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श्रीशिवमहापुराण
Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa
One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, given in the form Vyāsa received it from Sanatkumāra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
12,235 verses across 229 adhyāyas, each one set out in the received Sanskrit with a transliteration beside our own English and Hindi. A doubtful reading is printed as it stands and flagged, never quietly corrected. 436 claims elsewhere on this site stand on one of its verses.
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7 adhyāyas
माहात्म्य
The Glory of the Text
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25 adhyāyas
विद्येश्वरसंहिता
The Saṃhitā of Vidyeśvara
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20 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — सृष्टिखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa
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43 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — सतीखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Satī Khaṇḍa
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- Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa श्रीशिवमहापुराण 229 chapters
- Kulārṇava Tantra श्रीश्रीकुलार्णवतन्त्रम् 11 chapters
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- Tantrasāra तन्त्रसारः Releasing 28 Sep
- Bṛhat Tantrasāra बृहत्तन्त्रसारः Releasing 20 Sep
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- Amavasya Sadhana: What to Do on the New-Moon Tithi Every practice recommended for the Amavasya tithi — the daily core, pitru karma, protection from abhichar, the anushthan...
- Beginning Sadhana: How a New Sadhaka Should Start Where a completely new sadhaka should actually start — the three-tier structure of aarambhik, mukhya and anga sadhana, t...
- Bhadrapada Maas Sadhanas: The Month's Full Practice Calendar Every practice recommended for the Bhadrapada month — Ganesh Chaturthi and the ten-day Vinayak Navratri, the Krishna Jan...
- Bhairav Sadhana: The Definitive Guide Everything a householder actually needs in order to worship Bhairava — who the forms are and which one belongs in a home...
- Durga Sadhana: The Full Navratri Practice Guide Every practice recommended for Durga sadhana — the daily Navdurga sequence through Navratri, the 32-namavali that needs...
- Ganesh Sadhana: The Full Practice Guide Every practice recommended for Ganpati sadhana — why he comes first, the Sankatnashan and Ashtavinayak paths every sadha...
- Navratri Sadhana: The Complete Nine-Night Practice Guide Everything the discourses actually prescribe for the nine nights — when the kalash goes up, which chapter of Saptashati...
- Purnima Sadhana: What to Do on the Full-Moon Tithi Every practice recommended for the Purnima tithi — the daily core, the Purnima-to-Purnima cycles, each named full moon o...
- Tirtha Sadhana: The Definitive Guide to Sacred Places for Practice Where sadhana actually works, and why — the Shiva Purana's own tenfold ladder of places from a clean house up to a mount...
- Vidyeshwar Samhita: The Definitive Guide The first of the Shiv Mahapuran's seven Samhitas, set out chapter by chapter — why Shiva alone is worshipped in both lin...
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Shiv Raksha Stotra tantra kaat vidhan at the temple: five deepaks, abhishek, viniyog, eight-shloka path, laung and kapur
The speaker's daily sequence: at the Shiv temple first light the five mustard-oil deepaks in the names of the five faces of Panchanana Shiva (he names Vamdev, Ishan, Aghor and says he will write all five), do the abhisheka with the water brought from home, offer flowers, belpatra and bhog, then sit anywhere in the courtyard on an asana brought from home, never the temple's. With water in hand say in the mind to Mahadev that this prayog is done to destroy all abhichaar karma done on you and to obtain his protection, then read the Viniyoga mantra. Keep the printout below until memorised, hold one kapur and two Laung in each fist, and repeat the first eight shlokas of the Shiv Raksha Stotra — from "चरितम देव देवस्य महादेवस्य पावने" to the eighth ending "सर्वांगिनी सदाशिवः" — 5, 7 or 27 times (27 is best), reading on from "एताम शिव वलोपेताम रक्षा में सुकृति पठेत" to the end only on the last round. Then burn the laung and kapur a little away from Shiva, in an earthen vessel if you wish, fold the hands and pray "free me from all these things, protect me", and go home. This is the first thing, done every day; he calls it very easy.
How long will a metal yantra last?
Therefore, he says, birth after birth will pass over its coming loose, its breaking, its being effaced — it will never be effaced. That yantra will remain at your place generation after generation, until someone bends or breaks it with his own hand.
Build tapo bala so an attacker's own deities turn on him, and let the sawari not need to come and speak
For those who bind, feed and tamper with energies to harm, the speaker says, the good "offer" is this: raise your tapo bala by japa-tapa so much that when the other person tries, his own deities tear him apart — he sends to have you killed without even seeing who stands in front. If your deities are weak, if you do not raise tapo bala and only stay in play and feeding, that is what will happen. What he finds most negative about bhagat and sawari-playing people is that most never do brihad japa; the sawari comes, plays, says what it says, and they spend all day in that, making a joke of it — this goes on on YouTube too. Purify the asana, sit on it, do mantra japa, do purashcharana of a kavach. When the sawari comes, let the state be such that it need not come onto your body and speak: become one with it, close your eyes, let its eyes and yours become one, so you see divine things through its eyes. Only then can the sadhak properly use his shaktis.
What is the well-known mantra for reversing a prayoga?
The speaker says the ordinary process for turning back an attack has one very well-known mantra: "उलटंत भेद पलटंत काया" — everyone knows it, and anyone who takes even a little interest in the field of tantra will have read it. But these things, he says, are not employed in that way; keep this in mind.
Rushing through the Saptashati versus chanting it in chhanda
The speaker says there is a popular saying that the Saptashati should not be sung, but it should be understood correctly: it is chanted in chhanda, and reciting in chhanda is the prescribed vidhan, so that one may do. What people actually do wrong is read very fast — he mimics rushing through the Kavach opening — whereas it should be read calmly, in the manner laid down. If reciting in Sanskrit, know how the Anushtup chhanda in which it is set is voiced; if you do not know, learn it.
Impure Sanskrit uchcharan in the Saptashati path
The speaker says someone who has never pronounced Sanskrit and is going straight to a Sanskrit path must first learn how it is recited — from a scholar or a knowledgeable person who does Saptashati or Chandi path, a sadhak, a brahmin, or a mother with Shakta diksha — sitting in their presence, learning the uchcharan purely and practising before them. Impure uchcharan causes trouble; saints relate cases where wrong pronunciation changed the fruit of the path. As one small example he gives the sixth shloka of the Durga Kavach, where भयार्ताः is read in a hurry as भरताः or भर्यताः, both wrong; many such mistakes happen in haste and the meaning turns into its opposite.
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Ganesha
गणेशThe elephant-headed deity of auspicious beginnings, son of Shiva and Parvati.
Mantra Japa
मंत्र जपThe repeated recitation of a mantra, typically counted on a rosary.
Navchandi Anusthan
नवचंडी अनुष्ठानA ritual recitation cycle of the Durga Saptashati performed nine-fold, carrying profound significance when performed exactly according to scriptural injunction.
Bhagavad Gita
श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताKrishna's discourse to Arjuna at Kurukshetra on duty, action, and devotion; embedded within the Mahabharata.
Tara Chaturdashi
तारा चतुर्दशीThe fourteenth lunar day dedicated to the Mahavidya Tara.
Trataka
त्राटकFocused, unblinking gazing meditation performed on a Yantra or consecrated image — practiced, for instance, on an Omkar Yantra or a Shri Yantra following Omkar recitation, producing strong meditative concentration.
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