Homam, agni and significance of the gAyatrI sAvitrI mantra.

In the homam one prays to jAtaveda to take the offerings to the devas and to the kravyAdamagni to not take these offerings. This has a wonderful significance and is related to the significance of the gAyatrI sAvitrI mantra.

We are offering all sense inputs into our agni in various ways at all times. When we eat we offer food to the jaTarAgni (the digestive fire). When we process sense perceptions and thoughts we are offering these into the jnAnAgni (the fire of wisdom).

Agni resides in the maNipUraka cakra. Cleanse lower two cakras of both gross and subtle object perceptions through the fire of jnAna. Invoke jAtaveda, the fire that takes the offering upwards from bhUloka through bhuvaloka to svarloka (the abode of the gods of the senses). Process world experience through samAna vAyu. Discard negative thoughts by apAna. Use positive uplifting thoughts from world experience to invoke udAna and take consciousness upward. That savitR who is Pure Consciousness, the source of all senses, may it cleanse my intelligence, buddhi, to realize this.