Rajkot body pledges to do 10K Vedic Holi yagnas

Rajkot: Over the years, people seemed to have forgotten the tradition of burning Vedic Holi, believes the Jalkranti Trust who are out on a mission to educate the masses about it. President of the Trust Mansukh Suvagiya has decided to become the flag bearer for educating people to burn Vedic Holi this year.

The Trust claims that around 10,000 Vedic Holi yagnas will be performed across the country. Speaking to First India Suvagiya said, “Our mission is to revive the tradition. Climate change (winter to summer) invites several diseases, giving rise to bacteria, fungus, worms and micro-organisms in the environment.

To make the environment healthy, the Vedas had found the science of yagna and dhoop.” “To perform the Vedic Holi, one requires dry cow dung and ghee of desi cow, gugal, kapur, yellow mustard seeds, dry leaves of neem, bhoringni, aghedo, dry tulsi plant, and til. Before burning the pyre, in an earthen pot, five dhaan—wheat, jowar, makai, mag and chana—are buried inside the ground, and on top, the Vedic Holi or pyre is lit.

The cooked dhaan and burnt coconut are served as prasad the next day, thus, giving a strong immunity,” Suvagiya said. Suvagiya has invited around 100 people at his farm in Chibhda, Rajkot, to partake in the Vedic Holi rituals.