An Invitation
Part Three
 Man
must learn to cooperate with Nature, not oppose it. The desire to copy
and make synthetic Nature as is happening in the world today is arrogance
personified and possibly catastrophic too. Nature has to be revered not
ridiculed. Disrespect of nature is the same as disrespecting yourself
and to threaten the dignity of nature is in actual fact threatening your
own dignity. Worship, not defiance of this raw, wild energy is the only
way to subjugate it and invoke its benevolence. Yajnas were designed for
this purpose because Nature becomes happy and pleased through the act
of yajna.
The first quantum leap that our primitive ancestors took was with the
discovery of fire. It was this discovery which categorically changed the
course of our destiny and brought us to our present level of evolution.
Although in the course of this journey man has made astounding discoveries
he will have to concede that the mysteries of nature are yet an enigma.
At any moment nature can reduce man to ashes leaving no trace of his existence.
 What
reason then do we have to be proud of our achievements when we cannot
even prevent a tsunami that can wash away millions of people in a matter
of minutes.
Just as the discovery of fire catapulted man into another dimension then,
it is through the medium of fire and sound, the two main components of
the ritual of yajna that man will discover how to establish his connection
with the forces that abound in the universe.
This is most certainly the reason why Swami Satyananda has brought into
the limelight this ancient ritual of yajna developed by the rishis and
munis of India. Just as way back in 1968 he began to systematically present
the hitherto unkwown practices of yoga for the evolution of man from gross
to higher mental levels, in the same way from 1988 he began to present
in the same scientific and systematic way the esoteric practice of yajna
so that mankind can have an efficient tool or medium to ensure the safety
of his existence on this planet.
 At
first he conducted the most difficult Panchagni yajna which few dare to
perform as it can be only be practiced by a person on whom nature is benevolent,
or else the elements of nature will trouble and torment him perhaps leading
to death. After that he announced the Raja sooya yajna an event that includes
the Sat Chandi mahayajna and Sita Kalyanam. This mahayajna that has been
continuing for the past 11 years at Rikhia peeth has been witnessed by
millions of devotees in the past eleven years.
Now the yajna is in its final year of culmination. This year the sankalpa
of Swami Satyananda will be over and it can surely be said that he has
firmly placed the system of yajna for the future generations to take up
for their multifarious purposes.
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