Yagna: Mantra or Fire
Every year we perform a yagna ceremony which is from the tantra yoga tradition. If the weather is dry we do a fire yagna outside & if it is rainy and wet – we do a mantra yagna in the tent. Chanting (kirtan), prayers, mantras, pranayam (breathing exercises), meditations all help to make for a powerful experience and a wonderful culmination of the yoga weekend. To attend the yagna, everyone is asked to please wear clean clothes and to have a shower beforehand.
Absolutely everything in the ritual of yagna is highly symbolic and it is an austerity or ‘tapas’ to attend a full yagna. Usually they last 1.5 hours to 2 hours in length. At the end of the yagna, arati a ceremony of lights is performed, and a small feast of kheer(Indian rice pudding) and other treats, is enjoyed by all.
Mantra Yagna Mound.
Preparations for a fire yagna Kheer and chanting at end of the yagna
The fire symbolically burns up all our offerings of negative energies thus contributing to inner peace within and in the world.
OM SWAHA
