If you get angry with others or with yourself, you lose.
If we have to fight, let us fight against sin and not against the sinner.
Let us begin the fight with ourselves until we succeed in triumphing over our mind, emotions and body.
 
Let us remember that our most powerful ammunition, bullets, weapons are the
energy or radiation of Love.
 
After a battle, there are winners and losers. But afterwards, there is also the possibility of other wars for revenge.
 
After an agreement or deal, there can be relative peace.
 
After a Realization (understanding based on Love), there can be a more lasting PEACE
 
Can we fight without anger, hatred, ignorance, envy, jealousy?
 
Can we experience happiness
by eating these mental crocodiles of
egoism, pride, anger, etc.)?

Can we fight feeling love?
 Can we confront Evil with Good?

If the root of violence is in the mind, how effective would it be to hit the body, emotions, egos, etc.?
 
Just as light dispels darkness, the mass practice of Agnihotra can bring light to minds, love to hearts, and peace to souls.
 
Wisdom and Truth Unite us and Bring us Closer into Cooperation.
Ignorance and lies separate us and push us toward Confrontation. You can choose.
 
With our powerful tools or weapons of Agnihotra and Pyramidal Fires, we can launch Rays of Light and Love in All Directions. Just as where there is light there is no darkness, so where there is love there is no hate. Likewise, where there is Agnihotra, there is Peace, Light and Love.
Let's move toward Peace. Let us do more Agnihotra morning and evening.
All Agnihotris can be instruments of Peace.
OM SHREE OM

 
Seth Theodore Butcher
Croydon South London
UK, Europe
 
   I am an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapyoy (AMBACP), I am an integrative Psychotherapist (Psychodynamic & person centred Approach), Energy Psychology practitioner. Practitioner of Shamanism. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy teacher and trainer with over 10 years’ experience working in Agencies and private practice specialising in sexual

Seth Theodore Butcher - continued:
 
Everyone and everything seems to be in complete flow. I am meeting new interesting people and doors are opening in places I could have never even imagined or contemplated before. Everything seems lighter more in tune and vibrant.
 
     I feel happy to be alive and to be at service to others. I have overcome all my fears and faced my shadow and embraced it. Homa Therapy has helped me to integrate all splinted aspects of myself into my psyche and has done exactly the same with my clients.

     Homa Therapy has fitted seamlessly with my client work as it is completely non-secular easy to practice and most importantly can be learnt and practiced by clients themselves so they do not have to rely on me, the therapist.
 

 Joanne Williams
Chichester, West Sussex
England, Europe
 
    Warm hellos from the Uk.
Thank you for another wonderful newsletter. I love seeing all the lovely Agnihotra family from around the world and I feel part of it thank you.
 
     I’m really enjoying the practice and healing myself, my family, the animals, the trees and plants all around it’s amazing. My cat and dog sense everything and they love to sit by me and the healing fire.
 
Wishing you a beautiful time in India as you share your love and wisdom with so many. Love Joanne

A NEW BOOK BRINGING MORE LIGHT
TO HOMA FARMING TECHNIQUES
 
 -  COSMIC FARMING IN HORTICULTURAL CROPS
 
by Prof. R.K. Pathak
 
Prof. R.K. Pathak, Former Director of ICAR-CISH (Indian Council of Agricultural Research – Central Institute of Subtropical Horticulture) in Lucknow. He is Professor of Homa Therapy of Fivefold Path Mission, India.

 
   COSMIC FARMING IN HORTICULTURAL CROPS
 Prof. R.K. Pathak
 
Innovative Horticultural Technologies in Improvement of Food, Nutrition, Health, Livelihood, and Environment for Equilibrium of Nature
and Enhancement of Human Life.
 

Dinesh Pratap Singh
Minister of Horticulture, Agro Exports, Marketing and Foreign Trade,
Government of Uttar Pradesh, India.

       "I take great pleasure in delving into the book 'Cosmic Farming in Horticultural Crops' as horticulture emerges as a key driver of economic growth for Indian farmers. The concept of "cosmic farming" eliminates the need for agrochemicals while maintaining high yield and quality.

 FARM PESTICIDES KILLING MORE BEES
 
BBC Mundo - Victoria Gill, 5 August 2021
 
The honey bee faces a number of pressures
Agricultural pesticides sold to farmers ready-mixed into "cocktails" can kill twice as many bees, according to an analysis of 90 studies.
Another study published this week, however, suggests bees around the world are developing the ability to "clear out" a particularly damaging parasite

- varroa, a mite that lives and feeds on honeybees and larvae.
 To read this alarming article from 2021, please enter: 
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58089545

«Small things
done with
great love
will change
the world.».
 
Madre Teresa

"ON CULTIVATING FEARLESSNESS"

  An excellent interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva, who shares her knowledge around the Green Revolution, a transformative and chemical-dependent set of agricultural practices and policies that promised to deliver food security to populations around the world. But has it delivered on those promises? And how do its outcomes compare to organic agriculture?

FTo watch this interesting and mind-opening global awakening interview, please enter following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1O7bPqHy2E

“Proper meditation is very important for you. You must observe daily the timings given. This will help to stabilize you, and your mind will remain clear all day long.”    

-Master Shree Vasant-

“Tomorrow is always a new day. If you make a mistake, take heed, learn from the error, and try not to fall into the same trap tomorrow.
There is always time and
room for improvement.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“Try to consolidate what you do so that you leave yourself time to rest each day, meditate and exercise.
You need not spend hours planning what you need do. Decide, make a list and just do it. Do not overdo it. Then you become angry with yourself and others.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“Silence. Keep silence one hour a day, at any point in the day.
Each day find something to do which makes you happy. Any small thing. You will become aware that this will make others happy as well.”

- Master Shree Vasant -

“Above all in life, have
no fear, no judgment.
This puts to rest the action/reaction continuous wheel of Karma. There is no ‘yes’, no ‘no.’ No matter of opinion. IT ONLY IS.
Rise above these likes and dislikes.”
 
- Master Shree Vasant -

“Whatever be your lot in life, be humble. The soul is full of love. Ego resists this Divine Love. It is a process of surrender from deep within you. Let go. Let go. The Divine will catch you.”
 
 - Master Shree Vasant -

Another beautiful encounter with teaching and practice of Agnihotra healing fire took place in Ludesch with the Pfister family. It was a great joy to meet Agnihotris in this area which is quite hidden in the Austrian Alps. Abel & Aleta showed several healing video testimonies from South America, which surprised the people and they got animated to practice Agnihotra more often.

Bernd Frank, a devoted Agnihotri for over 40 years, brings this ancient healing technique to many European countries.

He has taught the practice of Agnihotra to thousands of people across the continent.

At the invitation of
Dr.  Juan Manuel Guevara, a Homa Resonance Point was activated on the outskirts of the city.
Now the daily application of this technique is in the hands of Roberto and his wife Mariela, Agnihotris since several years.

During our visit to the Homa-Hof Heiligenberg we were able to observe a loving Homa family, where 60 active members, together with approx. 100 supporting members, have managed to unite in the spirit of service around the practice of the Homa Fires. There are many social, agricultural, creative, ... activities. The Homa-Hof is located in the village called Heiligenberg (Holy Mountain) and was established more than 35 years ago under the guidance of Mr. Horst Heigl, Kriya Yoga teacher. Ms. Birgitt, besides being the calming feminine energy, is also co-founder of the farm, author of books about Agnihotra, including for children, and president of the association.

(Photos on this and the next page taken during the days of our
visit to the Homa-Hof Heiligenberg.)

 More information and photos about
agriculture at the Homa-Hof in the next HomaHealth Newsletter.

 
“One can reach the highest state of consciousness by practicing Agnihotra.”
  
-Mahashree Gajanan Maharaj-

Many experiments of different kinds (agriculture, health, etc.) were carried out at the Homa-Hof,
such as the photo on the right:
 
Photo: Kirlian photography (GDV = Gas Discharge Visualization) shows how the gaps in the energy field are closed through Agnihotra and the overall energy increases.
1. photo: before Agnihotra practice
2. photo: 15 minutes after practicing Agnihotra
- Energy increase by 68.5%

    After many years, we were able to visit the Bhrugu Aranya Eco-Village again, which is situated on an ancient sacred site in the Tatra Mountains region in southern Poland. It was founded by Jarek & Parvati Bizberg, under the guidance of Master Shree Vasant.

   Bhrugu Aranya is an environmental and educational centre for learning about the various applications of Homa Therapy. Residents range in age from 4 to 70 and are an eclectic group of artists, healers, writers, musicians, therapists, gardeners, teachers and herbalists.

“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-

In Bhrugu Aranya the "Centre of Light" is coming into Being. It will help to give more workshops teaching Agnihotra and to be able to receive more people from all over Europe. There is a wild beauty everywhere; gardens and orchards are filled with the most delicious vegetables, herbs and fruits of the season. A paradise...

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."

– Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Sioux -

 
 One thing we might all agree on is that there is not a lack of information available to us—that in fact it invades our space, like it or not.

One challenge is to cull the dross, the rubbish, from truth, from what we know from experience to be helpful and valuable to our own happiness, fulfillment, ability to serve.

You might say the challenge is to separate the bull s..t from the cow dung.

Such is the genius of the Fivefold Path that what is presented in 5 words, encompasses nearly all human behaviour.

YAJNYA—purification of atmosphere through the agency of fire—ensures that we are addressing pollution and other factors that threaten our physical, mental and spiritual health, thus, compromising effective functioning of our minds.

DAAN—sharing our assets in a spirit of humility—helps us wade through the plethora of forces and temptations aiming to attach us to the material world at the expense of the other worlds.

TAPA—self-discipline practiced with our full cooperation—is an insurance policy of sorts that likely helps us to stay on course and tread roads leading to more than just satisfying our carnal desires—the appetites and passions that if left unchecked, can deter us from evolving.

KARMA—yes, we reap as we sow and what goes around comes around. Grace of Almighty, however, can ‘intervene’ and not exactly give us a ‘mulligan,’ that is, erase the past, but certainly can and does often give us a ‘break.’

SWADHYAYA—‘Who am I ?’—is how this process of self-study often is addressed.

 
Progress here can help us learn our purpose in being here and what I am ‘supposed’ to do with my allotted time in terms of my allotted task—my Vikarma.

So. Ignorance has been labeled bliss by some of us some of the time, but our time of not knowing is over. Why? Because we have in the succinct, condensed, concise plan of the Fivefold Path a template for how to live.

We learn that HOW to live has more to do with than just WHAT WE DO. It’s not just HOW we drive our car, it’s also WHERE we choose to go—and WHEN.

So it is not only WHAT WE DO, but as well WHY, WHEN, and HOW we do it.

Once we ‘know,’ the responsibilities increase exponentially. You may think you are being compassionate giving the person sitting on the ground some money for whatever. But if it is obvious the funds will not be put to good use, but in fact be put to bad use—fueling addiction, for example— the knowledge that the karmic consequences of improper executed Daan for OURSELVES do not stop when it is given, is important. Best we choose wisely.

 
The opportunities to serve are endless in today’s world. The multitudes who yearn for lives having at least the bare necessities to survive cry out for help.

Not only can we help on the material level, but we have the tools and the vision to offer roads to dignity and fulfilment

When we teach Agnihotra and the Fivefold Path to Harijans in India, we revolutionise the sharing of divine Vedic knowledge, These members of the lowest caste in India, erstwhile called ‘untouchables,’ and relabeled Harijans—Children of God—by Mahatma Gandhi, have uplifted their lives through the agency of Agnihotra.
 

 
Overcoming challenges 

        Sometimes we tend to believe that we are incapable of overcoming our weaknesses, our inabilities to perform certain tasks in life, which leads to a constant stream of stress, which can freeze our aspirations and prevent us from really looking at ourselves, facing our own image, embracing it and rediscovering ourselves.

Women's circles are favorable spaces for this type of situation, since they are a safe space where it is possible to show our authenticity, creativity, and above all, to show consideration for other people. There is no criticism or judgment, only the desire to nurture that sister who sits next to us, to listen in silence, to offer unconditional love, empathy, compassion and above all, respect.

Today I want to focus on a very simple exercise, but an incredibly complex one in its inner meaning. Well, at least it is for me and that's why I want to share it with you.

Art is not my thing. I admire it, no doubt, but I never felt comfortable in art class at school, or in any circumstance where I was forced to draw, paint, make sculptures, ceramics, etcetera.

However, when I have attended the women's circle at Bhrugu Aranya, the Fire Community, in Poland, most of the time the session has been about creativity and expression through mandalas. My sisters there know that this is not a topic that I feel very relaxed about, especially with them, since most of the women who participate in this circle are splendid artists capable of producing magnificent mandalas of great quality. Last May and June, when I had the privilege of spending some time in the community, I decided that this time I would dare not to feel undermined or diminished and that I would be able to surrender to to this incredible task of letting myself flow, while concentrating on my mandala.

 
It was a wonderful experience internally, and the empathy and loving gesture of the women gathered there, when we shared our mandalas, really helped me to let go of my fears and I must say that I really liked what I was able to create in that opportunity; without thinking, just flowing and giving myself to the activity. For this reason, I think it is an excellent exercise to do in a circle session that is dedicated to creative expression.

 
Overcoming challenges
- continued

Now, the facilitator or guide for the day will need to have plenty of colored pencils, pastels, markers, or any other material to paint with, blank sheets of paper or cardboard, several plates of different sizes to serve as a template for the Mandala. If there is not much time, the circles can be drawn on the paper beforehand, or the women can be asked to bring materials.

1- meditation
Begin with Agnihotra fire or a Vyahruti, followed by a short meditation focusing on creativity.
Sit comfortably, close your eyes and breathe deeply.
With each inhalation, imagine that you are inhaling inspiration and creativity. With each exhalation, release any blocks or doubts that may be limiting your artistic expression.

2-artistic expression: mandalas
Allow yourself to create without judgment or expectations, just enjoy the process.
Let your intuition guide you and not your partner sitting next to you... Observe how your emotions manifest themselves through the mandalas. (15 minutes approx).

While you are drawing inside your mandala, I suggest having music playing in the background, and then you can sing or chant mantras while you draw. This suggestion was made to me by Shree Vasant Paranjpe. He told me that when one sings and emits a sound, something happens in the atmosphere; there is a sort of transformation, and personally I believe that when a group of women chant sounds and sing, a magical force is created. I talk about this in another article on the exercise of singing.

3-share and celebrate
If you feel comfortable, share your creations and experiences with the group.

 
Listen to each other's interpretations and reflections with empathy and openness. Together, you can celebrate the diversity of artistic expression.

¡Hasta pronto!

“Exploring and nurturing our creativity allows us to connect with our essence and discover new ways of seeing and living life.

By sharing these reflections and creations in our circle, we create a space for inspiration and mutual growth, where each of us can feel empowered and enriched.”
 
Sofia Martinez

 
     If during our life we have been perceiving that something is always missing to be truly happy, a kind of lack or meaning of life, it is a clear sign that that subtle energy that is constantly pushing us to reach the transcendental reality that lies within us, is manifesting in our consciousness. If so, there is nothing else to do but to investigate how to deepen the communication with that dimension.
 
    The Teachings indicate that our mind can be our friend or our enemy, a cruel tyrant or an obedient servant.
In our mind are engraved tendencies; traumatic and happy experiences; cultural, national and family traditions; prejudices, wrong visions and habits. All these elements make up a kind of “programming” that makes us interpret the situations we live in a specific way and act from a kind of instantaneous automatism, which often leads to an unwanted reaction and brings various levels of uneasiness and unhappiness.
 
    If one deeply feels that within oneself there is something else outside one's body and mind, and that one can no longer ignore this longing, one can only seek how to develop this dimension that has been left aside.

The Teachings also inform us that the Law that governs Creation is the Law of Compensations (or Balance), also called the Law of Karma. What we sow is what we shall reap, in a constant process of learning. Life is prodigal in permanently offering us opportunities for growth.
 
 If the Law of Compensation is inviolable, THAT which is ours to live, we have defined with our past actions. It only remains for us to find a way to control HOW we will react to the circumstances we will have to face for the rest of our lives. To be able to control the attitudes with which we will face what we

  
must live, is the beginning of the way to that happiness that is not followed by uneasiness.
 
        The human being has the capacity for discernment and, by developing this capacity, he can deepen his ability to discriminate between what is right and what is wrong. To the extent that we develop this capacity for discernment, we can separate ourselves from situations and adopt an attitude (feeling) of “an internal witness” that helps us to decide how to react to what we have to live. Another way of looking at it is that we decide to maintain a sector of our mind that helps us to reeducate or deprogram, that part of our mind that reacts automatically.
 
        This process of mental re-education is greatly facilitated if we resort to the Third Blessing mentioned on “Let Us Not Waste Energy”:
 
• The Blessing of having the Teaching of how to achieve spiritual development.
 
    That Teaching is the Fivefold Path of the Vedas, which gives us five lines of work to purify and renew our mind, and to establish communication with the One we really are, with the One who seeks to manifest in our thinking, speaking and acting, illuminating our life and the lives of those around us.
 
   Swadhyaya is that line of work of the Fivefold Path that permanently asks us to ask ourselves “Who am I really”?
As that “inner witness” that we have decided to allow to help us discriminate right from wrong, takes control of our reactions, the day comes when, after advancing in the process of purification and liberation from that which we are not, we have the glimpse that what we call “the Inner Witness” is me and thus, we reaffirm and encourage our purpose of liberation from that which brings us unhappiness.

 
The turning point in my life came when I met Shree Vasant Paranjpe in March, 2004 at the National Conference on Organic Farming for Sustainable Production. He was living in Amazon area of Peru and came to India to participate in the conference. I went to Delhi International Airport to receive Him.

He accepted my greetings and the first eye contact was so warm and full of love, that it ignited me from the inside. This was my unique experience which I will never forget in my life.

On the inaugural day, the first talk was delivered by Shree Vasant on Homa Organic Farming. He spoke in detail of this concept and His work teaching this ancient science for more than three decades. I was particularly interested in the possibility of integration of Homa Farming with other organic production systems.

In the evening Gurudeva Vasantji sent me a message that I could have a personal meeting with Him the next morning.
He said:
"It was Divine direction to come to India and inform you about this super technology. If you get experience, then both you and India would be benefited."

This was a turning point in my life and since then I am trying to understand this technology very closely and to disseminate it for adaption in India in a more assertive way.

On 22nd January 2007, I went to Maheshwar in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. There, along with Shree Vasant, was Parvati Bizberg who gives healings all over the world free. I requested a healing from her. She asked me whether I had any specific questions. I asked, "How can I be helpful to spread the message of Shree Vasant regarding massive promotion of Organic Farming?"
 

 
As a small fire was lit in the copper pyramid, Parvati began uttering some Mantras. Then I heard Shree Vansant's voice coming through Parvati. He said:

"Future of India is fragile. The conditions of all natural resources - land, soil, water, air, all are polluted. Therefore, health and well-being of Indians are endangered."

In the message, He entrusted me with the responsibility that I should utilize my present position to promote the technology which can be helpful to the country. He cautioned me to remain always humble, grateful and willing to serve the nation. He also informed me that, now that I know that Homa Therapy techniques are highly successful throughout the world, this message needs to be communicated by persons like me. He said that we have been together before and that He has given me all the blessings to be successful in carrying this message to the whole nation. He said:
"This is a real service and pure science being fueled by Divine Grace. Take this wherever you go. It is a crucial time for this planet."