Gayatri and Yagya constitute the foundation of the Vedic Culture. While Gayatri imparts wisdom and pure intelligence, Yagya inspires corresponding creativity and actions. In talking of the Vedic age the images of the great rishis performing agnihotra-yagyas instantly flashes before our sight. In those days, apart from the rishis, the rich and the poor, the kings and citizens also had an equally deep faith and respect for Yagya and they used to sincerely participate in and lend wholehearted support for different kinds of Yagyas. The rishis used to spend at least one-third of their lives in conducting Yagyas. It was a common belief and an observed fact in the Vedic Indian society that Yagya...

The misconception that ’science and spirituality are mutually exclusive’ - has been prevailing in the minds of many people since long. At a superficial level, the two streams of knowledge aimed at decipheration of the ultimate truth appear to be contradicting and nullifying each other’s principles. The early period of modern scientific development cultivated a visible or tangible evidence driven reasoning and logic. This advocated a general belief that all progress and intellectual civilization of mankind has been possible only because of the material based scientific investigations and developments. The misdeeds of the medieval era in the name of religion and the misinterpretation of the...