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Can Yagna or havan bring rains and purify the air ?

Q: Can Yagna or havan bring rains and purify the air or is it pseudo-science?

Krishna: Two days back I was debating the same question on TV.

Two vedic pundits said Yagna can bring rains. I asked them to explain the process. They said it 's written in vedas and they can't explain it in simple terms. And added that it 's their 'belief' that it 's based on science and therefore would definitely work. They said this ...

How Vedic Yagnyas cause rain ...

Vedic yagnya (or yajna or yagya) ritual works when it comes to rain-making. Time and again Vedic priests perform Vedic yagnyas to invoke Gods Varuna or Indra in order to bring rainfall. The most popular verse from Vedic scriptures that modern Hindus wrote in support of this faith based activity is from Bhagavad-Gita - Annaad-bhavanti bhuutaani parjanyaad-anna sambhavah&yagnyaad-bhavati parjanyo yagnyah karma samudhbhava!

Translated - it means that the life is born from food & food is produced by rain & rain is produced by performing yagnya and that yagnya is performed by doing karma. The procedures are elaborate and include animal sacrifice (2).

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