Surya Yagya

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Dear Jim

Thank you for your thanks.

You wrote:

<<Did you clean them and use the appropriate mantras when you started using

them? I'm told this is very important and can make the difference with any gem,

hydrothermal or other..Me.

I do not have the experience with gems because i do not wear them but i do have

friends that have installed gems.After a gem has been installed, a person

should not take the gem to filthy places like cemeteries, toilets or

bathrooms.Once upon a time, i was with a friend in the Amsterdam airport. He

needed to go to the toilet and gave me to keep for few minutes his ring with an

installed gem on it.We also installed a ruby on a dagger on a Sunday just after

sunrise. It was a difficult task to find a willing jeweler to open his workshop

and work on Sunday at a very early time. After the jeweler did the set up we had

a surya ceremony to properly install the gem.

A Surya ceremony is a vedic ceremony done with a fire in the middle of

astrologers chanting mantras to connect with Surya, the deity or demigod in

charge of the Sun. We were 7 vedic astrologers, 2 vedic gurus, and the wife and

a child 4 years old, of one of the astrologers. Each one of us wrote on a piece

of paper a wish and threw it into the fire. We also "offered" (threw into the

fire) dust of rubies (low quality rubies in powder) and other objects of first

quality to satisfy Surya. We chanted the Gayatri mantra 108 times loudly, and

other vedic mantras. And we all finished the ceremony by chanting the maha

mantra Hare Krishna to make sure that the ceremony was purified.

The fire was started with pieces of wood and ghee (clarified butter) as fuel.

The "seat" to the fire was built with a square shape (the perfect figure in the

universe according to silpa shastra or the rules given by vedic art and

architecture) on cow's dung. Cow's dung according to the vedas is 100% pure and

it can be used as a disinfectant.

It was a difficult task to get it because we did not have the correct

translation for cow's dung to ask to a natal farmer of Holland. But after

visiting his farm and trying some bodily language he understood and agreed to

give us a bucket full of it.

Around the square we put several incense sticks and the "seat" was put in the

middle of a triangular yantra (a triangular drawing sub-divided to give some

sacred Sanskrit letters). While 2 astrologers went to set the ruby and bring it

back, a Brahmin (vedic priest) from Switzerland chanted mantras to "close"

windows, doors and income telephone calls. During the 4 hours ceremony nobody

came into the house.

This Surya ceremony was performed one Sunday during a period when the planets were very powerful.

I hope that you like the story.

Best wishes

Natabara Das