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    Yajna – A healing science – Question Bank

    MSc – YC II sem
    Short answers 1x2
    1. What is yajna?
    2. What is yantra?
    3. What are the places of god?
    4. What is mantra?
    5. What is tantra?
    6. What are the meanings of word yajna?
    7. What is sarpadosha?
    8. What is the appropriate time to perform yajna?
    9. Mention the types of Karmas?
    10. Mention three types of food (saatvik, rajasik and
    tamasik)?
    11. What is Ashrama and Varna?
    12. What is Swadhyaya Yajna?
    13. 5Why should one perform Prayashchitta Karma?
    14. What is a Yuga? Mention all of them.
    15. What are the two paths according to shastras in
    which humanity engages itself?
    16. Who are the Devatas according to Vedic seers?
    17. Which are the divisions of Shrauta Yajnas?
    Short essays 1x5
    1. Results of Yajna
    2. Varnas and Ashramas
    3. Senses and self control
    4. Role of senses in self destruction
    5. Three worlds according to Vedas
    6. ‘Brahmarpanam brahma‘ – Yajna concept
    7. Health according to Ayurveda
    8. Tridosha, Triguna and Health
    9. Upanishads and health
    10. ‘Annat bhavanti bhutani’ – explain
    11. Importance of Agni in the Indian tradition
    12. Purity by performing Yajna
    13. Nitya, Naimittika, Kamya and Prayashcnitta
    14. Eligibility for Jnana marga (path of knowledge)
    15. Materials offered in to the fire
    16. Importance of ghee in Yajnas
    17. Draw Ganapathi Yantra (mandala)
    18. Concept of Brahmacharya in the context of
    Yajna
    Long essays 1x10
    1. How one can convert the entire life into Yajna
    oriented?
    2. Present the concept of Yajna in Bhagavad Gita.
    3. Explain five types of Yajnas according to Aranyaka of
    Yajurveda.
    4. What is the importance of Yajna in the process of
    maintaining the creation?
    5. Explain the concept of health according to
    Upanishads and relation with Yajna.
    6. According Bhagavad Gita, what are the negatives if
    one doesn’t perform Yajna?
    7. How does the modern science support to track the
    changes occurring at the subtle level using bio-well,
    REG etc?
    8. Elaborate the concept of health in the Vedic
    treatises.
    9. Does Yajna performance help one to get realization
    (Moksha)? How?
    10. Elaborate two paths Karma and Jnana in
    connection with Yajna.
    11. Explain the theory of Karma according to
    ancient scriptures.
    12. How does the practice of Yajna lead to purify of
    human personality?
    13. Present Yajna as a healing science.
    14. Elaborate the concept of Antaryajna (internal
    Yajna).

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