Sri Narayani Fire Puja
The power of the fire puja is to bring the soul closer to the Divine by offering our love. The more we can spend time in Divine consciousness the more love, peace and joy is brought to our world. All pujas held at Divine Nature Sanctuary are for the benefit of all beings.
About Puja
There are many types of Pujas, where just about any aspect of the Divine, including the Sun, Moon, Mother Earth, Animals, Plants, Deities etc. can be offered too. When we make offerings to anything, it may appear like it is outside of ourselves, but in the essence of oneness, that we are, so essentially we are making offerings to ourselves, and aiming to merge with that loving essence.
Fire puja; yagna, yagam (Tamil), havan or homa uses the element of fire to make offerings to the Divine. It is an ancient Vedic fire ceremony. Fire Puja involves chanting mantras and making offerings into the fire. This heals the environment by attracting a massive flood of life force into the immediate area. This energy and the sounds of the Vedas being chanted can awaken dormant energies with us, and through devotion, open our hearts to the immense field of love.
Puja, amongst other things, is a beautiful opportunity to meditate, set a new resolution, offer a prayer for the world, a loved one, for our own healing and to experience our innate divinity. Yagna is considered to be the ultimate sacrifice (or offering) of the Veda's and bestows immense blessings.
The Sri Narayani Puja has been performed regularly in India and Australia since 2007 and has been blessed by Sri Sakthi Amma. This puja invoke different Goddess’s and God’s.
The main Goddess invoked is Sri Narayani, said to be the Shakti or energy of creation; the power or force behind everything. Narayani is also a triple Goddess. These aspects are: Saraswathi for Wisdom; Lakshmi for Abundance; and Durga for Strength and Courage. According to Sri Sakthi Amma, these aspects are what the world is currently lacking and so are invoked through this puja. As we chant these mantra’s and make offerings, these aspects of our soul's are awakened bring us more Wisdom, Abundance, Strength and Divine Energy.
Yagna (homa or yagam) as its commonly known is a fundamental practice of the Veda’s. It has so many benefits, a major one of them is the transformational effects of the fire. Fire is the element that absorbs and transform’s just about everything it comes in contact with. Seeing each person is made up of five essences of nature, by coming to a fire puja, the effects are to ignite, transform, burn up the dross, balance, awaken and bring us closer to our Divine self. If you are looking for big change then yagam will certainly give you the Shakti energy for this.
Fire puja has many aspects to it. Here are some of them:
- making a sanctified time for spiritual practice,
- listening and chanting of the pure sound vibrations of the Veda’s
- Offering to the unseen realms. When ghee and other offerings such as rice, flowers and other auspicious items meet the fire, it becomes offerings for the Deva’s (angelic realms). This is one reason yagna’s create a high vibration.
- there are so many more benefits, too many to mention here, we have noticed so many blessings from these puja’s…
Bring: for Fire Puja’s: offerings of flowers, fruit, and/or pot-luck plate welcome. Rice and dhal prasad is offered after puja. The ceremony normally takes an hour an half.
By donation: It is tradition to offer a donation (danna or offering) as a way of showing your gratitude. Funds offered do allow one to show their gratitude and gives more energy towards the pujas. Proceeds also go toward India’s charity and the cow rescue program (see below, the more you give, the more you have to give). Puja sponsorship of $108 is also available (arrange prior). You will be given a chance to create a personal sankalpa and prayers to whom you may want the puja offered too. You will also receive persoanlised prasadam after the ceremony.
Om Namo Narayani
( I surrender to the Divine)
