Process of the Chaturveda Yajna

The basic concept as per the Vedas is that whatever man needs, everything is already provided by prakriti. Man only has to perform his duties and responsibilities. Duties are ordained by his own nature, whereas responsibilities are allotted by society. If these are fulfilled there will be harmony everywhere.

The problem comes when man does not discharge his duties and responsibilities. Since this is a situation that man has faced in every age, solutions are provided in the Vedas. From the Vedic viewpoint, this entire creation came out of Veda, so for any difficulty that mankind may face, the answer is there in the Veda.

Man’s necessities are usually taken care of in three ways: tantra, yantra and mantra. Tantra is known as occult power. Yantra is machine power, or using equipment. Science is both yantra and tantra. Veda is mantric power. These methods are totally different, and confusion comes when, due to ignorance, people try to compare them with each other. This is like comparing the method of cooking on a wood fire versus cooking with a gas stove. They’re completely different.

Mantra is the best way of solving human problems. In yantric and tantric solutions man needs ingredients from the gross world but with a mantric solution man needs only to create the vibration in the subtle plane. By using the mantras, the yajna creates the necessary vibration that activates the supernatural beings, those who dwell in different planes of existence.

Yajna is a mantric solution to the problems faced by mankind, but yajna is to be differentiated from homa. Homa refers to offering oblations in a small fire pit to invoke the grace of certain supernatural beings called gods, to satisfy the individual need. A priest comes, and chants mantras using certain ingredients. These homas aim at an individual result but yajna has nothing to do with the individual.

Yajna is universal in nature. It aims at solving the individual problem not by catering to the individual needs but by restoring the balance in the universal plane. That is the basic difference. If the elemental balance is restored in the universal, the individual problem will not be there. So one is solving the problem individually; the other is not allowing the problems to occur. Not allowing the problems to occur is yajna. But when the problem has already happened and you are solving it, that is homa.

The yajna we are doing is for restoring the balance of the whole universe in the natural cycle. The object is not that rain may come somewhere, or that there should be enough food for Africa. The yajna has no specific aim. The aim is that the ether and air elements must remain in a vibrated state. If this is happening the problems will not occur.

With the Chaturveda Yajna, change happens in the elemental sphere, and will impact everything on earth— not only the gross life of man but also the subtle thought process of mankind because at the same time we are activating the ether, air, water, fire and earth elements, and these control not only the gross sensory experiences but also the subtle thought process, the chit, of every human being.

The yajna must be performed by the right person, using the right procedure, in the right proportions. Person, procedure, and proportion or precision. Yajnas are performed by rishis, or seers, those who are established in truth consciousness, and we don’t find these people in Kali Yuga. So we may not have the perfect people, and even if the procedure and proportion are not perfect, at least we are doing something.

Since the whole process is already lost to mankind, we are trying to revive it, then next time someone else will do it better, and again someone will improve upon that, and it will keep improving until the original purity gets restored.

Due to impact of time this procedure became diluted, and now it is only done in a mechanical way, but anything done mechanically or ritualistically is not approved by Veda. The mechanical way of doing things means not understanding, not getting involved at heart, and not following the guidelines. Can we guarantee 100% that the result will come from the Chaturveda Yajna? We cannot, because neither we have the right persons, nor we are able to follow the right procedure, nor we can ensure the right precision. Then the question comes, why then we are doing it? Because that’s the only way.

Just as a scientist continues conducting experiments, and even after 10 experiments when the expected result has not come, he keeps trying an 11th and 12th and 13th time, we don’t consider that as a wasted effort, similarly if we are doing something in the Vedic way and the result is not immediately coming, to call that a waste is complete ignorance. Only by making this attempt can we restore the precision, revive the procedure and make the imperfect person a right person.

This upcoming Chaturveda Yajna is the first attempt in 5000 years and we are not actually carrying this out. It is prakriti who is doing it, using us as the instruments. This is the right attitude: “I am not doing, it is getting done.” Prakriti has chosen us, and we are simply doing because she is using us as collaborators.

Even if we ignore prakriti’s call still it will be done because its time has come. To think or say, “I am doing” is the height of ignorance. To say, “It is being done through us” is the sign of wisdom. We are responding to prakriti’s will. The time has come and we are sincerely putting effort with involvement from heart.