*Chapter 4 - The World Of Immortality*
*Day 18*
Ritual has its significance. It creates an environment of Prana. The chantings have their effect. Everything every little thing has an impact on the universe. So they used to do yagya.
Yagya means following creation in the reverse order. Creation has happened from the subtle to the gross and yagya is following that order, going from gross to subtle and from subtle to gross.
There are Vedic mantras, the mantras are sound vibrations.
With a conscious mind, being aware of it, with the prana you chant them and then there is the fire.
Different herbs are taken and put into the fire in the ceremony and that vibration from the fire you take and store it in a pot of water. Water stores those vibrations of the mantra. It is technology.
If it is done properly it has an impact. Here again the consciousness of the person who is doing it matters a lot. If he is scattered in the mind and not focussed, this thing doesn't work.
That's why people are loosing faith in them also. If someone is very focussed, has faith in it and does it meticulously according to the rules it creates a positive influence in the atmosphere.
The fire element to water and then from water to the earth element. But that is not the Brahman or God. The symbol is not symbolized. A cross is not Christianity, a cross is just a symbol of the principles of Christ.
A Crescent and a star is not love, it just symbolizes those values that Mohammed taught. They are just symbols. Don't confuse them and think of that as God.
He is the prana of the prana, the mind of the mind. He is not the sight, the scenery, but he is the seer. That power by which you can hear, are you hearing me?
Which power is making you hear, listen to all this and observe? That power is Brahman.
