Yagnya means worhsip and offering to the holy-fire.

Even though Sita is very busy in the upbringing of her children, she keeps pining in her heart for her husband Lord Rama. Once, late into the night, after the Children are asleep, Sita sings a deeply moving song, pining for her Lord. Her cry is so intense, that Lord Rama has to appear in His astral form to meet her.

On realising Sita’s anguish, Lord Rama asks her forgiveness

explaining that their separation was needed in order to bring certain virtues of Kingship to mankind by Him.

However to atone for His shortfall as a parent in the present ‘Avatar’ (divine incarnation), he gives verses of how the youth should be encouraged to be enterprising in life.This and more here...

You are my life

You are my soul

You Oh! Rama

Are my only goal.

Your memories keep flooding

The night is so deep

I am awake yearning

While the kids sleep.

Lav – Kush are

Like moon and star

They sing your songs

Still you are unaware ||1||

Where there is light

There is a shadow

How can I your consort

Live without your glow.

In my eternal world

In your brief incarnation

I seek your audience

Without an expectation ||2||

Your devotees are countless

May they all be blessed

I am the unfortunate

The better – half you wed.

I am like the earth

You are the boundless sky

Please accept me Oh Lord!

By hearing my yearning cry ||3||

Sita's intense and pining call

Makes Rama come in form astral

Blessed felt the strength giving consort

Saluted the Lord in her heart and soul ||1||

Rama in turn Sita greeted

Your resentment is indeed accepted

Full of pain is my heart

Call of duty kept us separated||2||

The virtues of our incarnations divine

Should appear crystal clear

For welfare of the people

I have sacrificed ourselves dear||3||

The king is first of his people

And then his family they say

Nobody should have any doubt

That’s why I kept you away ||4||

I'm lonely after separating from you

The palace begrieved too

Every one of the kingdom is in sorrow

My mind is always near you ||5||

But towards you and dear sons

My love is in great bounty

Only regret in this incarnation

I've not done fatherly duty ||6||

Forgive me I if you can

Repentant before you I stand

To atone in life my shortfall

To parents let's extend a hand ||7||

Elders, parents, guardians, teachers,

You can be society’s protectors.

When the youth make positive efforts,

Encourage them to try better. ||1||

When a girl or boy is born,

God with several gifts will shower,

Seek these out and nurture them,

So that they will further flower. ||2||

To some He gives art and craft,

Intellect or strength to some,

Storehouse of virtues divine,

Is His boon to everyone. ||3||

When children leave the beaten track,

And do other works auspicious,

Recognise these as footprints,

Of a future enterprise.||4||

Encourage the child to have an aim,

To always work with committed efforts,

To have confidence in oneself,

And to achieve glorious heights.||5||

Spiritualism and industriousness,

Where they dwell in harmony,

There will blossom Enterprise,

In progressively good forms many.||6||

Sita’s mind started dancing

Thinking that dreams also come true

She forgot the pains of separation

Let us lead a life anew||1||

She kept on talking with her Lord

Telling what their kids wonder

At seven years old, they ask big questions

What is 'Anhad' * I cannot answer.

There are colours

Other than the basic seven colours

There are musical notes

Other than the basic seven notes ||1||

Om Keshavaya Namaha

Om Narayana Namaha

Om Sachidananday Namaha **

Beyond the waking, sleep and meditative state

Beyond all limits of comprehension

There are colours and tunes in the universe

This whole phenomena know is 'Anhad' ||2||

The fire place was sanctified

Holy twigs she did ignite

Lord and Sita sat beside

Chants and blessings to recite

Sita and Rama then together perform the holy Yagnya (worship of fire) for Peace and Happiness of Lav, Kush and all children. Sita lit the Yagnya (holy fire). She offered in it dry leaves, small wooden pieces, camphor, butter and other items.

Sita repeated the holy mantra (chant), often referred to as the

Gayatri Mantra, followed by prayer for blessings to the children. All the while they kept making offerings into the Yagnya, at short intervals of time...

After the above Yagnya, Rama goes to His sleeping children and kisses them lovingly on the forehead .He leaves Tulsi

(sacred basil) leaves in their tender palms.

Just then, Sita comes out of her reverie and realizes that the astral form of Rama has vanished into thin air, and that actually she is all alone in the hermitage. The only thing around in the hermitage is the eerie light and shade created by the tongues of flames from the Yagnya fire, while her children are fast asleep.

Sita now feels cheated by her husband Rama. But Lav & Kush

tell her a surprising tale next morning.

OM ! Bhurhbhuvah Swaha

Tatsaviturvarenyam

Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi

Dhiyo Yonaha Prachodayaat

Oh! God, You are our creator and succour

We live by your grace,

You are the remover of sorrow,

Your effulgence pours

Into every nook and corner.

Every bit of creation, is a manifestation of

Your presence.

As we meditate on You, Oh! Lord,

We pray for your benevolence

Bless our intellect so that

We walk

An enlightened path.

And, Oh! Lord, Bless our children:

May they have wisdom,

May they do good deeds,

May they follow the right path,

May they have good thoughts,

May they have good friends,

May they have long life,

May they be truthful,

May they do righteous enterprise

Oh! Lord, bless our children with all this 

for peace and happiness.

Completing the ‘Yagnya’

Lord near his lads did stand

Lovingly kissed their forehead

Left Tulsi in their hand ||1||

Astral form of Lord then vanished

Sita came out of her trance

Eerie silence fell upon her

Flames alone did the dance ||2||

“Lord has forgotten me!”

The love-lorn devotee says,

“I shall never think of Him again”,

Yet she rushes back and prays.

God is an Ocean of love,

Yet He too pines for affection,

And when the devotee gives

Love to the poor and forsaken,

The pain

Is healed,

For then,

The Lord Himself feels loved.

Disenchanted Sita

Did Fitfully sleep and weep

Got up with a start

Kids shook her out of sleep||1||

"We heard new Chants in dream

On waking we found this in palm"

Sita's heart started beating wildly

Therein were basil leaves of Rama.||2||