THE INTEGRATED SCIENCE OF YAGNA Part 9 by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya

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4. Yagnopathy- Medicinal Applications of Yagna

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Amidst the fascinating achievements of the modern era of science and

technology in improving our comfort levels, stress and pollution have posed

the major challenge for man. The world is beginning to realize that the

comforts provided to us by modern science and technology do not necessarily

always make life easier.

 

In fact, apart from greater stress and tension, more unknown diseases,

untold anxiety and fear is caused by the highly polluted environment and

ecological imbalance. This has raised alarming call for rethinking and

guiding the common life style. *Yagna *appears to be a boon of the ancient

Indian sciences for achieving this purpose.

 

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

spiritual effects of *Yagna*, but the physical and mental effects of *Yagnas

*can be certainly tested, and the claims to cure physical and mental

diseases through *Yagna *can be verified [3]. The Brahmavarchas Shodha

Sansthan (a scientific research centre in Hardwar, India) has taken up

research on this aspect of *Yagna*.

 

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. Most part of the medicine taken orally neither is nor

utilized by the digestive system. Such medicines may also upset digestion

seriously. The same is more or less true medicines directly injected into

the blood. They produce results quicker, but their adverse side effects are

often 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 proves most serious, and even fatal. In a *Yagna*,

medicines and herbs are vaporized by offering them into the sacrificial

fire, and they enter the human body in a gaseous form through the nose,

lungs and the pores of the skin. This might be proved to be easiest, least

taxing, leastrisky 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 *Yagna *are even more

alluring. Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders 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 wreck the man more

than the latter.

 

 

.......... To be Continued ...

Author : Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya

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