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The Tradition

What the texts actually say about the numbers, the practice, and the place. Written at length, sourced where a source exists, and free to read without giving us anything.

The Yagyas these essays describe are performed every month in India and filmed. $11 puts your name in the next one, and $36 every four months puts it in the Yagya you choose, every month.

पितृ
The fortnight of the ancestors
Each autumn the Vedic calendar keeps a fortnight for the ancestors of one's own line. The five rites by their real names, what the oldest texts say, and the rites we perform on Sarva Pitru Amavasya, 10 October.
7
The days of the week
Monday is the Moon's day in English and Somvar, the Moon's day, in Sanskrit. The week you already keep is the same week, named for the same seven planets in the same order. Which deity today belongs to, and the arithmetic that put the days in that order.
432
The measure of an age
The age we are living in is 432,000 years long, every other age is a multiple of it, and a single day of Brahma is 4,320,000,000 years. Also, honestly, what to make of the 432 hertz claim.
108
The number of the mala
Every rosary in the tradition has 108 beads, and one more that is never counted. Why that number: the 108 padas of the nakshatras, the names of God, and the astronomical ratios that are a coincidence worth telling honestly.
27
The mansions of the Moon
All twenty-seven nakshatras with their symbols and deities, why Vedic astrology reads the Moon rather than the Sun, and the twenty-eighth that is usually left out of the count.
॥
Sankalpa
The declaration that opens every Vedic Yagya: who offers, for whom, where, when and why. Its formula, counted from the life of Brahma down to the day, and why the tradition speaks a name aloud.
दू
Distance
A Yagya in Vrindavan, a person eight thousand miles away. What the tradition holds about why that is not a problem, why the naming is the essential act rather than the attendance, and what we do not claim.
दे
Dev Bhoomi
The Land of the Gods: the Kangra Valley of the Himalayas, named among the four great seats of the Mother Goddess since the eighth century. Its five Shakti Peethas, the temple whose deity is a flame, and which of our Yagyas are performed there rather than in Vrindavan.
अ
Agni
Why the Yagya is built around a flame. Agni, the first word of the Rigveda: the messenger who carries offerings to the gods and to the ancestors, the three fires of the Vedic rite, and what is offered with svaha.
The Yagyas themselves. Brahmins in India perform fifteen Yagyas a month, one on each of their own days, and film every one. Your name is read aloud in the Sankalpa and the recording comes to you, usually within a day. $11 puts your name in the next Yagya on the calendar. $36 every four months puts it in the Yagya you choose, every month, which is nine dollars a Yagya.
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Everything here stays free and open to everyone. The only private material is what belongs to one person: the recording of their own Yagya, sent by private link to the email address entered at booking.