The First Three Sadhanas for a New Sadhak — Guru, Ganpati, then Batuk Bhairav

The speaker says the series has been discussing how a new SadhakOne who undertakes a sadhana; the practitioner as distinct from the ordinary worshipper. should make the beginning of his sadhana. Whatever the reason for wanting to come into the field of sadhana — troubled by tantric attack, by enemies, by debt and loans, by some difficulty of health, by quarrel and strife in the family, or by any cause at all — or simply the wish to do sadhana: this, he says, is the very best thing. The question is how to begin when no Guru has been obtained. He recaps the order. First comes the manner of sitting at the place of sadhana and the vidhi-vidhan to be done there; this is compulsory before every sadhana and is basic for all sadhaks and sadhikas. Second, the first sadhana is the guru sadhana: if one has no direct guru and has not received Diksha, the question is which form is best — all deities' forms are the guru form, he says, but there is one avatar, one form, that exists chiefly for the sake of the guru, and that is the one taken (he does not name it here, saying it was covered earlier). When that sadhana is complete and the Dev Deeksha vidhan is done, the second sadhana is Ganpati's. Having obtained the Kripa of the guru Mandala, he says, one then has to obtain the kripa of the Ganpati Vinayak mandala; when the guru and Ganpati sadhanas are complete, one moves on to Bhairav. Summing up, he says a new sadhak, after learning the necessary vidhi-vidhan, must first do the guru sadhana, then the Ganpati sadhana, and after that the Bhairav sadhana — the Batuk Bhairav sadhana. He adds that the basic questions of lighting the lamp — how the wick lies, which way its mouth faces, where the lamp is placed after lighting, and how to light it when the house's puja place is not in the Ishan corner — are very necessary for a new sadhak so that no mistake is made; he does not answer them here, saying separate videos cover them.

The speaker says that the second sadhana, after the guru's, is Ganesha's — and Ganpati has many forms. 56 Vinayaks are held, sixteen Vinayaks are held, and when one goes into parampara, into Kula ParamparaA family or lineage tradition of Tantric practice, passed down through initiation across generations., every parampara, every vidya, every Mahavidyas and every upa-mahavidya has its own separate Ganapati. For these, he says, an entire tantra is developed independently and a full Mandala sadhana of theirs is done independently: their upa-mahavidyas, their shaktis and their anga-vidyas are all worshipped. He presents this as the range a sadhak will meet later, before saying which single Ganpati practice a new sadhak should take first.

Having listed the many forms of Ganpati, the speaker says that when you are a new SadhakOne who undertakes a sadhana; the practitioner as distinct from the ordinary worshipper., the first sadhana you should do for Bhagwan Ganpati, with your eyes closed, is the Sankat Nashan Stotra — the Sankat Nashan Ganapati Stotram given in the NaradaA celestial sage and recurring listener/questioner figure across Puranic literature. Purana. By doing this sadhana, he says, not only will Ganpati ji's Kripa be obtained, not only will your Tapo-bala be accumulated, not only will your PrarabdhaThe portion of destiny already set in motion by past actions — spiritual practice and good deeds can lessen its severity, but not eliminate it. be destroyed — along with all of this, it is written in the stotra that the kamana for the sake of which you recite it will also be fulfilled. He says the first anushthan a new sadhak does is of this stotra, and that its complete vidhi-vidhan is available on his channel; he does not give the vidhan in this talk.

Know this, the speaker says: without the Kripa of Maha Ganapati, or until you take refuge in some one form of Bhagwan Vinayak and do his sadhana, puja and seva, you will not get any special success in the field of sadhana, and a great many vighnas and obstacles will come. He describes what sadhaks do: they take up some special sadhana and do no Ganpati AnushthanaAn extended ritual observance — such as 108 recitations of a scripture — carrying its own strict rules. at the beginning. Then what troubles do they face? Much laziness comes, sleep comes, torpor comes, the thoughts never become steady, concentration keeps breaking completely, and along with this Uchchatan begins. All these vighnas, he says, are related to Bhagwan Mahaganapati or to all the forms of Bhagwan Vinayak — they are the ones who give the obstacles. This has a direct connection with our Muladhara, he explains: the asana we sit on, the place where our body makes contact with the asana, that first place, that first chakra, is Bhagwan Ganpati's first station, the muladhara. Until we do his puja and seva, complete his sadhana and obtain his kripa, our anushthan cannot be completed without vighna and obstruction; difficulties keep coming. So that none of these troubles come and the kripa of our chief deity is obtained as quickly as possible, he says, we must certainly do the seva, puja and anushthan of Bhagwan Ganpati.

The speaker gives an alternative for those whose troubles are very great — many troubles, calamities and financial problems, so that there is not even money arranged for the sadhana ahead. After all, he says, money is needed even to buy DhoopIncense offered during worship; its smoke is treated as an offering in its own right within the sequence of upacharas., the lamp, flowers, prasad and so on. In such a state, he says, only Ganpati's Japa and the writing of the root stotra of his twelve names — beginning with Vakratunda and running on to the twelfth name — written every day, is the very best vidhan. By it Bhagwan Ganpati, showing kripa, very quickly opens the paths of wealth. If there is debt or loan, a path opens for release from that too. But see, he says, the phalashruti says it is on doing it continuously for six months. So this work is to be done every day, and through it one strengthens one's financial condition and one's bodily and mental condition.

When the sadhana of the guru and of Ganpati is complete, the speaker says, one moves on towards Bhairava ji: the third sadhana is Bhairav's. Bhairav too has many forms, he says — Batuk Bhairava, Kaal Bhairava, Bhoot Bhairav, Mahabhairav, Shamshan Bhairav, Mahakal Bhairav, and the Bhairavs of all the Shakti Peeths (Shakti Peeth) — so the forms of Bhairav are many. He tells listeners to first clear the concept on which they fear Bhairav — the fear that doing Bhairav's puja will bring bhoot-Preta — and to get all such matters clear before anything else; his channel has a whole playlist on Bhairav for this. Then, for the security of one's sadhana and for its completeness, he says, one must certainly do the sadhana of Bhairav, in which it is the sadhana of Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav that must be done. How much to do and how to do it, he says, is given in several separate videos, by which one can strengthen one's samarpan and clear one's concept and then do the sadhana well.