Tantrokta Bajrang Baan Siddhi and Prayog Vidhi (Part 2)

Describing the red dhoti to be worn for the practice, the speaker adds that if a woman is doing it, a woman can absolutely do it too — be at ease, any woman can do this, there is no problem. Doing the bajrang-baan siddhi through Hanuman ji's puja, he says, do it comfortably, do it without worry, do not fall into delusion. He is a deity — a siddha devata, an avatar of Rudra, Maharudra. He is a deity, not a human being, that you people should be so afraid. So, he says, perform the siddhi at ease.

The speaker says to write "Ram" on a PeepalA sacred fig tree dedicated to Lord Dattatreya — Pitru Tarpan performed beneath it calms agitated ancestral spirits causing domestic unrest. leaf and offer it — at least that much must be done; the more one does the better. If one cannot take a peepal leaf and do this, then at least write "Ram" on five Tulsi leaves and have them offered. In this way the first day's puja is done at the temple first; then one comes home, goes to the puja room, and puts on red clothing — a red dhoti. Sit on the asana, which must be red, an asana of red blanket, and first do the opening AchamanaThe ritual sipping of water for self-purification before worship, one of the opening Shatkarma/Pavitrikaran rites. and purification, whatever achamana and pavitrikaran one does, and purify the body. After that, take in the hand tulsi leaves, ₹11 and the one coconut that was kept at home, and take SankalpaA formal ritual resolution spoken aloud before an offering or observance, declaring its intent and dedicating its merit.. Those who know Sanskrit may do it in Sanskrit; in ordinary Hindi, holding all the items, pronounce your name, GotraA family's patrilineal lineage name, stated together with one's own name during a Sankalpa. and place: "I, resident of such-and-such town, of this gotra, of this name, for the attainment of Hanuman ji's grace, for the siddhi of the bajrang-baan, and for the attainment of its full effect whenever I use it, take the sankalp to awaken it by doing 11 recitations of the Bajrang Baan daily for 11 days from today." Saying this, place all of it near Hanuman ji or at the place of puja. The coconut is not to be broken — it stays there; the tulsi leaf is placed there, and the DakshinaThe offering made to a guru or officiant that completes a rite; a ritual is held incomplete without it. too. Since the complete Bajrang Baan is a little long, he says, take sankalp for 11 recitations, or 21 or 27, whatever your capacity: for 11 days you must do at least 11 recitations a day, or you may do 21 or 27. After the sankalp comes the opening guru and Ganesha puja. Before the guru-Ganpati puja and the sankalp, he says, be sure to light one lamp — if it has been burning since morning there is no problem — which is the Karmasakshi Deepak; this must be lit. After the guru, Ganpati and Kuldevi puja and remembrance, first do the puja of the Ram darbar: sprinkle water on all of them and then give tilak to all — Bhagwan Shri Ram, Mata Janaki, Lakshman ji, Bharat and Shatrughna ji. If there is a Shri vigraha of the Ram darbar in the house, worship all of them there; otherwise do the puja on the photo.

After the Ram darbar puja, the speaker says, invoke Hanuman ji — into his Shri vigraha if there is one; if there is a photo of Hanuman ji, take a flower, do the invocation into it, place it on a plate and do the puja on that flower set before him. Having done the invocation, if there is a Shri vigraha, do its abhishekaA ceremonial bathing of a deity’s image or symbol, usually with water and other prescribed substances. with panchamritaA five-ingredient offering (commonly milk, curd, ghee, honey, sugar) used to bathe an idol before worship.: bathe Hanuman ji, bathe him with GangajalWater from the Ganges, used to purify and re-consecrate ritual items exposed to impurity., bathe him with agar, then wipe him well, set him down, and do the SindoorVermilion powder, used here to draw the inverted triangle Mandala for a Bhairava offering, in place of the Roli-and-Ashtagandha triangle drawn for a Goddess. lepan on him. The method of sindoor lepan, he says, is this: keep a paan leaf — he notes he may not have mentioned paan leaves at the start — and on it mix chameli oil with orange sindoor; with that, apply the sindoor over the entire vigraha from bottom to top. When the lepan is complete, put a 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. on Hanuman ji — whether or not you yourself wear one makes no difference; he must be given a janeu (he says he forgot to list it earlier among the things to bring). After that, if the Shri vigraha is large and you wish to dress him, you may put on a new cloth; otherwise put a KalavaThe red-and-yellow sacred thread (also called moli) tied at the wrist or used to twist lamp wicks; sold in strands that are wound to a counted number. on Hanuman ji as his vastra. The sindoor lepan being done, the tilak is separate: give a tilak of AshtagandhaA fragrant paste made of eight substances, applied as a tilak before vermilion (sindoor) in remedy and worship rites. and adorn him beautifully.

After Hanuman ji's adornment, the speaker says, comes the BhogThe food offering placed before a deity before anyone in the household eats.: two LadduThe round sweet offered as naivedya, especially to Ganpati and Hanuman.s every day for the 11 days of recitation — two laddus brought and offered daily. One may buy them once and keep them in the fridge, offering daily, but he says fresh laddus brought each day are better, and if one wants to make them at home oneself, besan laddus, that is best of all. So each day two laddus with one Tulsi leaf placed on top are offered to Hanuman ji first. Now the flour of five grains prepared earlier is to be kneaded — with a little water, kept fairly stiff, with a little ghee mixed in. Later, when the whole dough dries as the lamp burns, it will burn too, and that is no problem; so light the lamp a little away, so that no Shri vigraha nearby is scorched and no one's clothing catches fire. Mix it and make a fine ek-mukhi lamp, shaped so that when oil is poured in it does not all leak; one may set it in a large clay diya, or inside some diya, or make it and place it on a plate. The KalavaThe red-and-yellow sacred thread (also called moli) tied at the wrist or used to twist lamp wicks; sold in strands that are wound to a counted number. measured earlier against one's body becomes its wick. Into it, as told before, go 11 cloves every day, five black peppercorns, a little yellow mustard and one good camphor lump, the stone kind. Then light the lamp in Hanuman ji's name. The lamp must be big enough to burn at least half an hour, so that the path can be finished in that time. Once the lamp is lit, first utter Ram ji's name and so on, meditate fully on Hanuman ji, and then recite. The method: of the 11 tulsi leaves kept, on which "Ram" is written, take one leaf in the hand, do one complete recitation of the bajrang-baan, and then offer the leaf on Hanuman ji. Do this 11 times, and the path is complete.

After the recitation, the speaker says, one may if one wishes do a small Havan; doing it daily is very good. Because the bajrang-baan is a sabar paddhati, a Sabar Mantra — very unfailing, awakened — its vidhan is by the sabar method, for which he gives a link to his video on how havan is done in sabar. Otherwise, in the ordinary way, light cow-dung cakes or a little mango wood in a small clay vessel or whatever vessel one does havan in. First give one Ahuti of ghee and GuggulA fragrant resin burnt as dhoop or mixed with ghee for ahutis, used heavily in protective and prosperity rites. in the name of guru ji. Keep in mind, he says, that in this vidhan — whether woman or man — ghee and guggul are both mixed well in one, and the ahutis are given from that. One ahuti in guru ji's name, one in Ganesha ji's name, one each in the name of the kuldevi and devata, and one only for the Navagraha: "Om navgrahebhyo swaha." After these opening ahutis, give one ahuti with each chaupai of the Bajrang Baan — "nishchay prem pratiti te, vinay kare sanman, tehi ke karaj sakal siddh kare Hanuman, swaha; Jai Hanuman sant hit kari, sun lijai prabhu araj hamari, swaha" — and so on, a single ahuti for every chaupai from the beginning to the last. At least five ahutis in Ram ji's name should also be given daily, he adds: "Sitaramchandraya swaha" — not "namah", swaha. When all the ahutis are complete, a lemon — he says he forgot to mention it at the start; keep one lemon — is cut and, without squeezing, the whole lemon is put into the havan itself; both women and men can do this lemon-bali work, no problem. Then do pranam. After that, if one wishes to do aarti, do Hanuman ji's AartiA ritual of waving a lit lamp or flame before a deity's image, performed here at the close of Deepdan once the lamps begin to burn down., or show an aarti with two cloves placed on one camphor — show it five times and set it down. Then do Kshama PrarthanaThe plea for pardon made at the close of a rite for whatever was done wrongly or left out., and taking water in one hand, dedicate the whole japa: "the complete japa done today, the fruit of all its merit, I offer to you, Hanuman ji" — taking Shri Ram's name, saying "Jai Shri Ram", or whatever one has faith in; he says he is keeping the mantras very simple so no one finds it difficult because of them. Offer that water into Hanuman ji's right hand. With that, the day's work is done. If you do not do havan every day, he says, do it on the last day, the eleventh, after the 11 recitations; daily is best, otherwise on the last day.

The speaker says: woman or man, married or unmarried, BrahmacharyaStrict celibacy required through an extended ritual observance. must be observed properly during these 11 days. Take special care that there is no breach of brahmacharya of any kind, even mentally. Do this work in the morning, at 8 o'clock or before 8. If you do it at night you will not be able to keep the fast, so do it early in the morning; whatever the vidhi is, do it in the morning. If you wish, you can also do it at night, but then one thing must be kept in mind: garlic and onion must not be eaten the whole day. If you eat entirely sattvik food, that will do; otherwise, if you have to eat outside, then do not do it. This, he says, is for as long as the siddhi period lasts. Later, in the period of prayoga, you may do it at any time, there is no problem; but in the siddhi period you must pay special attention to all these points.

The speaker says that if you do not do Havan daily, then on the last day, the eleventh, after the 11 recitations, do the havan; daily is best, otherwise on the last day. After the havan, the dedication and the aarti, go to the temple that day — the eleventh day, whatever day it falls on — and do Hanuman ji's full puja there again. One point on the last day applies both to those who do havan daily and to those doing it only on the last day: when you do the havan on the last day, after giving the lemon Nimbu Bali, bring one coconut of the kind from which gari oil is made — what is called gari. Cut it at the top, from the side where it stays attached to the tree; that is the side one cuts. Cut it and fill it with kheer, or with jaggery, wrap it in red cloth, and the Purnahuti is given with that: wrapped in the red cloth, set on a paan leaf, speak the purnahuti mantra and place it in last. Keep the gari ball small, he says, because you will be doing a small havan and the vessel may be small — so keep a small gari so it burns quickly and does not remain. In this way do the purnahuti on the last day. The coconut kept on the first day may, if you wish, be broken at home after the purnahuti and eaten by everyone as PrasadWhat returns from the deity after an offering, and is then eaten rather than discarded. — there is no such thing as women eating it and men not, everyone can eat the prasad — or you may take it to the temple, offer it there, and eat it at home as prasad. One more thing on the last day: when you go to the temple, offer at least sava kilo of LadduThe round sweet offered as naivedya, especially to Ganpati and Hanuman.s to Hanuman ji as far as your means allow; bring only a few home and tell the pandit ji to distribute the rest among all, or if you wish distribute them yourself to everyone who has come. When you have done all this, he says, the bajrang-baan becomes awakened, siddha and chaitanya for you.

The speaker turns to the method of use: whenever you have to make a prayoga — say there is a small child in the house who is crying a great deal, and you feel some Nazar or the like has struck him — the bajrang-baan can be used in various ways. Take yellow mustard seeds in the hand for the child, and first say the whole thing: Ram ji's name must certainly be taken — "O Ram ji, be gracious; Sitaram, Sitaram" — and then, "O Hanuman ji, I am reciting your Bajrang Baan; please awaken it, make all these seeds Abhimantran-charged, make them fully chaitanya; and for the protection of (taking the child's name), for removing whatever obstacle is upon him, I am making this prayoga — awaken it and accomplish my work." Having said this, recite the Bajrang Baan once, pass the seeds over the child in reverse — three times, seven times, as many as you wish — and take them outside the house and burn them. That is one kind of prayoga. BhasmaSacred ash, used as a substitute for milk in a Shivling's abhishekam when milk isn't available. can be charged in the same way, he says; you can apply it yourself, for constant protection, or give it to someone in the family.

Asked how a thread is charged, the speaker says eight knots are tied — Hanuman ji being the giver of the eight siddhis and nine nidhis — and from eight knots up to eighteen knots may be tied; as many knots as you tie, that many recitations have to be done. So suppose, he says, someone in your family is in distress, you have this siddhi, a child of yours is away studying and is having some trouble or difficulty, or a child is getting frightened at night. At such a time, on a Tuesday, first wash a red-coloured thread with raw milk, wash it with GomutraCow urine, added in a small quantity to a purification vessel alongside Gangajal in remedies for ancestral or ritual impurity., and after that you may wash it with panchamritaA five-ingredient offering (commonly milk, curd, ghee, honey, sugar) used to bathe an idol before worship., or else with GangajalWater from the Ganges, used to purify and re-consecrate ritual items exposed to impurity.. Then tie eight knots in it, and holding each knot, taking Ram ji's name, do one recitation of the bajrang-baan on each knot — that is, you must recite the Bajrang Baan eight times. Then place it beside Hanuman ji, show dhoop and deep, light two cloves on a camphor, pray to Hanuman ji, and tie that thread on the one it is to be tied on. He will be completely protected.

Having made the bajrang-baan siddha in this way, the speaker says, you can use it in endless ways. If there is a badha in the house, charge water: recite the Bajrang Baan in the evening while charging the water, put a little GomutraCow urine, added in a small quantity to a purification vessel alongside Gangajal in remedies for ancestral or ritual impurity. and GangajalWater from the Ganges, used to purify and re-consecrate ritual items exposed to impurity. into that water, and sprinkle it through the whole house. As for enemies — if you know which enemy is doing Abhichara karma — he says he will give a separate vidhi for that; if needed, ask in the comments or the Telegram group, after doing the siddhi: how, through the Bajrang Baan alone, an enemy can be stambhit and his vidya bound. There are many prayogas, he says; every vidya has many prayogas, and if you wish you will be able to do them comfortably — but you will have to be strong, you will have to make your manobal that capable; then many things will happen.