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 General Information on Yajnas

UPAYES: REMEDIAL MEASURES IN VEDIC ASTROLOGY ( Jyotish )

In vedic astrology there is an important branch of it called " UPAYES ". This branch of vedic astrology deals with remedial measures that can counteract or enhance events or trends that are to happen in our lives.The upayes are :

• wearing gems
• volunteer work for the benefit of the community
• meditation
• personal sacrifices
• performance of rituals. Such rituals are called YAJNAS in the vedic tradition. This spiritual tradition is at least 5000 years old. The Biswa Kalyan Foundation provides the possibility for anyone in the world to have yajnas performed for them in India.

WHY YAJNAS EXIST IN THE SCIENCE OF JYOTISH

All events in our life are the results of our past actions (karmas). To the eyes of our ego, favorable influences and unfavorable influences come to our life. A vedic astrologer can predict, from the reading of the natal chart, what kind of influences will return to us. The Yajnas are rituals that can enhance favorable influences, neutralize or diminish unfavorable influences coming in our life. The yajñas have the power to change your karma.

WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF A YAJNA?

Each yajña has its own specific set of rituals. These rituals include: chanting of mantras, offerings; flowers, ghee and food through a fire, to the laws of nature (or Devas), offerings to the planets, feeding at least 100 poor children every day, and other rituals in or around the temple. These yajnas requires the performance of 18, 28 over 3 days or 108 vedic rituals over 7 days, depending on the yajña being performed.

A yajna will act on the following 4 levels of the creation:

• DEITY ( or law of Nature) with offerings in a vedic fire to a deity and by chanting mantras to the deity. (This part can also be performed easily by yourself by taking few minutes a day, ask about planetary mantras that we have on CDs).
• FOREFATHERS: by making offerings to your forefathers
• RISHIS: by chanting the different parts of the vedas for the satisfaction of the Rishis and the creation.
• HUMANITARIAN WORK: after each yajna, the food that has been prepared as offerings for the rituals are then given to poor children and to anyone who wishes to receive such blessed food. Because of this, it has been possible to serve about 250 000 meals at our center during the year 2000. Ypu will also be contributing to the free education of 350 children, education which is provided at our ashram. In the year 2000 we have also started to provide free medical services in allopathic and homeopathic medicine to the villagers with free homeopathic remedies.

Our yajñas are performed in India. From your natal chart, your Jyotishi (vedic astrologer) is able to predict any major trend that may occur in the future. According to his predictions you are more prepare to orient your life in a way that your energy will be canalized in directions that will bring you more fulfillment. The yajñas have the power to change your karma. Ideally the yajña should be performed before an unfavorable influence starts to bring negativity in our life, so we don't have to reap the negativity that we have sown in the past. In the case of a favorable influence it would also be good to do the yajna just before the period starts.

HOW LONG DOES A YAJNA LAST?

Depending on your recommendation, the yajña that will be performed for your benefit will last either 3 or 7 days.

WHEN AND WHERE DOES IT TAKE PLACE?

The yajñas are performed in a yajña shtalla (a kind of outdoor temple) at the Biswa Kalyan Foundation located in, Nabadwip, West-Bengal, India.

Due to the difference of time zones between India and North America, a yajña, for example, scheduled on a Wednesday morning at 6:30 a.m.. in India, would start for you at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening (EST). Usually a yajña will always start very early in the morning and will last until noon for a short recess and will start again to continue until 2:30 pm. The exact moment will be determined by our jyotishi in India. You will be advised of the date and time that it will start.

WHAT CAN I EXPECT DURING A YAJNA?

Almost anything can happen. Every person is unique, so everyone will experience it differently. However, there are few things that are more common.

If the yajña takes place while you are sleeping, it is possible that the energy generated by the yajña will provoke a light sleep. If this is the case for you, you should remain in bed and rest. Don't get up to watch TV, read or don't go for a walk, just rest. If you practice a meditation technique, it is a good time to practice it, if you can't sleep. Some people experience the total opposite, they will sleep like a log, while other people will dream more than usual, or will only be more conscious of their dreams. Some people have also noticed a general feeling of well being during the week that the yajña was performed, a subtle feeling of inner lightness.

It is also very possible that the week goes by and you will have the impression that nothing was particularly different during that week.

It is important that you understand that whatever will be your experience during the yajna, there is no direct connection between what you will experience during that week and the quality of the results that you will get from the yajna.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE BEFORE I CAN NOTICE ANY RESULTS FROM THE YAJNA?

This will also vary from one person to another. It is possible that you start to experience some benefits on the very first day that you decide to have a yajna performed. The attention of the mind is a very powerful tool of evolution. However, in general, people start to experience results in the first month following the yajña. But for some people it might take up to three months before starting to see some results. Also we have noticed that when a planet is extremely afflicted, the subjective experience is lesser, but the yajña remain a very good thing to do. The key is to remain innocent and patient.

Please keep in mind that nature has an infinite organizing power, and the results from the yajña in some case can come from unexpected directions. Again, remain innocent and patient.

You may call us three months after the yajña has been performed to verify the results that you received. But if after three month you have not experienced any results of any kind, please give us a call so we can bring this fact to the attention of our pundits in India.