Outdated Yagnas (Hindus) Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Yagna is a ritual exercise found
In The Yajur Veda and the Brahmanas,
As offering oblations through Agni (fire)
To Devatas for fulfilling desires.

Yagna is done with a specific objects.
Longevity and prosperity rule.
No ceremonies or a life's mile stone
Would pass without it among the high castes.

Yagna is abandonment of something
One holds of value into Sacred Fire. (homa)
Oblations can be milk, ghee, grains or soma
Or, from the rich, clothing, gold, cows and horses.

Yagna is the source of emitting smoke
And wasting things otherwise usable.
Yagna is three millenniums old idea.
An outdated rite, it needs to be shunned.
18.10.2019