The story of the Hindu yajna tradition in modern India is not merely the story of a ritual form in decline. It is the story of a civilizational inheritance that has gradually lost its centrality in the public religious imagination even while retaining immense scriptural prestige. The older Vedic world placed yajna at the heartContinue reading “The age-old Vedic ritual traditions (“yajna”) that I’ve been so utterly ignorant of for so long …”