Performing Yagya, A Tradition That Balance Life

By Henry Peterson


Lacked knowledge or wanting to be enlightened can be achieved by having faith to a supreme being. However, if exploited, it can be a weakness that someone can manipulate for their own selfish purposes making innocent individual commit things against its will. The biggest part of this topic is related to religions and traditions as it has a massive people engaged in various beliefs that are sometimes the root of arguments.

Beliefs existed a long time ago, going from different tribes having a variety of culture and tradition that in they believe is true. In this case, Yagya or in other term yajna is a performed by the ancient Vedic yagyas to create positive effects and unwanted effects in the different parts of life. The word itself literally means sacrifice, devotion, worship, offering a tradition referred by Hinduism as anything done before a sacred fire often with mantras.

It is an act of giving up any objects before gods. The ritual is performed by an appointed sacred being whose job is to save the lives of mankind. Offerings on this tradition are mostly food and plants or animals anything that the community is accepted far from what an individual would imagine when hearing the offering, overtures such as juice of a soma plant, mixed milk, cake, pulse, an animal and many other things.

The service is said to improve the evolution, wealth, harmony, and health of a person. As became people interested, the tradition made its way into the internet with some sites that offer the services to those who are willing to pay for the experience. It also the ability to foresee life situations and suggest proper yagyas to maintain and restore balance in a life of an individual.

The culture is founded on basic principle, believing and entrusting your life in god, not that quite different compared to modern religion. Folks that follows the way of life are appreciative and lives in harmony with the environment and nature, which is why some mantras are conducted in some areas of the forest that these people live in. With this tradition stories about myths, legends, and gods are told as it is based on experience with one of their people.

The reason why they perform oblations thrown in flames is to present their offerings to the god of fire and messenger of gods, Agni. Offerings are then said to be carried by Agni to the gods, and in exchange, the gods are expected to grant boons and benedictions. Their rituals served as the spiritual exchange between supreme beings and the human beings.

This kind of tradition is considered ancient and others might find it preposterous to perform such activity to be able to get answers from your prayers. However, it is somewhat close to what modern civilization do in terms of their beliefs and culture. It may vary from several people and such exercise might look odd to someone who is not used to the ritual, but the purpose is the same.

However, humans have acquired knowledge in the world that there are individuals who do not have beliefs and or support any sort of religion. The basis of their existence depends on scientific facts of evolution and prefer the conditions of cause and effects that controls the situation of a person. They are not willing to devote their lives to something that is not certain or proven by science.

Facts from science, and faith through religion, interesting that these two completely repel each other yet they are both essential. In order to have a better understanding of human being traditions are there to stand as the basis of life, and to be able to evolve, science is the way to develop mankind. An ancient tradition like yagya is important to the society to have a better understanding as long as it serves for good reasons.




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