This month’s gathering around Common Ground provides us with an opportunity to participate with Lavanga as we share a traditional Vedic Fire Ceremony at Retreat House. RH Partner Lavanga Schlette leads these ceremonies throughout DFW and we are excited to have one for our own RH community. We will all share and learn from one another, as Lavanga guides us. Bring names of ancestors according to your faith; all are welcome and embraced.
There is no charge, but we do like an RSVP since we provide lunch and want to be sure we have plenty of food and supplies for this special Fire Ceremony. Questions or RSVP here..
Each month our lunchtime conversation will focus around a different theme, with people from various faith traditions sharing their perspectives.
RSVP HERE so we’re sure to have enough food and space set up. Do you have a theme you’d like us to discuss in future months? We invite you to share with us and be part of these fascinating lunch-n-learns.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VEDIC FIRE CEREMONIES
The Vedic fire ceremony is an instrument that harnesses the sattvic (pure) quality of Agni (The Eternal Flame).
It is known as Homa, Puja or Yajna, and is considered sacred. This ancient ritual is performed at precise times depending on celestial events. Daily sunrises and sunsets, monthly lunation cycles or major planetary transits are used as guides for timing. In daily life they are used in celebration or as an auspicious offering to bring about peaceful change and abundance.
A “kunda,” a square pit that faces all four directions, is used to contain the fire. Practitioners offer into it gifts of grains, ghee, herbs and seeds as specific mantras are repeated.
The sacred fire coupled with prayerful intention removes fear, spreads joy, burns karma, purifies the environment and creates conditions for peace and prosperity.
The fire ceremony is among the most powerful of spiritual practices because it beckons the burning up of the ignorance, delusion and obstacles that keep us from the success of knowing our own divinity, our truest source of power and intelligence.
In this particular ceremony, at Retreat House, we will be calling upon Divine Ancestors from all faith traditions to join us in offering up prayers. All attendees will be invited and encouraged to share names of their own ancestors, as we share this special ceremony.