A lady from Ohio, in USA, calls me one day and tells me that she is about to put her 7 years old son on medications because of his behavioral problems. They have tried several natural approaches so far with no results. She has a 3 days yajña performed for Ketu as a last resource for her son. Six weeks later she calls me and tells me that her son is now playing with other kids, that he can also spend some time by himself that he is no longer totally depending on her, and that his behavior has much improved. He never went on medications.

 This approach has probably save this child from years of medications with all the side effects that could have had an impact on his child life and adult life as much on a physical and mental level..

A lady from Colorado, in USA, who is a real estate agent was having financial difficulties. She had a 7 days planetary yajña performed for Venus. She told me when she called me to order the yajna: "Yves, I don't know anything about this(yajña), but I am willing to trust these priests in India."

One month later, she calls me and said: " When I had the yajña performed last month, I had the choice between paying for my mortgage or having the yajña performed. Right after the yajna, I just had a client coming from nowhere, he bought a 6 millions dollars house, it is the biggest sale ever in the town where I work. " A year later she called me back about a court case that she was involved in ( court case that she won with the help of some yajñas), and she told me also : " I still have benefits from my last year yajña, clients keep coming from nowhere, the other real estate agents are asking me what is my secret. "

 This is a very good example of sincere total surrender to Mother Nature, with obvious results. The innocence and trust of that person were total. This lady had never heard about yajñas before that experience. This shows also the importance of doing longitudinal studies on yajñas, still today this lady is a very successful real estate agent. It is important here to understand that the yajna has simply removed some obstacles, making possible the wealth to manifest in her life. There were already some indications of wealth in her chart. The yajna made that probability a reality.

A man from California, in USA, , 6 months after his divorce, wanted to have a yajña performed to find a life partner. On the third day of his 7 days yajña for Venus he meets a lady by answering an add in a newspaper, the only add that he found appealing ( he never used that mean to meet a woman before). Interestingly enough the lady who got his message decides to answer only to him ( she had dozen of messages from her ad ). A year after they met, they got married.

 It is important to be open to any messages that Mother Nature is sending us to fulfill our desires. Very often the yajña will break a bad pattern in someone's life, the " answer " to the desire may come from an unexpected way. It is important to remain simple and innocent.

 A businessman from California, in USA, was having difficulties in his field of work. He called us to get yajñas performed. After having a yajña for the Sun for his success in life and one for Saturn for overcoming difficulties, this businessman calls me few months after and tells me that he didn't feel anything during the yajñas and he hasn't noticed anything in terms of changes in himself, but he adds :

"Before when I was doing my presentation at work, the clients were telling me that they were interested in my products, but they were always postponing their purchases. Now this pattern is gone, I close my deals much more often then before. It is quite noticeable. I really appreciate that change in my life. "

 The experiences that people have during the yajñas vary a lot from one person to another. The most important thing is the results that are coming from the yajñas, more then any temporary experiences that someone can have while the yajña is performed in India. Sometimes the changes come slowly and are progressive.
 

 A man from Florida, in USA, who's mother was very depressed for a long time and was letting herself dying slowly, had a yajña performed for himself for the Moon, with the picture of his mother in India. One week after the yajña he tries to contact her. Finally few days later he reaches her and then she tells him: " Well son, if you want to talk to me you are going to have to call me either before 8h00 am or after 10h00 p.m., because I am very busy and I'm always out doing things! "

 Sometimes the changes are quite dramatic. The results also depend on the affliction of the planets, if it is more or less severe.

 A lady from Montreal, in Canada, find herself in a difficult situation regarding her job security. There are a lot of cuts in the company that she is working for. So she gets a yajña for Saturn performed for 7 days, hoping that her situation will get more stable. A month later she calls me and tells me that there has been 20 people who lost their jobs in the reorganization of the company and she is the only one ( within the pool of people who were aimed) who got mutated to another position and kept in the company. Nobody around her among her colleagues in the company understood why she stayed, according to them there was something strange about the situation!

 The collective karma of the people who lost their jobs in the company was probably set a long time ago. This lady was part of it. But by using the knowledge of the yajña she was able to alleviate that karma and go on with her life in a much smoother way.

 A 52 years old man from Iowa, in USA, contacts us to get a 7 days yajña for Mars, which is very much afflicted in his natal chart. Six months later I get news about him : " All my life my emotional life has been a wreck. At my age I took it as granted that it would be like that for the rest of my life. But since the yajña has been performed I noticed a major improvement, I 'm emotionally more stable. Also my business is better, there are new people approaching me for partnership. And on top of that I started a new relationship with a lady that seems to go in the right direction."

 The yajñas have always what we could call " side effects ". Like a planet is never responsible for only one very specific aspect of someone's life but for many aspects, when someone has a yajña performed for something specific, there will always be others aspects influenced. Also we can say that like everything is interconnected, it is only normal, when an important aspect of life is improved, as the emotional factor, that the whole life gets a boost. We can also observe in this case that even patterns that are set from the early beginning of life can be altered with a yajña.

 A man from Toronto, in Canada, is falsely accused of drug dealing after the police find his name in a friend's phone book. After looking at his birth chart, Pundit Benu estimates that he will need a 7 days yajña for Saturn performed 3 times over the 6 months previous to his hearing in court. During the performance of the third yajña in India, his lawyer find out that the police had forged false proofs to incriminate him. The charges were dropped few days later at his earring.

 The karma coming from past lives seems always to be the worst karma, because unjustified to our westerners' eyes. We often prefer to blame others for their insensibility, incompetence, or lack of good judgment ( which are only the means by which our karma is delivered). The yajñas can be an excellent way of diminishing or avoiding the karma from past lives, so we can put all our energies in building a life in an evolutionary direction.

A lady who practices Ayurveda in Nevada, USA, had several yajñas performed. She decided to have an holistic approach of her life with the yajñas. She wanted to go ahead with all the yajñas that could be good for her at that point of her life. She had 4 yajñas performed ; for Venus for happiness and economical progress, for Ketu for good health and overcoming difficulties in life, for Rahu for good communication with the public and to avoid danger in life, and finally for Saturn for good health and to have a good business. Six months later I talk to her and she tells me : " My life is now so wonderful since I had the yajñas performed. I feel in bliss and happy like I never did before. I feel very much uplifted spiritually. The atmosphere around my home is very special now, I have Shiva Lingams in my courtyard and now the plants around them are bowing towards them, and even if I move the Lingams, the plants will move and will always bow in their direction."

  The main purpose of yajñas is to satisfy unfulfilled desires in order to promote our spiritual life. On our spiritual path very often we can say that few aspects of our life are unfulfilled even if we do spiritual practices. The yajñas have the purpose to eliminate those thorns that are making our mind focusing on the level of frustrations. Once those thorns are removed, life can take a totally different face. The efforts accumulated over the years in our spiritual life then can be more appreciated, simply because our mind is now free and available to experience what is present here and now.

A man who was having difficulties with his neighbors at home couldn't find a solution to his problems. The neighbors were having parties every single week-end with loud music over the whole week-ends. He had try to discuss with them but with no results at the end. So he decides to have a yajna performed for that purpose. In his case he needed a Jupiter yajna. Two weeks later he calls me to let me know that his neighbors had a terrible car accident over the week-end of the yajna performance. One of them is now in jail for drinking and driving, the other two are in physical rehabilitation. He felt so bad for them that he had his brother who is a doctor to come over to make sure that the two who are in physical rehabilitation would get the right treatments. This brought a lot of harmony between everyone.

 A clear example of an efficient intervention of Nature. Everyone has been put back to his place in a dramatic way, but only after that a more gentle approach has shown unsuccessful.

A businessman from Montreal, in Canada, was facing financial difficulties, lack of happiness and wasn't satisfied of his bachelor status. So he decided to start with a planetary yajña for Venus that was recommended to him, for more happiness. On the 3rd day of his yajña he called me to let me know that he was going away in the south for a week of vacation. So I told him that usually it is better to not travel during the time of the yajña performance. He tells me that he just did the reservation for his ticket and he cannot cancel the ticket. He leaves on the 5th day of his yajña. One week later he calls me to let me know that he met a lady during his trip, she is from Montreal too. They have been together for the past two years and a half. Still having difficulties with his financial situation, he decides to have some yajñas performed for that specific purpose. Those yajñas brought also good results. Since the past two years he started from a situation where the bank was about "to pull the plug" to a situation where he is having the best performance with his business among all the franchised in Canada, and from there to get involved in a new business in which the bank (that was about to pull the plug) is now a partner with him in a booming enterprise in North America in the field of family entertainment. Now he is about to sell his first business, for which he just had an offer, to spend all his time in the new business that he enjoys very much. It is legitimate for people who don't have any experiences with the yajñas to test the knowledge first, and once they have a good experience they will come back for more.

 Another interesting aspect of this case is not only the progression in terms of the quantity of his success, but also in term of quality. When this man started with his first business he was in fast food restaurant business, which deals with a lot of beef meat. This in the Vedic tradition isn't considered as very satvic( pure) business, but a very tamasic (static) one. So the yajñas didn't only brought him success, but also put him on an higher plane of evolution within his dharmic path. This will for sure support his spiritual development. The yajñas always give more then what we ask for (even if we are not always conscious about it).