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Keeping to His Path

In a havan, we make an offering of samagri to Agni deva, which contains both exotic ingredients like guggul as well as common ingredients like rice and sugar, representing in totality the different aspects of creation. Similarly, our body contains all aspects of  creation , which belong to no specific individual. These keep on changing and exist to aid the forces that run creation. Every moment in the life of a sadhak is a havan, an ahuti made to the devas in his every  thought and action —be it eating, sexual gratification, travel, leisure or even sadhana, which has to be sacrificed after a stage. All these are aspects of the physical, temporary and unreal. The moment a sadhak associates himself with a physical aspect and tries to hold on to it, it is called a dilution in yog. On the other hand, if the sadhak makes an offering to the devas with every physical aspect, it paves way to evolution. Both devas and danavs exist within a being. The aspect that one rela...