The Ancient Tradition Of Performing Yagya Ritual

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.

Various culture is widespread throughout the world existing for many centuries, different tribes have its particular cultures, rituals, and beliefs that their people follow and believe is the right path. Culture rituals like yagya or yajna, is a ritual that Vedic tradition do to achieve positive effects and unwanted effects in different walks of life. Sacrifice, devote, worship, offer, the definition of the word yagya referred by the Hinduism as any offering activity performed with the presence of fire, along 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 folklore conveyed that it can be used for good health, wealth, harmony, and evolution for an individual that seeks guidance. With the help of the internet today, there even offered services that conduct this ritual to people that are interested in trying. It is also believed to be able of predicting life events of a person and necessary yagyas are suggested to obtain a balanced life.

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.

Offerings tossed on the fire are oblations towards the god of fire and messenger of gods, Agni. The stories told that Agni take the offerings to gods, and in return, their prayers will be answered. It is an exchange spiritually between the supreme divine beings and human beings in a form of fire.

Others find this folklore, old and odd that this activity still exists today as a way of getting answered prayers. But, it is not that different when compared to the rituals of modern civilization. Some people might find it a bit different taking into consideration that it is their first time, but the goal of the process is the same.

Humans, however, have become smarter and smarter as the world evolves that some of them do not believe in such beliefs and religions anymore. They believe in evolution that is based on facts and science and believes that cause and effect plays a vital role in the circumstances that can change the life of a person. Uncertain things and unproven beliefs are very hard for them to have faith without any proved evidence.

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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