अग्निहोत्र : शेतीसाठी समृद्ध वरदान!

अनिल, कैलास, सुनिल, प्रतिसादाबद्दल धन्यवाद! बित्तुबंगा, दुव्याबद्दल आभार!

अनिल, अग्निहोत्राची राख वेगवेगळ्या प्रकारे शेतीत वापरणे, रोज अग्निहोत्र करणे ह्यासाठी जमीन कितीही लहान असो वा कितीही मोठी.... बंधने नाहीत. परदेशात अनेक लोक आपल्या घरगुती परसबागेसाठीही अग्निहोत्र वापरतात. अग्निहोत्राची राख शेतीत कशी, किती एकरांना, कोणत्या प्रकारे वापरता येते त्यासंबंधी हा दुवा बघा : अग्निहोत्र राख वापर.

बाळू जोशी टिंब, आपण आपल्याकडे जर काही ह्या संबंधीची शास्त्रीय माहिती असेल तर ती कृपया शेअर करावीत ही विनंती. कोणी, कसे, काय, कशा पध्दतीने खोडून काढले वगैरे वगैरे. मला तरी अग्निहोत्राच्या ह्या पध्दतीत काही वावगे वाटले नाही.

ह्यात अंधश्रध्दा इत्यादी तुम्हाला कोठे बरे दिसली? तुमच्या मित्रांनी करीयर केले किंवा नाही ह्याचा शेती व अग्निहोत्राचे त्याला होणारे फायदे ह्याच्याशी काही संबंध? सांसारिक संकटांचा आणि अग्निहोत्राचा तुम्ही जो ताळमेळ लावताय ते वाचून नवलच वाटले. वरच्या लेखात असा दावा कोठे केलेला दिसतोय का, की अग्निहोत्र केल्यामुळे सांसारिक संकटे येत नाहीत इ.इ......?? जर तुमच्याकडे ठोस माहिती असेल तर ती पुरवा, जेणेकरून सर्वांचा फायदा होईल. ह्यात ''अशास्त्रीय'' असे काय दिसले? म्हणजे आतापर्यंत जे जे संशोधन झाले आहे ते तुम्ही ''अशास्त्रीय'' म्हणणार काय?

मंदार, प्रतिसादाबद्दल थँक्स!

हम्म्म, पण माझ्या माहितीतील शेतकर्‍यांना ह्या अग्निहोत्र पध्दतीचा फायदा होत आहे असा त्यांचा दावा आहे. त्यांच्या शेतात ते अग्निहोत्रात तयार झालेले भस्म नियमित स्वरूपात वापरतात. त्यातून त्यांचे शेती उत्पन्न आधीपेक्षा तिप्पटी-चौपटीने वाढले आहे असेही ते सांगतात, त्याचे काय? जर उत्पादन वाढतंय, येणारं पीक हे चांगल्या प्रतीचे आहे तर त्यांच्या म्हणण्यात तथ्य आहे असे मानायला जागा आहे, नाही का?
वर दिलेल्या लिंक्स मधील प्रयोगांची माहिती इथे पुन्हा देत आहे.

Agnihotra and Microbes, A Laboratory Experience
Dr. Arvind D. Mondkar M.Sc; Ph.D (Micro)

Our way of life has intensified the quantum of pollution. No place can be
called safe from pollution. What varies is the type of pollutant and the degree of
pollution. Pollution is of various types such as gaseous pollution, water pollution,
food pollution, radioactive pollution and so on. Of these types microbial pollution is
the most important type of pollution for people in the medical or paramedical field.
Microorganisms are ubiquitous in nature.

There are mainly two types, namely non-pathogenic or saprophytic (harmless and not causing any disease) and pathogenic (disease producing). There are certain opportunistic pathogens which, given a chance, can produce disease in human beings. Thus the mere presence of these microorganisms in a definite strength in various media can produce contaminants.
Microorganisms like Salmonellae, Shigellae or Vibrios contaminate water,
eatables, milk and milk products. When the contaminated eatables are consumed
the individual suffers from typhoid, bacillary dysentary or cholera. Similarly,
organisms like Staphylococci cause food poisoning by increasing toxins in food.
This microorganism also causes wound infections with pus formation. Streptococci
infect the respiratory tract after inhalation of the droplet nuclei on which they are
settled. Hospital infections by Staphylococci and Pseudomones are not
uncommon. Recently, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been reported to have entered
the space age. This microorganism was isolated from the lining of the fuel tank of
a jet engine and was found to be responsible for the corrosion of the tank.

It is stated that Agnihotra helps to undo the effects of pollution. In this respect it was decided to observe the last type of pollutant, i.e., microorganisms and the effect of Agnihotra on them. The present article restricts only to the effect of Agnihotra on microorganisms as observed in a microbiology laboratory.

Agnihotra Effect on Bacterial Population

A preliminary experiment was carried out to study the effect of Agnihotra on
the bacterial population in a room where Agnihotra was performed. For this study,
two rooms of equal dimensions (13¼’ x 8’ x 11’) were selected. In both rooms fire
was prepared from dried cowdung cakes in copper pyramids and the basal reading
of number of microorganisms in both the rooms was taken by exposing blood agar
plates at four corners of the room for 10 minutes. This was done exactly half an
hour before Agnihotra time. Agnihotra was performed exactly at sunset in one of
the rooms. Bacterial counts were taken again in both the rooms in a similar manner
at half hour intervals. Thus readings were taken in both the rooms up to two hours
after performance of Agnihotra. It was quite interesting to note that microbial
counts in the room where Agnihotra was performed were reduced by 91.4%
whereas the room where only fire was generated did not show appreciable changes
in the microbial counts. This leads one to think that it was the process of Agnihotra
which was responsible for the reduction of bacterial counts and not the mere
presence of fire.

Two other similar experiments revealed similar findings. The phenomenon
could be explained by giving two reasons:

- Agnihotra fumes are rich in formaldehyde and other substances which have
inhibitory effect on microorganisms.

- A phenomenon like smog formation and its diffusion in the upper strata might be
a likely postulation.

In the regions of North and South poles, many times, carbon particles accumulate
to form a layer called “smog”. When fire is lit the hot currents push the smog into
the upper strata and it is diffused in such a way that the carbon particles are no
longer harmful in the residual concentration. In the present study perhaps
Agnihotra fumes might have dissociated the microorganisms in such a way that the
residual population was no more harmful and was well within tolerable limit to
human beings.

Agnihotra Effects on Bioenergetic Systems of Individual Microorganisms

This kindled our interest and it was decided to study the effect of Agnihotra
on the bioenergetic systems of individual microorganisms. A strain of
Staphylococci pyogenes isolated from a pus sample was selected for the study. The
strain showed all the characteristics of a pathogen. It was isolated from a lesion,
produced beta haemolyses on blood agar, showed a positive coagulase test and
fermented mannitol with the production of acid. The strain was innoculated on a
pair of blood agar plates, one of which was kept away from the Agnihotra
atmosphere (control plate). The other one was exposed to Agnihotra fumes for five
minutes and was allowed to remain in that atmosphere till next Agnihotra was
performed (approximately 12 hours). Agnihotra is to be performed on the
biorhythm of sunrise/sunset. Surprisingly, it was observed that the plate exposed to
Agnihotra (test plate) showed a tremendous reduction in the zone of haemolysis as
against a wide zone of haemolysis in the control plate.

Organisms from both the plates were then subjected to coagulase test. The
organisms from the test plate showed a negative coagulase test demonstrating their
inability to produce coagulase. Finally, the organisms from both the plates were
emulsified in one ml. of normal saline separately to give suspensions of equal
strength. This was achieved by use of Brown’s opacity tube no. 3. The suspensions
were then injected intradermally into the thighs of an albino mouse. The mouse
was kept under observation for five days.

It was very interesting to note that the suspension from the test plate failed
to produce any lesion in the mouse wheras the suspension from the control plate
produced typical abscess. These results suggest that Agnihotra played a pivotal role
in controlling the metabolic activities of this microorganism. In this case, a
pathogenic strain of Staphylococcus pyogenes showed characteristics of a
nonpathogenic strain ofter exposure to Agnihotra atmosphere. This was just an
observation and triggered quite a number of questions in the mind:

- Is this effect phenotypic or genotypic?
- Is it necessary to expose the strain for a prolonged time interval or will a short
exposure cause a similar effect?
- Will the progeny of these microorganisms behave in a similar manner?
- Does the small or microdose of substances released from Agnihotra process boost
the immunity mechanism of the patient to get rid of the infection or does the
infecting agent lose its virulence? Perhaps both the effects go hand in hand.
Answers to these questions are still beyond sight and show a need for further
experimentation in this field.

Agnihotra Ash and Water Soluble Phosphates
Dr. Tung Ming Lai, Denver, Colorado

I did some lab testing on Agnihotra ash. The results are interesting. 0.10 g. of ash
was shaken with 25 mi. of water for forty-eight hours and then the water soluble
phosphate content was measured. The same amount of ash was shaken with two
different soils (5 g.) from Colorado (also 25 mi. of water) and phosphate content
was measured after forty-eight hours of being shaken. The results are as follows.
(The values are the average values of duplicates.)

SOIL USED
ASH ADDED
WATER SOLUBLE

PHOSHATE EXTRACTED

None
Non-Agnihotra ash
0.68 mg. P/.02 g. ash

None
Agnihotra ash
1.78 mg. P/.02 g. ash

Weld loam
Non-Agnihotra ash (0.02 g. ash/g. soil)
4.2 mg. P/ g. soil

Weld loam
Agnihotra ash (0.02 g. ash/g. soil)
17.2 mg. P/ g. soil

Red Feather loamy sand
Non-Agnihotra ash (0.02 g. ash/g. soil)
2.3 mg. P/ g. soil

Red Feather loamy sand
Agnihotra ash (0.02 g. ash/g. soil)
11.5 mg. P/ g. soil

The non-Agnihotra ash was produced with the same ingredients in the same copper vessal as Agnihotra ash. The only difference was the non-Agnihotra ash was not produced at sunrise or sunset, and no mantras were chanted.
(All growing plants need phosphorus; however, regardless of how much
phosphorus is added to the soil, only the water soluble portion can be utilized by
the plant. On an average, only about five percent of the phosphorus in conventional chemical fertilizers is water soluble.--Ed.)

Agnihotra and Grapes
Dr. B. G. Bhujbal, Research Officer Maharashtra State Grape Growers' Association, Poona, India
Grapes are a difficult crop to grow under Maharashtra's climatic conditions and also equally difficult to study. I have been associated with research work on grapes while studying for my M.Sc. degree at the University of Poona, India since 1967. Various problems faced by the workers since then were finally put before the research workers at the Agricultural College, Poona.

Hybridization work with grapes had already commenced before my association with this work. I have been observing the results of that work. It was reported that the germination of hybrid grape seeds had been very late and low. When I conducted hundreds of crosses at the Ganeshkhind Fruit Experimental Station, Poona-7 and sowed the seeds after treatment by advanced techniques which included hormones, scarification, stratification etc., the results were discouraging. The germination percentage was very low, i.e. below 20 % and some of the seeds even took 300 days for germination.

Meanwhile I came to learn of Agnihotra and Homa Therapy farming and thought why not have a trial of this therapy in grape research. There was a solar eclipse on 16th of February 1980. I had also read previously that the no-moon day was the best day for seed treatment and sowing. With this background and not to miss the opportunity I coIlected seeds of the Anab-e-shahi, Pandhari Sahebi and Kali Sahebi varieties, local vinifera varieties, as well as some crossed seeds which were collected using the Thompson seedless variety as a male parent to make the cross. In order to conduct the experiment properly, I applied for leave on 20th of February 1980 in time for the treatment to commence on 16th of February, 1980. Some unrooted cuttings of local grape varieties were also collected for additional treatments.

Experimental Plot

All the seeds and the unrooted cuttings were kept in an environment open to Agnihotra fumes. As far as mantras were concerned, I began with the "Tryambakam" Mantra and Homa continued for 2 hours, after which the samples were treated with Agnihotra ash and then put into pots ready for planting. An untreated lot of samples served as a control.

Observations

It was indeed a surprise not only to me and my wife but also to friends who had been laughing at my experiments to observe the first seedlings sprouting on the 21st day of sowing. Some of the recorded observations are given in a table below. The second experiment concerned making raisins. At present, raisin-making is not carried out in Maharashtra except on an experimental basis using the dehydration and sun-drying methods. I collected a few bunches of grapes from growers and hung them in the environment where I was performing Agnihotra. Similar clusters were kept with the growers for making raisins using their own method of sun-drying. After 21 days the drying was almost complete, and after 35 days I collected the clusters and tested them. The raisins were very good in appearance and taste. Special interest rallied around the evidence that the raisins prepared from the Anabe-shahi variety and having low TSS contact were also good. Equally good results were obtained by the Thompson seedless variecy growing in the Agnihotra environment as compared to those varieties generally available in the market.

Another experiment was performed in a grower's field. Mr. Pundlik Khode, a small farmer from the village of Pimpalgaon-Baswant, Nasik District had been much worried about his crop and was doubtful regarding repayment of his bank loan obtained for the vineyard. Agnihotra was done regularly and Agnihotra ash was applied to his vines. The observations which were recorded at harvest time proved very good. The grower, Mr. Khode, had never believed in such a possibility until he saw the actual results. The individual berry as well as the cluster was superior in colour, taste, sweetness and weight. About 150 observers said that the crop was the best in that locality.

इथे आवर्जून प्रतिसाद देणार्‍यांचे मनःपूर्वक धन्यवाद!

धन्स दिनेशदा!

ज्यांना अग्निहोत्र करणार्‍या व त्याचा आपल्या शेतीत नियमित वापर करणार्‍या शेतकर्‍यांचे संपर्क हवे असतील त्यांनी मला विपु मधून कळवावे. त्या शेतकर्‍यांशी बोलून/ त्यांच्या शेताला भेट देऊन शंकासमाधान करून घ्यावे. शेतीत व्यावहारिक दृष्ट्या हे कसे शक्य आहे वगैरे गोष्टी ते जास्त उलगडून सांगू शकतील. तसेच मला वाटते की ह्या विषयावर अगोदर झालेले संशोधन ज्यांना अपुरे वाटत आहे त्यांनी ह्या विषयात रस घेऊन अधिक संशोधन जरूर करावे. कारण त्यातूनच अधिक माहिती हाती लागेल.

प्रगो थँक्स गिव्हिंग!