Is There No Use of Ritual-sacrifices Involving the Burning of Ghee in the Fire?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri PVNM Sharma asked: Please explain the sacrifice done in these days by burning the ghee in physical fire about which You told that there is no trace of use by it except damage by pollution?]

Swami replied:- Fire is of three types: 1) Laukikaagni or bhautikaagni (fire made by sticks), 2) Vaidyutaagni (fire made by electricity) and 3) Devataagni (hunger fire in the stomach, called Vaishvaanara as told by the Gita). The first two types of fire are instrumental, using which the food is cooked (Yajnasaadhanam). The third type of fire is in the stomach of a deserving hungry person to which the cooked food is to be supplied and burnt in it (Yajnaupaasya). Hotaa means the priest, who is pouring the ghee in to the physical fire (as per the present misunderstood knowledge). Havaniiya is the fire into which the ghee is poured and burnt. Havih or Havyam is the ghee that is supplied to the fire. The Havih is misunderstood as pure ghee, but, it is not correct. Havih means the cooked food, which is fried with excess ghee and is called as ghee itself (possessor of apples is addressed as apples. Possessor is the food and possessed is ghee– as per Lakshanaavrutti). When the doctor advises the patient to avoid the oil and if the patient replies that he never drinks the oil directly, then how it will be! Here, oil means the food fried with the oil and not the oil directly! In the sacrifice, ghee means not the pure ghee, but, the food mixed with excess ghee. Also, here the fire does not mean the physical or electrical fire used to cook the food. The fire, here, means the hunger fire present in the stomach of the priest or Sadguru. Hence, the concluded meaning is not pouring pure ghee in physical or electrical fire (misunderstood and misinterpreted meaning). The real meaning is to supply the food possessing excess ghee to the hungry priest in the beginning before we take the food. The priest is called as fire or Agni. Agni comes from the word Agri (Agram nayati iti Agnih). Agni means the priest, who is brought to the beginning place (Agri-Agni), is the first place for feeding the food.

The first hymn (Agnimiile...) of the Rugveda says that the priest (Rutvik) is Hotaa, who supplies the ghee-food to the fire or Agni or himself. Here, the Hotaa (supplier of ghee-food) becomes the havaniiya or Agni, called Aahavaniiya (the fire to which the food is supplied). If Hotaa is different from Havaniiya (as we see in the present sacrifice, the priest pouring ghee in the inert physical fire), how the first hymn of the first Veda says that Hotaa and Havaniiya are one and the same? Therefore, the present misunderstood and misinterpreted sacrifice is causing pollution and is stopping the rains due to global warming. If you give the ghee-food to the priest, the rains will come because the pleased priest (Sadguru) contains all the deities in His body as said by the Veda (Yaavatiirrvai...). Today morning, I was invited by the devotees of Satya Datta Saadhanaalaya Sevaashram for a convetional sacrifice, called Saavitra Kaathakaagni Chayana Mahaayaaga. But, I refused to attend the sacrifice giving the above analysis. The Veda says that food (ghee is precious food) must not be destroyed (Annam na parichakshiita). God synthesized food from the inert five elements for the sake of souls and if souls destroy the food like this, God is insulted. God Kapila told in the Bhaagavatam while preaching to His mother, that a fool only burns the ghee in physical fire while doing sacrifice. God Krishna asked the wives of the sages to give food to His hungry friends instead of burning it in the fire.

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