Is your glass half empty or half full?

“Which is it,” Dorothy asks? I’m perplexed says Alice. Ask Anne (Frank); she undoubtedly knows.

The sooner we accept the reality that for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction, the sooner truths will enter our consciousness, and most likely the sooner obstacles will be reduced,

If this Newtonian truth doesn’t engender your belief in the Law of Karma, a pox on your house.

If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger, it is said.

Well, our strength, character and endurance should (in principle) be very strong and operating on all cylinders because life today is a never ending cascade of bad news, worse news, fake news and downright lies, all designed mostly to create and foster FEAR—if not, in fact, kill. Unfortunately, usually the weak and vulnerable suffer most.

Covid is beginning to look almost like a picnic by comparison.

But pay now or pay later…pay we will.

Alas, the piper doesn’t accept payment by American Express. Or Federal Express.

So to avoid the misery that is meant to come, the sooner and the more we behave ‘properly,’ the quicker and greater are our chances to pay off old ‘debts’ as well as not accrue so many new ones.

We are currently living in foxholes during a worldwide war. Thus, ‘priority checks’ (and updates) are crucial. Lest we be compared to Nero who allegedly fiddled while Rome burned, it would be criminal were we to bask in our luxurious surroundings—compared to say 80% of the world—midst the poverty and injustices effecting so many of our fellow human beings.

Lest we allow the enormity off the task dissuade us from taking action—note that a journey of 1,000 miles starts with one step. Furthermore, ultimately it is not in our hands anyway.

So each sunrise and each sunset. We devote 10 minutes to regular—or even irregular—performance of Agnihotra.

Those simple acts can propel us—as they have done for untold thousands for 5 decades—to service, peace and perspective.

Is FAITH helpful? Well, it’s like this:

If the restaurant you’ve been eating at for many years consistently creates magic food, wouldn’t it make sense to implicitly trust if it develops an offshoot catering business?

If Agnihotra has consistently improved your life over years of practice, doesn’t it make sense to trust that benefits to and on environment on a macro scale are possible?

As we have been taught that macro, magnificent healing comes from Agnihotra, even though hundreds of rigorous, scientific experiments have not yet been completed—and may not ever be completed—that should not be cause for delay or skepticism.

After all, we’ve been dining at this  5-star restaurant for a very long time.

We might start with climate, poverty, addiction, crime, governmental corruption and incompetency.

Once we have addressed/solved all of this, then we may concentrate on the more direct personal and societal evolutionary practices—Meditation, prayer, serving the poor, self-study.

If this is beginning to sound like the Fivefold Path and the six crocodiles, then you are awake and aware.

Thankfully we need not reinvent the wheel. It has been gifted to us.

We need only grease the wheels, filter inputs , and proceed.

We’ve been at this long enough to recognize pitfalls, challenges, areas of illusion and delusion.

Though it has been suggested to us to be PERFECT like our Father in Heaven, we recognize that we should identify situations that caution us not to let perfection be the enemy of good.

In other words, our powers of discrimination and free will indeed personalize matters.

And PEACE, love, kindness and service rise to the surface.

However, the stage we find ourselves on now is fraught with obstacles that can easily impede us. In this vein, we might think of Agnihotra as the great leveler or antidote to the pollution of mind, spirit and atmosphere contributing to the insanity that is permeating and drowning our world.

The TM (Transcendental Meditation) movement used to purport that if 1% of the population of a city the size of Washington, DC were to practice TM, the resulting positive effects would transform the city into if not a Kingdom if Heaven, into at least a Garden of Eden.

Being able to walk the streets safely after sunset would even be a major improvement. I suspect heavenly streets allow this.

A longtime Homa Therapy teacher was filmed in a recent promotional video saying, IF JUST 20% OF A CITY’S POPULATION WOULD DO AGNIHOTRA, A TRANSFORMATION WILL SURELY RESULT.

In a nutshell, our situation might be described that individually, collectively, and planet wise we are “up a creek without a paddle,” as the American idiom goes.

So we haven’t much to lose that hasn’t already been lost.

Dangeous times require difficult, creative, out of the box solutions.

Our wooden Agnihotra kits/boxes have come to the rescue.

And lest we think doing Agnihotra is a small part of the solution, take note of what Shree Vasant said, “If you could harness the energy from just ONE AGNIHOTRA, you could power New York City for a year!”

We take one step and the Divine takes 10 steps for us.