Meditation is Yagya

 

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Meditation is Yagya

Yagyas are performed for purification, solving problems, conflicts and remove blockages in one’s life. Discomfort happens at three levels – physical, mental and ethereal. They are the mind, body and soul! Yagya helps bring one out of all these discomforts. When one performs yagya, that action does not bind us, it does not limit us. It is an action which only brings good to the performer and others. When one performs yagya – it purifies our life, our mind, our actions.

In physical terms, Yagya is a process of herbal sacrifices in holy fire aimed at the finest utilisation of the subtle properties of sacrificed matter with the help of the thermal energy of fire and the sound energy of the mantras.

There are two basic energy systems in the physical world: heat and sound. In performing Yagya, these two energies, namely, the heat from Yagya’s fire and the sound of the chanting of the Gayatri and other Vedic Mantras, are blended together to achieve the desired physical, psychological and spiritual benefits.

Yagya creates a pure, nutritional and medicinal atmosphere. It renews the brain cells, revitalises the skin, purifies blood and prevents growth of pathogenic organisms. Agnihotra is basically a healing process. ‘Heal the atmosphere and the healed atmosphere will heal you’. Purification of environment through the constituent electrons of the substances fumigated in the Yagya is an obvious effect of this process.

The heat endowed in yagya is a source of immense energy. As this fire inflames, melts or sublimates all the gross substances inside, we too should burn out all our vices, ill-tendencies, lethargy, dullness and despair and energise our personality with the warmth of new zeal, alacrity, awareness and hope. The heat and energy of the yagya should be reflected in the active flow of our blood, our industriousness and our nimble and vigilant courage to fight against all evils.

The ash produced by fire reminds us of the ephemeral and transient nature of life. We tend to forget this eternal fact and continue on the path of cravings and attachments…adding to our mistakes, infirmities and sins too. While putting the Yagya – bhasm on our head after the Yagya, we should ponder over the end of our present life and realise the importance of the time and breaths available to us now.

During meditation too, it is like a kind of yagya, because heat is generated in our body during meditation, specially if we are filled with negative energy. Meditation burns the negativity within and we can actually feel the heat as it leaves our body through the root chakra, palms of our hands and our crown chakra.

Once the body and mind are purified through meditation, our sensitivity increases and we start feeling cool vibrations, our aura changes, we become calm and peaceful, our whole life gets transformed for the better.