On February 14 th, we begin a very unique and special series of yagyas which culminate in Shivaratri on March 8th.  This long yagya series is intended to honor the very essence of life and spirituality; silence, peace, and knowledge.   

The Rig Veda is the oldest and longest of the four Vedas with over 10,000 verses of about 10 lines each.  It is the "home of all mantras" and comprehensively links all areas of life, from the most mundane aspects of daily life to the heights of spiritual attainment.  As one great spiritual teacher described it, "the Vedas are the blueprint of creation. Everything is included and nothing is left out."

For this yagya we have arranged for 10 specially trained and uniquely qualified priests to perform this yagya over a 10 day period.  They start with a full day yagya for Ganesha so that all obstacles to the completion of this yagya are removed.  Then for the next 8 days they recite the entire 10,000 verse text of the Rig Veda.  After every second line they offer ghee, wood, grains, and other sacred and traditional ingredients into the yagya fire.  Ultimately there will be over 50,000 offerings into the yagya fire!  It is a huge effort on the part of the priests.

The benefit of this yagya are broad in scope.  The mantras throughout the Rig Veda are devoted to empowering the divine and ask for support in all aspects of our individual life.  There are mantras for family happiness, good health, prosperity, peace in the community, and personal enlightenment.  Many of the Rig Veda mantras have a more universal scope; asking for universal peace and the restoration of dharma; the natural order of life. 

Supporting the recitation of the entire Rig Veda is a great accomplishment in itself.  But we are doing more.  This yagya is a symbolic offering of all knowledge back to its source in the deep infinite silence of Brahman.  And of course, that Brahman resides deep in own awareness.   So the ultimate benefit of this yagya is to bring deep spiritual peace to its participants.

Immediately at the end of the Rig Veda Yagya, we have a full day of yagyas for Lakshmi to enhance our material prosperity.  That is followed by a traditional yagya called Satyanarayana Yagya on the Full Moon day; Feb 24.

Then our Shivaratri yagya begins.  We will again perform the Maha Rudra  yagya with 11 priests performing Rudra Abishekam (liquid yagya) and homam (fire yagya) 11 times a day for 11 days.  All of this concludes on Shivaratri, March 8th.

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