NECESSITY OF DOING ‘HAVAN’
The term ‘worship’ is used in respect of God only. For gods, the term ‘adoration’ may be used. Worship of God comprises three things-stuti or praise, praarthnaa or prayer and upaasanaa or communion whereas adoration of gods refer to our respectful behaviour towards their satisfaction and purity. Here, we must understand as to who or what are gods? By the term ‘gods’, we mean souls like parents, knowledgeable persons et cetra or inert objects like water, air et cetra, who or which give and do not take anything in return like mother, father, sun, air, water et cetra. Here, we do not think appropriate to dwell on all of these. Out of 33 gods, Havan is the 33rd god which purifies all the other 32 gods. Here, it must be remembered that none of these 33 gods is worshipable. Worshipable is only one God, who is an intelligent entity and creator of these gods. Here, creation refers to bringing gods in their present condition. While adoration of living gods refer to dealing or behaving with them in accordance with their behaviour and status, in the society and by keeping their intakes (air, water and food) pure, the adoration of non-living gods refer to their purification. Here, while talking of necessity of doing havan, we take air and water as representatives of non-living gods.
Without these non-living gods like air, water et cetra, we cannot survive. Purity of water and air is very essential. By paying deep thinking, we will realize that maximum benefit is drawn by us from air, water and food. Do we not realize that- without air, not only man but all the creatures of the world can exist only for a while only, without water, only for a few days? Imagine that a king of many countries is lost in a desert and is crying out of thirst, then he will be ready to give whole of his kingdom for a glass of water. Similar is the importance of food. When one plans to go to an unseen place, climate of that place is enquired about. Climate consists of different factors relating to water and air. The reason behind this is that on climate of a place, our health and happiness depends a lot. Today, impure air and water is a great problem.
How havan purifies non-living gods such as air and water? While doing ‘Havan’, all the good things namely, things of medicinal properties, things good for our bodily and mental health, things giving or generating fragrance are put in fire, which transforms the things put into it in very subtle atomic form, which can easily be absorbed by our body through breathing. Like, the things, necessary for our bodily health are not attached with the particular part of our body but are put into in our mouth, which passes the things to the digestive system of our body, which converts that particular thing into energy and supplies that energy to the needy part, in the same way, since fire is the mouth of all non-living gods, if we want to purify air and water, the things necessary for purification of air and water are not put into them but instead are put into fire which in turn purifies the air and water. In havan, we put in fire the materials, required for keeping the non-living gods pure. Fire has a quality, by which it transforms the things put into it, in their finer forms, raises their temperature and makes them light enabling air to disperse these things in vast area. Watery part of these things, because of their high temperature gets raised by air and becomes cloud, which when pour on Earth through rain purifies all the vegetation. The very base of piercing power of fire is its ability to raise the temperature of the things coming in its contact. Because of this piercing power of fire, the air of our homes, which gets impure by our respiration et cetra gets changed by the fresh air of the atmosphere. By no other mean we can change the air of our homes. By swallowing the eatables, put into fire in ‘Havan’, we can get the benefit equal to only a part of the total benefits received on putting those things in fire.
As per science of materials, matter never gets destroyed, it gets transformed only. Accordingly, what is put in fire never gets destroyed rather gets minute and because of minuteness, the materials put into fire get extended a lot in qualities and space. On getting minute, they become more powerful and spread through air in the atmosphere giving life-force to all. In this way, these materials are able to remove pollution from the atmosphere. The rain, which falls from such un-polluted atmosphere affects the vegetation and the vegetation gets richer in quality as well as in quantity. There is a chain effect, which starts from havan. Havan, removing pollution from the atmosphere, causes better quality of rainfall to pour, richer rainfall is the cause of better vegetation and better vegetation helps all creatures to lead healthy lives. As such, havan is the only mean by which we can honour all our living gods and keep the non-living gods pure and healthy. It is a great Mantra towards welfare of all. Without focusing on this Mantra, we cannot achieve ‘welfare of all’.
God created the non-living gods in their purest forms but man, out of his selfishness to meet his worldly needs has created different sorts of factories, means of transportation et cetra and thereby has polluted these non-living gods. Only that act can be called adoration of these gods, which purifies them and this act is ‘Havan’ and ‘Havan’ only. It is a sin not to do ‘Havan’. We are duty bound to purify the air, water et cetra, which get polluted by our (by our pets also) daily use. The benefit of doing havan is not physical only but spiritual also. The thoughts, which get generated on citing of different mantras during ‘havan’ lift our spirits and we tend to behave righteously towards different living and non-living things of the universe.
At different worship-places, worship of God only is done, totally ignoring adoration of gods. Now, every country of the world is worrying about the deteriorating conditions of purity of our environment, that is, water, air et cetra and that of righteousness of man. It is high time to understand that the right way to adore gods is to do ‘Havan’.
-Most of the thoughts are of Arjun Dev Snaatak
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