other modality of recitation, named modified or unnatural, pertaining to Vikṛti/Modified or Intervened Nature is made up of a set of non-linear sequences with complex arrays with combination and permutation of elements, whose purpose is to firmly train and strengthen the memory to store the right form of pronunciation and chanting.

There is a lot of vaikṛta or modified methodologies of recitation such as “kramapāṭha”, the simplest form and “ghanapāṭha” the most complex.

We will see some of these modalities of vedic recitation created to avoid entropy and the occurrence of errors while uttering the mantras.

Let us analyse the mantric expression: “namaḥ śivāya ca”, known as “śivapañcākṣarī mantraḥ” or “mantra of five syllables”. The pentasyllabic nucleus of this mantra is “namaḥ śivāya”. We have added the copulative particle “ca” which means “and” because it is necessary to have at least three components to display the examples of the different methods of chanting.

The normal, linear form of vedic recitation, “saṁhitāpāṭhaḥ” is in the case of our example: “namaḥ śivāya ca”.

The “padapāṭhaḥ” form, word by word, suitable to study the meanings of words within the mantra is: “namaḥ / śivāya / ca”.
The “kramapāṭha” modality is: “namaḥ śivāya / śivāya ca”.

And the “ghanapāṭhaḥ” form of higher complexity is:

“namaḥ śivāya śivāya namo namaḥ śivāya ca ca śivāya namo namaḥ śivāya ca / śivāya ca ca śivāya śivāya ca /”

The strict practice of chanting the Vedic Mantras by means of these methods made possible the effective preservation of their vibratory purity along the millennia.

Out of the 422 kinds of Yajñas prescribed by the Vedic Science for all intelligent and sentient Beings, from the most basic, the Agnihotra to the most complex, the Somayāga, we will firstly study the Agnihotra Mantra regarded as “nityakarma”(action that must always be performed) and as the first material aid for the spiritual and material unfoldment of Human Beings.

Agnihotra is a Mantra tuned with both saṅdhyās or critical points of Nature, id est: sunset and sunrise times.

The Vedas state that at sunrise the many fires, electricities, ethers and more subtle energies emanating from the sun extend all the way to the Earth and produce a flood effect at those coordinates where the sun is said to rise. It is awesome. The flood enlivens and purifies everything in its path, destroying what is impure in its wake. This torrent of life-sustaining energies causes all life to rejoice. At sunrise that music can be heard. The morning Agnihotra Mantra is the essence of that music. It is quintessential sound of the flood. At sunset the flood recedes.

Agnihotra, therefore is the basic Mantra and Yajña synchronized with the biorhythm of sunset and sunrise that establishes the essential healing energy cycle. The other Mantras and Yajñas strengthen this healing cycle.

Sunset Agnihotra:

Sunrise Agnihotra: