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What reliable sources actually recommend on one topic, compiled after an exhaustive study and made filterable in one place — every entry linked straight back to its source so you can check it yourself.

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Topic

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 mountain peak, what a Shakti Peeth, a siddha peeth, a bali-pitha and a mahashmashan each are and who may sit at them, the full protocol for Kamakhya, Kashi, Prayag, Vindhyachal, Girnar and Tarapith from the moment you leave your door to the night you get home, the mistakes that bring trouble back with you, and what to do instead when you cannot travel at all. Every claim is pinned to the discourse and, where the received text speaks, to the verse.

354 sources analyzed 11 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Deity

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, how to find your kul Bhairav, the chaukhat and Kshetrapal rites that stop an ongoing abhichar, what the Batuk Bhairav Ashtottara Shatanama does and how far to take it, which offerings are real and which are borrowed, and the questions people are most afraid to ask out loud. Every claim is pinned to the discourse and, where the received text speaks, to the verse.

157 sources analyzed 7 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Scripture

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 linga and image, where Om and Om Namah Shivaya actually come from, how a parthiv shivling is made and how many to make, what the text really says about bhasma, rudraksha and who may wear them, and which famous Mahashivratri claims the Samhita itself does not support. Every claim on this page is pinned to a verse you can check.

28 sources analyzed 13 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Festival

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 belongs to which tithi, what to do when the akhand jyot goes out, why paran is on Dashami and not Navami, what the Ashtami–Navami sandhi is for, and the rule that decides whether nine days of work survives the tenth.

168 sources analyzed 7 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Deity

Durga Sadhana: The Full Navratri Practice Guide

Every practice recommended for Durga sadhana — the daily Navdurga sequence through Navratri, the 32-namavali that needs no diksha at all, Durga Saptashati as the base of shakti sadhana, kalash and kavach-havan vidhi, and the rules that decide whether a Navratri vrat actually holds.

149 sources analyzed 31 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Deity

Ganesh Sadhana: The Full Practice Guide

Every practice recommended for Ganpati sadhana — why he comes first, the Sankatnashan and Ashtavinayak paths every sadhaka starts with, the tantrik forms and where their limits sit, murti and pratishtha vidhi, and the cautionary accounts of what goes wrong when this order is skipped.

200 sources analyzed 24 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Tantra

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, the sequence of Guru, Ganpati and Bhairav, what genuinely needs diksha and what doesn't, and the cautionary accounts of what goes wrong when this order is skipped.

250 sources analyzed 22 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Tithi

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 Janmashtami kavach window, Tara Chaturdashi and Kaushiki Amavasya, and the start of Pitru Paksha — filterable, with the source discourse linked on every entry.

65 sources analyzed 28 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Tithi

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 windows, each named new moon of the year, and the procedural rulings that decide whether it is done correctly. Filterable, with a checklist you can save as a PDF.

247 sources analyzed 124 cited Updated 28 August 2026
Tithi

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 of the year, and the procedural rulings that decide whether it is done correctly. Filterable, with the source discourse linked on every entry.

273 sources analyzed 48 cited Updated 28 August 2026