As it is impossible to know intellectually all the laws of nature that we are not in harmony with, the knowledge of one's astrological chart will make it easier to understand what are the majors laws of nature that one has to reestablish harmony with, in this life time, in order to have access to a more balanced mind, spirit and body.

It is impossible for an individual to work on all the laws of nature, one by one, in one life time with the idea of becoming enlightened. There are just to many of those laws. So why bother about performing yajnas ? One could say. Well the goal of having yajnas performed is to create a minimal balance that will make possible then for someone to benefit from a contenting life. This contentment has for purpose to free the mind sufficiently from sufferings so it becomes possible to engage oneself on a spiritual path. A spiritual path won't mean that there is not going to have any ups and down along the path. It means that the contentment is strong enough so even if some ups and downs occur on the path, that won't be enough to divert the attention of the spirit from the desire to unite with God.

This way the yajnas are becoming a key, not The key, but simply another good key to support one's strong desire of progressing on the spiritual path.

 
ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH

There is a first strong objection that comes from time to time about the real beneficial effects of the yajnas on the spiritual path. Some people are telling me sometimes : " If we allow people to have yajnas performed to alleviate some bad karmas that they were supposed to go through, we steal from them to learn a lesson of life that could have made them more spiritual. " That would prove to be right only if the yajnas would have an impact only and strictly on the karma level. But that is not the case. Beside having this influence of burning the past karma, the yajnas will have another major impact on someone's life:

The yajnas have the ability to transform one's consciousness.

This means that the lack of embrace that a spirit can have towards some laws of Nature is modified by the yajnas' performance. Once the understanding is integrated on the level of consciousness it is very likely that the individual won't repeat the same mistake.

The second major objection that I hear once in a while is that having yajnas performed will indulge one's spirit more deeply in the material life. ( I have to mention here that yajnas can be performed for any existing area of life). That statement has no place from a wide spiritual perspective :

• that statement comes from a non-holistic point of view. From an astrological point of view, all planets can help to reach enlightenment. All aspects of life are related in a way or another to a planet. So enlightenment can be reached by so many paths that any angle can be used for that goal. I find that objection of self indulgement in material life somehow coming from an old occidental religious archetypal point of view which was proning the non-involment into material life, so they could have a better control over the people. We have to destroy that belief that is quite armful on the spiritual path.

For someone who is involved in the mundane life, to deny the importance of some material comfort, is to deny a part of his/her spiritual path.

• If a monk who has for spiritual path to be not concerned by mundane life, would decide to have yajnas performed to find a good wife/husband, or to have a yajna performed to become very rich. Even then I wouldn't see any problems. If that person has that desire it is for a reason. From our experience we have seen that when people would have a yajna done for something that is not supportive for their evolution, that desire would simply vanish after the performance of the yajna. The yajnas have nothing to do with black magic. They will work only if they promote life as a whole. If the monk becomes rich after the yajna, then it is for the best for him and for the Universe.

Money is not anti-spiritual. It is the attachment to the idea of that money is the source of happiness that can be armful. As much as the attachment to the idea of being a monk is the only key to enlightenment, can also be really armful.

It becomes more an individual responsibility on the behalf of the person who chooses to have a yajna performed or not, or the responsibility of the vedic astrologer who is recommending such or such yajna for a person who is seeking for help. It might be very well the responsibility of the jyotishi to tell someone to forget about a particular type of desire that will not support one's spiritual evolution.