Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: THE CYCLE OF ACTION [Re: vinaire] #14404 - 04/05/02 04:50 AM Edit Reply Quote

Haha, Vinaire, here's the Ishwa answer to the etymology (this is not official but my explanation): yajna comes from the verbal root yaj = to sacrify. There's an acient core of "i/ya=to move, go" in it (i in samprasarana), with a "j" extension (same as jan=to be born, giving it the meaning of 'being'?) in it. Yajna is applied to action of being in accord (musically, from ad-chord) with the tunes of manifestation as echo of the Soundless One. The Yajna-meaning of sacrifice comes from the Latin sacri=sacred and fice which is from the verb ('fere', if I can recall) which means action. Yajna is that which has a cyclical implication (looping process), when in the birth-death cycles. But eventually an anti-cyclical when used to get out of this cyclical sequence. Yajna is for staying in tune with brahma-tva, which is the most economical and direct way out of the outtuned sequences. That is why at certain moments there's a need to take a sacred time out to get in tune again. While Yajna is the tuning in the bahihkarana or outer world with the inner inspirational sound, Yoga is the tuning in the antahkarana or inner world with outer respirational sounds. Both are ways to get a sym-phony, from sym=sama=same or together and phonos=sound. Yajna can be done in a simple way, alone, but also together. The Grhya Yajnas are/were meant for tuning together in the household, where lies the base or start for a harmonious society. The Shrauta Yajnas are/were meant for whole communities or nations to get in tune, where lies the base for a global/mondial harmony. (Haha, we could see the ancient reflexion of a United Nations in the Yajna execution).