An Invitation
Part Four
 Yajnas
can be performed for health, wealth, happiness, peace of mind, to beget
a son, to beget rain, to destroy a powerful enemy, to pacify nature, to
get good crops, to increase your assets and properties, to get a suitable
life partner, to invoke the blessings of the divine, to create harmony
in the universe, to rid the earth of famine and disease. The reasons are
many and each very intimate to our own requirements.
Of course the modern systems also have ways to conquer the enemy, to
get abundant crops, to increase the wealth, to get a suitable marriage
partner and healthy progeny, but the ways are harsh and violent as opposed
to the method of yajna that is harmonious and peaceful, because it does
not seek to destroy others while improving one’s own lot.
Yoga has proved to be a boon to the twenty first century man who is having
a hard time balancing himself between the pressures of accomplishment
and his own needs to relax unwind and be happy if even for awhile; Yoga
offers the possibility to be successful and yet be humane; Yajna will
prove to be a boon to generation next who though unmindful of the havoc
that is being stealthily wreaked on them will sooner or later wake up
to the reality of the imminent perils which this world is going to face.
Yajna will offer them the possibility to combat those disasters.
 It
is wrong to imagine that the people who wrote the Vedas and Upanishads
were unaware of the perils that the development of technology would bring
about on this planet. There is ample evidence that they had full knowledge
of energy sources, of aviation, of missiles and sophisticated warfare.
Test tube babies and cloning was also not unknown to them and it would
not be at all surprising if they had mobiles too given the speed at which
they were able to communicate.
The Srimad Bhagawat was narrated to over ten thousand people who had
assembled to hear this discourse by Paramahansa Sukadev. There were no
mikes or highly professional Bose sound systems at that time so did you
ever wonder what technique they employed at for the speakers voice to
reach that large gathering. This is just one small glaring example there
are many more that can be quoted to accept that they were a highly civilized
community or race whoever they may have been.
 Why
then did they advocate yoga and yajna rather than satellites and nuclear
missiles?. The answer is simple. The former would save mankind and permit
him a glorious time here on earth whereas the latter would extinguish
and eradicate not just mankind but even the very seed of life
We have to make our choices here and now. Over the past eleven years
we have witnessed the fulfillment of a grand sankalpa of Swami Satyananda
through yajna. Last year over eighty villages surrounding Rikhia received
the yajna prasad which has brought prosperity and happiness into their
homes. What more do we need to decide?
This is the twelfth and last year of this grand spectacle which Swami
Satyananda has offered all of us on a golden platter. Come one and all
to be uplifted by this event and to receive the grace of Guru and devi
ma which will be flowing in abundance at the culmination or poorna ahuti
of a once in a lifetime event.
Jai Mata Di
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