Hawan – Purification of internal & external environment
// August 15th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // antarikShamM, Freedom, Nature, Thirdimension
Hawan as I have known as a child gave me vague but right idea on the way “Pandits” carry them. Just do it for the sake of rituals. As a child I wondered, what are these mantras for? why are these mantras chanted? During marriages, meditation, sandhya, upasana, and the whole of ancient Vedic literature is crafted of beautiful mantras many of which are in the form of poetry. When I used to listen to those hawans at marriages and other temples, while seeing others hardly paying any attention to it. That gave me some idea of these so called hawans which are carried out at most of the places in India for the above mentioned reason.
Now we all know the fruit of performing an action without really knowing it and why we are doing it. Those so called pandits afterall nicely commercialized themselves to fool orthodox mass of India. Only one word comes to my mind that is how “Weak” of them. Because the true definition of Hawan is much more pure, scientific and spiritual in nature. It is the process which when understood, you will only enjoy. A process which is both scientifically and spiritually tested to be for the benefit for not only humans but also environment. The mantras there in are so beautiful that it fills my heart with joy and indeed that those rishis were true scientist in my opinion.
I am not sure how much Michio Kaku, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkings have come up with the formulation of metaphysical concepts to form the theory of everything. I know one thing that those rishis have provided a Framework that makes sense. Behind any system, there is a framework and without understanding a framework one cannot understand how the system functions. The beautiful part of those ancient Rishis is that they didnt try and provide answer for everything like most of the religion and science try to do so, they just provided a general framework underlying the backbone of cosmos and rest is upon us on how we unravel the mystery. This is beautiful rather than formulating equations and trying to theorize everything. My question is , can you please show me the equation behind a smile? Provided you know what smile means. From computer vision point of view, I know how to detect a smile, but that’s only how an employee smiles to his/her boss.
To understand the framework, was not an easy task. They understood it through various Yogic practices. Yoga as I have mentioned before, meaning “The process of removal of the activities of mind” as said by Maharshi Patanjali. If the mind is clear, you are able to communicate to the mysteries of universe. Hawan is one such beautiful practice which the aryavarta before mahabharat used to perform daily to make our planet more sustainable through not only purifying air, but also through the purification of thoughts. We often think we dwelve in outter world not realizing the problems in outter world starts from inner world(thoughts). Isn’t that so creative to have a process which purifies both air and thought at a same time? That is called Hawan.
Below will I list some of the mantras in Sanskrit and their meaning in English as mentioned in Arya Samaji Hawan. And I have already mentioned the reason for my avoidance for other hawans. As they mostly are both spiritually dumb and scientifically falsified. To me when a process follows a principle, it justifies itself both scientifically and metaphysically(Spiritually here). And Arya Samaji Hawan is one such process.
If you think I am missing out any information or you want to know detail reasoning and information, please do get back to me via feedback. I would love to discuss.
Here are some mantras, which are my favorites I must say:
Om aapo joyteeraso mritam brahma bhoor bhuwah swar-om swahaa.
In the performance of this sacrifice, I have sought to discover the secrets surrounding.
God, the Supreme-most, All-pervading, and of the nature of Light, Love and Immortality, and
the Earth, Sky, and Heaven
The beauty of above mantra is that yes it tries and defines god in one sentence, but it never utters nouns in the sentence. It is only karma(actions/verbs) that matter.
Om yaam medhaam deva-ganaah pitarash cho-paa-sate. Tayaa ma-madya medhayaang-ne medhaa-vinam kuru swaaha.
O Radiant Lord of Knowledge! Make me knowledgeable today with that same knowledge which the company of learned men and fathers of wisdom strive to attain, so that I may indeed know You and the world.
I call this the prayer of everything. If at all you want to ask for something from universe/god/yourself. Why don’t you ask for instrumental intellect? cause as I told, solutions for all the problems lies in there.
Praying for a discriminating intellect
Om asato ma sad gamaya,
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya,
Mirtyorumam amritam gamaya.
Lead me from the falsehood to the truth.
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.
This is simple and powerful enough to recall from time to time.
Sarve bhavantu sukhinah,
Sarve santu ni-raa-ma-yaah
Sarve bhadrani pashyantu
Maa Kash-chid dukha bhaag bhavet
May all be happy. May all be free from misery. May all realise goodness and may no one suffer pain.
Happiness not just for oneself but for entirety.
Om dhyo shantir antariksham shantih prithivi
shantir apah shantir oshadhayah shantih
vanaspatayah shantir vishvedevah shantir
brahma shantih sarvam shantih shantireva shanti
sama shantiredhi. Om shanti shanti shanti.
There is peace in the planetary region; there is peace in the atmosphere; there is peace on earth; there is coolness in the water; the medicinal herbs are healing; the plants are peace giving; there is peace in the planets; there is perfection in the eternal knowledge; everything in the universe is peaceful; peace pervades everywhere. May that peace come to me.
May there be peace, peace, peace.
One more beautiful mantra which speaks of peace not only for oneself, but for entire universe. In the end there is a reason why peace is chanted 3 times. In vedic times they already knew the causes of problems, misery and sufferings. They knew where they came from.
1) From self
2) From others
3) From physical nature
So peace in that sense is chanted 3 times bringing peace to all the 3 energies which is essentially the universe minus the god as mentioned in Vedas.
Here is another interesting article. Its based on bhopal gas tragedy and how one family survived by just performing hawan regularly.
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=439710
Namaste
Dhruv
