Is there any value in external sacrifices

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According to Indian religions does animal sacrifices or grain or incense offerings can alter external events in the world?

Is there any value in external sacrifices?

What might a horse sacrifice do for the following?

the performer of the ritual
the brahmin priest
for the sponsor of the sacrifice
the person who paid or gave up the animal

Ascetic practices like extreme breath retention, hanging upside down from trees, fasting, celibacy, and prolonged concentration on one thing like the tip of your nose, third eye between your eyebrows etc. made their way into the different viewpoints surrounding yoga in India. However, today, yoga is all about asana (postures like lotus, downward facing dog etc.) So, is yoga in the West just blatant cultural appropriation or can it be justified as somehow "ancient?"

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