Siddh Kunjika Stotram
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A hymn recited before Durga Saptashati to unlock its full power — the recitation is considered incomplete without it.
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Why shouldn't a beginner directly perform advanced rituals like Aparajita sadhana or recite Siddha Kunjika?
Advanced rituals like Aparajita sadhana carry powerful seed mantras (Bija Mantras) whose pronunciation must be exact — a beginner without the eligibility (Adhikara) to control that power risks serious harm from even small mispronunciations.
Which parts of Durga Saptashati should never be used to perform Havan?
The durga-kavach should never be offered directly in Havan, and the Siddha Kunjika Stotram should never be used for Havan at all — both are meant for recitation only.
Name-mantras for the Kavach, nine ahutis on Argala's first mantra, Kilaka's first alone, nothing for the Rahasyas
Kavach uses the individual name-mantras of the Nine Durgas or named powers, not its full verses; Argala uses nine Ahutis with only its first mantra; Kilaka uses only its first mantra, dedicated to Shiva; the Rahasya texts get no Havan offerings at all.
How can the Siddha Kunjika Stotram or the 32 Names of Durga be practiced?
The Siddha Kunjika Stotram is inherently self-empowered, so a practitioner grows into it through regular disciplined recitation alone; the 32 Names of Durga's activation method during Navratri serves as an exceptional protective shield and relief from severe obstacles.
How much Navarna or Kunjika japa is safe without a guru's guidance?
The speaker says the most important lesson is that when you do japa of a mantra, you do not know which energy, which deity of your own house, is being awakened by it, who is accepting it, and what havoc it is going to cause. This is why he stays neutral about Navarna and Kunjika and keeps saying: do not do them without understanding the subject. The results promised everywhere do come — but only when done vidhivat. If you do it on your own whim, without guidance, do a fixed, small quantity; a large quantity will unbalance the energy, and neither he nor the listener has the capacity to make Jagadamba herself manifest. Navarna, he says, is not to be done directly on its own; there are rules for it.
Is it right to recite the Siddh Kunjika Stotra daily before leaving home?
A listener says she does not leave the house every day without doing the Ma Siddh Kunjika Stotra. Do it, he says. Asked whether the arghi of a Narmadeshwar shivling can be given abhishek in the form of Ma, he says absolutely, it can be done.
Should bhakti and tantra be mixed?
Do not ask such people, the speaker says, when you wish to walk by bhakti-bhav. He repeats again and again: do not mix bhakti and tantra together. Tantra is a kriyatmak subject; where it is, there it is.
Insisting on the Kali and Bagla tantrokta Kunjika moves one towards ruin.
When people say no, we will do only the Siddh Kunjika, and the Kali tantrokta Siddh Kunjika, and the Bagla tantrokta — then he becomes the bad one for forbidding it. He asks them not to move towards ruining themselves: take hold of the thing rightly. Shiv ji's diksha every person can take, so take it from yourself.
Should the Siddh Kunjika and Bhairav mantras be given away publicly?
As in the Siddh Kunjika — this Kunjika, that Kunjika, people have opened up the whole Kunjika and laid it out today. Obtained it certainly was. Gurus give it with great trust: brother, keep it secret. Rajyam deyam shiro deyam na deyam Bhairavaksharam — give away the kingdom, give away the head, but do not give the akshara of Bhairav. Here people are distributing the akshara of Bhairav entirely like jalebi; the Bhairav mantra is being distributed at 251 rupees.
Do Vinigyoga and Nyasa have to be repeated for every recitation in an Anushthan?
Once only — Viniyoga and Nyasa are done a single time in a japa, not repeatedly. But the Kunjika (Siddh Kunjika Stotram) and the Navarna Mantra should only be recited at all by someone initiated and holding their guru's instruction.
How should the mantra inside the Siddh Kunjika Stotra be read?
Wherever the Kunjika path is to be done, the full mantra that comes in the middle of the Shri Siddh Kunjika Stotra — the mahanava mantra of the Kunjika — should be read in the mind alone, not spoken out, not shouted. Those who read it into a microphone, he says, leave them; that is their matter.
Who should not light an akhand jyot at all?
Especially those who live alone and have to leave their place to go to different places — for the akhand jyot there is also this rule, that they must never leave it alone. It is the direct form of Jagadamba; one is not to leave her alone and go from the house or the place. Someone or other will be at home. So those who are alone should not do it in this way either.
What prayashchitta is there for a self-taught Krodh Bhairav sadhana gone wrong?
A listener writes that a friend performed the Krodh Bhairav sadhana and the Siddh Kunjika sadhana after seeing them on the internet, and is now having severe mental problems; having been made to stop, what can be done as prayashchitta? The speaker answers that the Krodh Bhairav sadhana and other fierce sadhanas are of the highest level among the kramagat sadhanas and among the anga vidyas. They simply cannot be done directly: without tapobala no person has the capacity to bear their energy, for these are the most furious shaktis.
Is japa done in a trikon siddh?
Asked how to siddh the Kunjika Kavach, and whether japa done in a trikon becomes siddh, the speaker answers that japa and path — yes, brother, it does become siddh.
What should a daughter who dreams of Shivling worship be taught?
A listener says his daughter always dreams of a Shivling or of worship connected with it and asks which sadhana should be done. First of all, the speaker says, your daughter is having such a good dream: inspire her to perform Shiva pujan. Teach her to sing the stuti of the Rudrashtak — not to recite it but to sing it, and to sing it well. Let her do abhishek of the Shivling every day, do its shringar, and recite the Rudrashtak alongside. Begin her from here.
The Avarana material is withheld because it would be copied and misused
Because it would be copied, reproduced and misused. The speaker cites the Saptashati's thirteen Avaranas, ten of which are worshipped, and notes that the commonly available ninth Avarana omits the Bhairav worship — detail he does not want handed out and copied.
Is there any devi or devata who is not ugra?
Asked who said that the sumiran of the devi should not be done because the Mata is an ugra form, he tells Amrit ji simply to do the path of the first mantra of the Argala; there is nothing of that kind. Which devi-devatas are ordinary, he asks — which devi-devata is not ugra? Who has not ended some wicked one? Which swaroop is there like that in our Sanatan culture? Hanuman ji is a Vaishnav, and he killed so many demons by turning himself into a monkey. All are ugra; not one is saumya. And has Narayan not killed? He has ended so many people, ended the wicked. Then do not take his name at all. Now do Ram-Ram — Ram killed Ravana, who was so great a wicked one; Ram ji killed him, did his vadh. So now let us not take Ram ji's name at all, because Ram ji has become ugra.
Should Navarna or Siddh Kunjika be done without diksha?
In his own reckoning, the speaker says, Siddh Kunjika and Navarna japa should not be done without diksha. He says listeners are free to agree or disagree; he is putting his view according to his own experience. If you do it, do it within a limit — he is not forbidding it — but if you do unlimited japa while not being initiated and not being an adhikari of the pranava, and you do japa with the pranava attached, then harm is done to the devatas.
What is the Navarna mantra, and whose is it?
Its root Shakti is Bhagavati Mahadurga. In Mahadurga all of them come — the Navadurga who manifested from her, the three Mahashaktis Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, and the ten Mahavidyas as well. It is not a mantra, the speaker says, but a Mantra-raja.
How is the Siddha Kunjika handed out?
He asks what people take Siddha Kunjika to be: do Siddha Kunjika, do Siddha Kunjika — of what is it, why is it, how is it to be done, what is its vidhan, what will follow from doing it? It makes not the least difference. It is written Siddha Kunjika, which means siddhi will be obtained, so do it. And that is all there is: do the japa, do as much as you must, with no subject after the japa at all — what asana, what vastra, what direction, none of it.
Why are the Aprajita and Kunjika stotras kept secret?
Not only the Aprajita stotra but the Kunjika stotra too, he says, and many satakshari and many hriday — he makes no videos on any of these, and keeps them all secret. The reason behind it is that the capacity to do that thing is not in everybody. If he tells the whole vidhi, people will not do it; they will do it half and incomplete and then be troubled — and he does not want anyone to be troubled on his account, does not want to lead anyone astray. In the Aprajita there are so many beej mantras that their pronunciation will not come out of everybody.
Fifty shaktis come with the Kunjika, and calamity follows the early enjoyment
People will have the Kunjika done, he says. By doing the Kunjika, fifty shaktis come. At the beginning there will be a great deal of enjoyment. After some days such calamities will begin to fall in the house, the trouble will so increase, that afterwards they will ask what mistake they made. And those who say nothing happened to them, that they did so much, will not tell the whole of their own matter — how sadhana is done in their house, who else does sadhanas there, which devi is worshipped in their house, what bhog they give. They will only say we have been doing it two years and nothing happened. The whole subject should be understood before doing it.
What is the Nikumbhila Saptashati?
This is the same Meghnath who, by the kripa of Devi Nikumbhila, bound Indra. For those who wish to read the method of the Saptashati connected with the Siddh Kunjika and the Nikumbhila shakti: with the samput of "Shulena Pahi No Devi" it is called the Nikumbhila Saptashati. Consider it, he says — he had that siddhi, and such a siddhi that he bound Indra; and he goes about avoiding Hanuman.
Why is the Siddh Kunjika not for everyone?
Bhagavati has many mantras, among which the Siddh Kunjika has very many famous mantras, which have now been made viral — nothing has remained secret. In them the Trikhandi vidya and the Trikuti vidya are used. These trikuta and the like have been used, and that is precisely why it has been said: brother, not everyone should do this. These come among the Mahavidyas, they come among the para vidyas. When you make use of it and do not follow the vidhi-nishedh, then difficulty will arise — that is the very reason it has been forbidden.
Which Bhairav japa must accompany a Trikuta mantra?
When we make use of the Trikuta Bhairav — when we make use of the Trikuta mantra — then the japa of Kameshwar Bhairav should be done. Those who begin reciting the Siddh Kunjika, all the great gupt Kunjikas, the Damar-wali Kunjika, the Damar Kunjika stotra, the Kunjika stotra of Kubjika, the Tripura Kunjika, thinking that they have obtained it and will do it and get siddhi at once — they simply do not know that where the bhukut vidyas and the trikuta vidyas have been used, there the japa of their Bhairavs is also to be done.
Even though the Bhairav mantras are embedded in the Kunjika, a separate dashansh japa of the Bhairavs is still required
In the mantra of the Kunjika the mantras of the Bhairavs have been made garbhasth — embedded within it. But again and again, he says, know this: that a separate dashansh japa of their Bhairavs has to be done.
Which forbidden mantras do people insist on doing?
The speaker lists them as they are thrown back at him: we will do the mantra of the thousand-armed Kritavirya Arjuna, we will do the Mahadatt mantra — forbid it if you like; we will do the whole brihad mantras of the Siddh Kunjika. And, he adds, the more you unveil a gupta mantra and put it out on YouTube and Facebook, the more viral it goes, the more followers you get and the more people will do it.
Can the Siddha Kunjika be done without diksha?
The Siddha Kunjika without diksha, not more than once, the speaker says: japa should not be done. Paath can be done. For paath he has never forbidden it — to say so is wrong. He has forbidden japa, because when you increase the avritti by doing japa, the shaktis will come and will not find a place, and then there will be difficulty.
How is Mahadev pleased, and how is Bhagavati pleased?
For Mahadev there are upayas of pleasing him; for Akash Bhairav, he repeats, it is not a matter of pleasing but of kriyatmak things. Those who wish to please Bhagavati should do japa of her hundred names, sing of her state, perform her archan with her sahasranamas, do her shringar — Bhagavati will give kripa; do japa of her name. But if you must do the Siddh Kunjika, then japa in lakhs, together with nyasa and the rest, and after that it will happen.
Why should bhakti and tantrokta sadhana not be mixed together?
Because what is tantra is tantra, and there both bhava and kriya are needed. If you are to go into bhakti, then do the navadha bhakti, do the sangopang upasana, do everything — but then do not talk of tantra at all, do not discuss tantrokta sadhanas. And then do not say that you wish to perfect the Kaal Bhairav danda, or the Neelkanth Aghorastra, or the Siddh Kunjika. Two things, he says, do not go together.
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