I spent several months living in Madison, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland, among some long time Homa Therapy practitioners, and in the places where our dear Shree Vasasnt Paranjpe was first instructed to come and teach Agnihotra, during the 1970's.

Madison Virginia, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a beautiful quiet community of individual families, surrounding the first ever 'Temple' or place of fire. Parama Dham, (means house of Almighty Father), was established by Shree Vasant in 1973, a sacred place of fire and strict disciplines in maintaining the fire, gives the feeling of a very peaceful, healing environment. It is almost as if I could hear the sounds of mantra weaving between the trees and the surrounding nature.

After spending 9 months in 2003-2004, traveling from region to region experiencing the powerful healing effects of Agnihotra, I returned to the United States, but, the transformation had begun. The exposure to such incredible circumstances, both positive and negative completely changed my outlook, throwing me into a state of extreme bewilderment by all the happenings on our Planet. I no longer felt a part of the day-to-day and my goals started to change. Still, I made an attempt to re-settle into life in America, which lasted for about 11 months, when in June of 2005 I returned to India.