Yajna Chakra: Nature friendly life style

Today we are discussing certain salient points pertaining to karma yoga. We cannot go for thoughtless mechanical karma, it becomes monotonous, like bull of the mill type of work. It needs to be joined with Yajna to make it Karma yoga. Krishna proposes a concept here, he says, human birth has been accompanied along with Yajna and by using this yajna as a tool we can move towards prosperity.

सहयज्ञाः प्रजाः सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापतिः।

अनेन प्रसविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्त्विष्टकामधुक् ॥गीत ३-१०॥

Further he says, there is a shrusti chakra, cycle in built in our nature, we need to understand, respect and align our life style with it and that itself is yajna.

अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसंभवः।

यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः ॥गीत ३-१४॥

कर्म ब्रह्मोद्भवं विद्दि ब्रह्माक्षरसमुद्भवम्।

तस्मात्सर्वगतं ब्रह्म नित्यं यज्ञे प्रतिष्टितम् ॥गीत ३-१५॥

We need food for our survival; good food will be available only when there is timely balanced rainfall. Yajna is the tool which creates balanced timely rainfall.

काले वर्षतु पर्जन्यः पृथिवी सस्यशालिनी।

When Yajna is done with proper ingredients like Palasha samidha + pure bharatiya desi cow ghee and performed at right sunrise and sun set timings, fumes or dhuma from such an Yajna forms clouds and results in timely rain, nature friendly rain. Today in the absence of such yajnas, we have either ati vrishti or ana vrishti, excess or deficient rains.

Further, this yajna is born out of karma. There are three types of karma ista karma, poorta karma and datta karma, involving balance of all three modes of action, kayika vachika manasika. This karma is told in veda (here, the word brahma means veda). Veda is born out of akshara, the pranava mantra om kara.

This quality sound of om kara can only be produced by quality persons who have achieved pusti and tushti in life. These are the aspects or in other words, spokes of the Yajna wheel, natural cycle of Karma yajna. If even one spoke is not taken care properly, the entire cycle will be upset.

एवं प्रवर्तितं चक्रं नानुवर्तयतीह यः।

अघायुरिन्द्रियारामो मोघं पार्थ स जीवति॥गीत ३-१६॥

We humans have a bounden duty to align our lifestyle with this built-in natural cycle. Only then, we can achieve prosperity and healthy long life span. If we break this cycle, we will be sinners, we will be disturbing natural harmony and eco balance, we will end up being consumeristic fellows, and instead of yoga we will be in bhoga and finally end up in roga.

We must follow this cyclic rotation, nature friendly life style, and then naturally our life becomes a yajna.

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