"Thoughts are seeds we put into the atmosphere. If your thoughts are of love, then you help to purify the atmosphere."

-Master Shree Vasant-

  ... We continue to raise vibrations with the constant practice of Sacred Homa Healing Fires ... which are done on all continents.
OM SHREE OM

"Homa is the Solution.

THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR. THE END IS NEAR. Places where HOMA healing fires are practiced will be safe.

They will be sanctuaries. The water around these places will be free from poisons. AGNIHOTRA is the basic HOMA."  

 -Master Shree Vasant-

"The words we speak can give blows of love or blows of anger.

 It is our choice.

 HIS will is love."

-Master Shree Vasant-

 "It is a time of concentrating and practicing Mantra. It is an extremely useful tool. Keeping silence for just a few hours every morning can set the whole mood in a correct balance for the day.

This does not mean that no outside tensions will be there. Of course, they are going to be there no matter where you go, alone or with others. But practice of minimum silence in mornings is going to serve as an aid in coping with these day-to-day affairs."

-Master Shree Vasant-

"If you keep silence more, you will come to know you can effectively respond to situations in a calm, eased manner. Silence helps to turn thoughts inward and you momentarily take pressure off the mind."

-Shree Vasant-

"All the time praise. Praise God in all you meet. Everyone is a child of God. You admire your beloved Master. This is purity of thought. Acquire this attitude of honor and humility and praise all. Always think of the other person’s needs before your own. Leave aside jealousy and greed, envy and pride.
Be still."

-Master Shree Vasant-

"Let us curb our anger. Let us curb our desires and go face-to-face with the six crocodiles which haunt us, i.e., anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, attachment, because to be a messenger of peace, one must behave as such. No one is perfect, but let us at least take the responsibility to try to attain that perfect state of, “I and my Father are One.”."

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"You must be humble as dust but do not speak about it. In all your actions be humble."

-Master Shree Vasant-

Photos:  1) Light overflows from the pyramid.
Photo from Mauritius.
2) First 2 lines:
Inauguration with massive Agnihotra practice in the Belgaum Airport due to the new product "Agnihotra Kit" now available in a store.
3) Above and left : Celebrating the 82nd Birthday of Mohite Dada.

Mr. Ravi Lad from Belgaum, Karnataka,
sent the photos of this page where the "International Agnihotra Day" is being celebrated with: with Vedic songs, group Agnihotra, the sharing of HOMA experiences, and a small Pooja for the cow (thanks to her, there are healing Homas. The cows provide ghee and HOMA cookies).

If, in fact, we are all created in the image of God, why should we not be able to see Him in love for our brothers and sisters?

Babies…now how easy it is to see the face of God in them--even in young children in whom ego and fear and such have not yet surfaced.

But as the mind is nearly always doing its job of thinking, feeling and willing, just like Swadhyaya (self study), it is open for business 24 hours a day, every day.

And then there’s intuition. As governments and the medical establishment, and the media have all proven to be not particularly up to the task of protecting us—say the statistics— going within and mining our own experiences and coordinating them with life as it confronts us today, are requirements—not luxuries, as it may have felt like in easier times.

"Teach me how to trust my heart, my body, my intuition, my inner knowing." (Melony McGannt)

Nearly universally, those who practice Agnihotra regularly, as well as adhering to some degree to the other four steps of what is called the Fivefold Path, report higher and deeper levels of intuition and the feelings that support and encourage it—not to mention levels of will power and the power of discrimination formerly thought of as out of reach.

Should this culminate in my being able to love myself and others, all praises on High.

And remember the truth that once was spoken: "to love another person is to see the face of God".—Víctor Hugo.

Persons who before doing Agnihotra found it nearly impossible to still their minds enough to sit and try to accomplish CONCENTRATION, then CONTEMPLATION, --the first and second stages culminating in MEDITATION-- discovered themselves able to attain these states.

How else shall I be able to access my INNER KNOWING? There is no cable tv channel able to do this for us. Books may point us in a direction, but it is our job to walk the yellow brick road.

It is difficult to put into words what Agnihotra seems to bring out in ourselves, making our heart and our inner knowing true companions rather than sought after goals.

That is why our tagline for the past 45 years or so has been BELIEVE WHAT YOU EXPERIENCE, for only you are able to access and discover you.Esa es la razón por la cual nuestro eslogan durante los últimos 45 años aproximadamente, ha sido CREA EN LO QUE EXPERIMENTA, puesto que solamente usted puede ser capaz de acceder a usted mismo y descubrirse.

The Vedas, the supreme scientific and cognitive revelation (Vidyā) is traditionally defined as śāśvatam (eternal), that is to say, anādi (without beginning) and ananta (endless).

This supreme science was handed down orally in Vedic Sanskrit and later on it was arranged in four written Saṁhitās or collections, the Ṛg/Ṛig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sāma Veda and Atharva Veda.

An ancient and traditional name for denoting the Vedas is Śrutiḥ. This word comes from the sanskrit verb śru-, śṛṇoti, śruta-, śrotum” = “to hear, to listen”. So therefore, this word Śrutiḥ means: “the hearing, the act of perceiving, that which has been heard or listened, sacred text or sentence, hence Vedas, Science transmitted orally through the succession of disciples (saṁpradāya) or Knowledge received by means of inner hearing.

There is a set of 10 ancillary and complementary Sciences to the Vedas that attached to the four Saṁhitās form the “Chaturdaśavidyāḥ”, the fourteen Sciences which comprise all the Vedic Knowledge.

Furthermore, there are 6 great Systems of Vedic Philosophy named “Darśanas” which are points of view, optical perspectives according to the etymology of the word.

As these philosophical “darśanas” accept the Authority of the Vedas and they are chiefly in conceptual accordance with the vedic knowledge, they are called “astika” or “orthodox” systems. The word “asti” as a component of the word “astika” under the viewpoint of grammar is the third singular person, present tense, indicative mood of the sanskrit verb “as-, asmi, asi, asti; āsam, āsīt” meaning “to be”. Therefore, “asti” must be translated as “(He/She/It) Is”, id est: “that Is”, “that is according to the Śrutis”.

These six (6) “orthodox” or “astika” philosophical systems usually arranged in pairs are: Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika;

Sāṅkhya and Yoga; Pūrva Mīmāṁsā (Karma Mīmāṁsā) and Uttara Mīmāṁsā (Jñāna or Brahma Mīmāṁsā) or Vedānta.

But, simultaneously there are some heterodox or heretical philosophical systems called “nāstika”. (“Na + asti” = “which are not in accordance with the Vedas, because they do not accept the Authority of the Vedas).

These “Nāstika” systems are the materialistic philosophy called Chārvaka, the Jainism of Vardhamāna or Mahāvīra (Jina or the Conqueror) and the Buddhism taught by Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened or the Tathāgata.

In this oportunity we are going to examine some general features of Buddhism as a philosophy and as a religion. As a matter of fact, the depiction of Buddhism as “nāstika” and antivedic system has some relative fundament, however finally it is not correct.

Buddhism arose historically from northern India/Bhārat, but after a time of development and expansion gradually declined.

Many believe that Buddhism declined and ceased to have a large following in India/Bhārat because it came under the attack of the Ᾱcārya Śrī Śaṅkara Bhagavatpāda the eminent, illustrious philosopher and religious leader of southern India, born in Kalaṭi, Kerala. (According to some sources, Śankarāchārya is said to have been born in 788 A.D. and to have died in 820 at the early age of 32. But other sources have tried to show that Sankara´s date must be the 6th or 7th century at the latest.).

He was the celebrated sage who taught the profound philosophy of Advaita Vedānta (Monist or Non-dualist Metaphysics).
The decline of Buddhism in India is not imputable to the philosophical and religious influence of Śrī Śaṅkara. There are very few passages in the Ᾱcārya´s commentaries critical of Buddhism.

  Far more forcefully has this sage criticised two vedic philosophical systems, the Sāṅkhya and the Mīmāṁsā. He demolished their conception that Iśvara/God is not the Creator of the World and that it is not He who dispenses the fruits of our actions.

   That is to say that this Ᾱcārya/Master states that it is Iśvara that has created all the Universes and it is He who awards us the fruits of our actions (Karmas).

     The thinkers who severely attacked Buddhism were the philosophers of Nyāya, the logical and epistemological Vedic School and the philosophers of Mīmāṁsā the Vedic ritualist School.

      The Tārkikas or logical philosophers of the Nyāya darśana criticised Buddhism for its denial of Iśvara/God. The Mīmāṁsākas or ritualist philosophers attacked Buddhism for its refusal to accept Vedic Yajñas or Vedic rituals of purification.

     But the refusal of Yajñas or Vedic Rituals by Gautama Buddha had a solid fundament.One essential aspect of Buddha´s mission was to abolish cruel offerings into the fire and to resuscitate Vedic ahiṁsaka Yajñas performed in the classic prescribed manner refraining from violence or oblations of flesh and blood. That is the reason why Buddha suppressed all the cruel Yajñas performed by that time, excepting the Agnihotra that remained pure through the ages. Actually, in the canonical buddhist text “Sūttanipāta” it is said that Gautama Buddha taught: “Aggihutta (Agnihotra in pālī language) mukho Yaṅjah” = “Agnihotra is the principal Yajña”. Out of these statements and observations we may draw the conclusion that the buddhist rejection of the bloody Yajñas is in perfect accordance with the authentic original Vedic mīmāṁsāka Tradition of the pure non-violent Yajñas, which purify the Mind as well as the Atmospheric Prāṇa.

         It is said, according to ancient Traditions that after attaining Bodhi (Perfect Knowledge),

    Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha visited a near kingdom where Somayāg sacrifice was about to be performed. The Somayāg, the most complex Vedic Yajña was very cruel and violent by that time because its performance implied the slaughtering of hundreds of sheeps and goats before the sacrificial altar. The King enchanted with the presence of the Tathāgata, said that the performance of this Yajña would secure his place in Paradise. The Buddha expressed that if the slaughter of quadrupeds would attain that object it should be much more elevating if a renouncing monk (saṅnyāsi) like himself offered to die on the altar.

         The King was deeply shocked with these words and clearly perceived his great error and immediately surrendered himself unto the lotus feet of the Blessed One. His was the Surrender of the Triple Jewel (Tiratana or Triratna):

“Buddhaṁ śaraṇaṁ gacchāmi,
(I surrender to the Buddha)
Dhammaṁ śaraṇaṁ gacchāmi,
(I surrender to the Dhamma/Dharma, set of principles taught by the Buddha)
Saṅghaṁ śaraṇaṁ gacchāmi,
(I surrender to the Saṅgha, the Buddhist Order).

     The powerful Vedic Mantra of Surrender and Seek of Refuge we chant every day at the end of the performance of Yajñas has a great affinity and a subtle connection with this buddhist threejeweled Mantra.

       “Satyaṁ Śaraṇaṁ gacchāmi,
(I seek refuge in the Truth)
Satyadharmaṁ Śaraṇaṁ Gacchāmi,
(I seek refuge in the Truth and in the Dharma or Eternal Religion)
Satyadharmasaṅghaṁ Śaraṇaṁ Gacchāmi,
(I seek refuge in the Truth, in the Dharma and in the Brotherhood/Sisterhood of Dharma or the Eternal Religion).

        This set of Mantras must be chanted or uttered three times at the end of daily Yajñas.