Gathering for World Peace at Om Shree Dham May 2026 Satsang | Volume 54 # 1| New Era 83

Gathering for World Peace at Om Shree Dham, Australia

Lee and Frits Ringma
New South Wales, Australia

The Agnihotra Gathering for World Peace on Saturday, April 18th 2026 was a special gathering of 21 people, some locals, some from Newcastle, Maitland, Sydney and all the way from Albury and Melbourne!

Those who arrived early had a tour of the up-and-coming Retreat Centre. As soon as we came to the Central Dome room we spontaneously started singing hallelujah.

When more people had arrived we started Om Tryambakam Homa and all sang the mantras. We saw many in deep concentration for healing and peace. This culminated in a group Agnihotra. Right at Agnihotra time a flock of white cockatoos descended, wanting to be part of it all and across the valley a wedding started up receiving the blessings of the powerful group Agnihotra.

In the words of a beautiful healer friend of ours, “What an immense portal was created when we came together. The place where magic happens.”

One of the magical happen-ings of a more mundane nature but also very important was that there was zero wind on that day. As we were going to perform Agnihotra outside we prayed that there be negligible wind so we could ignite the Fires easily. The morning of the event I looked at the weather report and it said ZERO WIND, while previous days had substantial wind.

After Agnihotra we celebrated with delicious vegetarian dishes lovingly prepared . Then we toned a choir of peace Aums with the crystal bowl and sang songs of peace and devotion in English and Sanskrit. We were also blessed to have an Agnihotri with us who is a classical Indian singer. We were spellbound by the nectar and purity of her voice singing Sanskrit devotional songs.

Thank you so much one and all who participated in whatever way you could, and may the Light of the Divine be ever-increasing on this planet as dedicated souls gather together to make a difference.

Group prayer and meditation for world peace is the need of the hour. When combined with Agnihotra it becomes extra powerful.

Improved Anti-Cancer Efficacy of Plant Leaf Extracts from Homa Farming

Ed.

A study in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine Volume 17, Issue 3, May–June 2026, 101316 found that medicinal plants grown using Homa farming techniques show markedly higher anticancer effectiveness against cervical cancer cells, as compared to conventionally grown plants. According to the research, extracts from plants such as tulsi and neem, cause cancer cells to self-destruct. Cell migration is also reduced. This suggests that Homa farming can increase the healing properties of natural remedies. Read the full article at ScienceDirect.

Deepest thanks to Dr. Ulrich Berk for organizing and overseeing this research.

Two Special Remembrances in May

Ed.

(Please note: Agnihotra, Fivefold Path and Homa Therapy may be practiced by anyone, regardless of religion, beliefs, or creed. No one is asked to follow any particular individual. However, people sometimes ask about those Messengers who brought forth this knowledge in modern times.)

May 17th marks the birthday of PARAMA SADGURU SHREE GAJANAN MAHARAJ (1918-1987)
of Akalkot, India, who revived the ancient knowledge of Agnihotra and the Fivefold Path for the present day.

Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj

From I Wish I Had Known, by Fran Rosen-Sawyer (now Parvati Rosen-Bizberg):

“Shree is KALKI AVATAR. The word AVATAR means the descent of Divine Power on earth to fulfill an allotted task from Almighty Father. KALKA means pollution; hence, KALKI AVATAR means Divine Messenger for the destruction of pollution. SADGURU means PERFECT MASTER. PARAMA SADGURU means highest among the PERFECT MASTERS.

“Shree’s lineage reflects a glorious spiritual heritage. His mother Sonamata was a great YOGINI. (YOGINI is the feminine term for YOGI.) Shree’s father Shivananda Swami was a renowned NADA BRAHMA YOGI….Shree’s grandfather Tatyaji Maharaj was a saint who possessed great intuitive knowledge of medicine and astrology….

“On Christmas day, December 25th, 1941 Shree’s allotted task was revealed by the Will of Almighty Father…Shree was further informed that the time for unfolding was yet to be…. In 1944 Shree vowed, ‘I will resuscitate the Vedas.’

“Parama Sadguru once said:
‘Whatever Almighty has willed to be done through our instrument shall be done. Our
whole life is totally dedicated to Him. He who revealed to us our allotted task shall grant us
the necessary strength to fulfill it.

‘It is not for us to advise people to follow any particular individual.

‘If it is the will of the Almighty to convey to the world any message through us, He will do so.
We are merely His slaves.

‘We are not votaries of any religious denomination. Whether it is the Bible or the Koran or        the doctrines of Hindus we will convey the message with equal yearning.

‘We have asked people not to call us GURU. Many have imposed Guruhood on us. Many           have experienced superhuman powers with us. Many have witnessed miracles. We are mere witness of, not the doers of these things.

‘We surrendered totally to the Almighty and He started utilizing our body as His instrument.
Each one has to tread his path of Self-realization.’”

Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj left the mortal coil on December 6, 1987. In reference to the lineage after He left the Body, Shree stated that after Us, comes Vedas; after Us, comes the Fire. There is no lineage. The Fire is of utmost importance.

Shree Vasant Paranjpe

May 13th marks the birthday of Shree Vasant V. Paranjpe, who left the body on December 30,
2008, at Maheshwar, India.

Words could never convey the impact of His life on countless people around the world to whom He carried the message of Agnihotra and Fivefold Path. In His mission, He circled the globe year after year, serving with unwavering devotion, utmost humility, astonishing energy and boundless love. He was instrumental in transforming the lives of people from all walks of life.

He so scrupulously avoided personal attention throughout His life of service, and never sought to collect followers. (For years, He declined to have His photo in this newsletter, which He Himself founded.) In total humility, He guided people to focus on the message of Yajnya, Daan, Tapa, Karma, Swadhyaya–not the messenger.

Following are some highlights from Shree Vasant’s life of service:

In 1970, Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj of Akalkot, India, who resuscitated Agnihotra and the Fivefold Path of Vedas in modern times, commanded Shree Vasant:
“Our words which lead to BLISS, convey them to all the people.”

Thus began Shree Vasant’s thirty-eight years of travel and teaching, of Grace and total surrender to the Divine.

In 1972 He began teaching in the U.S. In 1973 He became the founder president of Fivefold Path, Inc., a nonprofit organization established in Madison, Virginia. In that same year, Shree Gajanan Maharaj commanded Shree Vasant to start this Satsang newsletter.

On September 22, 1973, Shree Vasant inaugurated the Parama Dham Fire Temple in Madison,
Virginia, the first Fire Temple in the world established under Shree Gajanan Maharaj’s dispensation of ancient science of atmospheric purification for the New Age. In a Fire Temple there is no priest and nothing is worshiped. Agnihotra is performed there daily at sunise and sunset, and a fixed set of mantras are chanted after Agnihotra. With the exception of the mantras, silence is observed at all times in the Fire Temple. The atmosphere in such a place becomes surcharged with healing energies.

In 1974 Shree Vasant carried the message to Europe. Over the years, His mission also took Him to South America, Australia, Africa and Asia. He was instrumental in bringing Agnihotra and Fivefold Path to thousands of people all over the planet.

He pioneered the use of Homa Therapy in agriculture, psychotherapy, alternative medicine, self-development and healing the environment. Under His guidance, Homa farms and centers such as Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya in Poland, Om Shree Dham farm in Australia, Ancient Oaks farm in U.S.A. and Tapovan in India, came forth.

He is the author of Grace Alone, Light Towards Divine Path, Ten Commandments of Parama Sadguru and Homa Therapy, Our Last Chance. His books have been translated into a number of  languages.

Over fifty years ago, many of His talks and writings warned of the environmental degradation and deterioration that have come to pass in virtually all parts of the globe today, in the forms of atmospheric pollution, nuclear radiation hazards, water pollution, soil fatigue, noise pollution and more. But along with these warnings, He offered a solution that people all over the world could use to heal themselves and their environment–Agnihotra and Fivefold Path.

Glimpses of Shree Vasant’s life can be found in Messenger of the Sacred Fire, the Extraordinary Life and Works of Shree Vasant Paranjpe by Parvati Rosen-Bizberg. In it, a number of people from various countries have shared their experiences with Shree Vasant and the spread of Agnihotra around the planet. But perhaps the greater story of His life is just beginning to unfold, as people the world over continue His mission.

In February, 2009, an important milestone was achieved: Homa Therapy Teacher Certification training. The certification program is a means of accurately preserving and conveying the Vedic knowledge given by Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj and taught worldwide by Shree Vasant Paranjpe. Through the program, Homa Therapy teachers can be more thoroughly and consistently trained, so that a uniform message of the teachings of Homa Therapy goes out to the world. This also promotes unity among Homa Therapy teachers.

Homa Therapy Teacher Certification courses have been given at Tapovan farm in India, Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya in Poland, and the Resonance Point, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Agnihotra and Homa Therapy as taught by Certified Homa Therapy teachers are very specific practices. Many things on internet are called Agnihotra or Homa Therapy, but are not the same as given by Maharaj Shree and taught by Shree Vasant.  The wonderful results people have gotten and the scientific research on Agnihotra were obtained by people using the exact methods taught by Certified Homa Therapy teachers. This form of Agnihotra uses a copper

pyramid of fixed shape and size, pure cow’s ghee, dried cowdung, unpolished rice, exact timings of sunrise and sunset, and specific Agnihotra Mantras as found at https://www.agnihotra.org/mantras/. Nothing is to be changed or added.

Another unfoldment of Shree Vasant’s work was a series of seven Maha Somayags, beginning in 2007 and reaching successful completion in February, 2017. These very powerful, special Yajnyas, held at the Homa Therapy Goshala on the banks of the Narmada River in Maheshwar, Madya Pradesh, India, unleashed tremendous healing energy for our planet.

Homa Therapy Goshala of Fivefold Path Mission, Maheshwar, India again served as the site of special purpose Vedic Yajnyas.  Sautramani Yag was peacefully conducted from 26-28th December 2018.  Persons from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal were present for this Yajnya. Nakshatra Yajnya was successfully performed from January 17th to 21st, 2019, attended by people from India, Austria, Germany, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Japan, Australia, and North and South America.

An important goal was reached on March 25, 2023 at Tapovan Homa farm, where they
celebrated the completion of 22 years of continuous, round-the-clock Om Tryambakam Homa. Given the small number of people who carried out this work, this achievement is nothing short of miraculous. Our congratulations and thanks to all who helped achieve this historic milestone.

Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya, Poland, continues making great strides in building the Centre of Light, Shree Vasant’s vision of an international environmental educational and healing center. In the last year they successfully installed new electrical equipment to reduce bills and make the place more sustainable. They are working on grant applications and co-operations with local and EU organisations to be able to open the doors to welcome people to experience the healing benefits of a Homa atmosphere in a world class seminar center.

Around the world, Homa Therapy teachers strive to make the teachings of Agnihotra, Fivefold Path and Homa Therapy available to all.  This task took a great leap forward on May 13th, 2020. In honor of the 99th birth anniversary of Shree Vasant,  Fivefold Path Mission announced that it has made Shree Vasant’s books available on Amazon. The books are available in Kindle and paperback formats.

Beginning in 2020, as COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns prevented some of the usual events at which Agnihotra and Homa Therapy are taught, Homa Therapy teachers began  adapting and using new methods. Several Homa Therapy centers began conducting Zoom and Facebook online Agnihotra classes and meetings. Some of those meetings continue today, in the U.S. and South America.

In honor of Shree Vasant’s 100th birth anniversary, an international online event was held on May 13, 2021. Over 375 people participated, from India, South America, Poland, Australia, US, Austria, Spain, Holland, Mexico, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Germany.

In Maheshwar, India, a bold, new project is being developed, called “SAMATVA”. It was conceived as a novel approach to bring the words and message of SHREE and Fivefold Path to a broader, more public audience. The land, a short distance from the Homa Therapy Goshala, was purchased on 17^th May 2023 so a new center can be established. For more than 3 months, the land levelling work was carried out with multiple land measurements. The ground foundation work has started and will take around one month to complete. Please see the article below.

From May 12-18, 2026 another continuous Global Om Tryambakam Homa program was successfully completed, with Agnihotris from many countries participating. The event was organized by Homa Therapy teachers Abel Hernandez and Aleta Macan.

More scientific research on Agnihotra has been, and is being, conducted. A preliminary study on the improved anticancer properties of plant leaf extracts from Homa environment was published in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine Volume 17, Issue 3, May–June 2026. Please see the above article.

Step by step, Agnihotra moves toward a wider audience. Internet and social media allow us to disseminate information on Agnihotra more quickly than ever before. Following are some resources for Agnihotra, Homa Therapy and Fivefold Path information:

Homa Therapy International
Agnihotra and Homa Therapy Web Portal
www.homatherapy.org
This comprehensive site features articles on Agnihotra, Homa Therapy, Somayag, scientific validation, Homa communities, plus news and blogs from around the world. Links to websites of Homa centers in a number of different countries are also featured. Sunrise/sunset timings for Agnihotra can be obtained here as well. The site also offers an extensive archive of back issues of Satsang.

Homa Organic Farming
www.homafarming.com
In addition to basic information on Homa Organic Farming, this site includes such topics as scientific validation, radioactivity, Resonance Points, applications, farmers’ testimonies, the farmer’s friends (cows, bees and earthworms), soil and water, and pests and diseases. It also highlights the Noah’s Ark Project. This is a special system of Homa Organic Farming wherein
a group of farmers can work together using a Resonance Point on contiguous farms. The model can be useful for organic farmers or those who wish to go organic.

Homa Health
www.homahealth.com
This site gives articles on Homa Therapy, along with Agnihotra Ash medicines and healing testimonies. A listing of many ailments and diseases is given, making it easy to locate information pertaining to a particular health issue.

http://www.homatherapie.de
This site offers online calculation of Agnihotra timings for the whole year. There is also a link to download the Agnihotra Buddy app, which gives you correct timings on your mobile phone with just a few clicks, wherever you are, if you have internet access. Agnihotra Buddy is now available for both Android phones as well as iPhones.

Other related sites include:
http://www.agnihotra.org
http://www.agnihotra.com.au
http://www.homatherapypoland.org
http://www.fivefoldpathmission.org
http://www.homa1.com
http://www.homatherapy.nl
http://www.baltohomacommunity.org
http://www.homapsychotherapy.com

It is impossible to truly sum up the spread of Agnihotra, Fivefold Path and Homa Therapy today. We may read about events and milestones on the aforementioned websites, but there is no way to chronicle the work that goes on quietly, behind the scenes, all over the world, or the great changes that take place within the hearts and minds of Agnihotris and Fivefold Path practitioners around the globe.

A precious heritage has been entrusted to all of us who have been taught Agnihotra, the Fivefold Path and Homa Therapy. We can honor this priceless gift by striving to manifest these teachings more fully in our lives, and by sharing this knowledge with others. Believe what you experience.

Foundation-laying Ceremony at Samatva

Sarvajit Paranjpe
Fivefold Path Mission
Maheshwar, India

With the blessings of Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj and Gurudev Shree Vasant Paranjpe, the symbolic filling of the foundation for “Paya Bharni” was completed on 29th April 2026. “Paya Bharni” is an auspicious foundation-laying ceremony performed before the construction of a new building, home, or structure begins. The term literally refers to “filling the foundation”. It marks the transition from planning to active construction.

It often involves worship of the earth, in which a brick or stone is laid, and cement is poured into the column foundation. It is believed that performing this ritual at an auspicious time helps remove negative energy and ensure the building’s structural integrity and harmony. Agnihotra pyramid, Shree Yantra, and Agnihotra Ash were placed at the footing of the column.

 

For more than 3 months, the land leveling work was carried out with multiple land measurements. The ground foundation work has started and will take around one month to complete.

[For more information on Samatva, please contact Sarvajit at:
fivefoldpath@gmail.com
Website: www.fivefoldpathmission.org
-Ed.]

The Fire That Reveals: A Reluctant Transformation and the Return to Life After Drugs

By Gaia Urson Sigel
Om Shree Dham
New South Wales, Australia

When the chaos settles, there’s a specific silence that follows the noise of addiction. I was left silent with the one thing I spent a lifetime avoiding: myself. In that raw, exposed space, intellect could not save me, and willpower is finite. I needed an external anchor strong enough to hold me until I learnt to hold myself.

I found that anchor in Agnihotra, the practice of tending a sacred fire at the precise transitions of day and night. It was here, in the discipline of sunrise and sunset, that I began to dismantle the architecture of my escapism. To explain how this reshaped my world, we must first look at the dual nature of the element I work with.

There are two kinds of fire people speak about. One is the fire I like: warm, comforting, and familiar—a light that makes life feel kinder. The other is the fire that frightens me: the fire that consumes, purifies, and leaves nothing hidden.

My relationship with Agnihotra—and my journey through three decades of addiction—belongs firmly to the second kind.

Before any praise, I want to put praise where it belongs. Praise is to the practice. Praise is to the return. Praise is to keeping truthful in dishonest times. My story is not “honorable” so much as it has been a duty. If my life appears honorable from the outside, it is because I returned to that duty and stayed in service to the Fire.

What I’ve learned about reluctant transformation, and about trusting what the Fire reveals even when I don’t want to see it: practice equals presence, steadiness equals tolerance, and humility equals dignity.

I was asked to write about my experience with the Fire from a de-addiction standpoint. Looking back at who I used to be still brings a certain terror. Not because I am unsafe today—I am genuinely happier and steadier—but because memory has teeth. I do not want to romanticize the past, and I do not want to turn it into theater. I refuse to write a glossy homage that skips the hard truth.

I write in the hope it may help someone who is quietly trying to live their way back into themselves. This is a clean witness to what changed when the mask of “functioning” finally broke, and the smoke cleared.

My history with addiction is long and deep. I began using hard drugs at sixteen. Over the decades the substances changed and the struggle came in cycles, but the aim stayed the same: get high, exit the pain of being myself, and still look functional. It was an on-again, off-again attempt to regulate a body that didn’t feel safe to live in. Opiates became the final lock. That was the undoing that demanded I finally stop hiding.

There came a point where the façade stopped working. Jobs were lost. Relationships failed. My life constricted, and my capacity to regulate my emotions collapsed alongside it.

Addiction was more than a substance problem. It was a time problem, an impulse problem, an avoidance problem. My mind tried to outrun consequence; my nervous system searched for anything that felt safe.

The hardest reversal was this: my addiction wasn’t only an escape from pain—it was also where I felt safe. That is the tragedy. The place that felt like protection was inevitably dangerous and personally destructive.

In that state, the world shrank. Everything collapsed into me and my pain, me and my relief, me and my next breath of escape. Underneath there were old reasons: childhood neglect and abuse, a lack of life skills, and a nervous system that hadn’t learned how to sit still.

Here is the part I resisted saying for years: I live with complex PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and the echoes of paranoid schizophrenia. There have been times when my internal environment felt cold and threatening. For years, I managed life by force—and by numbing out. Because rigorous honesty matters, the facts must be stated cleanly. It has been almost ten years since my opiate dependency ended, in February 2016. Since then, I have relapsed twice. This is not for drama. It is because it is true, and because I learned something important: relapse is part of recovery and it did not mean I was worthless nor doomed. It meant I was still learning what my nervous system reaches for under strain, and what kind of structure I needed to build instead.

I could tell the story of how I was introduced to Agnihotra, and how I lived at Om Shree Dham for nearly a year, giving me a course to travel. I will leave that story for another time. What matters here is the practical effect of the work. The Fire did not “cure” my diagnoses. It did not erase my history. It gave me a timed refuge where my nervous system could practice one thing repeatedly: stay (stillness), breathe (regulation), and take the next ordered step (a routine of return). When paranoia rose, it had less room to run. When emotion surged, it had somewhere to settle.

Agnihotra, as I understand and practice it, is not a mere idea, and it is not a “wellness hack.” It is an appointment: the coming together of specific ingredients, the mantra, and the offering at the precise moments of sunrise and sunset, as given in the Vedic tradition. It does not bargain with mood. It does not ask whether I feel worthy or “spiritual”. It arrives like the sun itself—twice a day—and asks me to be there.

And that, quietly, is where my healing began. The practice began to reverse the shrinking of my world. Not all at once, and certainly not without resistance. In the beginning, I came guarded and rigid. I did not trust stillness, because stillness removes the anesthetic. When I stopped escaping, old machinery woke up and screamed at me to distract, move, talk, act, blame, chase—anything.

Restlessness rose inside me, wanting to flee the discomfort of being present. But when I stayed—when I kept returning—something else could arrive. Sometimes relief. Sometimes softness. Sometimes a kind of bliss. I learned not to chase that. I learned to value something older than my repressed emotion: steadiness. The Fire did not reward performance. It asked for presence.

One of the greatest turning points in my recovery was the moment I stopped feeding my cleverness. Cleverness is a gift, but in my addiction it became a loophole-maker. It negotiated. It justified. It delayed the next honest step while sounding wise. I even learned how to praise the Fire without allowing the Fire to change me.

The Fire did not negotiate. It asked for devotion to the work: prepare, arrive on time, offer, complete. Again. Again. And again. This repetition—so simple it insulted my ego—is what rebuilt me. It did not make me a hero nor a master. It made me ordinary in the best sense: a person with a steadier nervous system; a person who can tolerate silence; a person who can keep a promise.

I used to joke that I tried being “normal” and it was the worst part of my life. These days, I am less interested in appearing normal and more interested in being true. My practice as an Agnihotri gives me a true center. It supports my boundaries and my sanity. It allows me to accept my limitations and my mental health challenges without turning them into a performance.

In this path, worship is not putting something on a pedestal while I remain unchanged. Worship is humbling. It is like throwing my keys under the bed so I have to get down on my knees to find them.

That is worship as dignity. It is a redressing of low self-esteem—not through hype, but through conduct. Through showing up. Through kneeling to reality. Through letting the practice humble me without humiliating me.

When I set the fire, something in me gathers. My attention stops scattering. In learning the mantras, I learned to come into relationship with myself.

The practice taught me this hard mercy: my brokenness can be a gift—if I stop using it as an excuse to disappear.

The reversal feels lasting and significantly undeniable: environment and mind are two sides of the same coin. When one is polluted, the other suffers. When one is tended, the other steadies. The meeting point, for me, is Prāṇa—the felt field of breath, vitality, and atmosphere. When I tend the Fire, I am also tending the edge of my own consciousness. I keep an internal warmth that is life-sustaining rather than life-consuming.

Agnihotra is an antidote to the addictiveness of modern life—the consumption, the busyness, the forcefulness that disrupts my gentle nature and makes me dissociate from myself and the world. I lose sight of what matters when I move too fast to feel what is real.

The Fire slows time back down to the rhythm of the earth.

I have learned to meet the practice with all of myself—even my reluctance.

I have also learned to distinguish two kinds of surrender:

Addiction-surrender was giving up my agency to escape.

Fire-surrender is giving up my resistance to reality.

One made me disappear; the other makes me present.

My path is not about perfection. It is about return. Identifying as an Agnihotri gives me an anchored place to stand when I would otherwise drift into old distortions and the hunger for escape. The strength found here is not in peak spiritual experiences, but in the repeated act of coming back. Discipline is a form of love. The Fire does not flatter me. It does not ask me to perform. It only asks me to arrive. And in that arrival, the fire that consumes is also the fire that reveals. What it reveals—slowly, relentlessly, and mercifully—is life.

Agnihotra, practiced with sobriety and humility, can serve as a simple frame that trains what recovery depends on: rhythm, steadiness, and the courage to return. De-addiction is serious, and support matters. Community matters. Professional help matters. Agnihotra is not a replacement for those things. For me, it has been a profound ally—an anchor—because it trains the essential disciplines: steadiness, humility, right timing, and honest return. It keeps calling me back to the truth that it is okay to surrender to the rhythm of the day.

This is lived experience, not medical advice: Agnihotra supports my regulation and routine, but it does not replace professional mental health care.

So if I were to offer a few closing lines to anyone reading who is beginning, or returning after a lapse, I would say it this way:

Choose consistency over intensity.

Meet the practice with all of yourself—even your reluctance.

Let devotion be humbling, not theatrical.

Arrive on time. Keep the appointment.

Let the Fire reveal what is real, and let that be enough.

María Elena Marín
Bogota, Colombia, South America
The testimony I want to share is about what happened to my husband. He had respiratory problems, and one might think that the smoke could harm him, but in fact, whenever we performed Agnihotra, he felt better and his condition improved. So, even though people may think that the smoke is harmful, that is not the case with Homa Therapy. In fact, it is very beneficial for respiratory problems.

My husband originally had lung cancer, but they removed one of his lungs and eradicated the cancer. However, he was left with complications from the radiation therapy, which caused significant damage to his remaining lung, and he required constant oxygen. The Homa Therapy I began practicing helped him tremendously. He would ask me to perform Agnihotra because he told me it made him feel better.

From Shree Vasant’s Teachings

Homa Farming
When you perform Agnihotra and YAJNYA or other HOMAS in a garden, an atmosphere is created that is conducive to growing and therefore attracts the nutrients, insects, microorganisms and animals that would be happy and thrive in that environment.

This, of course, is because Nature is so wonderful; it automatically benefits the soil and the plant, and the plant thrives.

Same thing happens when you put the ash or use Agnihotra ash water, but it works more for the plants individually. By putting ash around the individual plants or in the beds or spraying the plants, those elements that are best for that plant are attracted to it and it thrives.

Now of course we have to use proper principles of farming, basically with weeding, scarecrows or deterrents to birds and animals because they will want to eat this plant.

Life on Other Planets
There are highly developed beings on other planets in this solar system and in other solar systems.

They live according to VEDAS.

They chant Veda Mantras in a perfect way.

They use YAJNYA, the fires for purification and as a tool to project and create, develop and maintain different energies.

Our more sophisticated communication devices on this planet will begin to pick up those Mantras which those special beings wish to communicate to us.

Cast Out and Bring In
Cast out all fears.
Cast out all prejudice, whether it be racial, religious or personality.
Cast out all misunderstandings.
Cast out all falsehoods.
Cast out all deceit.
Cast out all reprehension
Cast out all doubts.
Cast out all judgments.
Cast out all selfishness.
Cast out all for these are the demons that destroy the goodness of humankind.

Then bring in joy.
Bring in understanding.
Call upon love.
Call upon forgiveness.
Reawaken faith.
Develop your devotion.
Surrender and be of service.
Then indeed all will be added unto you.

Fivefold Path for Happy Living

1. Yajnya
HOMA Therapy is the science of purification of the atmosphere through the agency of FIRE. AGNIHOTRA HOMA (YAJNYA) is the basic HOMA. It is tuned to the biorhythm of sunrise/sunset and gives nutrients to the plant kingdom, removes diseases in a certain area and removes tension on the mind. This is the basic process in the Vedic sciences of medicine, agriculture, climate engineering and interplanetary communication.
2. Daan
Sharing of your assets in a spirit of humility. This corrects imbalance in financial matters and creates non-attachment to worldly possessions.
3. Tapa
Self-discipline of body and mind. This is conducive to a change in attitudes of mind and body. It results in a harmonious state of mind.
4. Karma
“You reap as you sow.” Always practicing good Karma (actions) diminishes the burden of negative Karma and one begins to invest in his own future. This means that what you do today will bring its fruits. Sowing seeds of love and kindness will bless my garden with plenty of love. Do Karma for self-purification.
5. Swadhyaya
Practice Swadhyaya (Self-study) for liberation. Who am I? Why am I here? My work on this planet is to learn to react with total LOVE with each opportunity given to me.

This is the Fivefold Path for happy living on the planet. By practicing the Fivefold Path you become better members of your society, group, religion, community, etc.

Publisher: Fivefold Path Inc.
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Editor: Lisa Powers
Published seven times yearly.
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