It would indeed be an understatement to say that the world we inhabit is beset with misplaced priorities—if it apparently has any at all. Money and power are at the root of this disease.
Despite enormous sums of money—and lives—being at risk due to Climate Change, and funds belonging to ‘others’ being of little or no concern to those wealthy persons and countries, nothing changes besides the climate outside and the depressing climates of human interaction and inaction.
This karmic laboratory we inhabit more often resembles a Wuhan, China laboratory—one of the alleged sources of the Covid 19 coronavirus—clone than anything else. Not exactly the stuff of which dreams are made.
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL and in the air, on our farms, and in our bodies and minds. That’s how devastating and pervasive pollution and Climate Change have become.
In case you have been in a cave for more than the past three years, here is a capsule version of the situation on our planet.
3 1/2 years after the onset of a coronavirus which became a pandemic and should have brought the world to its knees, our collective, selective memories have induced us to ‘move on,’ and forget the pain and fail to implement lessons learned.
– What percentage of political, economic or various other manifestations of self-interest comprise the ‘moving on strategy’ is not easy to surmise.
What is abundantly clear, however, is the gradual but seemingly inexorable journey to oblivion we appear to have chosen. Forget about attempts at hyperbole about leaving the room (planet) in better shape than when we encountered it. The room itself—the planet itself—may not outlive us—not to mention our grandchildren. That is not a legacy of which to be proud.
Were we not so caught up in and not preoccupied with rearranging the chairs on our personal and collective Titanics, were we in touch with Truth, Compassion, Fairness, Equality, and the will of Almighty, then and only then might the scales begin to move in a favourable direction for us.
Our minds may occupy different degrees of 1) CAUSING current planetary dysfunction or 2) being AFFECTED—or, shall we say, victimised by same.
The term ‘innocent bystanders’ does not seem at all appropriate as the writing has been on the wall for quite some time. No surprises here.
It’s not like our problems have suddenly sneaked up on us without warning. Quite the contrary: it has been more than 50 years since Shree Vasant Paranjpe spoke at a pulpit in Washington, DC, at a gathering of scientists in New York, at an ashram just north of New York City. And he continued speaking for 36 years!
His message—POLLUTION is the culprit. AGNIHOTRA is the antidote. The term ‘Climate Change,’ had not yet entered the vernacular, but it was the elephant in the room that eventually escaped and began to wreak havoc.
Antidotes are multi-purposed. It is said they ‘counteract unpleasant feelings or situations.’ So be it. Prevention, however, is just as vital.
“If you’re not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem,” goes the expression. That our purpose here is to SERVE, not doing so becomes part of the problem.
A remedy is said to be a medicine or treatment for a disease or injury. A diseased or injured MIND provides us with an opportunity as well as a dilemma.
“Use the mind to train the mind,” we have been strongly encouraged or urged to do.
If both of your hands are injured and you are not able to feed yourself, it is difficult to maintain the health that proper nutrition enhances.
If your mind is diseased, or at least, greatly compromised by your environment, using your mind to train your mind may prove similarly most difficult.
A way out, an antidote, a remedy, may be found in the saying, “ATMOSPHERE, PRANA, MIND.
Changing the atmosphere attracts and balances flow of Prana—the life energy that connects us to the cosmos—and the positive effects are automatically transposed to our minds.
Like gravity, which operates regardless of our opinions or belief in it, Mind Training is greatly enhanced by focusing on atmosphere.
After a short trial doing Agnihotra twice daily—two weeks will do (about four hours in total)— BELIEVE WHAT YOU EXPERIENCE can be your de facto mantra. Exactly how or why you feel better, think more rationally, sleep more deeply, may not matter. The proof is in the pudding and in the Homa Organic Farms and Gardens.
DIRE STRAITS, the successful rock band, has a song that propelled them. It is called, “Brothers in Arms,” and has a short lyric that goes:
“Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve witnessed your suffering as the battle raged high…”
The Bible speaks of baptism by water that will be followed by baptism by FIRE. It can be said Agnihotra is that.
And the ‘fields of destruction’ can hardly be doubted by residents of Libya, Morocco or Hawaii and the more than a dozen other ‘hotspots’ on our planet.
The battle lines are becoming clearer. Virtually all of Europe, it was reported in mid-September of this year, is blanketed by very unhealthy—life-threatening, in fact—air. You can picket the government, big business, big Pharma, big whatever OR you can DIRECTLY and proactively ‘do the needful’ to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Do the benefits of Agnihotra outweigh the minor cost and minor inconvenience? You must answer that yourself, but without the benefit of an experimental period, you run the danger of dismissing a priori, without evidence, a process that has already significantly changed the lives of untold thousands.
Willpower alone is not enough if the proper tools are not being used. Hammers don’t help with screws. Dental floss is useless for most activities other than flossing.
Agnihotra copper pyramid healing fire is a major tool for surviving and thriving during these challenging times. But like most tools, its performance and usage opens doors that can then be entered. The practice of the other four aspects of the Fivefold Path then allows us to go through the open door and enter the world of being HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND HOLY.