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Tantrāloka 1.110

The Kinds of Knowledge

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एकवीरो यामलोऽथ त्रिशक्तिश्चतुरात्मकः ।
पञ्चमूर्तिः षडात्मायं सप्तकोऽष्टकभूषितः ॥११०॥

ekavīro yāmalo'tha triśaktiścaturātmakaḥ
pañcamūrtiḥ ṣaḍātmāyaṃ saptako'ṣṭakabhūṣitaḥ

English

He is the lone hero, then the pair, with three powers, fourfold, with five forms, sixfold, sevenfold, adorned with eight,

हिन्दी

वह अकेला वीर है, फिर युगल है, तीन शक्तियों वाला, चार रूपों वाला, पाँच मूर्तियों वाला, छह रूपों वाला, सात वाला, आठ से सजा हुआ,

OccultGuide. Tantrāloka 1.110. https://occultguide.com/scripture/tantraloka/ahnika-one-the-kinds-of-knowledge#v110. Sanskrit text in the public domain; translation CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Scripture: Durga Saptshati

How should Durga Saptashati be recited if one can't pronounce Sanskrit accurately?

Practice and study the text rather than undertaking a formal, vowed (Sankalpita) recitation; if worshipping purely through devotion, recite in one's native language instead of mispronouncing the Sanskrit.

Yajnopavita

What happens if the yajnopavita is worn but never purified?

The speaker recounts telling a senior official who had taken up the sacred thread but never had it ritually renewed that neglecting this leads to becoming a Brahm Rakshas after death. He says this stands on the authority of saints and shastra, not scare tactics: years of the twice-born disciplines carried out without the required purification means offerings to gods and ancestors go unaccepted, and any apparent advancement others enjoy despite skipping such rules is simply the fruit of their own past merit.

Tantra: Fundamentals

What happens to a festival where a death occurred on that day?

Scripturally it is three years — where a death occurs during a festival period, that festival is not observed for three years and may be observed from the fourth. The local custom of waiting until someone is born on that day is a separate convention; ask your own priest which applies.

Deity: Kamakhya

Origin of the Kamakhya Shakti Peeth and its Bhairav

The speaker says that when Narayana cut the body of Bhagavati Sati into 108 pieces with his Sudarshana Chakra, her Yoni-mandala came to rest on bhasmanchala hill, where Jagadamba resides in the form of Kamakhya. That form, he says, turned into a stone there, and Jagadamba dwells in it. Mahadeva stayed manifest there as Bhasmanchala hill itself and as Umananda Bhairava, and is present at that place to this day.

Narada

Narad's six-shloka stuti to calm Parvati — Jagadamba namastubhyam

A stuti of only six shlokas, a salutation to Jagadamba — the transcript gives its opening as जगदंब नमस्तुभ्यं शिवाय च नमस्तुते, चंडिकाय नमस्तुभ्यं कल्याणै च नमस्तुते — asking her to be calm and pleased.

Deity: Narsingh

How can bound family deities be freed if a father died due to black magic?

If a father died due to black magic and family deities remain bound by an active black-magic entity in the house, daily recitation of Chapter 11 of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita — combined with Kusha-Tulsi water, Ratri Suktam, and house fumigation — severs that influence and breaks the bondage of ancestral spirits and family deities.

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