Durga Chalisa
Every question on the site tagged Durga Chalisa, each answered from a timestamped source rather than a summary written from memory.
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Hanuman and Bhairav are worshipped before the Devi: they secure her place
The speaker says one need not know much Tantra to see this: even in ordinary puja, when the Devi is invited and the Durga Chalisa is recited, it says "Langur Veer karat agwani", Langur Veer, that is Hanuman, leads the way and goes first. Wherever Jagdamba or her partial shaktis are about to come, Langur Veer reaches first and oversees the whole place; the responsibility for its security rests on Hanuman and on Bhairava. So the worship of both becomes essential, and because Hanuman comes first, his worship and Bhairav's worship are to be done before the Devi's own.
Caution: direct deity-binding and unbinding mantras are Bhagatwal work, not for use without a knower
Besides the simple vidhan, the speaker says, there are many mantra-based vidhans in which a mantra is run directly and the bound deities open, and mantras by which deities are bound too — but that is the field of Bhagatvaal, and in his view, even if you see and learn these mantras on YouTube or Facebook, you should not use them without being in the company of a knowledgeable person. Otherwise, if by mistake your own deities or the shaktis of your own ishta get bound, they will make you dance, will not relent, and will trouble you no end — and the dosh that attaches is separate. And when opening a bandhan, it may turn out that some pret-pishach was held in it and your method set it loose too; without knowledge, that becomes a problem. So instead of the direct mantras, use those that carry no negative effect: Mahabhairav and the like, or the Hanuman Chalisa, bajrang-baan, Kali Chalisa and Durga Chalisa.
How many Durga Chalisa paaths should be done daily in the temple during Navratri?
Asked by a listener who wishes to have an akhand jyot lit through him in Navratri and to do a daily Durga Chalisa paath in the temple whether that is all right, he says yes, do it. Asked how many paaths — twenty-four with rule — he says do more; do at least twenty-seven.
What should be recited by one who is not initiated in the Navarna mantra?
Answering Neha Chaudhary ji, who was given prasad by Maa Kali in a dream, he says to do japa of the Navarna mantra if you are initiated; otherwise, if you are doing the paath of Bhagavati's Durga Chalisa, then do japa of the Jayanti Mangala mantra to the best of your capacity.
How should someone begin who wishes to obtain Maa Durga's grace?
The speaker says to begin the seva of Bhagavati Durga, and to begin it with the Satnam sadhana if you have done no sadhana before. Do Satnam first for 1100, and after that begin the 32 namavali by the chakra vidhi. If you have difficulty in reading Sanskrit at present, begin with the Chalisa, whose method he has also given. From this much alone your beginning energy will become such that the way to move forward will start opening.
How many times greater is the effect of reciting Shiv Chalisa under a bel tree in Brahma muhurta?
Questions of this kind — how many times greater the benefit is — can only be known when you do it, the speaker says, because this can be of a different kind for everybody. It may be that a listener who has done a great deal of sadhana, whose prarabdha is already cut and whose whole time passes in sadhanas, begins reciting under a bel tree tomorrow and from the day after begins to have experiences; his prarabdha too will be cut sooner and the effect will come sooner. And if you are new, if you have various diseases and doshas in the body and doshas in the kundali, and you begin the recitation, it will take you time — two, four, five years.
What should someone with no practice at all do?
Those doing nothing, going along in the ordinary way, should do at least one of these two: Bhagavati Parvati's Saptakshari mantra, or the Jayanti Mangala Kali. Or else the Durga Saptashloki, the Durga Ashtottar Satnam, the Durga Chalisa, the Vindhyavasini Chalisa, Baglamukhi's or Bhairav's Ashtottar Satnam, the Sankat Nashan, the Hanuman Chalisa or the Bajrang Baan.
Step two of tantra kaat at home: a daily path by every family member
The second task, the speaker says, is a daily path. Whatever form of Bhagavati the peeth belongs to — in his example Jayanti Mata, a form of Durga — recite something related to it: the Argala path, her 32-name namavali, the 108 names, or the Kavach path. Any one of these is to be recited morning and evening by every person in the house; if nothing else, everyone knows the Durga Chalisa, so recite that — but every person must do it, with the lamp kept burning while the path goes on.
What should someone who has done nothing at all begin with?
If you have done nothing — no Ganpati sadhana, no Dev Deeksha Vidhan, nothing of Bhagavan Datta, no Guru tradition, nothing of Batuk Bhairav — then at the very least recite Bhagavati's Ashtottara Shatanamavali. If you cannot even read the names in Sanskrit, recite the Durga Chalisa by the Chakra Vidhi, or simply the Durga Chalisa.
What should an entirely new sadhika do in Gupt Navratri?
He tells a listener by name that if she is an entirely new sadhika, then she should recite, to her capacity, the chalisa connected with that swarup of Bhagavati whose seva and puja she does. The chalisa can be perfected, he adds, and the vidhi for perfecting the Kali Chalisa and the Tantrokta Durga Chalisa has been told on the channel.
How is the beej written on a bilva patra in the Durga Chalisa siddhi?
Asked whether, in the siddhi of the Durga Chalisa, the beej is to be inscribed on a bilva patra on the smooth part or the back part, and whether it is to be offered straight or inverted like on a Shivling, he tells Akash Gupta ji: it is to be done on the straight part, not on the smooth, that is not on the back side — do it on the front part. And the offering is to be made straight; there is no need to offer it inverted as upon a Shivling.
What comes of reading the Durga Chalisa and Hanuman Chalisa daily?
Asked what comes of reading the Durga Chalisa and the Hanuman Chalisa, and what happens from reading them daily, he says a great deal of good happens in life — absolutely do it. What will happen you will understand for yourself.
Can the Hanuman Chalisa havan method be used with other chalisas?
Asked whether the havan told with the Hanuman Chalisa can also be done with the Durga or Batuk Bhairav chalisa, the speaker says it can be done with the Durga Chalisa; for Batuk Bhairav it will be better if you do it with his 108 names.
Can a one-day anushthan be done on Aghor Amavasya for the siddhi of a chalisa?
Yes, certainly it can be done, he says. On Aghor Amavasya, in the vidhan told by the chakra vidhi, forty-one paath have to be done. The chakra vidhi that has been given — how any chalisa is to be made siddh by the chakra vidhi — that you may do on that night.
No havan is needed, and the chakra vidhi was given in full the previous month
There is no need of havan and the like; if you can do it, it is very good, otherwise there is no necessity at all. The full vidhan of what the chakra vidhi means has been told on the channel — look at it once, and if it is not found, message in the group and the link will be put up again. The topic was how to make the chalisa of any devi or devata siddh, and to his thinking the video was put up the previous month.
What is the simple puja vidhi for Maa Bhuvaneshwari Jayanti?
In the live, he says, in a simple pujan vidhi of this kind he can speak only of the Sahasranama. For the rest, panchang sevan would have to be told separately, taking everything related to her Bhairav and related to Ganpati. Asked about a chalisa in which, along with the chaupais, there are also dohas so that the number exceeds forty, he says it is all right, there is no difficulty; apply the chakra vidhi to the chaupais, and you may apply it to the dohas as well.
Durga Chalisa chakra vidhi or the Vansh Vriddhi Kavach on Holika night?
Asked whether to do on Holika night the Durga Chalisa chakra vidhi that has been done in past years, or the Vansh Vriddhi Kavach, he says that in his own view, if the Vansh Vriddhi Kavach is needed and that is what you wish to do, then do that one — do the Vansh Vriddhi Kavach.
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