You know, this is a great story because it illustrates just how wrong people get the vedic yagya stuff. The thinking seems to be "if I do this yagya or puja, then this result will happen". And of course it doesn't.
The way it is supposed to work is that you do the puja or yagya and it supplements your own efforts; removing obstacles and increasing your power. But <you> have to do the work. The house purification yagya is called griha pravesham. It is actually a lot of fun because you make a fire place in the middle of the house and then you do the fire yagya and chant all the mantras and fill the house with smoke to purify it. The smoke actually smells really good because of the herb mixture (called havan samagri) and the ghee. That gets pretty funny here in LA when I help the priests with this yagya in some Indian doctor's new huge house and the fire alarms go off and the smoke is incredibly thick... The yagya is typically for the 9 planets, Ganesha, and Lakshmi. If there are issues with "spirits" then you add in some Sudarshana (Vishnu's weapon). At the end, the water in the kalasha pot is sprinkled in all the rooms to bless them and some of the ash from the fire is mixed with ghee and a small dot is placed over the entry to the house to provide protection. Even fairly traditional Brahmin families make an effort to find a house with good vastu, do the yagya and then forget about it and just live their lives. So there is really a perception that we TMers go a bit overboard with all this. > This made me laugh and reminded me of an experience I had here in FF > back in '97. > > I attended a Vedic ceremony at the site of what was to be the > international headquarters of USA Global Link. Chris Hartnett > purchased a big piece of land out in the center of one of the > mandalas. (First left after you turn right off of airport road.) This > piece of land is directly in front of the headquarters of the Global > Country of World Peace mansion that was originally purchased for King > Tony (remember that fundraising campaign?). > > A contractor with a large backhoe dug a VERY DEEP hole into the mud. > A tall ladder was placed down into the hole so that Holland Taylor > and Larry Chroman could crawl down into the earth and place some gold- > painted bricks symbolizing something (I do not remember what) into > the hole. A puja was performed in the back of Doug Greenfield's SUV > and other items (no humans, ha, ha) were thrown into the hole. After > the ceremony, the ladder was removed and the hole was filled in. Then > we all enjoyed cookies and juice. You can still see where the > foundation of the USA Global Link building sits, surrounded by weeds > and an orange fence. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
