The former Karnataka chief minister performed the special Vajapeya Yaga at Narahari Parvata at Kalladka on Monday.
If, as the dictionary says, a yaga is ‘a ritual sacrifice with a specific objective’, what exactly is on BS Yeddyurappa’s mind these days? The former Karnataka chief minister performed the special Vajapeya Yaga at Narahari Parvata at Kalladka on Monday.
The Narahari Parvata is a hill close to the RSS nerve centre — Kalladka — of Dakshina Kannada, but the Vajapeya Yaga is not to be mistaken as having anything to do with the well-being of the ailing BJP leader and former prime minister AB Vajpayee. The yaga is rather a kind of prayer to evoke divine intervention in turbulent times.
The current yaga had started at the Nandagokula cowshed atop Narahari Parvata on December 6 and culminated at the same venue at 11 am on Sunday amid the chanting of Vajapeya soma manthras by vipras (scholars).
“My intention in holding the Vajapeya somayaga was for loka kalyana (social welfare),” said Yeddyurappa. “In the case of Karnataka, it was going through politically turbulent times and its people were in turbulent times too.” He said he prayed for a stable leadership in the state through which loka kalyana could be achieved.
“Though Sadananda Gowda’s victory to the upper house is assured, I will not hesitate to lead the state if there is a call from the central leadership,” he said. “As a disciplined soldier of the party, I shall honour the call of duty. Let us not forget that I had resigned from the chief minister’s post on the directions of the party leadership.”
Still, Yeddyurappa was quick to add that the yaga had not being organised to further his personal interests and political career.
“Dakshina Kannada was a land of natural divine grace,” he said. “I have been taking part in yagas performed here for a long time and this one was no different. But times are changing and to tide over difficult times we do seek divine grace now and then. As believers in democracy we pray harder with the god of democracy — that is, every voter of this state. As an elected leader of the state, I have bestowed my political future into his hands.”
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