Havan in Hinduism(the fire ritual)

Hello👋 hiveans. The Homa(havan) is common to many sanskara ceremonies in various Hindu traditions. It is a fire ritual performed on special occasions by a Hindu priest.

Their is a havan for naming my child in this pic where all my family members are doing havan.

The fire altar or havan kund is generally made in square shape by brick stone or copper vessel. In this ritual of fire, is a symbol of Hindu cosmology, where human offer something to the gods through the medium of fire and in return they expect that the God will give themstrength, power, peace, health and wealth and purification of the environment. Hawan rituals remains an important part of Hindu ceremonies.

It is believed that havan has a purifying effect on both the devotees and the environment. While doing havan the priest will chant the mantras and offer havan samagri to the fire. The havan samagri contains natural ingredients(dry mixture of herbs, roots and leaves) used during fire worship. It cleans the atmosphere and flush out all the negativity

My uncle is a priest and he made home made samagri at home. In this samagri he added many things which I mentioned below by pics.

This is Nagarmotha.

This is Chadchadila.

This is Belgiri.

This is dry coconut (khopra or nariyal)

This herb is sugandh kokila

This is googal(dhup). It enhance the smell.

This is kapur kachri.

And many more herbs are there like black til, jo, dry rose petals, lotus seeds, kapur and satavari and ghee.

Now in a mortor pestle he grind all the ingredients of havan samagri as shown below in this pic.

Mix all the havan samagri properly.

In a paper plate take some samagri for havan.

Cut one dry coconut from the upside as shown in the pic, and pour cow ghee inside it and cover the cocunt by the coconut lid. Cow ghee has enormous beneficial properties.

This coconut will be used in the havan in the end of the fire rituals. The priest will put this coconut in the fire.

The below pic is when my inlaws bought a new home in Kolkata so they did puja and hawan at our new house to flush out all the evil energy and negativity.

This puja or havan is also said to improve the health of the family members, increase their longevity, maintain harmony and stability in the family. The devotee who perform havan will get rid of all the problems on their way towards success 🙌 . It is very important to perform this havan with great faith in God.