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Head to Amazon and look up for holywaste incense sticks to usher in the fragrances of goodness into your homes.

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You are sure to enter into a realm of celestial bliss with every Ānandhā that you light.
4″ long stick with a burn time of 30 minutes
Ānandhā comes in two soulful fragrances. Typical to the other HolyWaste fragrances, the ones on offer with Ānandhā – Chandana and Abhra – is soothing, exhilarating and divine.

Every pack of Ānandhā comes with an all natural stand made with floral waste and its magic potions to ensure it is completely Bio-degradable. After every pack, all you do is to discard the stand into your garden or planter- the stand decomposes naturally, without odour and becomes manure to the plants, nourishing the soil. This is called Being Doubly Conscious and Sustainable! And what’s more, they are all hand-made by women – our Rejuvenators!

Each pack of Ānandhā contains 30 sticks and has managed to keep away 500gms of used flowers from polluting Mother Earth.

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The earliest known incense were made of natural materials completely. People used herbs, Barks, Resins and oils – all natural, all grown by them or found in the wild. The Incense Stick as we know of it now is a later day derivative.

Most of the natural ingredients used were fragrant and would emanate scent into the air when burned. Other than for spiritual reasons and personal hygiene, Incense were burned to keep away pests and insects too. The ingredients used for burning were considered quite valuable – how can one forget that two of the three gifts that the Magi carried for Jesus Christ on his birth were Frankincense and Myrrh?
It must have been much later when humans started producing incense for trade that the modern version of sticks were made. Addition of other ingredients, to enhance the quality of their fragrance, bind, combustion and dispersion of the scent into the air, must have happened then. Later day knowledge of making a paste of the ingredients, rolling them over a stick and drying them to be burned later might have helped them to easily stock, store, trade/exchange these goods.
Charcoal as a combustion agent was one of such later additions into the recipe of Incense making.
The problems with inhaling charcoal fumes, especially in enclosed spaces, is two-fold. One it affects the health and the second is the way it depletes our environment of its natural fossil. Mining and production of charcoal, the effects of burning charcoal and the particulates of a burning incense in air is an ongoing study and a debatable topic. However, it is not untrue that Lung and Respiratory tract issues are quite often associated with inhalation of Carbon Monoxide.

Choose wise, go natural –
Get Back to Basics!

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Agni or Fire has been associated with purification in Hindu culture from pre-vedic times. Agni Pariksha is a known term to any Hindu irrespective of one’s knowledge of mythology. To limit the knowledge of Fire to India and Hinduism will be limiting our understanding of the history of Humankind.

Fumigation as an essential ritual to keep away wild animals & insects, to preserve meat, to dispel bad odour is ancient knowledge. Burning Agarbattis, Dhoop, or an “Aarati” is a remnant of that collective knowledge.

Reference to Incense or Fragrances burning (not in particular reference to the shape that we know of it now) has been made in Hindu, Catholic, Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist scriptures. Fragrant smoke has been part of humankind’s spiritual & religious rituals – be it the burning of Sage leaves by native Americans, or benzoin resin on embers by the ancient Indians, or Olive leaves by the Mediterranean dwellers – the smoke has been there always (with the fire, of course).
We would be using the terms Fragrance & Incense interchangeably in this piece of writing since one is the reason for the other to exist.
Fragrance is a stimulant. It acts on the Olfactory senses – one of the five senses that can alter anybody’s being. It triggers specific responses.
Scents/Fragrances help create specific results – it is Therapeutic, healing and cleansifying.
It can be safely concluded that Fragrances were/are used to Relax & De-stress, Meditate or Focus, Dispel Negative Energy or Foulness in air, Disinfect & repel, heighten sexual desires. And one or a combination of these reasons are why Incenses are used the way and in the places that they are used now.
Since Vedic times, the ritual of Homa (Homam, Yagna, Havan) is practiced by Hindus, and carried on to Buddhism (in India, Tibet, China and Japan too). It is a votive ritual where a few daily use items like grains, seeds, ghee, are symbolically sacrificed in the all-consuming fire lit by all-natural cow-dung cakes and/or fragrant wood. The smoke generated by this fire is supposed to cleanse and disinfect the air around and is a natural fumigation technique followed by our ancestors (I am sticking to the Smoke/Fire angle alone to ensure brevity and appropriateness of the content).
Burning an incense stick today is a modern devotee’s way of re-creating the goodness of a Homam in one’s surroundings.
If earlier the incenses were made of entirely natural material like leaves/herbs, barks/wood, natural resin, with commercialisation and profit-making taking center stage it has been reduced to a synthetic stick, mostly if not in entirety. Breathing of such synthetic incense smoke is a major cause of nasal irritations, and thoracic & lung infections.

Let’s go into the ingredients in subsequent parts….Incense abhi baaki hai!

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