The Integrated Science of Yagna Part - 3

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*Potential of Yagyopathy in Curing Psychosomatic Diseases:*

 

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In a physical laboratory it might not be possible to get and demonstrate the

spiritual effects of yajna, but certainly the physical and mental effects of

yajnas can be tested, and the claims to cure physical and mental diseases

through yajna can be verified [1-3]. It is to be noted here that the

traditional systems of treatment of physical diseases employ medicines,

which are mostly administered orally. They therefore produce effects only

after they have been digested and absorbed into the system. Major part of

the medicine taken orally is not utilized by the digestive system. Oral

medicines also upset

 

digestion seriously. The same is more or less true of medicines directly

injected into the blood. They produce quicker results, but their adverse

side-effects are more pronounced. White corpuscles of the blood resent

intrusion of any foreign bodies into the blood, and sometimes the reaction

of the system to the sudden, massive and direct intrusion of foreign matter

into the blood through injection is most serious, and even fatal. In a

yajna, medicines and herbs are vaporized by offering them into the

sacrificial fire, and they enter the human system in a gaseous form through

the nose, lungs and the pores of the skin. This could prove to be the

easiest, least taxing, least risky and most effective method of

administering a

 

medicine so as to reach every single cell of the body. The possibilities of

curing mental diseases by yajna are even more encouraging. Diagnosis and

treatment of mental diseases is still in its infancy in the modern systems

of treatment. There are neither well-established diagnostic aids, nor any

recognized system of treatment of diseases like Neurosis, Psychosis,

 

Schizophrenia, Depression, Tension, Melancholia, Mania, Hysteria, etc. On

the other hand, psychosomatic diseases are even more rampant than physical

diseases and they break their victims even more acutely than the latter.

 

 

 

 

 

Symptoms of psychosomatic diseases, except in extreme and advanced cases,

are not so apparent, and that may explain why enough attention has not been

paid to them. The stress and strain of modern life, degradation of social

norms and all-pervasive fall in moral values are contributing to an alarming

increase in psychosomatic diseases. Yajna might offer a solution to this

serious problem as well. The 10 Akhand Jyoti, May-June 2003 Brahmavarchas

Research Centre, Shantikunj, Hardwar has taken up research on these aspects

of yajna. Their initial results on several experimental groups (who

performed yajna with specific herbs for a prescribed duration every day for

about fifteen days to a month) of patients suffering from depression,

anxiety, stress, etc have been very positive and promising as compared to

the control groups (of patients who did not perform yajna). The experiments

would be extended to thorough analysis of yajna-ash, which is said to

contain certain ingredients that soothe, pacify and tranquilize the mind.

The technique of yajna for the treatment of physical and mental diseases

does not comprise mere vaporization of the medicines or herbs to be used,

but various samidh³s (special kind of wood pieces) are offered into the

sacrificial fire of yajna to create the desired effects. Research on all

these aspects of yajna is also being conducted in the laboratory of

Brahmvarchas Research Centre. It might well lead to the development of a new

scientifically established mode of alternative therapy – yagyopathy, like

Allopathy, Homeopathy, Chromopathy, Naturopathy, etc. It would also offer a

unique benefit of preventive cure and healthy development of body and mind

together with spiritual elevation. The technical details and results of this

experimental research will be published subsequently in the relevant

scientific journals to give directions for therapeutic use of different

herbal medicines by means of yajna and further research on herbal medicine

and to establish firm ground for other scientific applications of yajna.

 

 

 

 

Newer Directions: In the recent years, the established healing therapies

have begun to recognize the role of psychology in prevention and cure of

diseases of different kinds. As the atmosphere, pr³ña and mind are

interlinked; the individuals naturally experience relaxation, peace,

quietening of the mind, loss of worries and stress in the yajna atmosphere

[5-6]. The increase in the level of prana (vital energy) in the atmosphere

when a yajna is performed – was also recorded with the help of Kirilian

photographs of human hands before and after yajna in the experiments

conducted by Dr. Matthias Ferbinger of Germany [5]. The atmosphere

surrounding the place where a yajna (or agnihotra) is being performed and

the ash produced in the kuñÃa are suffused with energetic currents and

soothing and uplifting ambience. Further scientific research and large scale

experiments on the potentials of yagyopathy will help make it a distinct,

alternative therapy of far-reaching benefits to humanity at large and open

up newer directions for constructive integration of the modern and the

ancient sciences.

Thank you