Homam

‘Homa’ is a Sanskrit word that refers to a ritual, wherein an oblation or any religious offering is made into fire. A Homa is sometimes called a "sacrifice ritual" because the fire destroys the offering, but a Homa is more accurately a "votive ritual". The fire is the agent, and the offerings include those that are material and symbolic such as grains, clarified butter, milk, incense and seeds. A Homa ritual is known by alternate names, such as yajna in Hinduism which sometimes means larger public fire rituals. In modern times, a Homa or Havan tends to be a private ritual around a symbolic fire, such as those observed at a wedding.

Homam or Homa are influential aged flame customs that have been performed in India by the Vedic sages in excess of 5000 years. Individuals strive for Homa Puja and Aradhana in light of conviction of getting a quicker otherworldly impacts or result like –

• To bring Success, Abundance, peace, flourishing in life;
• to evacuate blockage on the way of your prosperity;
• To quit getting misfortune in Business & Profession;
• To Remove shortage of cash;
• To Bring Financial security;
• To bring peace at home and Workplace;
• For insurance from malice strengths, Miseries;
• For getting descendants (own tyke);
• For quick recuperation from Illness;
• For better instruction and Result;
• For Fulfilling your Desires & to get hitched early;
• To enhance family relations and Peace and concordance in the crew.

Sin is the basis of suffering. Rituals such as homam & yagnam are prescribed in the Vedas for expiation of sins and for the acquisition of merit/virtue. The general significance behind all these rituals is to seek the help of deities (divine beings) that are capable to deliver one from sins and to make one acquire punyam (merit) to fulfill one's material or spiritual desires.

Hindu Homams or Yagnas are capable solutions for satisfy our objectives in life or to forestall dangers in life. A customized Homam acts in the path in which a specific medication acts in the body to cure a particular disease. It is the proper thing to pick a customized Homam when an issue is profound and when all measures brought to illuminate it goes down the channel. Performing a Homam will be a compelling answer for the issue.

Homa or Homam or Havan is putting forth of serious Pujas to distinctive GODS and GODDESS performed for a specific god by conjuring the awesome force of that specific god through Agni , the God of flame. Some people says it Homa Puja, Some says it Homa or Homam or Haven. In Homa Puja offer Puja to the particular God, illuminating the blaze which is called Homam Kund and offering there several things or Puja ‘Upachar’.

Homam will be performed in one’s home or office in order to bring Success, Abundance, Peace, Prosperity in Life, remove blockage in the path of your success, stop getting loss in Business & Profession, bring Financial stability, protection from evil forces, speedy recovery from illness and better education.

Why fire?

Before understanding the significance of homam, it is important to know why only fire and water are used in homam, yagnam and tarpanam. The Vedas proclaim that the entire cosmos is made up of panchabhootas (five elements) in varying proportions. One the basis of the ability to retain and transmit energy, among these five elements, the earth is the heaviest and most concrete. As a medium it can retain energy but cannot transmit it. On the other hand, air and space elements are the lightest of all and are too abstract. They can transmit but cannot retain energy. So, the ancient sages have chosen the fire and water elements for their sadhana to give offerings to the divine beings because these two elements have the best ability to retain and transmit divine energy.

Significance of Homam and Agni/ Fire.

Just as the five elements exist in the cosmos in the world around us, they exist inside the human body too. Inside the being, Agni (fire) exists in two forms – as Jatara-agni (digestive fire in the physical body) and as Bhoota-agni (internal spiritual fire in the subtle body). In most humans, jatara-agni burns brightly and the bhoota-agni burns low merely as a flickering dim flame. A yogi with his spiritual practices converts the jatara-agni into bhoota-agni. Hence he feels very little/no hunger (due to lack or absence of digestive fire). Bhoota-agni, on the other hand, is spiritual in nature and is capable of sustaining divinity. When a yogi performs the nama/japa/mantra/offerings to a deity, the deity enters into the bhoota-agni and receives the offering directly. This is said so because a yogi's bhoota-agni burns so brightly inside his sookshma sarira (subtle body) that it can sustain within it, the divinity of a deity or any other divine being. Since, a normal human being's bhoota-agni burns poorly, he makes use of an external fire, to invoke the deity into the fire so that the deity may receive the offerings directly from the external fire. In return, the deity fulfills the righteous desire of the person who performs the homam.

Out of all the types of rituals prescribed, Homam is the quickest way to derive the deity's grace. Ganapati Homam , Chandi Homam, Sudarshana Homam, Paashupata Homam, Mrityunjaya Homam, Ayush Homam - These are some of the well-known homams performed by priests in temples and homes of India. The fire ritual immensely aids in Nadi-shuddi and in maintaining good health. More often than not one feels very cleansed and rejuvenated after performing a fire ritual. The gases that come out of a homa-kunda revitalize the atmosphere and environment around us and promote well-being. Many researches have been conducted about the environmental benefits of homam and yagnam. Even today, these results can be witnessed in many cases where rains from the sky drench the earth with showers immediately after the conclusion of a massive fire ritual. In the ancient days, people performed fire rituals every day. Such people were called Nitya-Agnihotris. Rama was a Nitya Agnihotri too. He performed the worship with fire even during the time of exile in the forests. With the passage of time, lifestyles have changed and mankind lost most of the knowledge about the significance of such ancient rituals.