The gentle push to the mind that Agnihotra–the core of the Fivefold Path and of Homa Psychotherapy– provides, is a tool without which all matters become more difficult. There are no two ways about it. This is the experience of tens of thousands worldwide.
To say it another way, with Agnihotra, things just become easier. Speaking to a woman in Warsaw some years ago, she told me she had stopped doing Agnihotra (after six months) because it made her life “too easy.” She wanted more of a challenge.
I understand that some folks run marathons, some half marathons, and some walk briskly to the fridge during football commercial breaks.
So fine, this woman chose to “do it on her own.” Admirable (in a way). But since timing is everything, just as in wartime, when atheists often become believers, mid-2022 does not seem to be the best time to “do it on your own.”
This is not our grandparents’ world. The not so merry-go-round we live on is not a walk in the park. Pick your poison: the current choices are Covid-19, effects of the war in Ukraine, and the mother of poisons—Climate Change. Hence, this life cycle requires our full attention and effort.
Still want the challenge? Cool, but what about the vast majority of humanity struggling to stay alive midst its ‘challenges’–like trying to keep their babies alive another day despite food and medicine shortages? Homa Organic Farming and Agnihotra Ash Medicines can help the multitudes.
If we are open to the possibility that the effects of Agnihotra are so wide-ranging as to (according to Vedic knowledge) effect a circumference of about 1 1/2 miles (2.4 kilometres), think of the possibilities to be of service.
The chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy in US says the world is heading for dangers unseen in the 10,000 years of human civilisation, and follows up with, “This will be greater than anything we have ever seen in the past. This will be unprecedented. EVERY LIVING THING WILL BE AFFECTED.”
And this news is relegated to page 6 of The Guardian newspaper!
When in 1989 Vasant titled his new book, “Homa Therapy: Our Last Chance,” some may have cried, “hyperbole—way too dramatic!”
33 years later, reality seems to have supplanted poetic license (though climate deniers and persons too shy to shout from the rooftops walk the planet).
Though Agnihotra certainly affects all living things, we may not save the planet per se, but at least the 1 1/2 mile circumference around the place where it is performed, will be positively affected.