Without ignoring that there are many things created to help us be more effective in certain jobs, we also realize that there are non-essential needs that have been manufactured and designed by sick minds (with greed, selfishness, lust, etc.) to promote their consumption, use and dominate us.
 
2) o your Duty (Dharma) and Learn to act Selflessly without seeking reward for your actions (Karma Yoga).
 
3) The practice of the Fivefold Path can help us to Cut the Chains of Acquired Needs and be Free in this world.
 
Spiritual Scientists also tell us that we can Realize our Divine Reality (Immortal and Blissful) and Be Free Here and Now.

Note: Some examples of Acquired Needs that only promote consumption and mental lethargy:
1) Following Changing Fashions (clothes, shoes, jewelry, etc.).
2) Seeking approvals based on certain beliefs and programming (educational, social, etc.).
3) Keeping up with technology (cell phones, computers, cars, etc.) just for vanity.
4) Others
 
If we can use the tools, things, ideas, etc. to help us and Serve Others and we can also Release them without any discomfort, then we have Transcended the Desires and have Attained Freedom.
 
OM FREEDOM OM
OM SHREE OM

 
Datu Alan Yong
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Last night, 5 of us did Agnihotra at Mr. Ho's 'Vision' Eco Farm in Gentings Highlands.
 Immediately after sunset Agnihotra (see photo), we measured the pH of the ordinary mountain water;
-we measured this mountain water with some cow dung;
- and we measured this mountain water with Agnihotra ash added.

The pH of ordinary mountain water was 6.

The pH for mountain water with a little cow dung was 7.

The pH for ordinary mountain water with Agnihotra ash was 10.
 
In the photo from left to right:
The first pH is 6, the second is 7 and the third glass with Agnihotra ash gives the pH value 10.
 
We used Litmus paper for these tests.

Janardhun Nuckched informed from Bon Accueil, Mauritius:

    Jay Gurudeva!
On 31st July I received a phone call from an Agnihotri here from the Mauritius Agnihotra group. This Agnihotri narrated how she and her aunt had a car accident and how incredible it was that there was no injury and both were safe, despite that her car was completely damaged. It is miraculous how she and her aunt got away without any injury.
   Yes! Agnihotra offers a shield of protection. The divine deals with mishaps in amazing ways. There were a lot of feedbacks from other Agnihotris who also had gone through accident/ mishaps and amazingly they too were not injured.
The pictures of the accident (photos below) tell us more about the life-threatening violent impact. Here in Marutius we drive on the left hand side.
 

    "On Saturday, 27th of July, I was driving from Bambou to Cascavelle, accompanied by my aunt who was seated beside me in the front. My car was going down a slope at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. At that instant I realized that the brakes failed, I managed to shift down from the 4th gear to 2nd gear, but as it was a steep down slope, the car was gaining speed.
   In order not to hit any vehicle at the front or any vehicle coming from the opposite right lane, I steered the wheels to the left. I remember saying "Oh God protect us". The car smashed against a metallic handrail that entered the car through the windshield, passing in between the two of us the metallic structure went out through the rear windshield, and then the car stopped.
  Under the shock it was hard to understand what just had happened. Luckily the doors opened without any difficulty and a few good people rushed to help us to get out of the car. Good there was no fire! The car was completely damaged from front to the back, a case of total loss.
  I was grateful to the Almighty that none of us was injured. Also extremely astonishing was that in the car had been 100 glass jars containing confit and achard (pickles), and our drinking porcelain mugs, but not one single glass jars nor porcelain mugs were broken, they were all intact.
     
   I perform Agnihotra since January 2022. I do the sunrise Agnihotra sessions most of the time. At the time of sunset Agnihotra, I am on the road and have not yet reached home. On weekends I try to do both sunrise and sunset Agnihotra. I am grateful to the subtle energies of Agnihotra for protecting our lives. I thus advocate performing Agnihotra and Tryambakam Homa. You never know what happens and in which way you will be protected from mishaps."
 

HOW HOMA FARMING WORKS
 
By Master Shree Vasant Paranjpe
 
"We have to tell the people this is how HOMA farming works.
When you perform Agnihotra and YAJNYAS or other HOMAS in a garden, an atmosphere is created that is conducive to growing ad therefore attracts the nutrients, insects, microorganisms and animals that would be happy and thrive in that environment.
 
This of course is because Nature is so wonderful, it automatically benefits the soil and the plant, and the plant thrives.
 
Same thing happens when you put the ash or use Agnihotra ash water but it works more for the plants individually; by putting the ash around the individual plants or in the beds or spraying the plants, those elements that are best for that plant are attracted to it and it thrives.
 
Now of course we have to use proper principles of farming, basically with weeding, scarecrows or deterrents to birds and animals because they will want to eat this plant."
 
Photos: Homa garden of Mrs. Dora Betancur in Armenia, Colombia, South America

FHOTOS OF OUR PLANET:

BEFORE GIVING YOUR OPINION   -    AFTER GIVING YOUR OPINION

 "REVOLUTIONARY FOOD"
 
By: Indie Rights Movies
 
Release Date: October 2, 2021
 
Revolutionary Food: Food is about positive changes taking root in our modern food system. It focuses on the real farmers who grow and raise real food and the consumers who demand it.
To view this documentary, please enter this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_RvjVrREM

“INDIGENOUS NO,
BUT TOURISTS AND HUNTERS YES”
 
Evicting Tanzania's Maasai in the name of conservation?
 
Human Rights Watch is accusing Tanzania of forcing indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In a report released recently, the rights group documents a Tanzanian government program to move 82,000 people off their land to use it for wildlife conservation, tourism and hunting.

To learn about the situation in Tanzania, please see:
https://www.voanews.com/a/hrw-to-tanzania-stop-forcing-indigenous-tribes-off-ancestral-lands/7724443.html

“You can see how Grace works.
It is like you are on one of those automatic walkways in the airport. You take a small step and automatically you are carried much further.”

-Master Shree Vasant-
 

“To give Divine motherly love is to give acceptance, understanding, support, concern.”

-Master Shree Vasant-

“If one sees God in every person, nothing more is necessary in terms of effort. It is ALL GRACE. Grace lifts you up.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

A festival of healing Homa fires was celebrated in Piura for the farewell to a longer journey of Abel and Aleta, accompanied by the best wishes of this beautiful group of Agnihotris. The Homa family in Piura exists for more than 25 years and the family is growing .... also in love, understanding, service, surrender...
OM SHREE

“We come into contact with higher forces which operate in subtle ways to lift us up. We begin to note changes in our reactions on a grosser level and later the changes become so subtle that it is impossible to measure them on the physical plane. There becomes no action/ reaction syndrome, only one steady stream of light through which we travel, from which we go, to which we come, until we become fused with this light totally.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-
 

“Just as an exercise, choose one person with whom you have not associated because of disagreement or bad feelings. Then make contact with that person and just be loving with him or her. Contact him just for the purpose of establishing positive relation after bearing grudge against him. Do not expect this one act to change things or to make right any wrong you have done. Just be full of love and forgiveness. If we cannot forgive those who have erred against us then chances are good, we have no forgiveness for our own errors. A higher nature always forgives.”

-Master Shree Vasant-

“Don't act on impulse. Never respond from emotion. Only Love.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-
 

 “Do you ask the river, "Stop here, it is nice here"? You can ask all you want but it will not stop. That is how it must be. Many people receive good things from the river. Remember this. You will be as a river. Grace of God knows no boundaries..”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

A wonderful encounter with the healing fires of Homa Therapy took place in the Mehadash Integral Medical Center with health professionals Viviana Esteves, Mario Angulo, Jhon Coronel, Angelita Bahamonde and their patients who shared wonderful testimonies after the massive Agnihotra session.
(see photo to the right and photos on the next page)

“If you continue as you have been in making every effort, doing good Karma and being honest with yourself and others, you will rise very quickly now.
We must turn our thoughts towards helping others, serving others.
Do not think "What about me?" Everything is given.”
 
- Master Shree Vasant -
 

 Agnihotra Healing Encounter in the
Integral Medical Center MEHADASH

“If you tell someone what to do, then in a sense you are partially responsible. The person can always come back to you later on and say, "See, you told me to do this and I am unhappy". So, you can give suggestions and better yet, be an example, but you cannot tell people point blank, "Do this".

 That is interfering with their Karma and you suffer consequences on some level. It may not be noticeable but still what you do comes back to you.”

-Master Shree Vasant-

“Forgiveness acts as a cleansing agent to get rid of evil tendencies which pull us in wrong directions.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“You bring these healing energies to others with very little knowledge of it. This is the beauty of it, how GRACE operates. NO intellectualization. Healing goes on whether you
know it or not.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“Do not think, “What will be”. Focus on what already is i.e. “Be here and now”. Meditate 2 to 3 minutes before meal. No worry. No fear. Only love now.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“Forgiveness is born of strength and can never be associated with weakness. You have the power to give the blow and you abdicate it;
this is forgiveness.
It ill becomes a weak man to talk of forgiving others.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“It is in His hands, not ours, to shape the future. We must only be as pure and devoted as is possible. Then what comes is His will. If we take sides and become involved in crises with our own ego we suffer. Remain silent on such matters. Do not invite trouble. Trouble is enough without your invitation. Each of us has his own Karmic situation. We do not need more added to that.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“A NEW AGE IS DAWNING.
IT IS THE BEGINNING OF A WORLD FULL OF PEACE AND BLISS.
But first all the obstructions should
be removed.”

-Master Shree Vasant-

“Best is to cast no blame and seek for the answers why within.
To blame another for a fate which has befallen you is to refuse to look within. Then how can you learn your lessons? You look from a higher perspective and you will realize there is no need to blame anyone.
If it is too much to bear, lay it at Our Feet and it will be lifted from you.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

 
“One will refuse to hate his enemy if one knows his refusal is going to purify his intellect and thus usher in manifestation of Grace.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-
 

 
If we discount (for a few moments) the saboteur matrix—that humans have an archetype characteristic of engaging in self-sabotage at times, we might realize that at our core, we don’t wish to exert pain upon ourselves or others. We really do seek comfort, balance, perspective, peace & serenity.
 
How all of this exists in consonance with SURRENDER TO DIVINE WILL as in NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE DONE, may take a bit of study.
 
No one truly or naturally wishes to surrender. Is it not the loser who surrenders to the winner, the victim to the perpetrator, the weakest to the strongest?
 
Well, this is a different kind of surrender; it’s not “stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.”
It’s not any of the following synonyms to surrender:

-capitulate   -give in   -give (oneself) up  
-yield   -concede   -submit   -climb down  
-give way   -defer   -acquiesce   -back down
-cave in   -relent   -succumb   -quit
-crumble   -be beaten   -be overcome
- be overwhelmed   -fall victim
-lay down one's arms
-raise/show the white flag
-throw in the towel/sponge
-accept defeat   -concede defeat
 

 
IDAM NA MAMA- not my will but Thy will be done. And “Thy” is not our enemy. “Higher Power,” as something like the Divine is referred to in Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-Step programs, is not an adversary.

It may feel at times as if we are at war with our tendencies—but not with God-- to act in ways contrary to Divine standards, but, in truth, it is less a war and more of an evolving into the higher beings we are destined to become.
 
On the spiritual path, surrender is the result of realizing Step 3 and turning over the wheel to a power greater than ourselves.
 
Step 3 of AA: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him".
 
Not only is this not CAPITULATION. To the contrary, it is a decision borne of faith, devotion, experience and to some extent, hope.
 
Just as persons unable to find a cure for a physical problem with allopathic or mainstream medicine often turn to non-traditional, herbal and other naturopathic substances and methods, so surrender—and performance of Agnihotra—is often sought when all else has been tried and found to be lacking.
 
If you have a modicum of I.T. skills, fine, have a go with them. Should they result in less-than-optimal results, why not turn over the matter to one much more able to fend the way through the maze?
 
Indeed, why not? Some may ‘want to do it themselves,’ some may cherish the challenge of trying—and failing. Some may lack the self-love—or be overcome by forms of self-loathing—and, thus, not choose to surrender even though all evidence points toward the wisdom of doing just that.
 
As we wrote last month, the condition of our planet and of us, its inhabitants, is pretty much approaching a danger zone or tipping point.

 
So putting additional challenges on our ability to be happy, healthy and holy is silly at best, and stupid at worst—not to mention those more vulnerable than we whom we might help and who hardly need more challenges.

I had a strong aversion to wearing hats—and long pants—and having moved to Arctic Poland rather quickly cured me of these tendencies. Not very many souls climb Mount Everest without hats or long pants. Ones who might try this, normally don’t live long enough to tell their tales.

The point is extraordinary times and situations demand extraordinary efforts as well as an openness to living out of the box.

Failure to thinking, feeling and intending out of the box might very well results in your box resembling a jail cell.

Lest we become enslaved to our stubborness, obsessions…..surrendering to Divine Will may be the only way out of the miasma and the maya.
 
"...you must learn to merge your will into His will. This is surrender, total surrender, the culmination of all spiritual discipline.”

“Various events unfold in time. Have faith that it is His will. If the events bring about grief, it is the result of accumulated Karma out of which our present life is just a speck.”

“For Self realization, surrender is the way. All progress and joy can come only through

 
The transformative power of women's circles

We have already talked a lot about the importance of creating women's circles, to achieve the evolution of our society and embark on the path to authentic liberation, both individual and collective.
 
One of the most healing aspects of the circle is learning to listen without judgment. Learning to listen in silence, without giving advice, simply learning to share something that we had silenced and to feel recognized and accepted at the moment of speaking our truth. When a space of trust is created to open up in front of others, we discover that our experience is reflected in the experiences of others (regardless of differences in age, culture or life path) and it becomes clear that women are one heart, one soul, one community.
 
Creating a sacred space, without any rush, just for ourselves, and having the possibility of openly expressing what we are feeling, what is happening to us, what we are needing in that NOW, is undoubtedly a profound experience, which leads us to look inward, through the eyes of other women, who are there to support us.
 
That is why I urged you to create these spaces. To manifest your own circles. To create your own rules, to ask each other, what are you looking for, what are your needs. As I mentioned before, there are different types of circles, it is you who have to 'feel' the dynamics of your circle. One friend attends a women's circle that is dedicated to learning ancestral medicine, home remedies, making creams; another is part of a circle where dancing is the most important activity, the expression of emotions through movement. The list goes on.
 
In these everyday activities that seem almost frivolous to some, the magic of transformation happens... sometimes clearly, and sometimes in a subtle, but equally powerful way
 
Do not be afraid to create your own rituals, although the idea is always to open the circle

 
with an Agnihotra fire or a Vyahruti and to be constantly using the wonderful tools that the Fivefold Path gives us.
 
Also do not be afraid to address strong issues such as violence and abuse, addiction, anxiety, or obsession. While it is true that women's circles are not a psychotherapy session, sometimes it is these instances of sorority which encourage many women to face extremely difficult situations and to be motivated to seek professional help, which they never tried before because of fear and insecurities.
 
The beauty and power of these circles to create an intimate connection between women, regardless of age, job, nationality, origin, etcetera, makes these meetings TRANSFORMATIVE and gives a deep impulse to each of the participants to be part of the great change that must happen and is happening in our society.
 
I embrace all of you and invite you to dance, to weave dreams, to sing loudly your hopes, to work from the inside, to ignite not only the physical healing fire, but also to ignite your inner fire.

"Sisterhood is being together, feeling together, healing together and rising together” .
 
“This world will not change unless we are willing to change ourselves."
Rigoberta Menchú

 
The Teachings of the Vedas, summarized in the Fivefold Path principles and revived at this time to help us overcome the problems we have generated with the current model of coexistence and survival, indicate that we need to purify the atmosphere (biosphere) to avoid ecocide on the physical plane, and also to minimize the mental confusion that this contamination generates in human beings, which hinders evolution on the more subtle plane of the soul.
 
We have seen that the Yajnyas purify the atmosphere, and that the product that is generated by the interaction of this purified atmosphere with Prana nourishes, calms, and gives contentment to the mind of human beings and can even heal the bodies of the beings that live in that environment. The mind is a reservoir of subtle energies.
 
Are we the body? Are we the mind? Or are we something more than that? The Teachings tell us that the purpose of human existence is to reach the vision of the soul and manifest the Divine, the Light, that lies within us. Therefore, our true nature is something that is beyond the soul: the spirit. Purity and humility are the paths to reach that Light.
 
Agnihotra and the practice of the Fivefold Path (the material help that we have received by Grace) allows us to capture subtle energies that enable us to think, devise, feel, love, have a good disposition, good spirits, enthusiasm, contentment, empathy, a positive attitude, and other energies, even more subtle, that propel us to achieve the Realization of that Deep Self that lies within us and that, many times, we do not perceive due to our wrong attitudes or approaches.
 
One of the most significant mistakes we make is to seek happiness outside of ourselves and, also, in past or future times. The word sin, which comes from the Greek, means to miss the target, to miss the objective. When we use the vital energy, we receive every day, to complain, lament, criticize, envy, get angry, indulge in habits that destroy us, covet, blame others,

  
ruminate on something from the past, or project our happiness on some probable future event, we are wasting life.
 
A mind that, by force of habit, is always busy looking outward, neglects its own habitat and can lead us to profound errors, which later will have to be compensated for. We must train the mind to focus on the development of our inner being and not be carried away by the objects of the senses, by our congenital and learned tendencies. We cannot allow the mind to mortgage our life and waste the opportunity to develop our true being.
 
What is the spiritual discipline that can renew, re-educate the mind? What is the practice that can renew our minds and transform it into an instrument of manifestation of the Light that lies within us, instead of a tyrant that keeps us in suffering?
 
The Teachings of the Vedas, revived as the Fivefold Path by Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj for this Age, is the method and tool to achieve this transformation.
 
Master Vasant used to tell us:
 
• Being born in a human body is a great blessing.
• Having the desire to achieve spiritual development is a second blessing.
• Having the Teaching of how to achieve this development is a third blessing.
 
Let us not waste this life on minor, subordinate interests and let us use it to advance in the development of the soul. The human being has the capacity for discernment and, therefore, can choose how to live, can choose to develop and be Happy.
 
But discernment is not enough. Another force of an “emotional character” is needed that will lead us to understand, to comprehend with the intellect and emotion simultaneously. The practice of the Fivefold Path can develop our intellectual, emotional and volitional capacities, and open our mind to connect with that subtle energy that is constantly pushing us to reach that transcendental reality that lies within us.

 
   In 1975, I was living in Stuttgart, Germany in a women’s artist union building. One day my neighbour Mrs. Gertrud Lietz, invited me to join her for tea with a guest from India, Shree Vasant Paranjpe.
    Mrs. Lietz hailed from Riga, Latvia, from which she had to flee during World Was II. She had been a dancer in her youth and for many years had been a disciple of Shree Aurobindo and was very well versed in Eastern philosophy and meditation. Shree Vasant opened the conversation by asking Mrs. Lietz about her life and interests. The topic turned to Sanskrit and how it was related to her native language. Mrs. Lietz would mention a word and Shree Vasant would explain in detail the root of that word, its meaning, and its etymological connection to Sanskrit. It was a lively exchange which filled Mrs. Lietz with joy.
    I was astonished to witness how much this Indian man knew about European culture, especially so much about the language of such a tiny Eastern European country. Shree Vasant went on to explain that he wanted to show us the process of Agnihotra, which is an ancient Vedic practice to heal the atmosphere, body and mind. We all me a few days later in my apartment for evening Agnihotra. I had invited several friends and artists from our building and we had a wonderful fire meditation followed by Shree Vasant’s teaching.
    Immediately, four women in our building began Agnihotra. Actually, we enjoyed going together to collect cow dung in the countryside, which we later dried on our balconies.
Several other meetings followed, and some public talks by Shree Vasant. In one talk He mentioned that Shree Gajanan Maharaj was the one who resuscitated the Vedas and

 
the ancient practice of Agnihotra. After this talk, I asked Shree Vasant, “Who is this Shree Gajanan?” He answered me, “It is unusual that you ask this question. Many people have heard His name in my talk but nobody has asked about Hima. But you have asked and you will have to meet Him one day.”
    One of the outstanding qualities of Shree Vasant is His ability to answer questions even before they are asked. So many times, I have approached Him with a question in my mind, and before I can even ask, it would be answered during a conversation. He always seems to know where I stand in my spiritual development. If I need a push in a certain direction, He will do it with a subtle hint, lots of humour, a story or a parable.
     For many years I had been practicing my personal Mantra given to me by Shree Vasant. Then I was diverted and stopped doing my Mantra but I did not tell Him and He had no asked me. Years later, when He came to Madison Virginia, where I live now, He looked at me and nearly the first thing He said was this:
 
  “When a personal Mantra is given by a proper source this itself is a blessing. If you practice the Mantra all the time then your load of past Karma gets reduced. Grace intervenes to make your journey in life less strenuous, if according to your Karma you had difficult situations to face. On has to finish the karmic load and Mantra is the easiest way. However, if you have been given a Mantra and you do not practice it, it remains dormant. Still, at the point of death when you enter another realm, you are still in the prison of Karma but you will be taken care of as if it is your mother who is the prison warden.”