This Puja, this Yajna, and this Homa are arranged here every Dasara in order to help you learn that other, ever-lasting, abstract Yajna, which every one of you has to do to save yourselves from fear, grief and anxiety.

 You must perform another Yajna every day. Pour the egoistic desires and emotions, passions, impulses and acts into the flames of dedication and devotion. In fact, that is real Yajna, of which these are reflections and prompters, guides and prototypes. This yajna is only the concrete symbolic representation of the abstract underlying Truth. Just as a child is taught to pronounce the words - head, net, wave, garland, and so on by making it associate the sounds and the letterforms with pictures of the objects so named, through this kshara (temporary) symbol the Akshara tatwa (the Eternal Principle) is brought before the consciousness. This Puja, this Yajna, and this Homa are arranged here every Dasara in order to help you learn that other, ever-lasting, abstract Yajna, which every one of you has to do to save yourselves from fear, grief and anxiety.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba