Hindu Vedic Sanstha (Arya Samaj), Ottawa - Monthly Havan
Sunday, the 13th of January, 2019 - Hosts: Phulan Aeri and Sain dass Aeri
About Arya Samaj of Ottawa-Carleton
The Arya Samaj as a formal organization was launched in Ottawa in approximately 1970 by (Late) Mr. Baldev Gandhi, Mrs. Phulan Aeri, Mrs. Prem Lata Agarwal, and a few other practitioners of Havan Sandhya and the Vedic way of life.
Originally, there was no place available where the Vedic Havan ceremony would be allowed by the City regulations. As such, the monthly Havan was performed in a rented place in a Church with a fireplace on the 5th Ave off Bank Street.A group of Hindus would get together and perform the Havan ceremony with the same feeling. There were no pundits or priests performing the Havan or any other rituals. For years, these pioneers of the Arya Samaj undertook to carry out the the Hindu ceremonies according to the Vedic way, such as Mundan, Grah Pravesh, Engagements, Namakaran, Antyeshti, etc.
As the demands of the Indo-Canadian community grew, a few farsighted stalwarts of the Indo-Canadian community banded together and decided to have an own place for Hindu worship. So the Hindu Temple of Ottawa-Carleton came into existence in Oct 1984.
The lower level of the temple was built up as a “Yagyashala (यज्ञशाला)” with the aim to conduct Havan ceremony there. Since then the Arya Samaj of Ottawa-Carleton has been conducting a monthly Havan on the 2nd Sunday of every month between 3:30 – 5:30 PM. One family or multiple families host each Havan ceremony and make arrangements to provide food/prasad. The Havan books (shown below) were purchased from U.S.A. The Havan devotees and the members of the community are happy and content with this arrangement. A few of these Havan books are available to purchase @ $10.
For more information about participating in the Havan activities, to be a host, or to purchase the Havan books, please contact:
Mrs. Phulan Aeri (613-723-6724) Email: phulanaeri69@hotmail.com
Havan Book:
The "Vaidika Mantras" Book - is available to buy for C$10.
Please call Mrs. Phulan Aeri (613-723-6724) or Dr. Indu Gambhir (613-565-1653).
Part 1 - Havan:
https://youtu.be/YxtcVZ9fxTs
Part 2 (Bhajans):
https://youtu.be/ckDfCCmTUAY
Part 3 (Nav Varsh Geet) sung by Rashmi Gupta:
https://youtu.be/2ER0XS0TxmE
What are benefits (scientifically) of Havan?
Source of this article: https://www.quora.com/What-are-benefits ... y-of-Havan
NOTE: The Answer is contributed to Quora.com by Sparsh Choudhary, B.Tech Environmental Engineering, Delhi Technological University (2018)
Havan (Homa) refers to a ritual, wherein an oblation or any religious offering is made into fire. The fire is the agent, and the offerings include those that are material and symbolic such as grains, clarified butter, milk, incense and seeds.
Scientific Benefits:
HOW HAVAN PURIFIES THE ATMOSPHERE: When the havan is performed the air touches the fire, gets purified and becomes lighter in nature. So this light air goes up and replaces the cold/ the impure air and this process continues (as we studied in geography ; how the lighter air from the plains replace the heavier air from the poles) and the air keep getting purified till the ritual is being performed. The main ingredient in havan is mango wood which when burnt releases FORMIC ALDEHYDE a gas which kills harmful bacterias thus purifies the atmosphere as per the research of (scientist TRELLO from FRANCE). It is then scientists made FORMALIN from formic aldehyde gas which is used to preserve the fruits, vegetables and species in the medical laboratories.
The jaggery burnt in the havan also releases the formic aldehyde gas. If we stay in a place where havan is being performed for ½ an hour the germs of typhoid fever are killed. The cow’s ghee the very important ingredient of havan has been referred as an antidote to the poison in VEDAS. Its fragrance purifies the physical atmosphere. Ghee when burnt in fire goes up in the atmosphere and the fat particles get laden on the dust particles in the atmosphere (somewhat similar to the stickiness on the objects in the kitchen) and comes back to the earth in form of rain thus nourishes the vegetation on the mother earth. Dr. Shirowic a RUSSIAN SCIENTIST says that if cow’s ghee is put in fire its smoke will lessen the effect of radiation in the atmosphere to a great extent.
As per the research conducted by Dr. Kundan lal M.D. in allopathic medicine found that no bacteria was killed when 1 k.g. of mango wood was burnt in a closed room but when the same was burnt with havan samigri the bacterial count was reduced by 94% (chander shekhar nautiyal)head of the division studying plant- microbe interaction. The air sample even after 24 hrs.showed that bacteria count was lower by 96%. So havan is helpful to prevent air born infections like T.B. and other viral infections.
Prof. Tilward says that fumes of havan kills the bacteria of T.B., Measeles, Cow pox, Small pox.
Havan has been found an effective method to reduce the FUNGAL load in small office or room. As per the experiments conducted the havan fire smoke has the potency to kill fungi like Aspergillus, Penicillium, Curvuleria and cladosporium etc. (Earth environmental science) in June 2007 in Acrobiolagia A Journal published in NETHERLAND. The oxidation of hydrocarbons in (ghee and oils found in dry fruits) produce formic acid and acetic acid (vinegar) used to preserve food material.
Havan smoke is like inhalation therapy derived from AYURVEDA and as described above it relaxes the mind and heals the body and has positive effects spiritually too because of the holy verses (mantras) chanted during the havan.