Simple Agnihotra for Daily Practice

Environmental pollution and mechanical approach to life today is adversely affecting the human mind and body. Increase in the incidence of a wide variety of diseases and the downfall of moral values adding to stress, strain, hatred, jealousy, lust, enmity and violence witnessed in our daily interactions with people stand as proofs of this deplorable state of life. We also notice that the remedies which appeared effective only a few years ago have now started inducing side effects which are undesirable.

Until and unless the environmental toxins and the demoralizing factors are neutralized at the same rate with which they are spread, there is little hope of healthy survival. Sustaining the ecological balance, purifying the environment and developing healthy body and mind are the tasks which are demanding timely action from each and every individual. A simple Agnihotra called Balivaishva is a practice, which can be considered as the cheapest and simplest positive effort in this regard, if performed as an essential activity of the daily life.

The process of performing daily Agnihotra is very simple, inexpensive and requires only a few minutes to perform. Yet it is very effective and beneficial in all eventualities. Performance of the Yagya (Agnihotra) is free from the barriers of nationality, caste, creed, religion, age or sex etc. Anyone who wants to be healthy, happy and stress-free should start performing Agnihotra at the first available opportunity.

In the Balivaishva Agnihotra, five morsels of fresh vegetarian food are offered everyday before taking the meals in the morning and evening. These offerings are made in the fire lit on the cow-dung-cake kept in the copper pot (Kund) with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra. The detailed survey and systematic studies made by the Brahmavarchas Shodh Sansthan have shown that the physical health and psychological development of the members of the families, where Balivaishva is performed regularly is of excellent order. Generally, happy and helpful atmosphere is found in such houses.

Another kind of Agnihotra, which is specifically tuned with the biological clock and the vital energy cycle has been studied by the 'Institute for studies in Vedic Sciences' located in -- Akkalkot, (District Sholapur) in Maharashtra, India. This institute is acting as a network for evaluating the experiences of people, who perform Agnihotra on the basis of results obtained from time to time.