Seeking Shiva's Ganas' Grace: Eligibility, Sankalpa, and the Eclipse Window

The speaker says he is presenting a very special vidhan. It is for every person whose family and social life is full of many kinds of problems — someone who is not caught in one kind of trouble but in several at once: very heavy debt, too many enemies, or trouble from some upari badha. The question he takes up is how such a person gets the help of the gods. He says Mahadev is the god of gods, and Mahadev's Ganas are the most capable and the most awakened. The Ganas — the servants — of Shiva and of Mother Jagadamba"Mother of the World" — an epithet of the Devi. are always ready to protect and help the devotees of their deity; he asks the listener to take this as a known fact. From the day one begins the worship and sadhana of Shiva and Jagadamba, those Ganas stand ready to help. The problem, he says, is that we do not know how to use them, or how to ask them for help. He compares it to the atmosphere, which holds many kinds of gases: to use one particular gas one needs a method or an instrument to filter it out; only then can one gas be drawn out of the many. This vidhan, he says, is that method — it is for people who want to get help of this kind from the Ganas of Shiva, of Rudra, and it is meant for an ordinary householder to obtain in a plain, simple way. He says he will give the full tantrokta knowledge on this subject in time, to the extent such secrets can be given; this video lays out the ground.

The speaker asks the listener to understand how the divine shaktis give their grace and how help should be taken from them. He gives a case: on some special day a person began an anushthan — say the sadhana of one of Mother Bhagavati's mantras, the ashtakshar mantra. The person completed 1.25 lakh Japa and finished TarpanaA libation offering of water or other substances made to a deity or ancestor, typically performed alongside Havan and Marjan., MarjanThe purificatory sprinkling of consecrated water that completes the Havan-Tarpan-Marjan ritual triad., hom and Havan, everything — and still no very special change came into life. He says this does not at all mean the sadhana became fruitless. Nor, he says, is the usual explanation the whole story — people ordinarily say "my PrarabdhaThe portion of destiny already set in motion by past actions — spiritual practice and good deeds can lessen its severity, but not eliminate it. is written like this, my karmas are such that the prarabdha is not being cut, so the fruit of my japa and tapa is not fully coming." That is what a person says in the ordinary way. He asks the listener to know one thing, and explains it through an example. Suppose you love your father very much, and some third person greatly respects your father. When that person honours your father, love for him arises in your heart by itself; you think well of him by yourself and want to help him. If you ever found him fallen on some road, you would certainly help him — even though you do not know him directly and he has never spoken to you — simply because he respects and honours your father so much. In exactly the same way, he says, the Ganas of Bhagavati, the Ganas of Mahadev, or of any great mahashakti — the Yoginis, the attendants and sadhikas — stand ready to help you as a mother would, as a father, as a deity, as a brother, as a friend. But, he says, there are certain vidhan we must do, and only after doing them does that grace reach us. If we do not do them it does not come, because there are limits there: until you speak, it is not received.

The speaker points to the shastrokta vidhan: there a SankalpaA formal ritual resolution spoken aloud before an offering or observance, declaring its intent and dedicating its merit. is laid down — a sankalpa has to be made. Whether one makes a sakam sankalpa or a nishkam sankalpa (Sakam and Nishkam Sankalpa), in both vidhans the sankalpa is required. If one wants nothing from God — only his bhakti, his shakti, that is, his Kripa — one still has to make a nishkam sankalpa. When one has wishes, one makes a sakam sankalpa for them. That, he says, is the vidhan. In the same way, he continues, when one wants the help of a Gana — the Gana of some mahashakti — there is a particular special vidhan for it, and it is different in every Guru parampara. He will place before the listener the one from his own guru parampara. He says there are many vidhans, but for the welfare of people, and so that ordinary persons can use it, he will give the simplest one, so that it can be done easily.

The speaker says that on the coming Kartik Purnima a penumbral (upachhaya) lunar Grahan is falling. He explains why that matters: on the forehead of Shiva sits a half moon, not a full moon — the half moon that is called the dooj moon. Tied to that half moon there are certain shaktis, certain Ganas of Mahadev, who are ready to help, awake, or bound by promise to you — directly or indirectly — only and only when an eclipse is on and it is partial, not total. So, he says, a very special time and a very special kaal is coming. If on that day a person wishes to obtain Mahadev's help and does the vidhan he is going to describe, then — if God wills it, if his wish and our PrarabdhaThe portion of destiny already set in motion by past actions — spiritual practice and good deeds can lessen its severity, but not eliminate it. allow — by Mahadev's kripa the help of the Ganas will certainly be received. But in what form that help comes, he says, depends on the person's capacity for tapa, on the strength of their TapobalSpiritual power accumulated through austerity and sustained practice — the counterweight that must exceed accumulated black-magic or negative energy for an affliction to fully lift., and on their bhakti — on that rests how much help one is able to take. He says he will explain the vidhan fully, item by item, and that whoever hears it through and does it will surely benefit.

The speaker says that he keeps telling many sadhanas, but the listener does not have to do many sadhanas. He asks them to take special care that it does not happen that one grabs a sadhana, does it for the days he said it should be done, then drops it and grabs a new one. The question to ask, he says, is: which one do you need? His rule: if you are not doing any sadhana so far, do this one. If you are already holding many sadhanas, there is no need to do this one. If you have many troubles and want to do it — if you lift this sadhana and begin it — then, he asks, please do it for a long time. At the very least, keep it until the Shravan month that comes next year. If you carry it that far, he says, its effect becomes fully established with you for life. If you do it for ten days and leave it, or a month and leave it, no very special effect will hold for long. So when one lifts a sadhana, he says, one should try to carry it for a long time.

The speaker says the sadhana he will put before the listener takes very little time. Doing it each day takes barely 5 to 10 minutes, or even less than 15 minutes. It is done while continuing whatever daily sadhana and upasana one has already been doing. Only on one day — the day of Kartik Purnima — must the listener give it special time. After doing it that day, because it is a one-day vidhan, one is to do only as much Japa as he says, and not more and more. His reason: the Kripa one is to obtain is only the kind by which the Ganas help, directly or indirectly, in any way at all. One is not to make them siddhi and keep them in the house, or start asking them "tell me this, tell me that" — nothing of that sort. For that, he says, the whole vidhan becomes different.

The speaker says that making the Ganas of the gods, or the Yoginis, siddhi — where siddhi means being able to bring them before you whenever you want — is a completely different matter that needs many kriyas, and it cannot be done on Facebook or YouTube. A householder cannot do it at all; for that one would have to leave householder life. In grihastha one should only obtain their Kripa and their blessing. If someone does have that much capacity and wants siddhi of that level, then even as a householder they will have to live in very strict discipline, because lack of discipline is simply not tolerated there. The mahashaktis will tolerate — Shiva and Jagadamba are mother and father, they will bear with you — but their shaktis, their Yoginis, their Ganas do not tolerate mistakes. He lists what that path involves. Even the clothes have to be consecrated: the garment one wears when sitting for the siddhi vidhan — the LangotThe loincloth offered to Hanuman and Bhairav., or whatever dhoti or gamchha one wears by the Guru's grace and order — takes at least a week to make siddha. The 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. one wears has a separate special tantrokta vidhan and a separate tantrokta mantra, and it has to be protected. The raksha thread, the Raksha Sutra tied on the hand, is tied in a special way. The tika, the paste applied to the forehead, is applied with special mantras and special MudraA symbolic hand gesture used in worship or iconography — such as Varada (boon-granting) or Abhaya (fearlessness-bestowing) — each carrying its own specific meaning.s, according to the sadhanas one is going to do. He says there is no need to go into that much detail, because none of it can happen over YouTube. If anyone says it can, he says, you are simply being cheated and nothing else. That is why he is only teaching this: obtain their kripa, obtain their blessing, make life successful. There is no need at all to make them siddhi — ask them indirectly to help, and with the vidhan he will give they will surely help; go up to that limit only. If it ever becomes possible in future, he says, he will give the full vidhan, and try to give it in person — if a family of capable people who want to do such sadhanas comes together. Those sadhanas need time and patience; they do not happen in one or two days; they take TapobalSpiritual power accumulated through austerity and sustained practice — the counterweight that must exceed accumulated black-magic or negative energy for an affliction to fully lift. and time. One-day or two-day sadhanas of that kind, he says, do not exist.