Today I performed a Homa which is a fire ritual to the Divine and the Goddess of Prosperity and New Beginnings, Lakshmi. It was very cool. We took a little card with Sri Amma Bhagawan and offered water 3 times. Then we offered flower petals and burned incense. The incense gets circled 3x around the image, like an Aarti. Then I offered rice kernels and cooked rice cereal. Next I built my fire with wood and lit it with dried roots and ghee. Each piece of wood was dipped in ghee first. I also lit camphor and did a mini Aarti. The Dasa kept doing different prayers and we would pour ghee on the fire at various times. Last was a big coconut full of rice and dried fruit and wrapped in a cloth. It was soaked in the ghee then put on the fire. The whole thing was very cool and I'm so glad I did it! We have 9 more but that was the only one we could participate in.