Agnihotra
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What is Agnihotra?
 
Agnihotra is a healing fire from the ancient science of Ayurveda. It is a process of purifying the atmosphere through a specially prepared fire performed at sunrise and sunset daily.
   
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Benefits of Agnihotra
 
• Agnihotra reduces stress, leads to greater clarity of thought, improves overall health, gives one increased energy, and makes the mind more full of love.
• It denotes the process of removing the toxic impurities in the atmosphere, by the use of fire tuned to the specific biorhythm of sunrise and sunset. It’s based on the principle that you heal the atmosphere, and the healed atmosphere will heal you.
• By performing Agnihotra on the farm, an atmosphere is created attracting insects, nutrients, microorganisms and animals, which help in a good yield of crop.
   
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Materials required for performing Agnihotra
  • Copper pyramid of a specific size(14.5 * 14.5cm wide, 5.25 * 5.25cm base and 6.5cm in height)
• Brown unbroken rice (organically produced rice should be preferred)
• Cow Ghee
• Patties of fresh cow dung that are dried in the Sun.
   
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Process of performing Agnihotra
 
Place a flat piece of dried cow dung cake at the bottom of copper pyramid. Arrange pieces of cow dung, in such a manner to allow free passage of air. Apply a little ghee to a small piece of patty, light it and insert in the pyramid. Soon all the cow dung patties catch the fire. One can also use a hand fan to blow air for fire and also a cotton wick soaked in cow ghee.
Exactly at Sunset and Sunrise utter the Agnihotra mantras and after the word Swaha, add a few grains of rice coated with ghee (a pinch which holds in the fingers of right hand) to the fire.
   
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Agnihotra Mantras
  AT SUNSET:
 
 
   
  AT SUNRISE:
 
 
   

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