A 41-Day Navarna Mantra Sadhana Learnt from YouTube — Case Story, the Vidhan Followed, and Every Fault the Speaker Finds in It

The speaker places a true incident before listeners: how one person took up the sadhana of the Navarna Mantra through a YouTube channel during the Corona period, and how his whole life was transformed. He will not name the channel, since that would become controversial, but he goes through the whole case of what can happen in a SadhakOne who undertakes a sadhana; the practitioner as distinct from the ordinary worshipper.'s life when one is unfit or not authorised for a mantra and performs it anyway. The man had received no Diksha of any kind, though he had been serving BhagavatiThe Goddess addressed by her honorific, used across these talks for whichever form is under discussion. from the start. With a lot of free time in the Corona period, he searched everything online on his phone and found a very well-known channel, with lakhs of subscribers then and millions now. He went through every Navarna video on it completely, heard many experiences of what happened to people who did the mantra, and, pleased and motivated by them, began a night-time sadhana. As the beginning was described to the speaker: the man took red cloth and a red asan and did the sadhana at night, from 11:00 or 10:30 to 2:30, trying to complete 108 malas of japa. The whole period was 41 days, done for the first time. He kept an Akhand Jyot burning for the 41 days, and each night sat in a solitary room before it, placed NaivedyaThe food offering (Bhog) presented to a deity during worship, accompanied by water offerings and dedicatory mantras. before Bhagavati, and went straight through the ChalisaA devotional hymn of forty verses addressed to a deity, recited as a daily or vowed path., the Ashtottara ShatanamaA recitation of a deity's 108 names — shorter than a Sahasranama (1000 names) and commonly used as the accompanying Havan or daily Japa count. and then the Navarna japa. Remembering Bhagwan Ganpati, he did one mala of his japa too. No other japa accompanied it. (The mala he used, the speaker says, was not consecrated; he takes that up separately.) After the 41 days, the speaker says, nothing disturbing happened: no fear, no AveshThe entry of an outside being into a person, whether invited onto a medium or suffered as affliction., no arrival of devi-devatas, no paranormal activity that would unsettle a sadhak. The sadhana completed in an entirely normal, peaceful way. He then continued nine malas of japa daily and had very beautiful experiences through dreams, a positive response for him. This is what happens for any sadhak, the speaker adds; it was as it should be. That was the matter of 2021.

The Mala the man had, the speaker says, was an old red-chandan (rakta chandan) mala which, in his opinion, was not consecrated (pratishthit) in any way. He had performed no pratishtha of the mala and no vidhi-vidhan of that kind on it. He had merely bathed it in PanchagavyaA purifying mixture of five cow-derived products, used with Panchamrita and Tulsi leaves to purify a home, especially its threshold. and panchamritaA five-ingredient offering (commonly milk, curd, ghee, honey, sugar) used to bathe an idol before worship. and, following what he saw on the channel concerned, done one mala of japa of the Panchakshari Mantra with Pranav on it. It had been stated there that this would consecrate the mala. The speaker says that, in his view, this absolutely cannot happen. Had the man at least done the Ishan mantra, one could grant that something had been done; but this, he says, was something else entirely.

As 2022 came, the speaker says, the first thing that began was that when the man sat to do the mantra japa, especially in the evening, he felt something would come up as vomit; a kind of pulling was felt in the food pipe. He had medical tests done and nothing came out of them. The second thing that gradually began was fear: he was always anxious, always felt afraid. He contacted the sadhak whose channel it was, explained that the sadhana had gone well but now this was happening, and was told to repeat the sadhana once more, as a nine-day practice in Navratri. He did so. After the Navratri sadhana, the speaker says, the man always sensed someone around him. In drowsiness, as soon as half-sleep came, it felt as though someone had shaken him awake. Sometimes it felt he would fall. The speaker grants that in tiredness a feeling of falling is quite normal, but with this man it went much further: after it his head would spin completely, dizziness even while lying down, meaning his blood pressure dropped. His stomach gradually became very weak with no particular cause, meaning the liver was affected; there was nothing wrong in his food and drink. In the evenings he definitely had AveshThe entry of an outside being into a person, whether invited onto a medium or suffered as affliction.: the body becoming heavy, the shoulders heavy, a wish to sway (jhoomna), grinding of the teeth, an increase in anger. When the anger rose, some time afterwards his pressure would drop, he would feel dizzy and even fall. At night, in what had been his sadhana hours, 11:30 to 2:30, he had to face great fear: needless fear that someone is standing there, someone by his head, someone at the window. The speaker asks listeners to consider: the mantra whose sadhana drives fear away, and now the words of that mantra's sadhana were the cause of fear. A very contrary situation was forming, he says, and it is a matter worth thinking about; the reasons come with the faults he lists later.

Alongside all of this, the speaker says, around March 2022, when a good stretch of the man's sadhana had already been completed and the new financial year began, his job also went. Since it was work from home, some such reasons arose; probably he could not join the office because of his illness. The man himself gives many reasons that this must have happened because of the mantra, but the speaker will not place too much weight on that: the man's body was weak and some difficulty had arisen from sitting at home. Whatever the cause, the speaker says, because the sadhana had run with considerable intensity, it would certainly have an effect on life somewhere. When a mantra gives the right fruit, however adverse a person's circumstances, it carries him from the floor below to the sky above. And when you do a sadhana wrongly, difficulties come. He continues the timeline. In September 2022 the man's wife was pregnant with twins; one child died in a miscarriage and had to be removed. In December 2022 a son was born who suffered from epilepsy, for which medicine was given; by around the third or fourth month of 2023 the child recovered, one good thing, the speaker notes. Amid all this came financial problems. The man had had a substantial stock-market investment while in his job, and an old court case entirely in his favour with only the judgement remaining. At the final judgement something happened such that the judgement was completely overturned, he suffered a very large financial loss, and all his investments had to be withdrawn. The financial damage was severe. His body was being harmed, he was already mentally disturbed, and family matters were such that quarrels were breaking out at home. With all these problems he was in direct contact with the person whose channel he had followed, but no proper solution was emerging.

Turning to the faults, the speaker says the first thing is the mantra itself that the man was chanting: the Navarna Mantra. Whether every person holds AdhikaraThe eligibility or readiness required before attempting an advanced ritual — without it, even a correctly performed rite risks serious harm to the practitioner. for Navarna japa is something he has discussed many times before. The very first point: the man had received no Diksha of any kind, no diksha at all. Not everything, the speaker says, is a matter of bhakti-bhavana, devotional feeling. Second, his YajnopavitaThe sacred thread ceremony marking initiation into Vedic rites (Janeu) — if lapsed across generations, expiation (Prayashchitta) for each known generation is required before it can be resumed. had not been done; he did not wear one at all. The speaker asks: without wearing the yajnopavita, how will you perform these mantras, and which mantra, done how?

The third and, the speaker says, the most important point: how much complete knowledge you have of the Navarna Mantra depends on where, from which source, you take it. A person who himself lacks full knowledge, and how he twists and presents the Navarna, is a very serious matter. The Navarna the man sent him carried Pranav at the front and, after "vichche", "namah" at the end. In the original Navarna, the speaker says, none of these things exist; anyone who has spent time in a Guru Parampara will know this. If you search YouTube for whether Om should be put before Navarna, roughly 90% will say it certainly should: that it "balances" the mantra, balances its energy, and that pranav is added for balance. The speaker's reply is that it is a tantric mantra and there is a rule for it, which is precisely why it is said that a Guru is necessary for these mantras. Who should add it and who should not becomes a separate subject. A bigger matter still: namah was added at the end, by the sadhak who instructed the man. The speaker says: it is the Navarna mantra, not a plaything. Mantras are held to come with distinctions of gender, feminine, masculine and so on, and when you do not even know what adding namah does to a mantra's gati, its course, you have added it on your own. Here, he says, one error was made. And the man chanted this wrong mantra for so many days, and even performed PurashcharanaA ritualistic repetition of a mantra to prescribed rules — required in Tantra Sadhana. anushthan with it.

The speaker says that when the man was asked whether, while chanting this mantra, he performed Viniyoga and Nyasa, he sent the viniyoga-nyasa published by Gita Press, saying this was what he did. The speaker's point is that the mantra here had become something else: it was no longer the Navarna Mantra, the navakshari, nine-syllable mantra. It had become an eleven-syllable mantra, in effect, with the added syllables, a twelve-syllable one. And on that he performed the nyasa of the navakshari, which was already an error.

The man had chanted with Pranav attached, the speaker says, and was not an adhikari for that at all. Whether pranav is attached to the Navarna Mantra or not is a separate matter altogether: it applies only and only to those who are initiated (Diksha), and what their Guru instructs them can be different for each person. It is not a common matter at all, he says; always remember this.

The speaker says the man was asked about his Ganpati sadhana: it was an ordinary Ganpati sadhana, but that too was done with Pranav, and there as well a mantra Dosha attached. Asked about Bhairava pujan, there had been no particular Bhairav worship: he would read the Kaal Bhairav Ashtak once and, when very pleased, read the Shiv ChalisaA devotional hymn of forty verses addressed to a deity, recited as a daily or vowed path. on Mondays and Fridays. There was no Bhairav pujan, the speaker says.

After so many faults, the speaker says, came one "bumper" fault: the man never gave any kind of Bali, NaivedyaThe food offering (Bhog) presented to a deity during worship, accompanied by water offerings and dedicatory mantras. or bhog; he never once offered bali. The speaker explains: chant the Navarna Mantra and, since it is a tantric mantra, the Yoginis will come, and they received no bali, no naivedya, no anna (food) at all. The pujan of Kshetrapal was likewise never done. Navarna has great glory, he says, and it has all its rules. When you perform it without fully knowing those rules, then everything that has been happening in this case will happen.

What he has discussed so far, the speaker says, is a matter of its own: he has looked only at the effect and ill-effect of the mantra, at how the man chanted the Navarna Mantra wrongly. A different matter altogether is which shakti of his home was awakened by chanting the mantra wrongly, what became AveshThe entry of an outside being into a person, whether invited onto a medium or suffered as affliction.-ed upon his body, whether some shakti of the roads and ghats attached to him, whether a Kshetrapal Dosha or a dosha of Bhairav ji occurred, and what happened on account of which. That is an entirely separate subject. He adds that in many SahasranamaA recitation of a deity's thousand names — a devotional text genre used across many deities, not one single fixed composition.s and Kavach texts one reads that doing japa of the mool mantra without reciting the kavach brings such-and-such troubles; so that too is related, and is also a factor.

This, the speaker says, is why he tells everyone that tantric mantras of this kind should be taken from the right person, a proper ShaktaBelonging to the stream that takes the Goddess as the supreme principle. SadhakOne who undertakes a sadhana; the practitioner as distinct from the ordinary worshipper.: take the knowledge, become initiated (Diksha), receive the upadesh, get one's doubts resolved, and only then perform the anushthan. Today you may be succeeding in every way, but the future may become dark for you. Stay aware, stay alert, and do sadhana in the right manner. He frames the whole case this way from the start: its only purpose is to increase listeners' knowledge and make them aware and alert about any tantra-related mantra sadhana they are doing, so that, without AdhikaraThe eligibility or readiness required before attempting an advanced ritual — without it, even a correctly performed rite risks serious harm to the practitioner., one does not commit a karma that harms oneself and one's family. It is not at all his purpose that anyone's faith in the Navarna Mantra or its deity should lessen. If even one sadhak or sadhika of Sanatan suffers harm, he says, that harm reaches all of us; a sadhak whose life is in trouble cannot do his duty for Sanatan. It is a matter of removing confusion (bhram), not of spreading fear.