This episode we have the enlightening Vedic astrologer Blaine Watson back for another juicy session sharing his deep wisdom and experience of the Vedic science and technology known as yajña. On the surface it looks like a fire ceremony, where Vedic pandits are sitting around the fire, offering ghee and other sweet-smelling items, alongside chanting specific Vedic mantras to connect with the desired deity. What may look like an esoteric, occult, or religious practice, is actually a precise Vedic technology that uses consciousness, intention and vibration to resolve our karma and therefore change our future.

What we talk about in this episode:

• What yajña actually is, diving into the Vedic wisdom, beginning with a powerful sloka or verse from Rig Veda
• A poignant Vedic analogy for understanding how the world is created
• Karma + yajña
• How to change the future by altering our DNA in the present
• How you can engage with yajña 
• Yajña Q&A

Connect with Blaine and others:

• Blaine Watson - blainepw@gmail.com - book in for a Jyotish (Vedic astrology) session or if you need to find your exact birth time, or if you would like a yagya performed on your behalf with the Pandits in India. 
• You can also email Blaine (above) to sign up for the ‘Auspicious Days’ of the Vedic calendar to be emailed to you monthly
• Join Sri Sakthi Amma for the 1000 day Sri Lalitha Yagam - email Beloved Narayani Foundation for details on when the yajña begins

Books:

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita – Chapters 1-6 (chapter 3 – on yajña)
• Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature by Tony Nadar
• Devi Bhagavatam by Ramesh Menon – stories of Ma Durga (Navaratri)
• View some amazing old photos from LIFE Magazine in 1944, where Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s teacher, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Deva), arranged and presided over a mahayagya (great yajña) to end WWII

Listen:

• Durga Sapta Shati – 700 Verses to Ma Durga
• Maharishi Veda App for mantra chanting and listening
• Vital Veda podcast episode with Dr Svoboda on connecting with our ancestors and how to perform shraddha

Verse from Rk Veda:

Richo akshare parame vyoman
Yasmin devaa adhi vishve nisheduh
Yas tan na veda kim richaa karishyati
Ya it tad vidus ta ime samaasate

The verses (richas) of the Veda exist in the collapse of fullness (the kshara of ‘A’) in the transcendental field, the Self, in which reside all the devas, the impulses of creative intelligence, the laws of nature responsible for the whole manifest universe. He whose awareness is not open to this field, what can the verses accomplish for him? Those who know this level of reality are e

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