Gayatri and Yagya constitute the foundation of the Vedic Culture. While Gayatri imparts wisdom and pure intelligence, Yagya inspires corresponding creativity and actions. In talking of the Vedic age the images of the great rishis performing agnihotra-yagyas instantly flashes before our sight. In those days, apart from the rishis, the rich and the poor, the kings and citizens also had an equally deep faith and respect for Yagya and they used to sincerely participate in and lend wholehearted support for different kinds of Yagyas. The rishis used to spend at least one-third of their lives in conducting Yagyas. It was a common belief and an observed fact in the Vedic Indian society that Yagya...