The Secret of Vak Siddhi: When Your Words Start Coming True

The speaker opens by asking when a person's spoken words start becoming true. He says that when a sadhak is in the field of sadhana, a time comes, and he usually notices it only once that time is already over. Looking back, sadhaks say there was a period when whatever they said turned out to be true, and they do not know how. He gives the everyday shape of it: someone came saying a piece of work was stuck, the sadhak said even jokingly that the work would get done, and it got done. He calls this a momentary Vak Siddhi and asks how it is obtained. His first answer is that it comes when some deity's Kripa is present, and that he generally explains it in two ways, which he goes on to describe.

The speaker says he generally explains Vak Siddhi in two ways. The first is through the birth chart. The second house of the chart is the house of speech. When the planets connected to that house begin to deliver their auspicious, meritorious fruit, and they do so because of the person's own Punya, his speech starts to bear fruit. He stresses that sadhana is not the condition here. Whether the person does sadhana or not, or does only ordinary sadhana, it is enough that he has been a right person. Then his speech becomes fruitful. This lasts as long as the Dasha, antardasha or even the sukshma dasha of those planets is running. During that period, he says, the person's words have an effect on all the people around him, and it is a pure, sattvik effect.

Right after describing how a favourable second-house period makes speech fruitful, the speaker says the opposite also happens in the same period of life. If there is a Dosha of some kind on that house, you will see that when the person says something to someone, that person's work simply does not get made. It turns out the reverse. Work that was already being made gets spoiled. He says this is what people call kaala zubaan, a black tongue. He treats it as an ordinary, well-known thing, not a mystery: it is the second-house mechanism with a dosha in place of merit.

The speaker's second explanation is for those who practise. If you are doing some kind of Japa or tapa, and during that time some specially auspicious circumstance is formed in relation to the second house of your chart, it can happen through that route too. He lists what has to line up. The transit of the planets should be favourable, with a favourable antardasha and MahadashaIn jyotish, the long governing period of a single planet within a life, during which that planet's results predominate. running. You should have gathered a good deal of energy through sadhana. Your Punya should be at full strength. And besides all that, you should also be a good person. When all of this is together, he says, your words too start to become true.

Immediately after describing how japa and merit produce Vak Siddhi, the speaker adds a warning. Know this, he says: if after learning that you have this thing you start using it again and again, or start trying it out to see whether it works, then a time comes when its decay is certain. It decays, and it decays for sure. Later in the talk he gives the positive side of the same rule. Whenever this is obtained, or whenever you come to know that such a state is happening to you, become completely silent. Give no Shraap to anyone, no boon to anyone, and no word or promise of any kind to anyone. The more you stay silent, he says, the more this capacity grows within you.

Having given his two ways, the speaker says that within them sits one more thing. It may be that the partial blessing and influence of some devi or devata is with you, that some deva shakti is with you, and that their Kripa, their special kripa, is with you. Because of them, and also because of the effect of your birth chart, and also because of the effect of your personal Punya, all these things together begin to bear fruit in the same manner. Then too, he says, your words begin to come true, and they come true with accuracy.

The speaker puts a limit on all of this. Suppose it is written in the other person's PrarabdhaThe portion of destiny already set in motion by past actions — spiritual practice and good deeds can lessen its severity, but not eliminate it. that a certain thing is not to happen, and yet it is happening because of the effect of your speech and your Punya. You are not, he says, some rishi or muni of earlier times who can prove that person's written fate wrong. What happens instead is that the thing is put off for some time, and later, in due course, the person suffers. His first example is a marriage. Someone's parents are not agreeing to a love marriage, and you say "go, it will happen." Some situation forms and the marriage takes place. But after the marriage such troubles come that the two have to separate. His second example is a job. Someone was not getting money, was not getting a job, because his prarabdha was written that way. You had punya-bala and said "go, it will happen," and he got the job. After that the seniors trouble him, the colleagues trouble him, and things reach a point where within a year or two he has to leave. That too, the speaker says, is his prarabdha; he had to bear it. His conclusion: your speech did come true, but its ill effect will certainly arrive there later.

The speaker says this capacity has so much effect in it that it can be put to use for obtaining a deity's Kripa. When you gather this Punya and do more and more Japa of some mantra, that mantra begins to give quick fruit, and its effect keeps growing. The condition he sets is on the kind of mantra. If it is not a karmic mantra, meaning you are not doing any prayoga or operation with it, and you chant and recite these mantras only for the pleasure of your Ishta Devata, then the Ishta's kripa reaches you very quickly. You can become a sadhak of a good level, and you can also attain something good. So, he says, whenever in life you come to know you have this kind of capacity, put it to good use and preserve it inside yourself. Otherwise a time will come when you too will say, "Maa, my powers have been misused."