A Sattvic Mahabhairav Mantra Sadhana Every Householder Can Perform

The speaker opens by saying that Bhagwan Bhairava got his very name from doing bharan-poshan, sustaining and nourishing. As the avatar of Rudra, Bhairav is capable of every task that is possible for the good of the world and for a householder's upkeep. His forms and their distinctions are many, which he says he has discussed in earlier videos. Today's subject, he says, is a vidhi-vidhan of Bhairav ji capable of accomplishing each of our tasks. People mostly use Bhairav in the field of tantra and are unaware that Bhairav ji is also installed in the home for protection. The question he had received was for a sattvic and simple sadhana that every householder can do, with no adverse effect, gentle, and yet able to do every task through Bhairav's form. That, he says, is what he is placing before listeners. Every person can do it. Whatever form has been installed in the house — whichever Devi, whichever form of Bhairav one worships, whether one does full sadhana-pujan or only shows dhoop and deep — this sadhana, he says, is one every person should do. Whenever one goes to begin any new anushthan, this mantra should first be used for protection. Going anywhere for any work — for a job, for success in an interview, for a business deal where the right effect must fall on some person — one can use this sadhana. Every person, he says, should have it siddha and ready. There is no distinction of man and woman in it; every person can do it and for every task. The task itself is named later: when the completed sadhana is put to use, one states in the SankalpaA formal ritual resolution spoken aloud before an offering or observance, declaring its intent and dedicating its merit. that one is doing japa of this mantra for that purpose.

The speaker says the second matter is this: whenever we awaken any shakti or want any shakti's blessing, we should first worship, along with that form, all its Gana. Who are Bhagwan Bhairav's ganas in visible form, and how are they served? Everyone knows, he says, that the shwan — the dog — is held to be Bhairav ji's VahanaA deity's animal vehicle or mount.. Whoever is troubled by any problem in life — Abhichara, bhoot-pret badha, money trouble, trouble regarding children — Bhagwan Bhairav is capable of every task of a householder; there is no task beyond him. So the first thing, he says, is to tie a knot on this: every day, from the day you take up the Bhairav sadhana, feed a dog — sweet roti, salted roti or plain roti, whatever your means allow. Morning or night, there is no binding of time, and no binding of taste. But you feed the dog first, every day, with your own hands; keep the roti with you and feed it wherever a dog is met. Their soul is satisfied, and when the blessing comes it comes through the vahana itself; he will be pleased. He notes that it is said Bhairav is worshipped for twelve years, Virabhadra for twelve years — in twelve different temples, twelve different kshetras — and that such things come through guru parampara, not from YouTube or Facebook or great scholars. Nobody can leave household life to do that for so long. So how is it done while staying in the grihastha ashram? Whenever you worship Bhairav ji, he says, serve dogs without fail and never give them pain — do not throw stones at them. If a dog comes and sits at your door, of whatever colour — black, white, spotted, colour has no importance — believe that it sits there only because Bhairav's grace is on you. Otherwise, he says, people struggle to feed a dog an Utara: the dog sniffs and leaves, it does not eat. Remember this: if that form of Bhairav is displeased, this happens many times — especially if someone's utara is being given, the dog will sniff and leave. Only if he is pleased, and his grace is reaching that person, will the dog eat. And if it has eaten, understand that the removal of your problem has begun from there. It is not magic that fixes things in one day, he says, but if you do it you will surely get the result and the benefit. So this is the first thing to do every day: feeding is compulsory.

The second requirement, the speaker says, is the Mala. It will be either SphatikA crystal rosary, chosen over Rudraksha when a practitioner's Venus is favorably placed and outside the 6th, 8th, or 12th houses. or RudrakshaA sacred seed strung into rosaries and worn during shiva worship., and this is to be checked by jyotish: look, according to your lagna kundali, at the condition of Venus, the mahagraha Shukra. If Venus is the labhesh for you — the giver of gain — well placed in whichever house, right for you, and in no condition sitting in the 6th, 8th or 12th; having checked this carefully, if Venus gives you gain, then the sphatik mala. If not, then a rudraksha mala. Any rudraksha mala will do, he says — especially panchmukhi, five-faced, but eight-faced or nine-faced too. If any one of these three kinds is with you, it will work. The rudraksha mala must be new. And this mala, he says, is also to be worn afterwards. If for any reason you cannot wear sphatik or rudraksha — you may have a skin allergy, so that wearing rudraksha and its thorns gives a skin problem — then see which colour suits you according to jyotish, by your lagna and its lord, and take a HakeekAn agate rosary, used as an alternative to Sphatik or Rudraksha for practitioners with skin allergies — its color chosen to suit the practitioner's ascendant planet. mala of that colour. If Shani is good for someone, black hakeek; or blue hakeek, yellow, red — a hakeek mala of any colour may be taken.

The speaker says this is to be begun on Bhairav AshtamiThe eighth tithi of a fortnight, held especially favourable for shakta rites., in whichever month one is listening. Every month's Krishna Paksha Ashtami is a Bhairav Ashtami. The main one, Kaal Bhairav Ashtami, is the Krishna Paksha Ashtami of the month of Margashirsha, which in 2021 fell on 27 December; in any other year one should check when the Krishna Paksha Ashtami of Margashirsha falls. If one is listening in some other month, he says, start from whenever that month's Bhairav Ashtami — the Krishna Paksha Ashtami — falls. The day of the week has no importance; it is not that it must be a Sunday or a Tuesday. The tithi must fall: the Ashtami tithi.

After bringing the mala, the speaker says, if it is a RudrakshaA sacred seed strung into rosaries and worn during shiva worship. mala, wash it only with raw cow's milk and with GangajalWater from the Ganges, used to purify and re-consecrate ritual items exposed to impurity., and then do one ordinary mala on it of Shiva's mantra — the panchakshar mantra, without adding Om. After that, the main Bhairav mantra, which will be shown on the screen, is to be chanted on it. If one takes another mala — SphatikA crystal rosary, chosen over Rudraksha when a practitioner's Venus is favorably placed and outside the 6th, 8th, or 12th houses., or a HakeekAn agate rosary, used as an alternative to Sphatik or Rudraksha for practitioners with skin allergies — its color chosen to suit the practitioner's ascendant planet. mala of any colour, any colour taken openly — then do its Prana Pratishtha well. The method of pran pratishtha, he says, has been given in the early videos on this same channel; the full method is there, one need not have it done by anyone, one can watch and do it oneself. The pran pratishtha of the mala must be done before Bhairav Ashtami. For a rudraksha mala it is not necessary, but if one wishes one may certainly do it. A GomukhiA cloth rosary bag, shaped like a cow's face, used to conceal the hand and rosary while chanting mantras in public. is not compulsory at all. Without a gomukhi one can do the japa covering the mala with a red cloth, a red gamchha, or a Ramnami chadar — because, he says, this mala is to be worn afterwards.

For the asan, the speaker says, take yellow or red — no difficulty; a KushaThe sacred grass used for seats, rings and purificatory sprinkling; treated as spiritually insulating. asan or a blanket asan can also be used. The direction can be any except south. The time can be morning, evening or night — whenever one can sit and do it. Two main things will be needed. One should have a picture of Bhairav ji or a TrishulThe three-pointed weapon of Shiva and the Goddess, also planted at a shakti sthal.: keep Bhairav ji's picture, his shri vigraha, or his photo. Or, if there is nothing at all, place a SupariAreca nut, used as a stand-in for the deity in sankalpa and offered in pujan. on a heap of rice and mentally accept it as Bhairav ji. Before him the chaumukh lamp is to be lit. A chaumukh lamp is lit with chameli oil, he says, but a chameli-oil lamp burns up and finishes very quickly. So one may light a mustard-oil lamp there and light a second lamp of chameli oil — that is, two lamps: one chaumukh lamp of chameli oil and one chaumukh lamp of mustard oil. The lamps should burn for at least two to two and a half hours; this much one must keep in mind. He adds later what goes into the lamp: in the middle of the lamp put one supari, one copper coin, two cardamoms and two cloves — this must be done — and a little camphor. This is to be put only and only in the mustard-oil lamp. The chameli-oil lamp will have only its wicks, four wicks.

The speaker says the japa is to be done from the Krishna Paksha AshtamiThe eighth tithi of a fortnight, held especially favourable for shakta rites. tithi up to the Amavasya tithi. Each day one may do from five malas up to twenty-one malas of Japa — at least five, at most twenty-one, as much time as one has. See how long one mala takes; a new sadhak will take a little longer. Do five, seven, nine, eleven or twenty-one, as one's capacity allows; twenty-one is the maximum. Only that many days of sadhana are to be done. The SankalpaA formal ritual resolution spoken aloud before an offering or observance, declaring its intent and dedicating its merit. to be taken is: for obtaining the grace of the Bhairav Mandal. One states one's name and GotraA family's patrilineal lineage name, stated together with one's own name during a Sankalpa., taking water in hand with flower and AkshatUnbroken raw rice grains, held in hand along with water and flowers while taking a Sankalpa., and after the opening procedures Bhairav ji's pujan is done — PanchopacharaThe basic five-item worship sequence — incense, lamp, fragrance, flower, and food — performed for a deity after the opening rites of a sadhana. pujan, that is, worship with dhoop, deep, gandh, bhog and so on. Place one flower before Bhairav ji and bathe him with water over it, or mentally show him dhoop and deep. Offer him bhog: in the bhog, he says, dahi bada must be offered, and for sweets the boondi laddu. This sadhana, he says, can be done at home with complete peace of mind. After the opening guru and Ganesha pujan, one begins the japa of the mantra shown on the screen, using the mala one has consecrated and made chaitanya. Try, he says, to do every day as many malas as on the first day: five on the first day, then five the next, five every day until Amavasya; if eleven, then eleven until Amavasya. The time may be moved earlier or later according to one's work — if one has duty, office, or some difficulty in business. If on Bhairav Ashtami one did it in the morning and the next day had no time, one may do it at night; there is no binding of time, it simply must get done. But try, he says, to do it at the same time every day — that will be very good.

Which form of Bhairav ji is to be taken here? The speaker says: Batuk Bhairava. If one also installs Bhairav at home, let it be a murti of Batuk Bhairav or a picture of Batuk Bhairav — put up only this photo, and no other form's photo. His reason: since he is teaching publicly on YouTube, he does not know which Bhairav, which form of his, will be right for which person. Batuk Bhairav is accepted by all and can be worshipped in every home, so it is his form he prescribes. If any form is already worshipped, he says, one can do this before it; there is no need to bring a completely new form — do it before the one already there. He says again, later, that whichever form of Bhairav ji one worships, whichever form is installed, this mantra is for every form — keep this in mind. This mantra will awaken every form; through it the Bhairav Tattva is awakened. It has very many prayogs, which he says he will also teach later. But first, he says, awaken the Bhairav tattva for yourself with this mantra and make it protective for yourself.

The speaker says the work continues until Amavasya. On the day of Amavasya, do as many malas of japa as every day, and after that do Havan of the same number of malas: if five malas were the daily japa, give five malas of ahuti that day. How is the havan done? In a household, he says, havan is done in two ways: either one takes a kund, or one builds a vedi by placing sand. Whichever is possible — if one has a kund, do the havan in the kund; otherwise put sand or bricks below and, on top of that, make a complete square mandal out of sand. On it, whenever we do Bhairav ji's havan, the wood is arranged as an inverted triangle; when we do Bhagavati's, the triangle is upright. That is, when we make Bhagavati's mandal and do her havan, the base of the triangle is toward us; when we do the havan of any form of Bhairav ji, especially in a tantric anushthan, the triangle is inverted — its base is upward, away from where one sits. Arrange three sticks this way and then place two or three more sticks on top. The method of agni sthapan, what is done and the opening mantras, he says, are available on the channel, and he will link them in the description. After the opening rites all the ahutis are given on that same day. The main ahuti — with what is it given? Because this is a pushtikarak (nourishing) havan, PanchmevaA five-nut and dried-fruit mix (cashews, raisins, and others), used in Havan and Tarpana offering mixtures. must be in it. The ordinary ahuti mixture is made of til, jau and rice, and here it is the same: if one takes one kilo of til, then half a kilo of jau and 250 grams of rice. Into it mix honey — not 100 grams but at least 125 grams — and at least 250 grams of panchmeva, cashew, raisin and all the cut dry fruits, and mix ghee through it to prepare the whole samagri. The main ahutis are given from this. Women sadhikas who do the havan give all their ahutis from this samagri; they need not give any ahuti with ghee anywhere. The opening ahutis — those of guru and Ganpati too — are given from it, and the whole havan of the Bhairav mantra one has been chanting, shown on screen, is done with this same samagri. As many malas of japa, so many malas of havan, and then Purnahuti.

The speaker says the TarpanaA libation offering of water or other substances made to a deity or ancestor, typically performed alongside Havan and Marjan. that is to be done must be done — a DashamshaThe one-tenth proportion rule chaining a sadhana's stages together — Havan performed at a tenth of the total Japa count, Tarpana at a tenth of the Havan count, and Marjan at a tenth of the Tarpana count. tarpan. If for some reason one is not doing tarpan, the method of tarpan too is given on the channel. Here, because this is a tantrokta mantra, tarpan is done thus: fill a vessel with water and add honey to it without fail, so that the water is sweet; place a SupariAreca nut, used as a stand-in for the deity in sankalpa and offered in pujan. on a PaanThe betel leaf offered in pujan, often paired with supari. leaf, with til and all the things described — the PanchmevaA five-nut and dried-fruit mix (cashews, raisins, and others), used in Havan and Tarpana offering mixtures. — and, having prepared it with these, speak the whole mantra with "tarpayami namah" and offer. If five malas were done, he says, there will be 50 tarpans and five MarjanThe purificatory sprinkling of consecrated water that completes the Havan-Tarpan-Marjan ritual triad.. If one did eleven malas of japa daily and eleven malas of havan, then say 110 mantras, or at least one mala of tarpan, and its tenth — ten or eleven times marjan on oneself, eleven times the sprinkling. This work, he says, one will do.

Besides this, the speaker says, every day before the japa, the BhogThe food offering placed before a deity before anyone in the household eats. that is offered must have clove, cardamom, SupariAreca nut, used as a stand-in for the deity in sankalpa and offered in pujan. and a PaanThe betel leaf offered in pujan, often paired with supari. leaf. The ordinary bida that is made by folding — it is not to be made; note that a bida is not to be offered, the bhog is offered on top of the open paan leaf. It is offered in two places: one in the name of Bhairav ji, and the pujan of one's kul devi-devta must also happen every day. Before them one offers the ordinary dhoop, deep and bhog, but their own worship must keep going; this sadhana is not to be done by dropping the daily pujan. One may drop the daily japa one was already doing — all that need not be done, because one is doing this sadhana — but before whatever devi-devta there are, the lamp must be lit and their bhog offered. After that one offers Bhairav ji's bhog here. The second thing: when the day's japa is complete, place two cloves on each of five pieces of camphor — a pair of cloves, five camphor, ten cloves — and burn them every day. One may burn them on a plate, or, if the ground is clean, on the ground there. This is to be done every day.

On the last day, the speaker says, when one does the Havan and after the Purnahuti and the rest, on that same day — if possible — set aside grain up to at least a tenth of one's body weight: if the weight is 70 kilos, 7 kilos of grain, touched and mentally resolved by SankalpaA formal ritual resolution spoken aloud before an offering or observance, declaring its intent and dedicating its merit.. If one is doing the havan at night, no problem: do this the next morning after bathing. 70 kilos means 7 kilos; 80 kilos means 8 kilos — that much grain, of any one kind or of five kinds. Touch it, make the sankalp, set it aside, and give it to any worthy Brahmin or any poor person, whoever, to take for their own use. Here, he says, the sadhana is complete. The more dan-punya one does, the better. And the dogs are to be fed every day — keep this especially in mind.

The speaker says that for every person coming into the field of sadhana this sadhana will be compulsory; it has no adverse effect at all, so do it with complete peace of mind. It comes after Guru pujan — that is, after guru sadhana: whether one does Navnath sadhana, the Navnath chaitanya mantra, Guru Gorakh Sabari, or Guru Gayatri — after all of these, once one has done Ganesha sadhana. Whether one is in the field of Sabar Mantra or in the ordinary tantrokta field, in either of the two, people of both fields can do this sadhana of Bhairav ji. After guru and Ganpati, he says, it is Bhairav ji's sadhana that is to be done, and every person is to do it — keep this in mind.