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Spiritual
Significance of Havan
Havan is the
offering of various types of grains and ayurvedic
medicines, combined with various Mantras as applicable
to different Gods and Goddesses. In the Havan
Kund, in which wood is used to ignite the fire, the Fire God (Agni
Devata) creates the energy from the offerings and
recitation of the Mantras, taking such energy to
various Gods and Goddesses.
The
Gods and Goddesses have astral bodies, they do not
have a physical body like us, although they can assume
any body they like. They do not eat the same food that
we eat, bread, vegetables and things like that. Their
food is the energy created within themselves and also
energy created in the fire. When we want to pray and
offer energy to the various Gods, we have to have the
Fire God invited in the Havan. We request the
Fire God and His wife, Swaahaa, to create this
energy in the Havan Kund and take it to the
appropriate God or Goddess. This energy goes to
the particular God to whom the mantra is recited.
Supposing you want
to get the siddhi or power of your mantra and your
mantra is
Om Na-mah Shi-va-ya.
It has five syllables.
If you want to get the energy of that mantra to do
healing, you have to get the energy from God. You
recite the mantra 500,000 times. Ten percent of that
you do Havan and give this energy to Shiva. Ten
percent of what you have given to Shiva you give to
your ancestors. Then Shiva and the ancestors bless you
with the power of this Mantra. You get this
energy and you can use it to help others.
The Havan is
also performed to please Gods and get their blessings
and help for any other event that one wishes to
conduct, e.g. at time of wedding, to get rain in times
of drought, before moving into a new house, to reduce
the effect of natural calamities, to reduce the effect
of personal calamities, and so on.
I give you a few
examples. Three or four years ago, there were going to
be floods in Italy. So Baba sent us to Italy. No
planning, all of a sudden, He sent us to Italy. We
were told to do Havan for nine days. Thereafter,
the flood did come, but the effect of the flood was
not much, just ten percent. Where we did Havan,
there was no flood at all.
Another example -
when we had gone to London, it was very hot in Europe
and London. The temperature was 35, 38, 40°C. In
fifteen days we did eleven Havans. It rained
for three days, and the temperature was cooled down to
20° C. It had a part effect on Europe also at that
time. It was all
because of the Havan.
In order to maximise
the effect of Spiritual Sadhana, the blessings from
various Gods and Goddesses are a pre-requisite.
This can only be achieved by performing Havan.
That is to say, Spiritual Sadhana is incomplete
without the performance of Havan.
(from Guruji's
Discourses in the book:
From Humanity to Divinity)
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