SATSANG
VOL 25 NO. 7, NEW ERA 55, MAY 2 1998
SATSANG
Then what is the effect
of Agnihotra ash on the skin? What is the effect of the
sun’s rays and how
can this small fumigating process nourish the atmosphere? Is
there any reference
which can confirm such a process? This reference can be
found in various
parts of Western Europe, Eastern Europe and in the history of
nearly every ancient
religion.
However, it is being revived not as a religion but as a science.
The Municipal District of Nueva Requena (Peru) certifies that:
Dr. Gloria Guzman
Mendez, a specialist in Agricultural Homa Therapy, has been
working in my district
for four months. She was working specifically with the
rejuvenation of the
banana groves. This has been achieved by the application of
the ancestral technique
of Homa Therapy, thus eradicating from the banana
groves the fungal
disease Sigatoka Negra, which was killing large extensions of the
banana plantations.
For years we have been trying very hard to solve this
agricultural problem
with different techniques such as cultural control, chemical
control, legal control,
etc.
As the mayor of this
municipality, I praise this important achievement within the
agricultural sector.
We have considered that we will give full support to those
farmers who have
started to return to their banana plantations, in order to make
Nueva Requena a representative
center for the production of quality bananas and
plantains—quality
shown through nutrition, weight, texture, color, taste and,
above all, pest and
disease-free.
We give the full authority
and help required by Dr. Gloria Guzman Mendez in the
performance of this
agricultural work for the area of Nueva Requena.
Jose Escobedo Garcia
The following is a
report from a group of farmers regarding their experience with
Homa Therapy.
(To prevent the
spread of Sigatoka Negra, legal controls were imposed on the region,
prohibiting
the sale of banana and plantain plants from the area. However, now
that the farmers are producing disease-free plants with Homa methods, they
petitioned the government to permit the sale of these plants. Normally,
a banana tree might produce four fruit-bearing shoots. The rest,
called “water shoots”, are unproductive. However, the Homa banana
trees produced an average of twenty productive shoots—an unheard of amount—and
the sale of these shoots has generated a new source of income for the Homa
farmers.—Ed.)
Nueva Requena (Peru), January 18, 1998
To Dr. Elsa Carbonell
Subject: Eradication of Sigatoka Negra from the banana groves.
Wishing you all success
in your task, the farmers of Nueva Requena, having
received in a period
of over three months the instructions for the ancient yet new
science of Homa Therapy,
proceed to inform the following:
In Nueva Requena on
August 22, 1997 we received a visit from Professor [sic]
Vasant Paranjpe.
He was accompanied by his students. Among them were Ing.
Luis A. Mamud, Dr.
Irma Garcia, Dr. Gloria Guzman, all specialists in Agricultural
Homa Therapy.
Their arrival had only one purpose—to start the work of
eradication of Sigatoka
Negra from the banana plantations. For this work, Ing.
Jorge Gauber, chief
of the Agricultural Department of this location, brought them
to the plantation
of the family Tuanama del Aguila. This is situated in the sector
of
San Miguel de Nueva
Requena. The same Ing. Gauber stated that the infestation of
Sigatoka Negra was
nearly seventy-five to eighty-five percent in that banana grove.
Engineer
Jorge GauberOnce again the engineer
Gauber invited us to attend another course to eradicate
Sigatoka Negra.
We thought whatever they would say to help would be a waste of
time.
Because our diet is
based on bananas, we are forced to have our plantations in
production.
The initial part of
this course about Homa Therapy was given by the farmers from
Huanuco. They
have been learning and practicing this for one year, on another
plantation.
They are now technicians for Homa Therapy. Their names are Juan
Carlos Alanya Congache
and Cleto Caquiamarca Bendezu.
One of the motives
to complete the training was to spread this information as
widely as possible
amongst the farming community and as quickly as possible.
For ten days we were
taught the basic technique called Agnihotra, a fumigation
Homa. This
is performed at sunrise and sunset. The timings are adjusted to the
second and are calculated
using the coordinates of the location (latitude and
longitude).
If you don’t carry out the fumigation according to the exact timing, the
method is not effective.
The success of Homa Therapy depends on the correct
performance of that
fumigation Homa.
It was incredibly
easy for us to learn Agnihotra. We started to do it and the
efficiency was shown
by the improvement of the banana plantation that belonged
to the family Tuanama
del Aguila, where we were staying.
Approximately ten
days after the start of the course, the engineer Alejandro
Llaque, chief of
Senasa in the district of Ucayala, and two other engineers, experts
of F.A.O., came to
visit the plantation. When they saw the improvement, they
were discussing this
and the engineer Llaque told one of the farmers from
Huanuco that afterwards
he would like to meet and speak with them.
Next arrived Dr. Gloria
Guzman, another specialist in Homa Therapy, to complete
our instructions.
Dr. Guzman taught us other fumigation Homas that fortify the
effect of the basic
fumigation, Agnihotra. These are tuned to the biorhythms of
the moon. They
are performed at full moon and no moon, the fourth day after full
moon and the fourteenth
day of full moon. We also learned how to work with
Agnihotra ash.
This ash acts as a pesticide and herbicide of the bananas. It is
a
big help in the control
of the weeds and the sucker growth.
The foliage improved.
In twenty-five days of Homa atmosphere four new leaves
started developing.
It [Agnihotra ash] is also an incredible fertilizer. If Agnihotra
ash is applied to
the cut of the main trunk, an average of twenty new shoots will
sprout, all true
bananas and not sucker growth. The new growth and the health of
the plantation is
increasing.
Next, Dr. Guzman taught
us how to install and put into action the Homa resonance
point. [See
“Resonance” in Satsang Volume 25, No. 6, pp. 8-9.—Ed.] After this,
we
noticed that the
healing action and reach of the Homa fumigation extended to
hundreds of hectares.
We observed the improvement of plantations of the
neighboring farmers.
They are starting to clear the leaves and weeds because they
can see the rejuvenation
of their plantations. In this way more and more farmers
are getting motivated
to learn about Homa Therapy farming. We are the ones
who can teach them.
On September 16, 1997,
which was a full moon day, the Homa resonance point
was established on
the plantation of the family Turanama del Aguila. This was
twenty-six days after
starting Agnihotra, the basic fumigation Homa. With the
Homa resonance point
the following observations have been made:
—The plants
showed more vigor and foliage.
—The mother
plants whose leaves were infected from seventy-five to one
hundred percent with
the fungal disease Sigatoka Negra produced fruit.
—After performing
the basic fumigation Homa for thirty-three days, we
observed a total
rejuvenation of the grove. We started removing the diseased
leaves on the plants
which produced fruit. Normally, when you do this the plant
falls down, but in
this case the plant remained green and the fruits matured with a
wonderful taste.
This was something totally new for us.
—The new shoots
started to sprout quickly, so you could see the whole
plantation thick
with foliage.
—The leaves
are thicker with a very dark green color and a sheen which is
not usual.
Also, they don’t break as easily in the strong winds of this area.
—At the start
of the fumigation work, the plantation didn’t produce proper
shoots, only non-fruiting
sucker growth, which was infected. The mother plants
had a tendency to
fall down by themselves. As a result of the Homa treatments,
new shoots came forth.
Engineer Jorge Gauber from the Ministry of Agriculture
asked us to send
these new plants to the area of Aguaytia.
The two farmers,
Odilo Tuanama and Juan Tantarico, were given the task of
propagating the new
shoots. They were very impressed by the lack of disease and
the power of the
plants.
In spite of having
cut these shoots, the plantation continued to be thick with
leaves.
Shortly [after], the
engineer Alejandro Llaque, chief of SENASA, arrived. He said
that the outbreak
of Sigatoka Negra was greatly reduced and that we should
propagate more shoots.
The farmers of the
plantation of Tuanama del Aguila were able to increase their
groves by one hectare
and they continue to extend them.
The farmer Mr. Juan
Tantarico is doing the same. They have started to sell the
shoots. This
was unheard of before.
The family Tuanama
del Aguila got an order for eight hundred banana plants from
the chief of the
agricultural office of Nueva Requena, for the district of Ucayali.
Four months after
the installation of the resonance point, the banana plants show
from six to twelve
healthy, disease-free leaves. This has not been the case for a
very long time.
Our experience before
was that only three leaves were healthy; the fifth leaf was
totally infested
and covered with spots from the fungus of Sigatoka Negra.
As the healing process
progressed, you could observe that the sixth, eighth and
tenth leaves showed
slight brown spots, but without affecting the health and vigor
of the plant.
They continue to be green and vigorous.
The farmer Odilio
Tuanama studied the development of one of these shoots that
was cultivated in
the Homa atmosphere. He gave it Agnihotra ash and after two
and a half months
the shoot had grown to the same size as the parent plant. This
had never happened
before. The growth was always very slow.
The farmer Marlon
Rucabado studied another shoot. He came to the conclusion
that each fifth day
a new leaf is formed.
The farmers Juan Alaynes,
Odilio Tuanama and Marlon Rucabado applied ash to
the cut trunk of
a mother plant. The cut hardened off and new shoots started to
sprout. Before
learning Homa Therapy we observed that the cut trunk always
decomposed and no
shoots sprouted.
The development and
production of the bananas with the Homa fumigation is very
rapid. We learned
that when you cut the “pupo a bellota” four weeks after, the
bananas mature and
become fat much faster. In no other plantation had they
found a large quantity
of “bellotas”.
Even after cooking,
the bananas cultivated with Homa Therapy have more weight
and substance.
Before they were not so tasty and they contained more water and
less substance.
The farmers Odilio
Tuanama and Digmar Tuanama started to prune the
reforestation plants.
They saw these plants had much more foliage than the rest
of the plantation,
and they outgrew the existing plants that were already a year
and a half old.
Mr. Juan Tantarico
is a producer of plants for the reforestation of the whole sector
of Ucayali.
When faced with more and more difficulties, he started to use
Agnihotra ash and
got incredible results.
Mr. Tantarico, a responsible
farmer, requested that the Homa resonance point be
installed on his
twenty-five hectare farm. This farm is quite distant from the
plantation of Tuanama
del Aguila. The soil in his grove was not ideal for
cultivating bananas.
Some of the engineers had noted that the Ph was not apt for
banana growing.
In spite of all this, the engineer Alejandro Llaque chose the land
of Mr. Juan Tantarico
to plant 120 banana plants from Cuba with resistance to
Sigatoka Negra.
This was financed by F.A.O. of Peru. Only five of them died, due
to much humidity.
We have our experiences
with Homa Therapy in the reforestation area, and also
we see the beneficial
effects of the healing process for humans and animals. This
is another subject
for a future report.
Conclusions
At the beginning,
engineers of the Ministry of Agriculture reported a 75% to 80%
infection of Sigatoka
Negra. Now, the brown fungal spots are only present on the
oldest leaves.
The plants bear an average of eight leaves. The remaining brown
fungal spots do not
affect the vitality of the plants, which continue to grow with
vigor and lush green
leaves.
Observations
The plants which
received Agnihotra ash have developed twelve healthy leaves
and an average of
twenty true shoots. They are much greener and more vigorous
and the leaves are
thicker and have a special sheen.
We couldn’t obtain
enough Agnihotra ash because of lack of cowdung, which is
one of the principal
ingredients in the Homa fumigation.
We don’t have cattle
in Nueva Requena, and for this reason we had to bring the
cowdung from Huanuco.
We feel that if we had enough cowdung to obtain more
Agnihotra ash and
applied the ash to the banana plants, all the brown spots would
disappear.
Recommendations
1. We would
like to share all the benefit of Homa Therapy with other farmers who
have abandoned their
groves.
2. For the application
of the Homa fumigation, we need cowdung and unsalted
butter. For
this we need all facilities from the cattle area to obtain the materials
required for Homa
Therapy.
3. We depend
on our work as farmers to survive. For this reason, we ask the
Ministry of Agriculture
to wholeheartedly certify the sale of our Homa banana
plants.
Cordially,
Odilio Tuanama del
Aguila
Digmar Tuanama del
Aguila
Julio Tuanama Isuiza
Jiguel Tuanama Mozombite
Yolanda Castro
Juan Tantarrico
Tito Tantarrico
Marlon Rucabado
Juan Alanya
Alfredo Vargas
Ramiro Gonzaca Vasquez
Leono Satalayo Isuiza
Nelly Cachique Cumapa
Abelardo Pinchi Arimoya
Mariela Tapullima
Manihuari
Ysrael Isuiza Shuma
Andrea Pinchi Arimuya
This summer, in spite
of not performing complete Homa Therapy (as for several
months there was
nobody living on the farm), we had a surprisingly large quantity
of green beans and
especially enormous tomatoes. The farmers of the
neighboring village
could not believe it and came to see it on the farm. We had
one tomato which
weighed 1.4 kilograms, and the rest were all between 750
grams to one kilogram.
It was incredible! We think it was the result of many
hours of Mantras
and love from the year before. The vibrations are still there in
the atmosphere, and
the plants took the nutrition for their growth from above. So,
our experience was
“reap what you sow”. We did Homa Therapy and one year
after, the results
are still there. We can give you only this advice: Practice Homa
Therapy and you will
have your own experience.
Ricardo and I also
taught Agnihotra in Cuba in August, 1997. People there are
very open and aware
of the problems of the environment which all of us have
caused the planet.
They are grateful to have received this material aid of
Agnihotra, of purifying
the atmosphere. The Department of Agriculture will make
some experiments
with Homa Therapy to remove disease of the plants in an area
and to increase the
yield of vegetables in a small area.
(Tapovan is situated
three kilometers from Shivadham in Maharashtra state,
western India. Previously
called Shivakshetram, Tapovan (literally, “forest of
Tapas”) is a place
where people can come to practice Tapas. With very little effort,
practice of some
simple Vedic Tapas in their original form will not only benefit us
by uplifting our
consciousness, but will also aid in releasing the stored-up energy
which
resides in this holy
place. This latent energy helps to make the practice of our
Tapas easier. Releasing
the energy makes it available for use in our planetary
healing. Tapovan
acts then like a “switch” and
similar latent energy
in other parts of the globe may also be reactivated from here.
It is here that we
propose to initiate twenty-four hour round-the-clock Om
Tryambakam Homa.)
If we travel back
in time about nine thousand years we will discover that India
witnessed the advent
of a great being of light. He was born a prince in a royal
household. He was
named Rama and He was destined to become the seventh
incarnation of Divine
power in human garb (Avatara) of our present epoch. (The
tenth and final incarnation
is known as Kalki1 and His advent heralds the end of
the era).
It takes very exceptional
circumstances to attract the manifestation of the
Almighty in human
frame on earth. At the time of lord Rama the forest hermitages
(ashrams2) of the
ancient seers (rishis3) were
under attack from
demonic forces (rakshasas4). In those days the science of Yajnya
was widely understood
by the populace for its essential beneficial effects and the
hermitages were sanctuaries
where
Yajnya was practised
daily. However, the demonic forces took pleasure in
interfering with
and disrupting these Yajnyas whenever possible, in particular by
polluting the Yajnyas
with animal flesh and blood. The seers were powerless to
prevent this nefarious
practice and thus the advent of Rama, the warrior prince,
protector of Yajnyas.
This is an indication
to us today, in a world where knowledge of Yajnya is almost
completely lost,
of the importance of Yajnya in the eyes of the Divine Power— that
the Almighty was
prepared to take human birth in order to protect the Yajnyas.
When Rama was a boy
of only sixteen years the rishi Vishvamitra came to Rama's
father, the king,
and requested that he allow his son to come to the ashram to
protect the Yajnya
he was performing. The rakshasas were harassing Vishvamitra
by raining flesh
and blood into the Yajnyashala where the
Yajnyas were performed.
The king acceded to the rishi's request and accompanied
by His brother, Laxman,
Rama destroyed the rakshasas and enabled Vishvamitra to complete
the Yajnya.
At one stage in Rama's
life He was exiled to the forest (reasons for which we do
not have space to
discuss here) together with His wife, Sita, and brother, Laxman.
During their wanderings
in the forest, history records that they visited the
hermitages of many
seers including that of the great sage, Agastya which was
situated not far
from the Godavari Rivers (one of the important rivers of India5).
On arrival at the
ashram, Agastya (who, though only small in stature, was himself
a fierce foe of rakshasas)
requested Rama to destroy the rakshasas who were
interfering with
the rishis in their practice of
Yajnya. Rama
took up this challenge and eventually rid the forest of the entire
rakshasa clan.
Nowadays the location
of this hermitage of Agastya is to be found precisely on the
spot where Tapovan
is presently situated. Also at one time many centuries ago,
this area was the
abode of the famous Yogi Gorakhnath. He belonged to the Nath
sect of ascetics
established by his guru, Machhindranath.
In those days it was
possible to detect an ashram from a distance by the clouds of
smoke billowing from
it. This smoke was from the Yajnya fires. Yajnyas in
Agastya's ashram
were so prolific that huge quantities of ash were produced. Even
today this can be
verified in the rock strata of this area as a thin white band. But
more importantly,
the energy built up from practice of Yajnyas and Tapas6 is still
latent in this place
to this day. This energy could now be reactivated by practice of
some simple Tapas.
1 Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj of Akkalkot, India (1918 - 1987).
2 Ashram in English
means hermitage. Being the dwelling place of the rishi it
exuded an aura of
spiritual attainments, intellectual brilliance, profound thinking,
pious pursuits and
austere living. Temporal authority or wealth had no place here.
Ashrams were a source
of guidance and inspiration to people from all spheres in
their quest for self-development.
It was also a welcoming refuge for the suffering
and the fallen. Life
in the ashram emphasized self-reliance and simplicity. Of
central importance
was the practice of Yajnya.
3 Rishi—The nearest
English translation of the word rishi is seer or sage. A rishi is
a manifestation of
Divinity, deep learning, magnificence of presence and profound
wisdom. He is selflessly
devoted to the cause of elevating humankind. He does not
expect anything in
return and is not swayed by the rich or the powerful. A rishi
has the heart of
a mother and to him the entire world is his family. He becomes a
source of Holy inspiration
to innumerable people whom he guides in their journey
back to the Father.
4 Rakshasa—The English
word demon does not adequately convey the confluence
of evils that rakshasa
implies. He is a person who is not satisfied with using all his
resources, mental
and physical, for unlimited acquisition of wealth, power and
lustful worldly pleasures.
He delights in creating impediments in the good deeds of
others. Sadism comes
very naturally to him. The most demonic of rakshasas are
brilliant
individuals who have
acquired great powers after intense practice of Tapas. But all
their attainments
lead them to immense vanity and the worst excesses in the firm
belief that they
are equal to God Himself. Rakshasas do not always appear to be
terrifying. It is
their evil mind and the enormous strength behind it that is
terrifying and render
rakshasas the exploiters and destroyers of individuals,
societies and cultures.
5 In those days the
course of the Godavari River was close to the present site of
Tapovan. But today,
owing to geographical changes over the past few thousand
years, it flows near
Nasik, about two hundred kilometers to the south.
6 Tapas means self-discipline
voluntarily imposed for the purpose of gaining
control over the
mind and the body.
Yada srushtam jagat
sarvam
Tada lokapitamahah
Chaturveda samayuktam
Shashwatam dharmamadishat
Purport:
Along with creation,
Almighty Father revealed the eternal principles of religion
(Law) embodied in
four Vedas.
(All this is given
in Sanskrit language. Sanskrit was nobody’s mother tongue at
any time on Earth.
All languages have words coming from Sanskrit. There is no
word in Sanskrit
which has come from another language. Hence, Vedas do not
belong to any particular
region. Since all the universes are under the command of
Almighty Father,
Vedic knowledge pervades all universes and not only our Earth.
Being the composition
of the all-knowing Almighty Father, the message of Eternal
Principles of religion
given through Vedas is ever applicable. The word VEDA
comes from the verb
VID, meaning “to know”, and hence Veda means
knowledge.)
Kim satkarma kim adhyatmam
Yadi vijnyatum arhati
Sarva shastreshu
grantheshu
Pramanam paramum
shrutih
Purport:
What is good karma,
what is the spiritual path? If you wish to know, of all the
sciences and writings,
SHRUTI (Vedas) is the standard reference.
(What is good karma,
what is the opposite of that, why man becomes bound by
karma, how one can
free himself from the chain of Karma [chain of ‘reap as you
sow’], what is individual
life, what is the manifest and unmanifest world, what is
Creator, all this
can be known truly through Vedas.
The word SHRUTI means,
“that which was heard”, from the verb ‘”shru” which
means, “to hear”.
It is not human composition.
Aspashtam cha kada
spashtam
Tatwajnyana wiwechanam
Anyatra labhyate
kintu
Pramanam paramam
shrutih
Purport:
Sometimes clearly,
sometimes not so clearly, we find the knowledge of THAT
(Almighty Power)
discussed in various writings. However, Shruti (Vedas) is the
standard reference.
(Generally speaking,
the writings which are not based on Rishis’ teachings are one-
sided intellectual
discourses and hence tend to create confusion for the common
man. Vedas
being the composition of Almighty Father which were “heard” and memorized
by Rishis contain all sciences relating
to manifest and unmanifested
worlds and hence is the standard reference.
Arsha grantheshu sarveshu
Shruti pramanya mewacha
Sarvatah saramadadyat
Nijakalyan hetawe
Purport:
Of all the writings
of Rishis, Vedas is the standard reference. Extract the essence
for thy eternal benevolence.
Shushkawadaratah kechin
Nanyadasteeti wadinah
Sarwe te wilayam
yanti
Mithya kalaha karinah
Purport:
Some people (either
due to ignorance or prejudice or selfishness) interpret things
wrongly and proclaim
that theirs is the only truth and others are wrong. People
who indulge in such
dry discussions will be powerless. (The truth given by the
Rishis will prevail.)
Nastikah wedanindakah
Pakhandah wedadooshakah
Ete sarwe winashyanti
Mithyachar prawartakah
Purport:
Those who malign
the Vedas, those who follow life patterns whereby Vedas are
maligned, those who
find fault with Vedic knowledge, those who follow life
patterns whereby
blemish comes to Vedic knowledge will bring about their own
destruction.
(In the end the teachings of Vedas will prevail.)
Yajnyadanatapahkarma
svadhyayanirato bhavet
Esa eva hi srutyuktah
satyadharmah sanatanah
Purport:
Be engrossed in the
practice of Yajnya, Daan, Tapa, Karma, and Swadhaya, the
Fivefold Path.
This is the Eternal Religion given through Vedas.
1. YAJNYA
(The whole world is polluted, be it acid rain, ozone holes, radiations
of all sorts, water
and soil contamination, accoustic pollution, etc., hence so much
suffering, misery,
violence, greed, psychiatry, disease, sorrow and scarcity of pure
water and healthy
soil. by purifying the atmosphere we can have minds full of
love, peace, prosperity
and bliss. This is YAJNYA. Agnihotra copper pyramid
healing fire tuned
to the biorhythm of sunrise/sunset, is the basic YAJNYA.)
2. DAAN
Share your material assets in a spirit of humility without expectation
of
name, fame or other
benefit.
3. TAPA
Learn to become better managers of your body and mind energy. Train
the mind to take
the coloration of total love. “Be thou transformed by the renewal
of the mind.”
4. KARMA
Always do good karma in the spirit of offering to the Lord without
attachment to the
fruit thereof.
5. SWADHYAYA
(Self study) Who am I?
To be continued
At this stage we begin
to ask, “What can I do for the Lord? What can I give to Him
in return for the
many blessings He constantly showers on me?” This presents us
with a difficult
problem. The Lord wants for nothing, desires nothing, needs
nothing. The
whole of our universe and countless others about which we know
nothing are His creation
and are under His control. Only one thing is outside His
control. He
has willed that the pinnacle of His creation, the human being, should
have absolute freedom
of will and He will in no way interfere with that.
It seems obvious that
the best gift we could give to Him would be to surrender our
will to Him.
This means that we would give up our own personal will dictated by
our ego personality
and align ourselves totally with the Divine will. This is the
same as, “Not my
will but Thy will be done” of the Bible. But this is not such an
easy thing to accomplish
and requires constant and diligent practice over an
extended period of
time.
To help us in this
task, a set of tools has been given dating from antiquity. They
currently come to
us in condensed form as the Fivefold Path of ancient wisdom.
Regular practice
of these mental and material aids eventually leads us to that state
of total surrender
of our will to the Lord. At that point it is total love for the whole
of creation and not
just selected portions, awareness “knowing which nothing
remains to be known”
and “peace that passeth understanding”. This is in fact the
goal we are seeking
when we first begin treading the spiritual path and after this
point is reached,
no further effort is required.
As we journey towards
our goal and until we reach this high state, the next best
offering we can make
to the Lord is to practice Yajnya, and in particular Agnihotra.
The whole of creation
benefits from this and the nature kingdom becomes happy.
It is intensely good
Karma.