Rajasooya Yajna 2005
Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati

There is a mysterious side to man. This mysterious dimension is a world of sounds, colours, lights and images. If you happen to step into that dimension, it will feel as if you have walked into a room full of different sounds, some soft, others loud, some pleasant, others unpleasant, some familiar, others unknown. If your consciousness is trained in the science of sound, it will be able to draw out the corresponding sounds from that dimension and use that as a doorway to other dimensions, perhaps the one of light or image where the same rules again apply.

It is this mysterious side of man that converses with nature at all times and at all levels. If you want to be totally in tune with nature, that is the dimension you have to tap. Nature is not static. Movement is inherent in nature. The Sanskrit word for nature is prakriti. Pra is the prefix and kriti means creation and movement. Through the constant movement of this great energy known as prakriti, a sort of spandan or vibration emanates which is heard as sound, seen as light and colour, or touched as form.

So first of all we have to realign ourselves with nature. We have to reconnect ourselves with the source of our mysterious nature. The vedic concept of prakriti is that it is both jada and chetana, which means that it is both insentient as well as sentient. Everything in nature has intelligence or the conscious principle in some form or the other, either dormant and latent or active and alert.

Nature does not merely mean the mountains and rivers, plants, birds and animals. That is its manifest form; the sun, moon, stars, planets, seasons are manifested nature. But there is an unmanifest form of nature too. This unmanifest nature is both macrocosmic as well as microcosmic. In its microcosmic form it is entrapped within matter and in its macrocosmic form it is the various forms of energy abounding in the universe, whether they be material or non-material as in the case of electromagnetic energy.

The basic principle of yajna, which can be traced back to the core of tantric and vedic philosophy, is the profound idea that man is a microcosm of the macrocosm that is the universe. Whatever formed entities are in the universe, the same are here in the human body and vice versa, and as such each and every human being is equal to the entire universe.

Both man and the universe are controlled by the sun and moon. Agni and soma tattwa sustain the universe and in the human body too they control our physiological and psychological activities through the harmonious flow of ida and pingala. So they are called Agnishomeyama, the noble concept of sustenance.

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