Yarney Puja

Summer RetreatThis is one of the three basic rituals of the Vinaya. It refers to taking a three-month pledge during the first or the second summer retreat not to venture beyond the retreat boundary, not to trigger fight among sanghas, to put effort in study, contemplation and meditation, to engage in the renovation of the damaged parts of the monastery, and so forth.Its benefits and purposes in brief are:Firstly, on the basis of what argument did the summer retreat come intobeing?Sutra says:That time the Buddha was residing in Shravasti. For the Buddhist monks who go out in the country and do not observe the summer retreat and do not remain indoors in summer, the non-Buddhist monks complained: The sanghas of the son of the Shakya have not refrained from the act of killing. In summer roaming around the country many sentient beings get stamped and killed.Even the swallow birds silently remain in their nests for four months in the summer, but these bald heads they don’t even know how to t