--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "llundrub" <llundrub@> wrote: > > > > So I know yagyas are the way of heyam dukam anagatam etc, > > but what are the mechanics exactly? I mean, do the devas > > just dig it so much that we do ceremonies that they shower > > blessings? So they are not altruistic? They will only help > > those who sacrifice? What are the mechanics? Are they moral? > > If you only sacrificed exactly so much do you only get > > exactly so much back? Or is the quality of the priest > > important? If you have a huge and expensive yagya with a > > shitty pundit is it not as good as a poor yagya with a great > > pundit? And so on... Is it not only karma really? The amount > > of energy put into the aspect of creation through ritual? > > Me, I suspect that yagyas work now the way they > always have -- they're a revenue generator for the > people and organizations that offer them, and any > benefits occur through the mechanism of the placebo > effect. > > But there is a simple, scientific way to find out > if there is anything else going on with them. Offer > to perform a study tracking the effects of various > yagyas, as long as the pundits perform the yagyas > for free. We'll tell them that's a testing protocol, > so that the test subjects for whom the yagyas are > performed have no more invested in the outcome > than the control group does. But the real reason > is to see if any of them will do it for free. If > they won't, that'll pretty much clear up once and > for all what yagyas are all about, right? :-) >
There's already such a test: we know how many pundits are in Fairfield and we can monitor events as theirnumbers increase.
