All World
Gayatri Pariwar

(19/64/15)

That is - Oh yajnagne (the fire of oblation)! You are great and a giver of all good things. Therefore, I am offering 'samidha' (wood) faithfully to you. Kindly give me 'ïraddha' (faith) and 'medha' (intelligence). 

Similarly, the —ïi of —gveda says– "Ima® yajna® medhavanta® kridhi¡” (God! Please make our yajna full of illumined intelligence) and "Jatvedo medha® asmasu dhehi" (Oh yajnagne! please make 'medha' steady within us).

Through the abovementioned holy citations, an attempt is being made to convey that one of the important objectives of such large scale Aïvamedha yajnas is also to awaken the dormant genius of the masses. It is the genius of man which makes him different from other living beings. It is on its basis that he, as a scientist, has explored the secrets of nature and is claiming to be the controller of the fate of all the living beings. It is the miracle performed by the human genius ('medha'), which has enabled him to propagate several theories of philosophy, to pile up huge volumes of literature, to form the society and the methods of its governance, and to transform this earth into such an elegant and well-developed structure of culture and civilization. Possibly, this is the reason why the sages have been saying- ‘Na manuÌat hi ïreÌÚhatara® kincit’. (There is no one superior to human beings in this world).

In spite of all this, that is, despite a huge potential store of genius filled within the human consciousness, it does not get a chance to come out and show itself due to the pressure of evil tendencies embedded in subconscious layers of our psyches. Normally, the wood floats on water. But if a huge stone is tied to it, it loses its property of floating and sinks in water. In spite of being adorned with excellent qualities, a human being does not remain in a position to demonstrate his real identity once he ties a rock of wickedness on his head. The shape of the society that we see today is due only to this anomaly. To fight the prevailing undesirable trends/traditions and eliminate them, and at the same time to execute the programme of creating a new golden era, is not becoming possible because both these tasks can be done only by the awakened geniuses – learned, refined and intelligent persons. At the hour of need, such persons come forward and row the boat of the culture- society, safely past the troubled waters. The effort that is needed to awaken such geniuses not only in the society or nation but also on a global scale cannot be done by worldly or physical means. The desired results can be accomplished only through a well-planned religious AnuÌÚhan conceived in the spiritual world.

The life of Param P¿jya Gurudev is the life of a Mahayajnik who has consecrated each and every moment of his life in the service of the awakening of divine culture. The events of eighty years of his life are an open book and amply demonstrate how he was busy in achieving the aim of awakening the divine intelligence in society. At the crucial juncture of this transition period when the violent storm of mass annihilation is giving the red signals of its ferocity, he awakened the will to work for ushering in a new golden era. At present, when no one seems to be talking about the bright future, when the all-engulfing darkness is reigning supreme he unambiguously assured that the Sun is going to rise in the East and declared openly that the twenty first century is bringing the promised bright future.

In Saraswati UpaniÌad, it has been said - "Yajna® dadhe Saraswati" (Saraswati is pleased through yajna). It is, perhaps, to test the validity of this statement of the UpaniÌad that Param P¿jya Gurudev, performed one Saraswati yajna on the auspicious occasion of Gayatri Jayanti in June 1955, at Gayatri Tapobhoomi, Mathura. Two years prior to this he had already accomplished Mahap¿rnahuti (grand completion) of his twenty-four Maha PuruÌcarañas in twenty-four-kundiya yajna by establishing Akhand Agni (uninterrupted fire) there. Prior to Sahastra-Kundiya Maha Yajna of November 1958, he conducted several experiments regarding yajna on persons at the level of Sadhaks and also on common men. The main aim of all these was to know how fruitful is the method of yajna in improving the intelligence. These investigations of Param P¿jya Gurudev brought forth several sensational results. He published all these results in two special issues on yajna of Akhand Jyoti (magazine) of July and August, 1955.  Herein he writes about Aïvamedha by quoting ViÌñu Dharmottar Puraña - "By performing this yajna human beings get intelligence, their sins are destroyed; the desired wishes are fulfilled and due to good moral conduct the ultimate aim of life is certainly achieved".

He further writes - "By performing a continuous series of Gayatri maha yajna, Rudra yajna,  Mahamrityunjaya yajna, ViÌñu yajna, Ïatacandi yajna, navagraha yajna, yajurveda yajna, —gveda yajna, atharvaveda yajna, samaveda yajna, we will complete the task of mahayajna at the level of Aïvamedha, which will produce the volunteers who are going to take the solemn oath for the welfare of the entire world at a time when the Sun is disturbed". Step by step, these yajnas were performed and the participants were made to perform Japa-AnuÌÚhans. They were first imparted instructions through correspondence. Then, in order to refine their genius through different experiments, they were called for personal interaction with Param P¿jya Gurudev, who trained them in Dhyana Sadhana (meditation) and the skills of performing yajna.  He stressed that the manner of recitation of mantras used in yajna is the key to the success of Aïvamedha.

The —ïi says through this hymn of Atharvaveda that ‘tapa’ (penance) makes the voice pure and strong and it transmutes the intellect. A hymn in Brahma 18, of chapter 1 in section 13 of Ïatpath Brahmaña says - "Saraswatyai swaha, Saraswatyai pawaka yai swaha, Saraswatyai brihatyai swaha." (Voice is Saraswati; yajna makes it powerful). Because of this quality, Aïvamedha has been called the king of yajnas - 

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The word 'medha' which has been used in Aïvamedha, in fact, is not related to Agnihotra (oblation in the fire) but to the bioelectricity. The word 'medha' has been derived from this word only. The magnitude of 'medha' is considered to be larger in human beings as compared to other living beings. The persons who possess it in abundance are called 'medhavi’ (the intellectuals, geniuses). It is the 'medha' that is running in the form of bio- electricity in our veins and muscles and that is seen as the sharpness of brain to solve innumerable problems and resolve entanglements. The same is exhibited in the form of splendour, lustre and strong mindedness. It is found in all the human beings but its magnitude is different in different persons. About 83 percent of our cerebral electricity remains unused. Because of its non-utilization in daily routine invaluable capabilities, divine qualities, '—ddhis’ and 'siddhis' (supernatural powers), keep lying inactive in some corner of our mind. Whatever qualities are seen in a genius or an intellectual, they are nothing but the flow of the same effervescent bio-electric charge.

It is the highest level of the intelligence that is called Brahmateja or Brahmavarcas (the spiritual splendour). In the Aïvamedhas, the same intelligence is refined and upgraded, that too at the universal level. How yajna performs this task? The scriptural texts answer this question. The —ïis found that the human 'medha 'is not stable because it disappears after death and the human body starts decomposing. Hence they investigated the horse, as it is most lively and fast moving among the animals. The same defect was found in its body also. Then cow was investigated. Here also, 'medha' lasted momentarily after its death. In conclusion, it was found that 'medha' is not stable in any living being. Then the —ïis investigated the earth. It was found that 'medha' is definitely present there but it is in the subtle form. Then it was thought that the vegetables and grains, which are grown by the earth, must have been getting 'medha' from it, because by eating the vegetables/grains we become charged with 'medha'. Thus the search was shifted to the grains and trees. In this investigation, barley proved to be such a grain, which possessed highest charge of 'medha'. Thus started the use of barley in yajna. In the Aïvamedhas the same 'medha' along with other forms of subtle energies are received and sustained by offering the oblations of barley.

Padma Purana aptly states -

Indeed, it is the evolved 'medha' that distinguishes the human beings from other species. Wisdom has been gifted by God to everyone but there are very few persons who properly use it and make their lives fulfilling and rich. Normally, the worldly wisdom is used for self-aggrandizement. But, if the environment of this entire earth is to be transformed, then we will have to bring about a total change in the subtle world, which is formed by the collective consciousness. The yajnas, at the level of Aïvamedha, do this very thing. Yajnas are, actually, performed as combined and collective experimentation of physical and vital energies. As a result, the willpower and the genius of the people are awakened. This awakened genius / intelligence interacts with the subtle world and transforms the environment so that waves of superior thinking and feelings are generated and brought to the surface of human consciousness.

The challenge of stopping the surge of evil forces and transforming the swamp into a beautiful garden is confronting each one of us. To checkmate the devilish dance of total disaster and simultaneously assemble the apparatus for real soul growth is a dual task like leveling a trench and erecting a tower on it. This task may be called not only 'reversing the flow' but 'making it up side down by reversing the reversed'. Whenever such momentous occasions have arisen, with the grace of God, several such uplifting experiments have been performed on earth, and the illumined personalities which could make possible the impossible, have come. This momentous period of 'change of an era' has come after a very long time after much waiting. Whatever is going to happen these days is what has been earlier considered impossible. It has a dual purpose. After the combined transition period of the end and the beginning, new era is going to commence. In such circumstances, the inspiration of Aïvamedha yajna has descended from the subtle realm in order to fight the evil tendencies pervading everywhere, so that humanity at large could transform itself into a group of geniuses and strong-willed people. The results of the Aïvamedhas, which are being performed in India and abroad should be understood accordingly, and one should make his life blessed by availing of the opportunity of participation in these yajnas.