Spiritual Healing by Agnihotra

 

Spiritual Healing by Agnihotra

One of the oldest and easiest spiritual healing practice or meditation practice of Hindu rituals related with agni/fire is agnihotra - the sacred homa. This spiritual technique is a type of fire worship which was practiced by Indian saints thousands of years back. It is also known as small yajna (Yagna is a form of fire-worship, but in larger scale). Agnihotra homa can become a complimentary shakti or energy for us because all of us live in a very close relation with nature. The best place to do agnihotra is in the middle of room as the smoke from this homa/yajna can cover the entire house.

Time is the major factor for performing this spiritual healing practice of agnihotra ritual. It should be started exactly at either sun rise or at sun set and daily at the exact time of sun rise or sunset. You can get the exact timings by simply doing a Fire for agnihotra must be lit at that stipulated time & that one minute is very sacred. On that stipulated time there is a greater change in nature’s energy. At this time the whole environment gets charged with positive source of energy and we should make the best use of this positive energy. That is why timing is quite vital for agnihotra ritual, not one minute earlier or one minute later. Many times the performer makes mistakes in starting the ritual at exact time making it less effective. To become a master in this art one needs to put consistent effort behind it. So the most important thing in this ritual is muhurat (starting time). If the Muhurat is perfect and correct then everything will turn out to be good.

Items that are used in agnihotra - Spiritual healing meditation

1) Native cows dried dung. (Handful)
2) Hand pounded red raw rice. (Fistful)
3) Inner husk of a coconut. (Handful)
4) A bowl of native cows ghee. (4-5 Teaspoons or more if you wish)
5) Small sticks of peepal tree or choppings of jackfruit tree or sandalwood tree or paalasha tree (Handful)

Method of Performing Agnihotra- The Spiritual Healing Meditation

Initialize Agnihotra – Preparation before lighting up Yajna.

Take 10-15 minutes initial time before sun rise or sun set so that you can get ready for this ritual. First required thing for this ritual is a clean pyramid shaped copper vessel. This should be kept properly at one place and it should not touched once the agnihotra ritual starts or till the fire extinguishes. (Once the fire extinguishes you can move the vessel to any room where you usually spend more time, e.g bedroom).

Place handful of coconut husk at the bottom of the vessel. As an alternate you can also place a piece of dried cow dung mixed with ghee (clarified melted butter). Take a big (half inch) piece of cotton wick, fully immersed in ghee and keep it in center of the copper vessel. Now arrange the sticks of peepal or jackfruit sticks and place it over the husk or around the dried cow dung piece in a row. One can also add little pieces of camphor to induce more heat in fire. Leave enough place for air circulation. Now, spread a handful of dried cow dung pieces around the base. Next spread little (around 20-30) grains of red raw rice (not the polished white rice) dipped in ghee over the cow dung pieces or wood pieces. One can also add 9 varities of grains and pulses along with rice.

Lighting the Fire/ Starting the agnihotra ritual

When all the items have been placed in the copper vessel take small lamp and light it up. And with the help of the same lamp light up that cotton wick dipped in ghee. One can also use a match stick to light up the fire. Wait until it’s properly lit up. Let all the ingredients get flamed up properly. Now when you are sure and confirmed that the fire will not get extinguished, you may sit in a calm posture (any asana) and be ready to give your Namaskaras (chattting of specific mantra – salutations).

Mantras are to be said by joining the hands and sitting in the praying posture. See image for reference. Start your Namaskaras with the creator - VISHWADEVA and Sun - SURYADEVA because of which this whole creation would not have been possible. End with fire - AGNIDEVA. Devote yourself totally and start chanting the following mantras.

1) OM VISHVA-DEVAYA NAMAH.
2) OM VISHVA-DEVAYA SWAHA (now put the cow's ghee mixed with rice).
3) VISHVA-DEVAYA IDAM NAMAMA.

4) OM SURYAYA NAMAH.
5) OM SURYAYA SWAHA (now put the cow's ghee mixed with rice).
6) SURYAYA IDAM NAMAMA.

7) OM AGNI-DEVAYA NAMAH
8) OM AGNI-DEVAYA SWAHA (now put cow's, ghee mixed with rice)
9) AGNI-DEVAYA IDAM NAMAMA.

(Note :- In all the above mantras "OM" is not to be chanted during the third line of each mantra)

After this chant the following Soorya names

Om Mitraya Namaha    Om Ravaye Namaha

Om Sooryaya Namaha    Om Bhanave Namaha

Om Khagaya Namaha   Om Pooshney Namaha

Om Hirangharbhaya Namaha  Om Marichaye Namaha

Om Adhityaya Namaha   Om Savitre Namaha

Om Savitrasurya-narayanaya Namaha

Next Chant Gayatri Mantra - 5 times
Om Bhurbhuvaswa, Om Tatsaviturvarenyam Bhargodevasya Dimahi
Diyoyonaha Prachodayat.
Thank the universe now now,
Om bhoomi Mangalam        Om Udhaka Mangalam
Om Agni Mangalam            Om Vayu Mangalam
Om Soorya Mangalam         Om Chandra Mangalam
Om Gagana Mangalam        Om Jagat Mangalam
Om Jeeva Mangalam            Om Deha Mangalam
Om Mano Mangalam            Om Aatma Mangalam
Om Sarva Mangalam, bhavatu bhavatu bhavatu  - repeat this line 3 times
Chant Mrytunjaya Mantra - 5 times

Om tryambakam Yajamahe, Sungandhit Pushti Vardhanam

Urvarukmavi Vabhandanat, myrutyur mukhsi yamamrutat.

Next,

Sarve Jana sukhino bhavantu, sarve jana sukhino bhavantu

Loka sansta sukhino bhavantu

Final prayer,

Asatoma Satgamaya, Tamasoma Jyotir gaymaya

Mryutyorma Amrutam gamaya...

A few years back a devastating accident took place at Bhopal which is known as Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Thousands of people died in that tragedy. In a radius of 3km from the point leakage nobody had survived except a few. Surprisingly, scientists started investigating this issue and revealed a shocking truth. They come to know that all the survivors and their families were regularly performing agnihotra homa in their house. This makes us realize the greatness of agnihotra.