Blanca Linares
Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia, South America

    I would like to share one of the many testimonials we have experienced through the practice of Agnihotra and Homa Therapy.
In 2015, we learned from Prof. Abel and Aleta how to prepare Agnihotra eye drops. For me, these eye drops are excellent. I use them for my eyes, ears, nasal passages, sinusitis, and rhinitis…
 
    But there is a testimony that is even more powerful.
In 2018, Steven, my daughter’s boyfriend had a motorcycle accident and hit his head hard, but his helmet protected him and prevented more serious consequences. However, the white part of his eye turned completely red. The doctors referred him to an ophthalmologist. They ran all the tests and didn’t find any serious trauma, but they did find that he had

"Not the ones speaking the same language,
but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other."

-Rumi-

WHAT IS WAR FOR?

What is the purpose of war? This question, which Udo Lindenberg (german composer and musician) posed to the world as far back as 1981, is more relevant today than ever before.
This song draws attention to the plight of children in war and asks this question, “Who needs the war, Mr. President?”

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvksaarg3Qo&t=21s

 
THE FARMER VS THE BILLIONAIRE:
Clarkson refused a 100 million pounds offer

      Bill Gates wanted British farmland. Started buying farms around Jeremy Clarkson's property. One by one, neighbors sold. Gates-linked companies surrounded Diddly Squat from every side. Then came the offers. Twenty million. Forty-five million. Finally one hundred million pounds - for a farm worth fifteen million. Clarkson's answer every time: Absolutely Not.
     To watch this inspiring and interesting story about a man whose principles aren't for sale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5_sReYKUQ 

"Bridges and walls are built with the same bricks.
One connects.
The other separates.
Same material.
Different mindset.
Choose wisely."

-Harsh Goenka-

FROM DESIRE TO MISSION
 
Mohammed Al Qahtani, a Saudi engineer, delivered one of the most impactful speeches ever, winning the Toastmasters World Championship. He showcased the strength found in words...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5kwJP5L9TY

Enjoying Yoga and Breathing exercises at Don Bosco Park every Saturday with Prof. Abel ... Letting go and playing like children...

“Constantly reaffirm
the holy.”

-Master Shree Vasant-

Photos on this page and part of the previous page:
Agnihotra at the EsSALUD State Clinic, CAP III Carabayllo in the northern part of Lima.
Thanks to Dr. Jesús Borjas, Clinical Psychologist Jorge Torres, and Therapist Christian Álvaro Soto, Homa Therapy is offered once a week. Many patients come to this free service and receive healing through Agnihotra and its ash.

“Agnihotra ash offers a viable solution, a cure to such things as skin irritations of unknown causes, internal disorder, etc. Agnihotra ash taken twice daily acts as a preventive medicine and has a superb effect on the entire system.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

“Doing as you are told is not devotion. Following instructions given is not devotion. You have to feel in your heart that the best is being done for you, that your welfare is being taken into account totally. All that is done is for your good.
You will read it, hear it, see it, know it.”

 -Master Shree Vasant-

The sky over the Elqui Valley, covering Bhargava Dham, the Center of Light, with a billion stars...

Verónica Maillo wrote from Southern Patagonia:
“Agnihotra has taken our friendship to another level. We usually share it when we are closing important cycles or when we are sowing seeds of change.”
(2nd and 3rd photos on the left)

“People say, “Oh this makes me angry.” “That person made me mad.” Actually, it is all in the mind. Someone cannot make you anything. So, when this anger comes, say to yourself, “I do not need this angry feeling. Go away.” It is unnecessary to put burden on the mind and body by becoming angry. Simply say, “No, I don’t want it.” And keep quiet. Always keep quiet when you have anger. You can deal big blows without anger. You can say the same thing by being firm without all that nervous energy creating disharmony in yourself as well as the atmosphere and the person with whom you are speaking. Keep silent. Let it pass and then speak.”

 -Master Shree Vasant-

Photos first row: Janardhun sharing Agnihotra with his friends in front of the Grand Bassin, considered the island’s holiest Hindu site. This represents India’s Ganges River and is a center of spiritual pilgrimage for the Mauritian Hindu community.
Mr. Munusamy greets us from Malaysia in the middle photo above. The other photos:
 Baba Bernd from Germany returned to Nepal to continue teaching and sharing the benefits of Agnihotra and Homa Therapy on a personal level and in agriculture.

Photos: A lesson on environmental protection and Homa agriculture at Niketan School.

 “The times we live in are loaded with explosive possibilities. The whole atmosphere is polluted. Disease will soon envelop the planet as never before. Agnihotra is the panacea for all evil. Mind is the instrument of bondage. It could be turned into an instrument of liberation.
This is Grace Alone.”
 
- Shree Vasant -

 
What’s left gets us closer to WHO AM I?
 
Being born in the image of God at first glance may seem like a complete blessing without a downside. However, using this birth RESPONSIBLY goes along with this gift. That is no small thing. USE IT OR LOSE IT, goes the popular saying.
 
This business of self-study has an Achilles heel. How do I study my self without becoming overly consumed by the process? In other words, how can I serve (others) while staring at my navel?
 
First, let it be understood that this is not a tit for tat endeavor. It is not a Lego project. It may be more like putting together a difficult puzzle, but bits of self-realization (may we label it?) can unfold while folding diapers, emptying diapers, buying diapers.

 
SURE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!
 
If you think you do know, think again. Or better, do not think at all. And embroider IDAM NA MAMA on your favorite towel. Tatoo it on an easily visible location.
 
Idam na mama -this is not mine- not my will but THY will be done. Suffering can increase when we try to own our success, our reputation, our insight, and certainly our suffering. Much better to turn it over to the Divine.
 
Call it FAITH, if you wish, but the hope, the premonition, the instinct all point towards our journey to home, or to New York City or to our ultimate Home as being the most important game in town. And we all must play this game. Our FREE WILL determines whether we do this the easy way or the hard way.
 
Good if we choose carefully and wisely. SERVICE, HUMILITY, HUMOR help our choosing.

 
Since ancient times, medieval alchemy has spoken of The Great Work: the transformation of lead into gold.
For centuries, it was believed to be a physical process, but the sages knew that this language was symbolic. The true laboratory has always been the human being.
Lead represents what is dense: fear, unresolved wounds, repeated patterns, and memories that weigh on the soul.
Gold, on the other hand, is awakened consciousness, inner coherence, and the authentic expression of our essence.
 
As David Topí reminds us, true alchemy is internal. It is not about changing the external world, but about allowing the fire of life to do its work within us. That fire does not always present itself as light. Often it comes in the form of crises, losses, deep exhaustion, emotional breakdowns, or decisions that can no longer be postponed. It is the fire that reveals, purifies, and transforms.
 
The alchemical process begins with Negredo, the dark phase. It is the moment when everything seems to crumble, when certainties fall away and the ego is confronted. It is not punishment. It is necessary decomposition.
Then comes Albedo, the stage of cleansing and understanding, where we begin to observe ourselves with greater honesty, to forgive ourselves, and to let go of what no longer resonates with our truth.
Finally, Rubedo integrates what has been learned and returns us to the world with a more embodied, more alive, and more coherent consciousness.
 
The times we are living through as humanity are profoundly alchemical. 

 
We are being led into the fire to refine what is essential.
The Fire—present in ancient rituals such as Homa—acts as a great energetic transmuter. It cleanses the energy field, organizes our inner information, and brings us back to the coherence of the heart. It does not burn to destroy, but to remind us.
 
Alchemy occurs in everyday life:
When we choose to observe an emotion rather than react.
When we let go of an identity that no longer represents us.
When we honor the truth of the body and the soul.
Every conscious act is gold in the making.
The Great Work remains alive, beating within every being who dares to pass through the fire and be reborn, lighter, more whole, and truer to their mission.

May we trust in the Homa fire, for there lies the Master.
May we not flee from transformation.
May we remember that, even in the midst of combustion, life is performing its most sacred work.
The Great Work.

 
We saw earlier that “The purpose of human life is to unfold the Divine within.”
 
In His book ‘Light Towards the Divine Path’, Master Vasant warns us about a series of behaviors that, although they could be part of and serve as means to lead us to the Path of Light, are not so, if an ‘important ingredient’ related to the Science of the Renewal of the Mind is missing.
 
That ‘important ingredient’, according to the description of a saint from India that he transcribes, is:
 
          Devotion = Service ÷ Ego
 
'Any action done with self-centeredness around the personality, leading to infatuation of ego, takes us away from the Path of Light. Study of this is Swadhyaya, the fifth precept of the Fivefold Path.’ (The greater the ego, the less the devotion).
 
In contrast, the most common and ordinary actions that we must perform in life, if carried out selflessly and as an offering to the giver of Life, become concrete advances in the connection with the spirit that lies within us.
 
According to the Science of the Vedas, the Renewal of the Mind is facilitated by the purification of the atmosphere. Master Vasant transmits to us the teaching of the Science of the Vedas in this regard:
 
‘Mind is too subtle to manipulate, but there is an interesting relationship between mind and PRANA (life force). They are like obverse and reverse of the same coin. Any change introduced into the PRANIC content automatically affects the mind.
 
How can we change the PRANIC content? Any change introduced into the atmospheric content results in change in PRANIC content. Thus, we can now deal with a much grosser subject than the mind and through the agency of PRANA, bring about beneficial changes in mental attitudes.
 
This is the threshold where medicine, psychiatry, biology and chemistry meet. This is the beginning of the future science

  
of bioenergetics into which men of science are groping at present. The above picture is taken from the Vedas which were revealed at the time of creation. This is the process of purification through the fire agency (YAJNYA)'.
 
‘The relationship of PRANA and mind, so specifically mentioned in the Vedas and so easily experienced by the performance of YAJNYAS, deserves further research by modern science. The statement that a certain type of mental activity is accompanied by PRANA of a certain character should attract the scientist. Phenomenal things are intimately related and determine each other. YAJNYA is a material aid on the spiritual path and hence forms the first aspect of the Fivefold Path for happy living. The balance of the planet's energy cycles also requires specific PRANA.”
 
AGNIHOTRA, the basic and principal YAJNYA, purifies the atmosphere of the combination of pollutants generated by our current way of life. By attaining a more serene mind, we can use our discrimination capacity to free ourselves from the misguided ambitions with which the usurping ego floods us, causing us to squander a life that should be dedicated to communicating with that higher being who wishes to manifest the Light (Love) that lies within.
 
Every service we can perform, without expecting anything in return and solely with the intention of helping and contributing, is a golden opportunity to establish an instantaneous 'mini- connection' with our inner being. The challenge lies in being aware of this opportunity when it arises and not wasting it.
 
‘Agnihotra removes the crust of pollution from the atmosphere, and this purifying effect on the atmosphere allows the resulting PRANA to help make the opaque screen of our egos translucent, so that the Light of true knowledge can simmer through it, and dissolve the petrified crust of misguided desires and ambitions in which we are wrapped,' so our vehicle-instrument-medium may fulfill its role as the channel of Light for which it is designed.