Jai Durga Stuti
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A 35-verse hymn from the Durga Saptashati's eleventh chapter, said to hold the combined power of all 700 verses of the text — recited for wealth, strength, disease and enemy destruction, and protection from negative or occult influence, and usable as a Havan text by those unable to perform the full Saptashati.
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Jai Durga Stuti: the Saptashati hymn for any wish and as a substitute for the 700-verse havan
The fourth hymn is Bhagavati Jai Durga Stuti, shlokas 1 to 35 of the eleventh chapter of the Durga Saptashati. The speaker says the essence of all the fiercest shaktis present in the 700 shlokas is in these 35, so it can be recited for any wish — wealth, strength, destruction of disease, of enemies, of Abhichara tantra — and also daily. For those who recite the Saptashati for the nine days of Navratri but lack the capacity for a Havan of 700 shlokas, he says: do this shakti-havan instead, offering ahuti with kheer, ghee, Guggul with ghee and sesame — after learning from one's Guru which parts are excluded, since no ahuti is given for the Uvacha lines or the astra-mantras.
Which of the four Saptashati hymns to adopt, by the devotee's ishta
The speaker says one of the four stutis should be taken into one's life, and matches them to the devotee: a devotee of Mahakali should do the Ratri Suktam; a devotee of Bhagavati Mahasaraswati the Jai Durga Stuti of the eleventh chapter; an exclusive upasaka of Mahalakshmi the Shakradi Stuti, the 27 shlokas of the fourth chapter; and one who is a devotee of any form of Bhagavati, wants the grace of all her forms and sees his Mother, his Durga, his Kali in every shakti — the fiercest kind of upasaka — should never leave the Tantrokta Devisuktam. He says these four have the power to change life, each has its own independent prayoga, and doing them now means that when, by the Devi's grace, a learned Guru who makes such things happen appears in life, they will be of great use.
What is Jai Durga's place in tantra?
He says this is the utmost point of our Sanatan — a person living in a Jyotirlinga region asking whether it is jagrit. Go, babu, take darshan. There, in the form of Lakshmi and Durga ji: in the field of tantra, Bhagavati Jai Durga has a very chief place. He points to the Brahm Pishach Prapanch true tantra incident put on the channel and website, in which Jai Durga is described, her mantras are described, and how they were used — it is very fierce. In the Nav Durga pujan done in South India, according to different kalpas, in one kalpa among the nine Durgas one Durga is Jai Durga, and their chief Shakti Peeth is held to be this very one at Baijnath Dham — the shakti Jai Durga and their Bhairav Baijnath.
Ahuti for the weapon-bearing verses of the Saptashati chapter 11 stuti
The speaker says chapter 11 — Bhagavati Bhuvaneshwari's dhyana and the Jaya Durga stuti — fulfils all desires and can be the havan for those unable to do the full Saptashati. Wherever its mantras show weapons — e.g. "शंख चक्र गदा श्रंग गृहीत परमायुधे प्रसीद वैष्णवी रूपे नारायणी नमोस्तुते" — offer banana on a paan leaf or ghrit; a shakti-swarupa (woman) offering havan takes guru's order and offers guggul in ghrit, nothing else mixed. If an acharya offers sakalya, til must be in it with panchmeva and pomegranate. No text explicitly forbids these verses, since the weapons are held rather than being independent astra mantras, but some scholars treat them as astra and prefer ghrit, banana, paushtik or kheer — so offering the whole chapter with kheer and pure cow ghrit is best.
What should be recited instead by one who only wants Mai's bhakti?
If you only want to do the bhakti of Mai, the speaker says, then do it by stuti and the like. Do the Durga Apaduddhar. In the Durga Apaduddhar stuti it is written that whoever recites it, Bhagavati will fulfil his every desire, and that even for a man trapped in the greatest of calamities every calamity will be removed — Namaste jagat tarini trahi Durge. So do that. The difficulty here, he says, is this: to do the very thing that is forbidden to one.
Which stotra or mantra should be done for Ma Jai Durga of Jharkhand?
He says the complete vidhi-vidhan and puja of Bhagavati Jai Durga is a separate form of tantra with an entirely separate vidhan, and can be done if you live there. Ordinarily one may do it with the ashtakshari mantra; there is also the saptakshari mantra of Parvati ji which he has given on the channel. In fact, he says, two mantras given on the channel — one of Samb Shiv and the second the saptakshari — are both mantras connected with Jai Durga, taken from the khand of her own tantra. They are from the Jai Durga Mishra Tantra.
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