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World's Biggest Fire Ceremony Planned for Allahabad

News Report

 

ALLAHABAD, INDIA, February 2, 2004: The world's biggest Mahayagna with

100,008 yagna kunds (fire altars) will be held at Sangam (the

confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers, where the Kumbha Mela is

held) from January 26 to February 6. The religious event would attract

as many as 100 top politicians and ministers from different political

outfits and States besides delegates from foreign countries. The

occasion would be Laksh Astottar (100,008) Kundiya Shri Seetaram

Mahayagna organized by Swami Anjani Nandan Das Mission near Triveni

Sangam from Basant Panchami (January 26) to Maghi Purnima (February 6)

in 2004. During the 12-day program nearly one million devotees,

followers and people will participate. Along with the Nepal king and

former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, ministers and

representatives from Mauritius, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries

are also likely to participate, said Rastriya Sant Shri 1008 Swami

Anjani Nanda Dasji on Saturday.

 

The preparation for the Mahayagna is in full swing. Ten tractors were

leveling the ground near railway bridge, New Jhunsi, in the mela area.

Nearly 100 houses at New Jhunsi and scores of houses at Bharadwajpuram

(Allahpur) would be voluntarily provided by the people to accommodate

the delegates, he said and added that Sant Gram was being constructed

to house the saints, belonging to different sects, who will be arriving

in January.

 

To be used in the ceremonies:

2.5 million bricks for construction of the fire altars

10,000 tons wood of mango, sycamore, peepal, banyan, pakar tree for

burning

250.000 kilos material required for the fires

50 tons ghee, 2,500 kilos camphor, 12 tons yellow rice

5,000 kilos "ilayachi-dana"

125,000 packets incense sticks

201,000 pots

one million betel nuts

1.5 million coconuts

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How about the world's biggest sankirtana yajna HARE KRISHNA party?

krsnadas

 

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What is fire ceremony? Is it the same thing as vedic yajna, sacrifice to fire god? But I thought those things were applicable only in those times when people were primitive? It is very confusing.

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