Batuk Bhairav at Home: Why Every Sanatani Household Needs Him, and How to Establish Him

The speaker opens with questions: who are the greatest protector deities in our home? Which shakti must be installed in every single house? Without them, he says, whatever children are born in our home can never be fully protected. If any kind of Devi shakti is being worshipped in the house, the presence of this deity is mandatory. If you are suffering from some Preta or abhichar-type obstruction and go to a tantrik or a knowledgeable person, what they set on your house as protection is one or another form of this very deity. Nearly every sadhak in the field of Tantra does the siddhi of this deity; there is hardly a sadhak who does not. And it is essential, he says, that every house has his place and his puja. He then names him. This is the form which, if present in the house, makes the presence of pret, pishach, abhicharik badha and the like almost negligible — as long as no great aparadh is committed, as long as you do not commit some special offence against him. This deity is Bhagwan Bhairava, and every Sanatani person must install the Batuk form of Bhairav ji in the home.

The speaker says that over time, in the medieval period in India — the era of the Mughals, the era of the British — a certain negative imprint was somewhere placed on your mind and intellect regarding these deities, and so you put them out of the house. As is in fashion today, he says, there are some Vastu shastris who say a temple should not be built in the house at all; there cannot be a temple in the house; do not keep an idol at home. These are the very people who get the deities themselves thrown out of the house. They say: do not keep Shiva ji's ShivlingThe aniconic form of Lord Shiva worshipped at home and in temples. at home; if you keep a Shivling you will get poverty, disease will come, trouble will come. Such are these gentlemen, he says, and listening to such people you stop the seva-puja of these deities in your home.

What is the difference between Bhagwan Kaal Bhairav and Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav? Only this much, the speaker says, need be understood. Bhagwan Kaal Bhairava appeared directly from the body of Bhagwan Sadashiva when Brahma and Vishnu ji were tested — when Shiva manifested his linga as the first Agni Linga, the pillar of fire, when he manifested his form as the Akash Linga. This is the event whose festival, ShivratriThe chaturdashi night of Shiva that falls each month, as distinct from the annual Mahashivratri. and so on, we celebrate, and it is discussed in the Shiva Mahapurana. That is Bhagwan Kaal Bhairav, his form. Batuk Bhairava's form is different: it is the child form Shiva took when Bhagwati Mahakali, having taken that form to end the rakshasa Daruka, became uncontrolled again — the story the speaker tells next.

The speaker tells the origin of Batuk Bhairav. When Bhagwan Mahadeva came under the feet of Bhagwati Mahakali, Mahamaya said to him: give me a sankalp, give me your word, that in future you will never again come under my feet in this way. Then, he says, to protect the Devi's form — because when the Mother becomes ugra she goes out of her own control and becomes unbalanced — the question was how, if not this, she was to be controlled and balanced in future. That is where the account comes, described in the Skanda Purana and so on and in the Devi Bhagavat: when Bhagwati took the form of Mahakali to end the rakshasa named Daruka, she again became uncontrolled, and then Bhagwan Shiva took the Batuk form. The form of a child — a small child, under eight years of age, Bal Bhairav, Batuk Bhairav — and he called out to her "Maa, Maa". Hearing the word "Maa" from this child, Maa Bhagwati became calm. This is how Bhagwan Batuk Bhairava originated. So Shiva himself stood near the Mother in the Batuk form, the speaker says, and wherever Bhagwati Durga, wherever Bhagwati Mahakali is worshipped, there Batuk Bhairav is certainly worshipped. Batuk's worship is mandatory — he is Shiva himself. Therefore the installation of Batuk Bhairav at home becomes mandatory.

Know this, the speaker says: whenever Tantra is used, whenever abhichar (vichar) is used, masanik shaktis are put to work — the raw kalwas, Masan and so on. These enter a house easily. The great shaktis, he says, are in the bal form, the child form; a mere such yoni does not stop them. When Batuk Bhairava is present there, and if his seva-puja keeps going, then through him a check is placed on those forces. Full protection, he says, comes only because of Bhairava ji — whether Bhairav ji in bal form, Bhairav ji in Batuk form, the bal form of Hanuman ji or the bal form of Ganesha ji. This is why Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav must certainly have a place in the house.

While speaking of the child-form deities, the speaker adds a note on the OotThe unfulfilled spirit of a child who died in the womb or before their sacred-thread ceremony — distinct from an ordinary Preta. of a house: the small children who died in the womb or after taking birth, and whose janeu (sacred thread) had not been done. Their shanti, he says, comes through the bal form of Ganesha ji; it comes through their TarpanaA libation offering of water or other substances made to a deity or ancestor, typically performed alongside Havan and Marjan.; and it comes through the pujan of Bhairava ji and the like. Such a situation, he says, is set right then.

How and where should he be placed? If you are doing seva-puja of Bhagwati, the speaker says, then certainly on the left side of Jagadamba"Mother of the World" — an epithet of the Devi. — meaning on your right side when you sit down to do puja — there you give Bhairav ji his place. And if you are doing seva-puja of other devis and devatas, then according to their Panchayatana, or next to Shiva ji, the place of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairava ji, should be given.

For Batuk Bhairava ji, the speaker says, you can keep a TrishulThe three-pointed weapon of Shiva and the Goddess, also planted at a shakti sthal. in symbolic form; you can keep a beautiful framed picture of him; or, if you wish, you can also keep a small shri vigraha of him — under six inches, as he puts it. Keep it in brass, or you may keep it in silver. But the shri vigraha should be solid, and in it Batuk Bhairav should be in the mudra of blessing, that is, granting blessing. A vigraha of the kind shown in the photo in the video, he says, is what you can keep and install.

How and when should he be installed? The day of Bhagwan Kaal Bhairava's origin, the speaker says, is held to be the Krishna Paksha AshtamiThe eighth tithi of a fortnight, held especially favourable for shakta rites. of the month of Margashirsha. It is also believed that at that same time Bhagwan Shiva appeared in the form of the Agni Linga, the pillar of fire. As for Bhagwan Batuk Bhairava, his origin, his jayanti and so on, is Ganga Dussehra — the month of Jyeshtha, Shukla Paksha, Dashami tithi; that is when Batuk Bhairav's origin is held to be. So the day of Ganga Dashahra is fully regarded as Batuk Bhairav ji's time of origin, and on that very day his special puja and so on should be done. Otherwise, he says, on the Ashtami tithi of Krishna Paksha or of Shukla Paksha you can do the installation of Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav ji at home. And if the full festival of Ganga Dashahra is coming to you around the time you are listening to this, in any year, then on the day of Ganga Dashahra you must certainly do Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav ji's special pujan vidhi at home.

The speaker says: install a photo, or a shri vigraha. If you cannot do even that, then you can keep a TrishulThe three-pointed weapon of Shiva and the Goddess, also planted at a shakti sthal. in the form of a SupariAreca nut, used as a stand-in for the deity in sankalpa and offered in pujan.. And if you do not keep a trishul, then take the supari, wrap kalawa around it, bathe it with milk and the like, and install that very supari there in the Batuk form of Batuk Bhairava.

The speaker says that if you do an initial pujan of at least 40 days, it is excellent (ati uttam). If you have received a mantra and so on, then japa of 40 Malas daily for 40 days should be done — this is highly special. And if you cannot do that, then recite the Batuk Bhairava 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. that comes under the Rudrayamala Tantra, at least 27 times or 108 times every day, continuously for 40 days. If you do this, he says, then whatever calamity or misfortune comes — whether of tantra or abhichar, or some conspiracy by enemies — Bhagwan takes you out of that calamity, that disaster, and protects you. And he becomes established there in part (anshatmak rup se), at that place, for the protection of your house and family. This Japa is what carries the sthapana through.

On that day, the day of Ganga Dussehra, the speaker says, Deepdaan must certainly be done in the name of Bhagwan Batuk Bhairava. For the method of deepdan, he refers to the deepdan vidhi described for Kaal Bhairava in his other video, whose link he says he will give; according to that, do this vidhi-vidhan at home itself. On that day you do not need to do it in a temple. At home, do the deepdan, the Bali vidhi and so on in the name of Batuk Bhairav; from this, he says, Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav becomes extremely pleased.

Closing, the speaker urges every Sanatani to install Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav at home. Whichever form of the Devi you follow, he says, Batuk is certainly worshipped in it. In any Mandala Batuk has a place; without him no puja is ever complete. Just as the pujan of Ganesha is mandatory, so too the pujan of Batuk Bhairava is mandatory. Without his pujan, neither Shiv pujan nor Durga pujan is ever complete, nor is the full fruit obtained. Therefore, he says, certainly give him a place — even if you give it in the form of a small SupariAreca nut, used as a stand-in for the deity in sankalpa and offered in pujan., even if you give it mentally. And a separate BhogThe food offering placed before a deity before anyone in the household eats. in his name is to be offered only at the time of pujan, of special pujan; it is not that you must make a whole elaborate separate arrangement for him. But in the ordinary way too, his seva-puja must certainly be done.