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Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals : 12-7.

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"Very important - A Nation is built from the tradition of family! Read carefully, understand, keep in mind and apply the lesson day to day life." Chapter -12. Yajna – Quintessence of the Culture of India-7. Deepavali message given on the 25th of October, 1973. This mysterious law, the law of Yajna, operates in the world. "Yajno vai Vishnuh" : - Supreme Narayana Himself is called Yajna. The term 'Yajna' signifies the whole of the culture of Bharatavarsha.  If we want one word which can give us the quintessence of the whole of the culture of India, 'Yajna' is that word.  How meaningful it is, we can imagine.  Every cultural pattern and every presupposition of human existence is contained in this pregnant term 'Yajna', which means the universal sacrifice that the soul performs. The performer of the sacrifice is the soul.  It is not an Acharya or a Pandit. Swami Krishnananda   To be continued ... Note ** This what The super