Episode 18 - Yajña - Vedic technology for upgrading your DNA and changing the future with Blaine Watson
Introduction to the episode.
In this episode we have the enlightening Vedic astrologer Blaine Watson back for another juicy session with our host Laura Poole. Blaine shares his deep wisdom and experience of the Vedic science and technology known as yajña.
You may have experienced for yourself or seen photos of yajña taking place. 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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speaks about yajña in the following ways, “The yajña is a preventative program, so that any mistake done by us, can be undone by us.” This is the relationship of yajña and karma. He then says, “Yajña is a complete practical theory of higher states of consciousness. Yajñas are not humanly conceived procedures. Through yajña everything is possible.”
What we talk about.
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
Connect with Blaine.
Blaine is currently booked for all Vedic astrology sessions for 12 months and isn’t taking any new clients. However you can sign up to Blaine’s daily inspirational email via blainepw@gmail.com.
Resources.
Join Sri Sakthi Amma for the Sri Lalitha Yagam - email Beloved Narayani Foundation for details on when the yajña begins
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 established in evenness, wholeness of life.
Books
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita – Chapters 1-6: Chapter 3 – on Yagya
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
Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature by Tony Nadar
Devi Bhagavatam by Ramesh Menon – Stories of Ma Durga (Navaratri)
Listen
Download the Maharishi Veda App for mantra chanting and listening
Listen to the Vital Veda podcast with Dr Svoboda on connecting with our ancestors and how to perform shraddha