Ethnobiological Analysis from Myth to Science XIII:Pancha Yajnya (Five Sacrifices) - Rationalisation through Yoga

摘要

ABSTRACT Yoga is the practical science of realisation, its philosophical basis is Saamkhya Darssan; the later is the study of the principles of cosmic evolution by rational analysis. The yogi controls breath, the life force (Bhoota Yajnya -Sacrifice for biosphere); diverts his vital sex energy into a super form, the Oojas (Pitru Yajnya - sacrifice for the secured flow of genetic system); activates the vortexes (power points) that exists with in the spinal column (Deva Yajnya - sacrifice for different environmental powers) and finally attains the supreme knowledge of self realisation (Rrushi Yajnya - sacrifice for the source of knowledge). All these are possible in a human body if practised with self regulation (Nrru Yajnya -sacrifice for humanity), for upliftment of self and all concerned. This enables the yogi to offer his sacrifices automatically being indifferent and unattached; thus he honours his environmental responsibility as Pancha Yajnya, the highest ecological philosophy of ancient Indians as depicted in Manusmruli.