Obon Yagya: A Sacred Yagya to Serve the Souls of Our Ancestors

August 15, 2025

 

The Obon Yagya is a beautiful opportunity to consciously connect with and bless our ancestors.

Each year during Japan’s Obon festival, we honor those who have left the body, uplifting their souls into higher realms of consciousness. This year in Varanasi, Bharat (India), a special yagya was performed to serve and elevate our lineage.

Together, we offered light, love, and blessings to our ancestors in this powerful ceremony.

 

Read Her Holiness Sai Maa’s message to the participants of the Obon Yagya:

Om Jai Jai Sai Maa

Dear Soul,

With deep gratitude, accompanied by your souls and guides, we bless you, your ancestors and lineage with the divine power, the Shakti of liberation, of this Obon Yagya.

The timing of this Yagya is so auspicious as it takes place on the same day as India’s Independence Day. What does this mean?

Your ancestors are being blessed with the freedom, the independence from the pain and suffering they went through, from the patterns, fear-base thoughts, feelings, and actions accumulated over generations.

Love, respect, compassion for your lineage. We all must realize that without our ancestors, we will not be here to enjoy the Grace of Enlightenment.

Expand now in this liberated state, this expansiveness of you and your ancestors. Love Life, be grateful for Life, embrace Life with Joie-de-Vivre, the Joy of Being Alive.

At your service and that of your ancestors,

Ever Yours,

Enjoy the slideshow of this year’s Obon Yagya

Obon Yagya 2025