From Orion Messages:
 
“... Listen. Your own nature is calling you from inside as from out. You may heal your trees and attempt to reduce pollution by campaigning for ecological reforms. But UNLESS YOU SEEK TO HEAL YOUR HEARTS OF HATRED, GREED, RESENTMENT AND LUST, YOUR WORK WILL BE TO NO AVAIL. One must clean up the environment inside and out. Work spiritually, mentally, physically as well as globally.”

 
Judith Paredes Peña
Piura, Peru, South America

      In 2022, I was involved in an accident at an oil well and inhaling the CO2, it damaged my esophagus and lungs, causing grade C esophagitis. (This means it is severe erosive esophagitis, where stomach acid has repeatedly refluxed into the esophagus, causing inflammation and multiple ulcers or lesions/erosions that spread). I also developed pulmonary fibrosis in both lung apices.
 
       Then, over time, due to constant vomiting caused by esophageal irritation, my diaphragm dilated, and I developed a grade 4 hiatal hernia.

Top: Mrs. Barbara Scott
Below: Three crows smiling over the farm where Agnihotra is practiced

I can feel the presence of the unified field spreading out from the pyramid and eventually over the entire landscape.
 

 Photo above: Barbara observed that earthworms are mating at exact
astronomical sunrise.

 Barbara MV Scott, Canada - continued
 
I did not begin doing Agnihotra with an ailment yet can definitely feel the healing powers for body, mind and spirit.
 
For in depth research papers on light root or the light root remedies, please see:
www.soulmedicinejourney.com
 
I can’t even imagine a life without Agnihotra where you become awake and aware at both sunrise and sunset as the ancient peoples and saints and sages always were.
       I am so very grateful to have learned about Agnihotra and been able to merge it with my life’s work.
 
                 "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
 
    -Joseph Wood Krutch

Photo above: Lilac flower
Below: Barbara at the Agnihotra temple in her garden.

 
"We are all leaves of one tree.
We are all waves of one sea."
 
-Thich Nhat Hanh-

16 BIGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF 2026

Jan 9th, 2026
By Deena Robinson / Martina Igini
 
The world is grappling with a host of pressing environmental challenges that demand immediate attention and action. From climate change-induced disasters, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution

HOW AI USES OUR DRINKING WATER

BBC World Service
Jul 14, 2025
 
  More than a billion messages are sent to AI chatbots every day and each interaction uses water.
There are concerns artificial intelligence is putting stress on drinking water sources. Here, we explain why AI uses water and how even

Bibi, Peru

Tania, Brasil

Aura Elena, Swiss

Erick, Ecuador

Julija & her baby watching her, Austria

Helena, Colombia

Viona and friends, Australia

Homa group Bogota

 Clarita, Peru

Homa Group Villavicencio, Colombia

 Rafael, Peru

Javier, Uruguay

Jiya, South Africa

 Hildegarda, Peru

Frits, Australia

Lee, Australia

 Hanna, Brasil

Brenda, Ecuador

Homa group Chesalles Sur Oron, Swiss

 Cesar, Ecuador

Eduardo, Colombia

Sharon, Australia

 Markus, Austria

above: Homa group Bucaramanga, Colombia
right: Dieli Virginia, Costa Rica

Aditya and Arun Surse, India

 Homa group Oberallgäu, Germany

Hernán, Colombia

Homa group Oberallgäu, Germany

 Corina, Ecuador

Geeanea, Mauritius Islands

Rocío, Ecuador

 
Sarita, Ecuador

Photo above: Kenia, Panamá
left: Shantee, Mauritius Islands
right: Jenny, Colombia

Amalia, Peru

 Merly with her daughters: Meritxell y Meylin, Peru

Homa group Oberallgäu, Germany

 Sonia, Ecuador

Cecibel, USA

Carmen Rosa, Peru

 Rocío, Spain

William, Peru

 Anojabye with her son Druv, Mauritius Islands

Nancy Cris, Colombia

Klaus, Brasil

 Diego, Ecuador

Amogh, India

Adela, Peru

Aliza, Nepal

 Helga, Germany

Prabhu Joel, Ecuador

 Marianita, Ecuador

Foundation Sharvan Shakti, India

 Juan & Mary,
Venezuela

Francisca, Ecuador

Madhumati, India

 Vaishali, India

Chandradevi, Mauritius

Vinayak, India

Ángeles, Italia

 Saroj Ji, India

Alegría, Spain

Aleta, Peru

 America, Spain

Suchita, India

Angelica, Peru

Sabine, Austria

Ariane, Brasil

 Raúl, Ecuador

Dhinesh, Mauritius

Tania, Venezuela

Janardhun, Mauritius

 Munusami, Malaysia

Homa group Chesalles Sur Oron, Swiss
Photos right: Maria Gabriela, USA
and Luis, Peru

Betty, Peru

 Homa group Chesalles Sur Oron, Swiss

Juan, Nepal

Yusefa, Peru

Samwell & Mila Divina, USA

Claudia, Peru

Christian, Peru

María, USA

 Ana, Venezuela

Leela, Mauritius

Guiselle, Venezuela

Reina, Venezuela

 Alejandrina, Venezuela

 Rosana, Peru
Photo right:
Purnimah, Mauritius Islands

Foundation Sharvan Shakti, India

Endir, Colombia

Diana, Colombia

 Magnolia, Colombia

Giovanna, Peru

 Leslie, Peru

“Vayan adentro. Vayan adentro ahora.
Siempre estamos con todos ustedes.
 Permitan que estos fuegos sanadores se propaguen alrededor del mundo ahora.
Una llama enciende la siguiente, y la siguiente, y la siguiente…
 No teman a los cambios en el mundo fuera de ustedes.
Concéntrense en vez de ello, en sanar desde adentro hacia afuera a todos aquellos con los que se encuentren.”
 
-Master Shree Vasant-

Josué, Spain

Abel, Peru

 Amelia & Leticia, Peru

Devi, 3 years, learning with his aunt.

Faith, Keyla - 11 years

 The University’s Rector, Dr. Adolfo Zeta, opened this beautiful event and welcomed the entire audience; some participants had come from Quito, Ecuador, others from Lima, Chiclayo, Jaén, Arequipa, and even as far as Pucallpa. Dr. Zeta also shared his personal testimony about Agnihotra, which provided him with relief from his glaucoma from the very first day, in addition to helping him relax from his stressful job. He began practicing Agnihotra a month and a half ago.

Love, Meritxzell-10 years

 Also in attendance was the beautiful dance troupe from the same university. The instructor of these professional dancers is Professor Javier Tejada Bravo, and they enchanted the audience with a Paraguayan Galopera dance and the San Juanito dance from Ecuador.
They amazed everyone with their creativity and beauty in this art of folkloric expression!

Love, Meyling - 5 years

 Peace, Gabriel

Deep Healing, Milena

Singer and Agnihotri Julia Yépez, accompanied by her musical partner Noel Adrianzen Palacios on the accordion, delighted the audience with folk songs from the Southern

Gael Huamán, 7 years

Highlands of Peru.
 
Fourteen-year-old Blanca Milena Ojeda came with her mother from Tambogrande, to enchant us all with a traditional Peruvian dance, the “Marinera María Teresa.” What’s amazing is that when she dances, every cell in her body comes alive, and it seems as though she’s no longer touching the ground—rather, the energy of the music expresses itself through her.

Divine Connection, Rosana

Harmonic Meditation, Giova

 Tranquility, Gabriela

Prof. Abel explaining...

  Of course, the event wouldn’t have been complete without Javier Cruz’s guitar and devotional songs, accompanied by the powerful voices of Yusefa, Alena, and Judith. The lyrics were projected so that everyone could sing along...
    Then it was time to rehearse the sunset Mantras, set up the stage with the pyramids, and get ready to receive the last rays of the sun, which would flood everyone present with peace and healing.

"LOVE IS IN THE AIR"

More than 80 Agnihotris lit their Fire of LOVE
with the Joy of being able to share:
Healing, Peace, and Deep Well-being.

As the many healing fires were slowly extinguishing, leaving the atmosphere with a palpable sense of peace, open hearts filled with happiness, and an ambiance of pure love, Marisol Carrión gently played Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major as a solo on the guitar… what a wonderful experience!
 
At the end, everyone received a small packet of powdered Agnihotra healing ash, along with instructions on how to take it and an invitation to the Homa Centers in Piura.

Devi - 3 years

Happiness, Keyla - 11 years

 Transmutation, Giovanna

In our world of desires—for many of us, if not connected to sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll, world travel, a Ferrari, an upgrade of our home to ‘posh,’ if not luxurious, would form parts of our maja infused realities.

Legitimate though not particularly noble as are these desires, in today’s world of harsh inequalities midst us, supplanting some of our desires with attempts to help our fellow man more than likely would be particularly noble. Furthermore, “When the desires dry up, soul vision dawns.” (Ten Commandments of Parama Sadguru, p. 38)

Were we able to pull back the curtains of illusion that render us deaf, dumb and blind to the immense suffering everywhere, the Powers that are would smile.

“Walk a mile in another’s shoes,’ is one expression harkening to powerful increases in awareness. Let’s lace up and see where this leads us. We are likely to be very surprised and more enlightened.

This would amount to ensuring our hearts are in the right place.

Whether it begins as service with a smile, or service given begrudgingly may not matter so much. The latter may be training for the former.

It would be a shirking of responsibility were we not to acknowledge the dire states of affairs that make up daily living for billions on our planet. Some hoped the universality of the Covid pandemic might have raised humanity’s consciousness. It may have for a moment or two, but ….

Five members of a 25-member group psychotherapy session went into the next room and did Agnihotra. Returning 10 minutes later, I noticed my attention had shifted away from my own neuroses and I was plugged into the other persons. I was no longer a patient; I became a helper.


When this same phenomenon repeated itself three subsequent times, I saw a pattern that has continued for 51 years! These experiences directly led to my beginning Agnihotra 2 months later.

As the song goes, “For all the joy and all the bliss, Agnihotra is the way.” Certainly joy and bliss through service—with or without a smile—is a noble goal.

 
The phrase "for all the joy and all the bliss" beautifully echoes the themes of spiritual peace and gratitude often found in Vedic and yogic traditions.
While there isn't a single traditional hymn with this exact English title, the core Agnihotra technique is itself a daily act of reconnection....

Some time ago, an unexpected event entered my life and had the power to bring every-thing to a halt for a moment. As is often the case with such events that burst in without warning, it invited me to reevaluate my priorities, my certainties, and the way I was living my life.
 
There are experiences that act as thresholds. Not necessarily because they are pleasant or difficult, but because they force us to pause and observe what normally goes unnoticed. These are moments that remind us of the fragility of life, but also of the immense opportunity that being here represents.
 
 After going through that process, I came to understand something more clearly. We often live as observers of our own experience. We watch, analyze, accumulate knowledge, and wait for the right moment to change, to decide, to begin. And without realizing it, we remain seated on the sidelines while life continues to unfold before us.
 
It was then that one of the principles of the Fivefold Path resonated deeply within me: Tapa, the discipline that purifies and strengthens character.
 
Tapa is not about sacrifice or blind self-discipline. It is not about setting impossible goals or living in a constant struggle against oneself. It speaks of the inner fire—that force that drives us to hold on to what we know transforms us, even when it means navigating discomfort, resistance, or uncertainty.
 
In the alchemical tradition, fire does not appear to destroy, but to refine. The impure is deleted, the essential remains. And something similar happens in our lives when we choose to navigate these processes with presence rather than flee from them.
 
We are living in intense times. Times when many personal and collective structures seem to be faltering. Times when it’s easy to get lost in the noise, in distractions, or in the constant search for external answers.
 
 However, perhaps the real challenge isn’t finding more information, but developing the

discipline needed to apply what we already know.
    Because awakening does not come from accumulating knowledge.
   We can read hundreds of books, attend countless workshops, listen to the most profound teachings, and memorize complex spiritual concepts. But nothing really changes until we decide to apply those teachings to our daily lives.
 
   Transformation begins when we choose to breathe mindfully instead of reacting impulsively.
   When we observe our thoughts without identifying with them.
   When we maintain a practice even on days when we don’t feel like it.
   When we remain present in the midst of discomfort.
   When we stop waiting for someone to come to our rescue and take responsibility for our own growth.
 
    This is Tapa.
 It is the fire that refines character.
It is the loving discipline that allows us to turn intention into experience.
 
We often wait until we feel ready to begin. We wait until we have all the answers, all the certainties, and all the favorable conditions. But life rarely works that way.
Confidence doesn’t come before taking a step; it comes after taking it.
 
That’s why perhaps one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves is this:
  Am I truly living my experience, or am I simply observing it from a distance?
 
Tapa reminds us that growth doesn’t happen by accident. It requires presence, commitment, and perseverance. It requires returning to the path again and again, even when we stray. It requires stoking the inner fire so it doesn’t go out in the midst of storms.
 
And perhaps that is one of the greatest lessons of this time: to understand that we have not come merely to contemplate life… We have come to live it.

  We saw earlier that avatars come to remind us of our divine origin (of the Light) and help us find our way back home, to the House of the Father. They also reiterate Eternal Teaching and, implicitly, remind us that we are not alone and that we can ask for help if we so desire and do so in the right way. Being in a human body is a blessing that grants us certain privileges, but it also implies that there are duties we ‘should’ fulfill..

In the previous article, Verses 5 and 6 of Sapta Shloki were not included due to space limitations and, also, to emphasize the dramatic paradox they reveal. These two verses are presented below:

Sapta Shloki Verse 5

Those who proclaim that what they say alone is the truth and nothing else exists, are dogmatists indulging in dry discussions leading to conflict. They bring about their own destruction.

Sapta Shloki Verse 6

Those who malign the Vedas, those who follow life patterns whereby Vedas are maligned, those who find fault with Vedic knowledge, those who follow life patterns whereby blemish comes to Vedic knowledge will bring about their own destruction.

All these Avatars come to reiterate the same Eternal Teaching, “Love one another…” They show us the way to achieve it, and later, the Teaching is distorted and adapted according to private conveniences and interests, further complicating life.

How much destruction, how much suffering, and how many millions and millions of human lives have been lost—and continue

to be lost every day—as a result of conflicts between religious denominations that have been distorted or deliberately misinterpreted, mixed with vested interests, economic expediency, a thirst for power and domination, and ignorance!

Today it may seem as though there is nothing to hold on to, but we are blessed that once again—due to the risk of total destruction and Thanks to Shree Gajanan — the Eternal Teaching in all its purity is once more at our disposal, free from the distortions, extrapolations, and contamination caused by ignorance, misinterpretations, and the “additives” that vested interests keep adding to it.

The crisis caused by atmospheric pollution unites all of humanity, and modern science—aided by the science of the Vedas—can pull us out of the quagmire into which a widespread way of life that disregards ecological, physiological, and psychological balances has led us. We must adopt a new model of coexistence and survival that, at the very least, does not destroy the habitat in which we live.

Master Vasant quotes that we have been instructed to turn our attention to the Vedas to “Resuscitate the science of Yajnyas given through the Vedas. Yajnya is the antidote to pollution of all sorts.”
 
 

       Agnihotra is the primary and fundamental Fire (Yajnya) for counteracting the effects of pollution in the atmosphere and in the human mind.

 “Agnihotra is a material aid to unburden the mind and help us to make life an endeavor of joy.”



In the Vedas the sciences of the physical realm as well as what we call the metaphysical—the science of the spirit (Verses 2 and 3) — are integrated.

Master Vasant reminds us of the teachings of the Vedas:

“Love is a boundless energy that heals, and it is Love that holds Creation together.”



   “We live in an age of science and hence it is easier to speak about Vedic wisdom. Those who say that they alone know the truth are dogmatists. The Fivefold Path of Vedas which embodies the Eternal Principles of happy life will perhaps be better understood through the above corridors of science. Various sciences like astronomy, medicine, mathematics, bioenergy etc. are given through the ancient Vedas. Modern science supports no beliefs or dogmas, but it can explain in a unique way the essentials of all religions. The basic essence of these religions is the Fivefold Path.

The message of 'Love thy neighbor' now spreads through corridors of science. Fill all the spheres with Love to set right the energy cycle of the spheres. The only way to counteract CHAOS.”