Brahma Kavach
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Birth Ashaucha lasts five weeks, mantra awakening takes 27-108 recitations daily for 40 days, and Parad Shivling rules exceed most householders
Ashaucha after a birth in the family lasts five weeks; consecrated Kavachas can be worn directly with daily Bhairava Brahma Kavach recitation; awakening a mantra takes 27-108 daily recitations for 40 days; and Parad Shivling worship requires rigorous rules not easily kept by general householders.
After the Brahma Kavach anushthan, should one do Mahabhairav or Brahma Kavach?
To Ghanshyam ji, who has completed the Brahma Kavach anushthan and filled the form for wearing the Brahma, he answers that you may do the Mahabhairav as well, and if you wish you may do the Brahma Kavach as well. There is no problem; take either of the two and proceed according to your wish. If the Brahma Kavach is complete you may do the Mahabhairav — and, he adds, you have need of it too.
Khair wood joins the apamarg for a Bhairav prayoga, the abhimantran and material otherwise unchanged.
In exactly the same way, if the listener is making Bhairav ji's prayoga — having done Bhairav ji's ashtottara satnam, or using the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach — the whole abhimantran will be by this same vidhi and the material also will be the same, but for the samidha he should use khair wood. Let khair wood and apamarg wood both be used, he says, and let the listener perform this vidhan.
Can the Brahma Kavach of Batuk Bhairav be made siddh from Ashtami?
Asked whether the Brahma Kavach of Batuk Bhairav ji can be made siddh from Ashtami, the speaker answers: absolutely, it can be done.
How is the coconut prepared for the agni utara?
Take a coconut. Even if you have done japa of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav's Brahma Kavach only a hundred times — leave aside a thousand or ten thousand, even a hundred will do — take a whole coconut with water in it, with its jata intact.
How is a kavach made siddha?
Going further in the same way, he says: if you have worn Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav ji's, then recite Batuk Bhairav ji's Brahma kavach. And make the effort to siddh the Brahma kavach as much as possible, and all the other kavachas as well: keep doing as many paths as you can. The more paths you do, the more they go on becoming nourished.
A kavach is never recited silently
Asked about the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach, the speaker says no Kavach is ever recited silently — this applies to every kavach. The minimum, he says, is that the volume must be enough for you to hear your own paath.
What does the recitation of the Brahma Kavach actually do?
What is happening by the recitation of the Kavach is that prarabdha is being cut. You are taking Bhagavati's name so many times, saying: O Bhagavati, protect me from this side, protect this limb of mine — of each separate form. So by that naam japa, and because it is a Brahma Kavach, a kavach spoken from the mouth of Brahma, all these things are cut by their effect, that prarabdha is cut, and doshas of this kind are removed.
What is done with the prasad of the eight places in the Bhairav devdaan?
The prasad of the eight places is to be distributed among everybody, together with the family. And the prasad that is beneath the lamp goes to a dog.
Why did trouble increase at home after beginning the Brahma Kavach path?
The biggest reason will be this, the speaker says: you are being told to do Bhairav ji's puja at home, and a negative thing will be sitting there and eating; when you begin his seva and puja, it will be troubled, and it will not let you go. If you leave off the pujan, it will settle down again. But by Bhairav ji's pujan and path, whatever negative things there are will not trouble you now — there will be no suffering in your life now — but when a certain time comes, they will begin to give suffering.
A missing chaturmukh lamp and bali pujan, and neglect of the doorway, the kitchen and the kula shakti, are the common mistakes.
He says he does not know what the questioner did or failed to do or what mistake he made, and is answering a common question about why this can happen. It is possible you are doing only Bhairav ji at the time of pujan and never doing the chaturmukh lamp vidhi that he prescribes, or never doing Bhairav ji's bali pujan vidhi. Further: if the entrance of your house is not right, there can be trouble; if dirty vessels are lying in the kitchen, there can be trouble. And most particularly, there is the question of who the shakti of your kula is — trouble can come from her too, though it does not happen in Batuk Bhairav's pujan. And since the listener says Brahma Kavach, there are bandhan matters in the Brahma Kavach, which he has never given anyone to do.
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