Batuk Bhairav
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The gentler, child-like form of Bhairava — worshipped at home via a picture, idol, or small silver Trishul.
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Bhairav anushthan for abhichaar in Shiv Navratri, and staying with one sadhana
For those in whose lives very strange events are happening — the Bhairava-related prayogas on the channel are for abhichaar-nash, even where maran prayogas keep being done on a family — the speaker says: do a Bhairav anushthan in this Navratri. Batuk Bhairav Hriday; the Batuk Bhairava stotra of the Rudrayamala Tantra with a sankalp of the shatanama; or the Mahabhairav mantra or Mahabhairav stotra. Anushthan first, repeated again and again; the prayoga vidhi after. His core sadhaks have fixed one thing: at Shivratri they do only the Aghorastra siddhi. Settle in one place, he says; do not keep asking "when will the effect come" — the one who gives effect is seated there; neither you nor he can stir a leaf, but Bhagwan says all things happen by his will.
Batuk Bhairav as the form for a publicly taught Bhairav sadhana
The speaker says the form to be taken in this sadhana is Batuk Bhairav: if one installs Bhairav at home, let it be a Batuk Bhairav murti or picture only, and no other form — because, teaching publicly on YouTube, he cannot know which Bhairav form is right for whom, while Batuk is accepted by all and can be worshipped in every home. If some form is already worshipped, do the sadhana before that form; no new form is needed. He repeats that whichever form of Bhairav one worships, this mantra is for every form: it awakens every form, and through it the Bhairav tattva is awakened. It has many prayogs, which he says he will teach later; first one should awaken the Bhairav tattva for oneself and make it protective.
Which four guardian deities (Veers) must be worshipped alongside the Goddess during Saptashati recitation?
Ganesha, Bhairava (as Batuk Bhairava), Narasimha and Hanuman together, and Shiva are the four guardian powers that must be worshipped alongside the Goddess during Saptashati recitation.
Which specific mantras from Saptashati address specific problems like estrangement, debt, or negative energy?
Saptashati contains specific mantras for specific needs — attraction of an estranged person, protection from severe adversity and debt, auspicious events and marriage obstacles, removing ancestral or divine faults, and protection from negative energies and evil eyes.
Batuk Bhairav Hridaya Stotra anushthan against abhichar: who it is for and why it works
The speaker dedicates this vidhan to householders, women or men, who are wandering from place to place with an abhicharik problem that finds no cure. When tantra-mantra has been done on you, he says, your Aura becomes very weak: the body grows heavy, you sway, anger and irritability rise. People get themselves treated somewhere, feel better for a while, then the same state returns — because the enemy keeps raising the dose of the Abhichara with a new prayog each time you reduce it. The lasting answer is to make yourself strong — your aura, body, subtle body and Prana Urja — so that the enemy's activity cannot affect you, either with the help of someone who can take you that far, or by yourself. This vidhan is for everyone, with no vidhi-nishedh, an "all or nothing" remedy. Batuk Bhairava, he says, is a mahashakti in a sixteen-year-old child form, but when he comes to give his devotees abhaya and punish wrongdoers he looks at nothing, and the biggest tantriks eat defeat — so do it without worry; but you must be in the right and have the bodily strength to carry it out.
Batuk Bhairav anushthan: venue, length of the sankalpa, dress, asan and daily materials
The speaker says the Batuk Bhairav Hridaya Stotra anushthan is done at home only if the house is free of abhichar and the trouble is on your body alone; if the house itself is afflicted, do it at a Shiva, Mahakali or any temple — even a Hanuman temple — and the first anushthan should be done outside in any case. Take a Sankalpa of 11 or 21 days; if the abhichar is heavy, take a small 11-day one first and 21 days the next time. Wear yellow or red — a suit or sari for women — and sit on a wool, red or yellow blanket, or kusha asan, facing the deity, no direction rule. Each day you need two or three cow-dung cakes, a little ghee and camphor for a small Havan at the temple, Gangajal, a sweet Bhog — raisins, or a meetha rot of wheat flour kneaded with jaggery and ghee — and for the sankalpa a coin, a flower and unbroken basmati rice dyed yellow with turmeric as Akshat. At a Hanuman temple the bhog goes to Hanuman with a Tulsi leaf, and the same bhog is set in Bhairav's name where you sit; Bhairav's bhog is never eaten by you during the anushthan — with a little gangajal on it, it is fed to any dog near the temple.
Batuk Bhairav anushthan: the sankalpa wording and the opening smaran and lamps each day
The speaker says each sitting of the Batuk Bhairav Hridaya Stotra anushthan opens by sprinkling Gangajal on oneself — no mantra needed — and, holding Akshat, a flower and a coin, taking a Sankalpa in one's own name: for the root destruction of whatever abhichar any enemy has done on my body, for complete protection, for the grace of Batuk Bhairav Baba and for every kind of protection of my body and mind in future, I resolve to recite the Batuk Bhairav Hridaya Stotra yathashakti. The items go into a plate. Then remember your Guru mentally — or Dattatreya as guru with "Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu", asking his blessing and adesh to complete the sankalpa and destroy the enemy — then Ganesha with any mantra you know, then your kul devi-devata (if unknown, address "whoever and wherever you are, protector of my kul", asking to be freed so as to serve Bhagwati and reach life's purpose). Then bow to the temple's deity and light a til-oil, mustard-oil or ghee lamp for them, and at your seat a medium-size mustard-oil Chaumukh Deepak lamp for Bhairav with eight doubled wicks of black thread or cotton, set on rice or black sesame in a plate, to burn one and a half to two hours.
Batuk Bhairav Hridaya Stotra: viniyoga, rishyadi nyasa and the 27 to 108 recitations with cloves and camphor
The speaker says to print the Batuk Bhairav Hridaya PDF from the description and first do the opening vidhi it gives: the salutations to Ganesha, Uma-Maheshwara, guru and Bhairav, the purva peethika, Shri Devi Uvacha and Shri Shiva uvacha. For the Viniyoga take water in hand, say the viniyoga mantra — asya Shri Batuk Bhairav Hridaya Stotrasya, Brihadaranyaka rishi, anushtup chhanda, Shri Batuk Bhairav devata, abhishta-siddhyarthe pathe viniyogah — and drop the water beside the burning Chaumukh Deepak lamp. Do only the rishyadi Nyasa, touching head, mouth, heart and then the whole body; leave out the hridaya, anga and kara nyasa. Then, holding at least 18 cloves and one big lump of camphor in the hand, recite verses 1 to 14 — from "Om pranave sah shirah patu" to "raksha raksha mam kaal sankatat" — at least 27 times, at most 108; 108 is best, 27, 54, 81 or 108 as you are able, counted with supari, flowers or on the fingers. Increase daily and never decrease: never do 108 the first day and 27 the next. Afterwards put the cloves and camphor in an empty clay lamp, offer water at the chaumukh lamp, which is Bhairav's form, and light them there. This is done daily for 11 or 21 days, and the anushthan at least three times.
Batuk Bhairav anushthan: the daily havan of nine black-sesame laddus
After the recitation and samarpan, the speaker says, comes the Havan part of the Batuk Bhairav anushthan. Make laddus of black sesame: half a kilo of black til with 250 grams of jaggery and 125 grams of pure desi ghee, a little Gangajal added — he says to make 11, and nine are needed each day, taken along to the temple. Find a spot in the temple where you can burn cow-dung cakes, light them, and take each laddu in the hand, touch it to your head and turn it once in reverse — take care, reverse — with no mantra needed, only "Om Batuk Bhairavaya namah" — or even without the Om, just "Batuk Bhairavaya namah" — or, in the mind, "O Batuk Bhairav, this bhog is offered to you, kindly accept it", and drop it into the fire; do this nine times. Then take water in the hand and pour it clockwise around the fire three times, binding it as it is called, bow to Bhairav ji and come home. The whole sitting takes two to three hours at most with 108 recitations, less with 27; the laddus stay nine whatever the count.
Batuk Bhairav anushthan: the last day's laddu bhog and daan, the daily dog feeding, and disposal of the sankalpa items
The speaker says that on the last day of a Batuk Bhairav anushthan, whatever the temple — Kali, Shiva or Bhairav — take at least half a kilo to a kilo, or up to a sava kilo, of laddus, offer them as bhog and hand them to the pujari to distribute; no Prasad at all is brought home. That day also give daan yathashakti — grain or clothes touched to your body, or a full meal to even one poor person; serve living beings. Throughout the whole period feed salty biscuits daily to a stray dog, not a pet — a black one, or any dog — saying "free me from abhichar, let the mantra take effect, let Batuk Bhairav's grace come". Do three anushthans of 11 days each, or three of 21, and you will be completely free of tantra; it is a quite ordinary prayog with no adverse effect, nothing to fear. The lamp from the sankalpa plate is set somewhere in the temple to burn out fully, and the sankalpa Akshat is offered to a deity's vigraha, kept by Shiva, or left at a worshipped Peepal tree — where no foot can touch it. Do it with full surrender to Batuk Bhairav, he says, and by his grace you will certainly be protected.
Chamunda sandhi puja bali vidhan: the lamps, sankalp, offerings and aarti in order
The speaker gives the procedure. First light one of the three single-wick diyas and invoke Bhagwati Durga as Jatved Agni into its flame; that is the Karmasakshi Deepak from which every other lamp is lit. Holding Akshat, flowers, water and Dakshina, take Sankalpa with name, Gotra and place: to worship Bhagwati Chamunda in the Sandhi Kaal as far as one's ability, understanding and available upacharas allow, for the destruction of all one's enemies and of every tantric scheme and conspiracy worked against one. From the Jatved lamp light the first single-wick lamp in the Guru's name and the second in Ganesha's; then the eleven Chaumukh Deepak diyas in a row before the banana leaf — the nine in the middle are the nine forms of Chamunda, the one on one's left is Hanuman ji, the last on the right Batuk Bhairava — lit in that order: Hanuman, the nine, Batuk Bhairav last. Before every lamp place one coconut and one lemon, sprinkle all with Gangajal and give each a fine red Sindoor tilak. Holding akshat and flowers recite the Tantrokta Devisuktam — the recitation by which Kaushiki was invoked — and offer the flowers. Then the Bali: offer every coconut first, in the same order (guru, Ganpati, Hanuman, the nine Durgas, Batuk Bhairav), then cut each lemon standing upright, applying Roli and dropping a little water three times beside each from an Achamana spoon. Any stuti may follow; before Aarti set one camphor with two flowered cloves before every lamp and light it, then do aarti and Kshama Prarthana. The lemons are immersed under a sacred tree or in a river; the coconuts are eaten only by the household, never by outsiders. By Jagadamba's grace, he says, Chamunda destroys many troubles, sorrows and crises in a moment.
Batuk or Bal Bhairav, even as a small silver trishul, and Kali only in her Dakshina form
Batuk or Bal Bhairava may be worshipped at home via a picture, idol, or small silver Trishul, with Kul Bhairava protecting the household alongside the family deity; for Kali, the gentle Dakshina Kali form — displaying boon-granting and fearless mudras — is recommended over fierce, destructive postures.
Bhairav is the chief protector deity every home must have
The speaker asks who the greatest protector deity of the house is, and answers: Bhagwan Bhairava, whose Batuk form every Sanatani person must install at home. Without him, he says, the children born in a house are never fully protected; wherever any Devi shakti is worshipped at home his presence is mandatory; when someone troubled by Preta or abhichar goes to a tantrik, it is some form of this very deity whose protection is set on the house; and nearly every sadhak of Tantra does his siddhi. Where this form is present, the presence of pret, pishach and abhicharik badha becomes almost negligible — unless some grave offence, some special aparadh against him, is committed.
Difference between Kaal Bhairav and Batuk Bhairav
The speaker says the difference is only this much: Bhagwan Kaal Bhairava appeared directly from the body of Bhagwan Sadashiva at the time Brahma and Vishnu were tested — when Shiva manifested his form as the first Agni Linga, the pillar of fire, the Akash Linga, the event celebrated at Shivratri and discussed in the Shiva Mahapurana. Batuk Bhairava, by contrast, is the child form Shiva took to calm Bhagwati Mahakali when she became uncontrolled after slaying the rakshasa Daruka.
How Batuk Bhairav originated: the child who calmed Mahakali
The speaker tells that when Bhagwan Mahadeva once came under the feet of Bhagwati Mahakali, Mahamaya asked him for a sankalp and a vow that in future he would never again come under her feet — and for a means to control and balance her whenever, in her ugra state, she goes beyond her own control. The Skanda Purana and Devi Bhagavat, he says, describe how when Bhagwati took the Mahakali form to end the rakshasa Daruka and again became uncontrolled, Shiva took the Batuk form — a small child under eight years of age, Bal Bhairav — and called out "Maa, Maa"; hearing the word "Maa" from this child, she became calm. This is how Batuk Bhairava originated. Shiva himself thus stands near the Mother in the Batuk form, so wherever Bhagwati Durga or Mahakali is worshipped, Batuk Bhairav is certainly worshipped; his worship is mandatory, he is Shiva himself, and so his installation at home becomes mandatory.
Child-form deities block the masanik forces used in Tantra and abhichar
The speaker says that whenever Tantra or abhichar is used, masanik shaktis are employed — raw kalwas, Masan and the like — and these enter a house easily. The great shaktis, being in child form, are not stopped by a mere such yoni. Where Batuk Bhairava is present and his seva-puja keeps going, a check is put on those forces through him; complete protection, he says, comes only because of Bhairava ji — Bhairav in bal form, in Batuk form, or the bal form of Hanuman ji or of Ganesha ji.
Where Batuk Bhairav is placed in the home shrine
The speaker says that if you do seva-puja of Bhagwati, Bhairav ji's place must be on the left of Jagadamba — that is, on your right when you sit down to do puja. If you worship other deities, Batuk Bhairava ji's place should be given according to their Panchayatana, or next to Shiva ji.
Which idol or symbol to use for Batuk Bhairav at home
For Batuk Bhairava ji, the speaker says, you can keep a Trishul as a symbol, keep a beautiful framed picture of him, or, if you wish, keep a small shri vigraha of him — under six inches. It may be of brass, or of silver; but the vigraha should be solid, and Batuk Bhairav in it should be in the blessing mudra, that is, granting blessings — like the one shown in the photo in the video.
When to establish Batuk Bhairav at home
The speaker says the day of Bhagwan Kaal Bhairava's origin is held to be the Krishna Paksha Ashtami of the month of Margashirsha, which is also believed to be when Shiva appeared as the Agni Linga. Bhagwan Batuk Bhairava's origin, his jayanti, is Ganga Dussehra — Jyeshtha month, Shukla Paksha, Dashami tithi — and on that very day his special puja should be done. Otherwise, he says, you can establish Batuk Bhairav ji at home on the Ashtami tithi of either Krishna Paksha or Shukla Paksha; and if the full festival of Ganga Dashahra is coming up around the time you hear this, in any year, do his special pujan vidhi at home on that day without fail.
Establishing Batuk Bhairav as a betel nut when no picture or idol is possible
The speaker says you may install a photo or a shri vigraha; if even that is not possible, you can keep a Trishul in the form of a Supari, and if you do not keep a trishul, then wrap kalawa around a supari, bathe it with milk and the like, and install it there in the Batuk form of Batuk Bhairava.
Batuk Bhairav's favourite bhog: boondi laddu and jalebi
After installing him, the speaker says, offer Batuk Bhairava his favourite Bhog in his name — laddus, boondi laddus, and jalebi are his favourite bhog — and having offered that, do his pujan.
Forty-day initial worship after installing Batuk Bhairav
The speaker says an initial worship of at least 40 days is excellent. If you have received a mantra, doing 40 Malas of Japa daily for 40 days is highly special. If you cannot, then recite the Batuk Bhairava Ashtottara Shatanama from the Rudrayamala Tantra at least 27 or 108 times every day, continuously for 40 days. Then, he says, whatever calamity comes — a tantra or abhichar attack, an enemy's conspiracy — Bhagwan pulls you out of that trouble and protects you, and establishes himself in part (anshatmak) at that place for the protection of your house and family.
Deepdan and bali for Batuk Bhairav at home on Ganga Dashahra
On the day of Ganga Dussehra, the speaker says, Deepdaan must certainly be done in the name of Bhagwan Batuk Bhairava. For the method, he points to the deepdan vidhi he has described for Kaal Bhairava in another video, and says to do that same vidhi-vidhan at home. There is no need to go to a temple that day: do the deepdan and Bali vidhi and so on for Batuk Bhairav at home, and this pleases him greatly.
Batuk Bhairav's worship is mandatory alongside any deity
The speaker says that whichever form of the Devi you follow, Batuk is certainly worshipped in it; in any Mandala Batuk has a place, and without him no puja is ever complete. Just as Ganesha's worship is mandatory, so is Batuk Bhairava's: without it neither Shiv pujan nor Durga pujan is ever complete, nor gives its full fruit. So give him a place — even as a small Supari, even mentally. A separate Bhog for him is only for the time of special pujan; there is no need for a full separate arrangement, but his ordinary seva-puja must certainly be done.
Should you stop worshipping your family deities when a guru tells you to?
Asked whether deities worshipped at home for 5, 10, 15 years or for generations should be dropped when a Guru-figure prescribes a new form or guru-puja instead, the speaker answers no. People throw all their troubles onto the deities — "change the deity and our things will change" — which is true only to a limit, and never by leaving the old: they are devi-devata, not bhoot-pret. If for some reason they are not giving fruit, do their own bigger anushthans. His example: 15–20 years of Batuk Bhairava puja, a childlessness problem, and someone diagnoses pret-badha and prescribes three or six months of Bhishan Bhairav sadhana while telling you to stop Batuk Bhairav — if you drop him entirely and install the new form, it will not give full fruit and will certainly cause trouble. Old worshipped deities are never left like that; worship the new alongside them.
When a worshipped deity's fruit has stalled: a bigger anushthan, or purnima–amavasya havan by problem
The speaker says that when the deities established at home seem not to give fruit in proportion to one's effort, one should get a big Anushthana of theirs done, or first have everything examined by jyotish and tantra and then hold an anushthan at home relating to Mahadev and Bhagwati. In a Mandala puja — a Navagraha mandala, a Sarvatobhadra mandala, many kinds of mandalas — every devi-devata whose grace was stuck anywhere is worshipped in many ways and satisfied; one chandi-yajna satisfies countless devatas and upadevatas, after which full fruit begins. If one cannot afford so large a rite, then on both Poornima and Amavasya give Ahuti with the mantras of one's own established deity according to the problem. With Batuk Bhairava installed: for trouble in begetting a son, Havan with kheer or ghee; for money problems, havan with mustard oil and bel leaves using his Aapad-uddharan mantra; if someone has used tantra against you, havan with black pepper using his 108-name list. Havan, he says, is a great medium — it satisfies and strengthens the deity and cuts any vachan or tantra prayog — but it must be continued long, every purnima, amavasya, ashtami and such days.
First anushthan under black magic: at the nearest temple, never at home
The speaker's first task: whatever anushthan is taken up — Bhairava, Mahabhairav, Batuk Bhairava, Dattatreya's Vajra Panjara Kavach or Vajra Kavach, or any Kavach of the shaktis of Jagdambika — it must never be done at home the first time. It is to be done at the temple nearest the house where one can sit and do path. The count may be kept low, 21 or 27, and raised once practice sets in, but in the earliest period nothing at all is to be done at home.
Bringing the anushthan home in stages after the temple and Siddha Peeth phases
The speaker says that once the door lamps and the teerth-kshetra phase have completed one level, the anushthan moves home — but not directly. Mornings: only ordinary bathing, incense and lamp to one's ishta; evenings: still at the temple, whether 15 minutes or an hour. After another 11 or 21 days, small anushthans begin at home, for example Batuk Bhairava's Ashtottara Shatanama Stotra — which he says has the power to destroy every kind of Abhichara, Batuk catching the negative shaktis in his kapal once that tattva is awake — at only 5 or 11 repetitions, no more. Over three to six months, with the outside anushthan repeated two or three times, confidence and capacity grow and one senses the shaktis awakening; only then does Deepdaan begin at home, with 108 or 8 lamps for Bhairava on Ashtami, increased slowly.
Which forms of Mahadeva do have bound mantras?
Mahamrityunjaya, Amriteshwara (a shared form with Bagalamukhi), Batuk Bhairav, the Neelakantha and Sadyojata core mantras, Mahaganapati, Aghora Bhairava, and Mahakala Bhairava all have bound mantras.
Why shouldn't the popular Batuk Bhairav Aapaduddharana mantra be chanted on its own, and who can give initiation into it?
The widely circulated Aapaduddharana mantra of Batuk Bhairav is bound and bears no fruit chanted alone — even though its individual phrases are legitimately cited within Ashtottara Shatanama or Brahma Kavach recitation, only a Guru who has personally unbound and completed a Purashcharana of it can properly initiate someone into it.
What lamp offering is recommended on Ganga Dashami, and to which deity?
Offering 108 lamps (or as many as one is able) to Batuk Bhairava or Mahabhairava on Ganga Dashami is highly beneficial.
When does Batuk Bhairav Jayanti fall, and how can households worship him?
It coincides with Ganga Dashahara on a Sunday; worship can be done with a photograph or idol, or — if none is available — a brass, iron, or silver Trishula placed on the altar.
What is the Ganga Dashahara ritual procedure for reciting the Maha Bhairava Mantra?
Sit in the river up to navel depth at dawn and recite the Maha Bhairava Mantra continuously for 30 minutes to 2 hours (or 5-10 rounds on a Rudraksha or authentic Black Hakik mala), with intense focus on the forms of Kala Bhairava, Batuk Bhairava, and Maha Bhairava.
Second step: Batuk Bhairav stotra five times each evening for 21 days, with a tantrokta Batuk Bhairav yantra
Once the 21-day mantra cycle was complete, the speaker says, he told the man to recite the Batuk Bhairava Stotra at least five times a day, in the evening, in the Shiva temple, for 21 days without a break, and to keep repeating this for at least two or three months; he gave him the Sankalpa. Along with it he had a Tantrokta Yantra of Batuk Bhairav made by the proper tantrokta procedure and sent to him with a tantrokta mala. He stresses that it must be Batuk Bhairav's yantra, not ashta-bhairav's. He says the stotra and its vidhan were not yet on his channel and would be posted after this account.
Daily practice with the yantra kept at the temple: a mala, five stotra recitations, a mala
The speaker says the daily routine he set was: at least one Mala of the Maha Bhairav mantra, then at least five recitations of the Batuk Bhairava Stotra, then one more mala of the Maha Bhairav mantra, with the whole of it offered to the Yantra. The yantra was to be installed beside Shiva in the temple, and everything dedicated to it there. It was not to be taken home; some arrangement was to be made in the temple so the yantra stayed there for the 21 days.
How long relief from a marana prayoga took: from Chaitra Poornima to a quiet house eight months later
The speaker says the effect faded gradually: relief began around March-April, the whole vidhan was complete around Chaitra Poornima, and by the end of November, eight to nine months on, no voice had been heard, no blood splatter had appeared, the wife's foot had no problem and no one else had any disturbance. The man still does the practice every morning and evening, and the other family members have been taught what to do, the Kavach and other recitations, and have all started. The family grew strong, understood, and is safe today by the grace of Batuk Bhairava, he says.
Can a male practitioner continue his daily mantra practice while his wife is menstruating?
Yes — he may continue his daily recitation, but must not touch or consume food or water prepared by her before performing rituals, and must maintain physical cleanliness and a separate worship space.
The supreme protector who destroys immense sins, grants instant protection, and keeps the practitioner safe in physical and subtle realms alike
As supreme protector, Bhairava (including Batuk Bhairava) destroys immense sins, grants instant protection, and neutralizes severe afflictions — devotion to him ensures safety across physical and subtle realms.
Other samput methods: outside mantras, and samput per chapter or charitra
The speaker says the Samput is also applied with Batuk Bhairava's Apaduddharana stotra and certain of his special mantras; mantras from outside the Saptashati are applied as samput in it too. Besides verse by verse, the samput is also put at the beginning and end of each chapter and of each of the three charitras (charitra-traya): the Pratham Charitra ends with the first chapter, the Madhyam Charitra begins from the second, and the Uttam Charitra from the fifth. That too is a main form of samput, done with various mantras and especially with Batuk Bhairav's. He says there are many samput vidhis and many paath-bhedas of the Saptashati; he has covered only the two or three chiefly used, the mool path and the samput path.
Second stage: siddhi of the Batuk Bhairav stotra, five paths a day on black pepper for twenty-one days
The speaker says that once the 11 days of the mantra are complete, the stotra path begins from the next Krishna Paksha Ashtami or a shubh tithi such as the masik Shivratri. Each day take 11 black peppercorns for 11 paths or 5 for 5; light Dhoop and Deepak, place the Bhog near Shiva, remember and meditate on Bhairava, do the Viniyoga given in the text, and begin. For every path hold one peppercorn and, when it is complete, place it on Shiva's argha; then the second milk abhishek. At least 21 days at five paths a day, he says, and the stotra becomes for you maha-siddha, like a Vajra, of very intense effect.
Bhairav worship at home: which form is safe, and why a Bhairav kavach should be kept siddha
The speaker says every follower of Sanatan Dharma must worship Bhairava at home, and the doubt that Bhairav puja cannot be done in a house should be set aside first; what matters is knowing which form to worship. Bhairav's Ugra (fierce) forms are not worshipped at home. One who knows one's kul Bhairav should worship him; otherwise one should worship Batuk Bhairav at home. He adds that some member of the house — especially the head of the household, or anyone who is a sadhak — should keep a Bhairav Kavach siddha for protection in life; there are many Bhairav kavachas, each potent in its own right, and the one he teaches here is the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach.
Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach against abhichar, brahma pishach, masan and shakini
The speaker says the best use of the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach is for a person afflicted by Abhichara — especially by a brahma pishach, a Masan, or a Shakini, which people also call a Chudail or dakini. If such a person attains siddhi of this kavach, he says, they are certainly freed from all of these by Batuk Bhairav's grace.
Symptom of masan dosh: repeated visions of small children, childbirth or breastfeeding
The speaker says that when a man or woman of the house repeatedly sees themselves surrounded by small children — or a woman, married or unmarried, sees a child in her lap, sees herself giving birth again and again, or sees herself breastfeeding — this is somewhere a symptom of Masan Dosha. In that condition, he says, taking refuge in the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach brings complete protection by Bhairav's grace.
Protecting a pregnant woman with the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach
The speaker says that if a pregnant woman of the house is under some prayog, has trouble in the stomach, or is getting a great many dreams, the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach protects her fully. This works whether or not one has done the kavach's anushthan: even its ordinary recitation, done with a mustard-oil lamp lit, gives her complete protection.
Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach with a sankalp against marak dasha and accident risk
The speaker says this kavach is extremely powerful in itself and gives its effect at once. If a Marakesh Dasha or antardasha is running in one's birth chart or lagna chart, or any marakesh influence raises the fear of mishaps and accidents, one should take a Sankalpa on that subject and recite the kavach; that too gives protection.
Shani-Rahu pishach yoga: its effects and the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach as its remedy
The speaker says that if Shani and Rahu are joined anywhere in the chart — in the same house, the same sign, or by aspect — a pishach yoga forms. When it bears fruit, a state of Abhichara arises or things get attached on the road; negative energies trouble the person, they become confused, fall into depression, and can even be possessed by some negative force. In all these situations, he says, the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach is a mahabrahmastra that acts with a jolt and great intensity.
How often to recite the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach, and the schedule for its siddhi
The speaker says the kavach can ordinarily be recited every day as much as one wishes — one, five, eleven or twenty-one times — with no problem at all; but awakening it, attaining its siddhi and then doing daily recitation is far better. For siddhi one may begin in any parva kaal — a Navratri, Mahashivratri, a Grahan, Diwali, Holi — and do as many repetitions as possible in that period. If no parva kaal is near, one starts on Ashtami of the Krishna Paksha and continues through Chaturdashi with 121, 100 or 27 recitations daily, as many as one can, best done in the evening or at night.
Rules for the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach sitting: diet, preliminaries, attire, who may recite, direction and dedication
The speaker says only this much need be kept: sattvic food and Brahmacharya; even after eating in the day one may recite at night after bathing and putting on clean clothes. The preliminaries — sitting on an asana, achaman, Pranayama if one knows it, shikha bandhan, Sankalpa — should be done. Clothes may be red, yellow or white; women, men, children and the old, married or unmarried, may all recite it. The direction, especially while attaining siddhi, is east or north; the kavach is dedicated to Batuk Bhairav's picture or vigraha after worshipping him, or else at a Shivling; and the recitation begins after remembering the Guru and Ganpati.
Structure of the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach for repeated recitation: Purva Pithika, the eleven-shloka Mool Kavach, Phal Shruti
The speaker says the Brahma Kavach has three parts — Purva Pithika, Mool Path and Phalashruti — and when doing many repetitions the whole text need not be read each time: the Purva Pithika is read once at the start, the Mool Kavach is repeated again and again, and the Phal Shruti is read with the last recitation. In the PDF he provides, the Viniyoga is done with water in the hand, and the tenth shloka after it is the first shloka of the Mool Kavach, which runs to the twenty-first shloka ending at 'shri brahma kavacham kavacham bhairavasya prakirtitam' — about eleven shlokas. These eleven are what is repeated to complete 108, 27 or however many repetitions one intends.
Why the Batuk Bhairav mool mantra is left out of this kavach text
The speaker says he has deliberately not included the repetition of Batuk Bhairav's mool mantra in this kavach text, and that he has no answer for those who want to argue about it. In his view that mantra is somewhere a shrapit (cursed) mantra; it may be studied in texts like the Shakti Sangam, and is done independently only when received from a Guru and after the nishkilan vidhan. He does not tell anyone to do it or not to do it — that is their own choice — but he does not want ordinary, already-afflicted people going after a shrapit, kilit matter. Since the mantra is anyway repeated in different parts of the Mool Kavach itself and Bhairav protects through that, there is no compulsion to do it separately.
Counting Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach repetitions with flowers, bel patra or cloves in fire
The speaker says the repetitions can be counted on flowers: take 108 flowers, or 11, recite ten times on each flower and eight on the last, and offer them. The same can be done with bel patra offered after recitation. Or take 11 cloves, ten recitations on each and eight on the last, place them in an earthen vessel with camphor, light it before Bhairav or a Shivling, and pray that the offering be accepted. In this way too, he says, the kavach is attained.
Naivedya for Batuk Bhairav in the kavach anushthan, and who may eat it
The speaker says the Naivedya for Bhairav can be boondi laddu, Mishri, or a good dahi vada made at home; jalebi, mishri or laddu may also be bought from outside. Whatever is offered can be accepted by women and men alike, because this naivedya of Batuk Bhairav is a household puja — it is not the case that a woman of the house may not eat it.
Jeev seva and daily panchbali during the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach anushthan
The speaker says that for as long as one performs the anushthan of this kavach, Jeev Seva is very much required — and Panchbali should in any case be done every day. Through this Bhairav is satisfied and his grace comes very quickly.
Protection after siddhi of the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach: on mere remembrance, and past 11,000 repetitions if one lives by dharma
The speaker says that once this kavach is siddha, merely remembering it makes Batuk Bhairav order his various ganas to protect the person at once. When the repetitions of the Mool Kavach cross 11,000, one should know that one is living under Bhairav's direct protection — provided the life is lived by dharma, not adharma. If one does adharma, any shakti will abandon one: Shiva abandoned Ravan, Bhagwati Tara abandoned Ravan, so who are we. Act within dharma, he says, and a kavach one has done the maha purashcharan of will certainly protect.
Hawan, tarpan and marjan after siddhi of the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach
The speaker says a kavach has no Havan of its own; on the final day the hawan is done with Batuk Bhairav's 108 names or the 1008-name sahasranamavali, following the hawan vidhi taught separately on the channel. For the main Ahuti, after Bhairav's opening offerings, the ordinary samagri is mixed with honey and Panchmeva for a nourishing hawan; after the full offerings by the 108 or 1008 names comes the Purnahuti. Then Tarpana and Marjan are done with the first name alone — for instance 'Batuk Bhairavaya namah' — 108 tarpan and 10 marjan if 1,000 ahutis were given. With this the kavach is siddha.
Wearing the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach: writing it on bhojpatra, consecrating it, and the arm for men and women
The speaker says that if one can write it oneself, the eleven shlokas of the Mool Kavach are written small on a Bhojpatra, then charged and awakened with another 108 recitations and hawan. Placed in a silver kavach case, it is worn on a yellow thread or a silver chain, and the body is then fully protected. If not worn at the neck, a woman wears it on her right arm and a man on his left — he stresses it goes opposite. Worn siddha this way, he says, it brings victory and safety everywhere and confidence at the seventh sky.
Reciting the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach for another person or for graha shanti by sankalp
The speaker says that whoever one wishes to recite this kavach for, one takes a Sankalpa in that person's name and recites; wherever they are, they will be protected. For Graha Shanti the sankalp is taken for the planet — for example, if someone's Rahu Mahadasha is troubling them, one resolves that so-and-so's Rahu mahadasha be pacified, that they quickly regain health and be freed of illness — and then recites; this, he says, works.
Advanced uses of the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach need expert supervision; plain recitation protects the home
The speaker says giving someone water charged with the kavach to drink is a somewhat different matter that not everyone should do — only under an expert's supervision. Where someone has Avesh, the Bhasma from the kavach hawan, or water in a copper lota charged during the recitation, sprinkled on the house or on the possessed person, frees them. There is also a whole subject of Bandhan in this kavach, but all of that is practical work for a knowledgeable person under a Guru's protection. Ordinarily, he says, just the recitation and its sound protect the home and family.
Why should every household establish and worship the Batuka form of Bhairava?
Batuka (child) Bhairava, alongside Goddess Shasthi Katyayani, protects a child from conception through birth and up to twelve or thirteen years of age, and neglecting this worship leaves the household vulnerable to spiritual disturbances (Abhichara).
Daily vidhi of the Panchakshari purashcharan: materials, lamps, sankalp, smaran, abhishek, japa and aarti
For the daily sitting the speaker asks for yellow cloth and a yellow asan, a Shivling for daily abhishek, Bilva patra, kaner, aakavan and shami leaf or flower, and cow's milk — or a gandhodak of roli, crushed camphor and agar or rose water in water. Sit facing east or north in yellow or white, light two lamps — mustard oil for the protective shaktis (Bhairav, Hanuman, Kali, the yoginis), ghee for Shiva, Parvati, the nourishing shaktis and the kul devi-devatas — and do Achamana, pavitri dharan, shikha bandhan, bhumi sparsh and asan shodhan. Then Swastivachan (or the Mangalam Bhagwan Vishnu mantra), guru smaran — Dattatreya if you have no guru, since Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are in him, or Shiva or Narayan — and the day's Sankalpa with akshat, flower and water, naming yourself, Gotra, tithi and nakshatra: for Shiva's pleasure, for the siddhi of the Panchakshar mantra, for the destruction of sins of all births and of all known and unknown doshas, for the pleasure of the Pitr devas, I resolve to do yathashakti japa today. Then Ganesha by the Sankat Nashan Stotra, Batuk Bhairava by his stotra and shatanamavali, and Bhagwati by the Saptashloki or her stotra — five minutes in all — then abhishek of Shiva by the names of the twelve Jyotirlingas and shringar, optionally a Shiva Kavach, stotra or the Rudrashtakam, and the japa itself on a Rudraksha mala kept inside a Gomukhi. Afterwards samarpan, a stuti such as the Shiv Tandav Stotra or Lingashtakam, and camphor Aarti. Three hours at most, he says.
Batuk Bhairav's Ashtottara Satanama, and the ten-thousand minimum for everyone
For Batuk Bhairava's Ashtottara Satanama, 40,000 is the accomplishment figure; 4,000 across the Kumbh at 100 a day is said to give the fruit of four crore. For any mantra, the floor is 10,000 — 108 malas; below that, he says, there is no hearing.
Why is Bhairav to be the chief sadhana of this Kumbh?
The effort is that all of us together should do his special sadhana in this Kumbh — because the Mahadev who is foremost in raksha, who is the greatest deity, and whose ugrata is now a necessity, whose tattvas are needed most in your life and ours for the sake of protection, is Bhagwan Bhairav. So his special anushthan and the like is very necessary. On all these there will be separate discussion, he says; stay together for the preparation.
Which mantra and vidhan are given if a child's trouble persists?
Even if nothing at all is found and it still seems that some subject is present here, then, he says, in the twelfth adhyaya of the Shri Durga Saptashati, in the mahatmya spoken by Bhagavati, there is this mantra — Bal grahabhibhutanam balanam rakshanakaram param, the mantra Rakshobhoot pishachanam. Making a samput of this mantra, one should have at least nine paaths of Saptashati ji done, which becomes a navchandi, at some temple of Durga ji; along with the paath of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairav ji. That is, there will be a samput of the ashtottara satnam of Batuk Bhairav ji, and the whole vidhan of the Saptashati; the Saptashati will be samput with the Bal grahabhi mantra.
One lamp for the Kul Bhairav — Batuk Bhairav where the name is unknown — and one for Bhagavan Narsingh, deep enough to burn three or four hours, five thin wicks joined into a single flame.
One lamp is in the name of your Kul Bhairav — and if you do not know the name of your Kul Bhairav, there is no difficulty, then in the name of Batuk Bhairav ji — and the second in the name of Bhagavan Narsingh. The lamp should be so deep and so large that it can burn for at least three or four hours. Five thin wicks are joined together into a single flame; five separate flames are not to be lit.
What should a practising sadhak do for protection before his own sadhana?
For those who have been doing sadhana and anushthans, if no other subject is known, then first for the sake of protection light a lamp at the main door, putting mustard into it and clove, camphor and the like, and light it there. The lamp should be large and keep burning a long time — in the name of Narsingh Bhagavan and Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav ji. After that, do your own sadhanas.
Why does an incomplete pujan happen when one deity is left out?
Just as the pujan of Batuk Bhairav ji is necessary in Navratri — it is not that merely doing Bhagavati's pujan is enough — and just as people do Ganesh ji's and Bhagavati's pujan but leave out Shiva ji's abhishek, which they do not perform daily, so the pujan remains incomplete somewhere. In the same way, at the time of Diwali the pujan of Kuber ji is very necessary.
In what order should the Dhanteras evening pujan be done?
Tomorrow do the morning pujan and make all the preparations. In the evening, first perform the pujan of Ganpati ji and Bhagavati Parvati ji, then the pujan of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairav ji, and after that certainly perform the pujan of Bhagavan Kuber ji. Begin the pujan of Bhagavati Lakshmi too in the evening period. And do 13 deep daan tomorrow without fail.
Why should every householder obtain the kripa of Batuk Bhairav?
Of the forms of Bhairav, obtaining the kripa of Batuk Bhairav should in some measure be compulsory for every grihastha, the speaker says, because the capacity to maintain and feed a family is obtained by Bhairav kripa alone. If Bhairav gives kripa there is never a shortage of grain and wealth.
How is Batuk Bhairav given a place in the home?
If you take diksha in some parampara and worship after that, the speaker says the matter is very good. Otherwise, give Batuk Bhairav a place at home in his symbolic form upon a trishul. The trishul may be of iron; keep one of six inches, of twelve inches, or up to a hand's length, as you wish, and a Bhairav sthan may be made that way.
May the shri vigraha of Kaal Bhairav be installed at home?
No. The speaker says there is no sanction for keeping Kaal Bhairav ji's shri vigraha at home; his swarup is not installed in a house because it is the ugratam form. Install Batuk Bhairav ji instead. A photograph of Kaal Bhairav may certainly be kept if one is drawn to him, but a metal symbol of his — a trishul or the like — must be kept before it.
Where in the puja sthan should Batuk Bhairav be placed?
In your pujan sthan. Whichever shakti's panchayatana you have installed will certainly have a place for Bhagavan Shiva and Bhagavati Shakti in it. Give Batuk Bhairav a place on the left-hand side of Bhagavati — of the vigraha of Durga ji or Kali ji — or else at the place of Shiva ji's panchayatana, wherever you have kept the shivling and the rest.
What extra offerings are made during a Bhairav anushthan at home?
Suppose you are doing a 41-day anushthan at home of Bhairav ji's Ashtottara Shatanama, or of some mantra or some stotra such as the Mahabhairav. Then a separate lamp and a separate naivedya must be offered for Bhairav ji for as long as the pujan runs, forty days. Once the pujan is complete and you are back to daily nitya karma pujan, no separate naivedya, dhoop or lamp is needed — worship him within the collective panchayatana.
Which Bhairav practice is the first grade for an ordinary worshipper?
The Ashtottara Shatanama of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav is in itself an extremely prachand and tantrokta vidhan, with many matters of srishti karma and samhara karma through which tantric prayogas are performed. Its mool path alone is the first grade for you in the puja of Bhairav ji. Do its purashcharan: a mahapurashcharan is of 40000.
On which day should the anushthan begin, and for how many days?
When you are going to do the anushthan, you may begin especially from any Krishna Paksha Ashtami; from Batuk Bhairav Jayanti; from Chaturdashi or Amavasya. Or if you have a great emergency, you may begin his sadhana from a Sunday or Tuesday, or from a Saturday. At the very least an 11-day sadhana should be done, or if possible one mandal, that is a sadhana of 41 days.
Can Bhairav sadhana release a person from a curse?
Bhairav ji's sadhana, the speaker says, has the capacity to bring about the vimochan of every kind of curse — many anishtakarak grahas and shaktis, dev shraap, pitru shraap, the curses of bhoot and pret, whoever gives whatever curse. If a curse that will not be destroyed has fallen on you because you greatly harmed someone, then doing Batuk Bhairav's upasana while making prayashchitta frees you from every calamity and from that curse.
What is the nitya havan discipline for an intractable problem?
If there are the most difficult problems in life for which no way is opening, the kundali has failed, no remedy of graha and nakshatra is working and some work simply will not be accomplished, then fix one hour daily by nitya niyam and make the rule for 40 days — a very intractable task will not be done in five or ten days. Begin on a divine day such as Ganga Dashahara, or an Ashtami, or from a Sunday or Tuesday, rising at 2:30 or 3:00 at night.
What is Bhairav's specific role in such a prayoga, and how much path daily?
Bhairav ji's use here is to destroy all those anishtakarak shaktis which are behind you and want you not to prosper, so that there is divine cooperation on the path of your purusharth. Daily do at least 27 paths of Batuk Bhairav's stotra Shatanama, and if you have the time, can sit and have memorised it, then comfortably do at least 100 — a maximum of an hour and a half.
Why is Batuk Bhairav placed beside Van Durga and Shulini Durga?
Van Durga is a form of Bhagavati Vindhyavasini and the most prachand form of Bhagavati; where she is called Mahavidya Van Durga she is such a shakti that all shaktis become negligible before her, because all shaktis are somewhere included in that form. So too Bhagavati Shulini Durga. And Batuk Bhairav is like a small child whom no one can stop from going anywhere — the parents never say you cannot go there.
What is a masan, and why does it enter a house?
Batuk Bhairav has such samarthya, such energy and kripa that works about to become intractable he accomplishes in his Batuk form, because he is in the form of a child. As for masanik shaktis — a masan is the atma of a small child, and it is for this same reason that it enters a house.
What else can block such an entry into a household?
The second thing is that either Bal Hanuman ji or Batuk Bhairav ji is worshipped there, so that the tattva connected with them is present. If a man is a crorepati but has never once given an ahuti in Batuk Bhairav's name, has never taken his name, and the shri vigraha or temple is out of the question — then, the speaker asks, from where will these things be stopped? They will not be. Everything has its own science.
Should deep daan be done on Batuk Bhairav Jayanti?
Deep daan should absolutely not be left out. On the day of Batuk Bhairav Jayanti the deep daan of Bhairav ji must certainly be done. The vidhi remains the same one — the sarva sankat haran deep daan vidhi of the day of Kaal Bhairav Ashtami. Even if there are a thousand problems in your house, do the deep daan at home itself; the deep daan video is available on the channel.
Should the Bhairav kanthi be taken from a guru?
Asked to discuss the Batuk Bhairav kanthi according to the shastras, he says you will find the subject at most among the Nathpanthis, and that the matter of observing brahmacharya then comes into it. If the kanthi is taken from a guru it is more proper: wearing it on one's own, as against walking within guru maryada and following whatever adesh and upadesh he gives, the latter is more proper.
Is Batuk Bhairav worship needed if a Bhairav is already the kula Bhairav?
To Manjusha ji he answers that when Martand Bhairav is already the Bhairav of your kula, then there is simply no compulsion or need for a separate pujan of Batuk Bhairav ji. This teaching, he says, is especially for the 98 percent or 95 percent of people who do the puja of no form of Bhairav ji at home.
If there is a pret in the house, may the 108 names be done?
Asked whether, if there is a pret in the house, japa of Batuk Bhairav ji's 108 names should be done, he answers: absolutely do it, do it thoroughly hard.
Why should every householder worship Batuk Bhairav?
The speaker says Batuk Bhairav is compulsory for every householder and every householder should do his seva puja. Those who have no knowledge of their kula Bhairav should also do the upasana and puja of the Batuk Bhairav swarup. Batuk Bhairav should be worshipped house by house, because it is by his kripa that protection is rightly obtained in the home.
What is the Mahabhairav mool mantra and how many times should it be done?
The speaker says a Mahabhairav mantra, the mool mantra, was given earlier and every householder should do it without hesitation. It is available on the channel. Everyone should do that sadhana at least three times — whether an 11-day or a 21-day form — and should do a very large amount of japa of that mantra. All the Bhairavs are contained in it, but at its root chiefly is Batuk Bhairav.
Once the Mahabhairav mool mantra is complete, the Batuk Bhairav Hriday is the next thing to be made siddh.
The speaker says that after completing the mool mantra — whose prayoga vidhi is separate — the next step is that we should make the hriday of Batuk Bhairav siddh. He adds that the matter is not only Bhairav ji's pujan but the other things compulsory for a householder connected with it, including how sadhikas will propitiate him.
What is the order between the Mahabhairav mantra and the Batuk Bhairav Hriday?
The speaker says the hriday, the hriday stotra of Batuk Bhairav, should certainly be made siddh. First do the mool mantra, which is the Mahabhairav mantra and contains all the Bhairavs; after that come forward and do the hriday of Batuk Bhairav. He says he is giving the vidhi for making the hriday siddh from the time of Makar Sankranti.
A yellow, red or white asana, facing east or north, before the established Batuk Bhairav swarup or else before Mahadev.
The speaker says the asana should be yellow or red, and white may also be kept. The direction should be east or north. The swarup will be Batuk Bhairav — the photo or Shri Vigraha already established, or the trishul, all of which he has explained before; and if not, one may also do it before Mahadev.
Why is it necessary to do the Batuk Bhairav Hriday paath?
The speaker says the very meaning of hriday is the heart of the deity. By doing the hriday paath of Batuk Bhairav one obtains protection of every kind. Should there be an error in mantras, should some fault have arisen in a sadhana or during an anushthan kaal, one obtains release from it; and should an enemy have done some vichar prayoga through which one's sadhana becomes broken, protection is obtained from all of that.
Panchopchar pujan, with the 108 paths counted on supari, karmala or a mala while a single flower is held in hand.
The speaker says the pujan of Batuk Bhairav will be done by the ordinary panchopchar vidhi, and the 108 paths will be done upon a single flower. Keep something to count with — you can count with supari, with the karmala, or with a mala in the other hand. In one hand you will hold a red or yellow flower, or a rose, and holding that flower do the 108 paths; or if you are doing less, 27 paths, then do 27, and that flower is to be offered first of all.
The arti is done with two cloves on a piece of camphor, shown at least five turns.
The speaker says that after this you will do the arti and so on by lighting camphor, doing the arti together with cloves. At least five turns of arti are to be shown, with two cloves placed upon one piece of camphor.
How often should the Batuk Bhairav Hriday be recited once it has been made siddh?
The speaker says that in this way the hriday, the hriday of Batuk Bhairav, will become siddh. After making it siddh, you will now recite it daily — at least one paath, and at most as many as you can do: five, seven, eleven or twenty-one paths you may do.
Who is permitted to do the Batuk Bhairav Hriday anushthan?
The speaker says this anushthan can be done by every householder, and can be done by woman and man alike — there is no difficulty in it.
Can the Batuk Bhairav Hriday anushthan be done for a family member suffering from tantra or abhichar?
The speaker says that if any member of your household or family is suffering from any kind of affliction, is seized by a tantra, mantra or abhichar problem, then for them too you can have the Batuk Bhairav Hriday anushthan performed by the vidhi described, along with the Mahabhairav anushthan.
Batuk Bhairav is worshipped alongside Shakambhari, with 108 ahutis at her havan
The speaker says that whenever Bhagwati Shakambhari is worshipped, Batuk Bhairava should also be worshipped in his name as far as one is able. Concretely, if you are doing the 1008 paths of her Kavach, then at least 108 Ahuti should be given with Batuk Bhairav's name mantra at the time of the Havan. He closes by saying that whoever makes the kavach siddha this way and uses it will surely benefit.
Can the first mantra of the Argala and the Panchakshari be combined in nitya pujan?
Asked whether one may do the first mantra of the Argala and the Panchakshari in the morning, and japa in the evening for Baba Vaidyanath and Mata Jai Durga in the nitya pujan, he says yes, absolutely one can. Asked about the Batuk Bhairav hriday stotra in Hindi, he says by all means do it. On the Panchmukhi Hanuman Kavach he says its Sanskrit is very difficult and not everyone can do it.
Which deities receive sindoor?
To Ganpati ji red sindoor is offered; his tilak is done with red sindoor, and also with roli and kumkum. To Hanuman ji it is with the orange sindoor, and his whole body receives the lepan of it. Of Bhairav ji too — Batuk Bhairav ji and Kaal Bhairav ji — the sindoori murtis have sindoor offered on them. To Vishnu ji, roli and akshat, a roli tilak.
How is a panchayatan formed with Dakshineshwari Kali?
On the form of Dakshineshwari Kali ji, the speaker says that as regards a panchayatan the very first question is whether Bhagavati Dakshineshwari is your kuldevi or not. If she is the kuldevi, then according to that, who else is worshipped — and then a pinda-sahit panchayatan of theirs will be formed. And if it is not so, then Ganapati ji, Batuk Bhairav ji, a shivling, and along with them Narayan: the place of all of these will remain, especially.
Why is Batuk Bhairav recommended for every household this period?
Because he is the protection-principal deity and his pleasure destroys every enemy known and unknown. The speaker urges establishing Batuk Bhairava permanently in the household during this period, and warns against installing Kaal Bhairava instead.
How is a Trishul consecrated as Bhairava where no image is available?
Bathe it in Panchagavya and Panchamrita on Makar Sankranti morning, coat it in cow ghee, pour a stream of cow milk over it while reciting the Devi Sukta, then dry, perfume and adorn it, wrap Kalawa, and fix a lemon on each of the three points.
Standing to the practitioner's right, or the Goddess's left, with a four-faced lamp
Standing to the practitioner's right, or to the Goddess's left where she has a place, with a four-faced lamp before it. The Apad-uddharana Batuk Bhairav Stotra Satanama is recited 108 times nightly between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m., reaching a 4,000 Purashcharana.
A completed count is to be forgotten and increased, not carried about
Remember it and then forget it. A practitioner repeating daily that they have done 5,100 is not moving from 5,100 to 5,200 — the count is being spent as it goes. The instruction is to increase it, and to take up the anushthan of one's own chosen deity.
The stotra-satnam of Batuk Bhairav protects the whole body and makes the ten directions open a protective path.
After that, going forward, the stotra-satnam of Batuk Bhairav ji at the least — so that our body is entirely protected, so that the ten directions open a path for us, a protective path, so that whatever energy comes to us as we advance on the sadhana path performs only our welfare and no harm of any kind is done.
Who are the four chief Veers of Bhagavati?
The puja of Batuk Bhairav ji in Navratri is extremely necessary; and chiefly, the speaker says, of Bhagavati's four ganas, the chief Veers — first Bhagavan Shri Ganpati ji, second Bhagavan Shri Batuk Bhairav ji, third Bhagavan Shri Mahavir Hanuman ji, and fourth Bhagavan Shri Narsingh ji. The puja of these four is compulsory.
Where is each of the four worshipped?
Bhagavan Ganpati's pujan at your main door, and at the pujan place near the kalash; Bhagavan Shri Batuk Bhairav ji's pujan also near the door, and near Bhagavati; Hanuman ji's pujan near Hanuman ji's dhwaja and near the kalash; and Bhagavan Narsingh's puja on the threshold of the main door of the house, on the dehli, on the chaukhat — and near Bhagavati.
Which Batuk Bhairav yantra should be bought?
A listener asks whether to take the yantra with the Tantrokta mala or the yantra that comes with the Tantrokta murti of Batuk Bhairav ji, the two being separate. One is enough, the speaker answers — the one that comes with the Shri vigraha; that alone is plenty, everything will happen in it, and no separate need will arise. If you want everything separately, and want to do the whole of Batuk Bhairav ji in krama, then you certainly may take them.
When would a separate yantra be needed?
Separately it will be needed when you perform the mantratmak archan, when you perform the avarana pujan — the eighteen-syllable, the twenty-six-syllable, the twenty-syllable of Batuk Bhairav ji. Once your deeksha has happened and the guru ji has simply given the adesh, then either the guru ji will himself make it available to you, or you will then have need of the brihad one; otherwise the peeth yantra is enough.
Which Batuk Bhairav sadhana for all the days of Navratri?
Asked by a listener who wishes to perform the sadhana of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav ji on all the coming days of Navratri: do the Ashtottar Shatnamavali.
What is to be done in a Bhairav anushthan?
Asked what has to be done in a Bhairav anushthan and for the vidhi of the anushthan of Batuk Bhairav ji, the speaker says that first, at the beginning, it is those very things that should be done.
A place for the adi guru mandala should exist in every home however small, which is why a consecrated Datta mudrika is sent out each Datta Purnima.
He says that just as Batuk Bhairav ji has a place in their own family practice, so Bhagwan Datta — a place of the adi guru mandala or of the guru swaroop — should certainly exist, however small. For this he mentions the Purnima that comes in the month of Margashirsha, Datta Purnima, at which they have tried each time to have a small Datta mudrika, at least consecrated, reach everyone.
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.
No havan at all: red chirmi and yellow mustard powdered in a brass bowl, charged 108 times with the ashtottara satnam, the moonj kusha touching it throughout.
If you have made use of Batuk Bhairav ji's mantra and have used khair wood, he says, that is for the dhoop — he is discussing no havan at all, nothing special, only the simple thing: red chirmi and yellow mustard made into a powder, kept in a brass plate or bowl, and, seated on your asana having done everything according to vidhi, charged with Batuk Bhairav ji's ashtottara satnam by taking the moonj kusha and touching it while reciting, 108 times.
Another person who knows nothing may give the dhuni provided they are pure — not a mother who has just cleaned a child, unwashed and unchanged, claiming bhava.
Merely taking Batuk Bhairav ji's name is enough; if you have the whole paath by heart, do it while reciting. If there is some other person who knows nothing, tell them simply to become pure and give the dhuni. Do not show cleverness, he says, by claiming you will do it in bhava with an unwashed body. He gives the case directly: a mother with a year-old child who has passed stool and urine and whom she has cleaned, doing it without changing clothes, without bathing, without washing the hands — do not do that.
What is done at the threshold against a tiryak prayoga?
When the prachandata has grown a little more, trouble has begun for the enemy and you know that things are turning, your diseases are being destroyed and some peace is forming in the house — then, for the tiryak prayoga, so that the enemy opposite does not do it or, if he does, its effect does not fall, give one nimbu bali at the threshold where you do your pujan and light dhoop and deep, in the name of the 64 Yogini Matrikas or in the name of Batuk Bhairav ji. In any one name, on at least these two days, Tuesday and Saturday, or even on any one day.
Which tilak may be applied on a picture of Batuk Bhairav?
Asked what tilak may be applied on a picture of Batuk Bhairav, the speaker answers that a tilak of chandan may be applied, a tilak of roli may be applied, and a tilak of bhasma may be applied.
When should the Batuk Bhairav and Chitrapal Bhairav tantrokta procedures be started, and why not right away?
Alongside, if the tantrokta paddhati is also begun — all the vidhi vidhan of Batuk Bhairav ji, the vidhi vidhan of Chitrapal Bhairav ji — those are all done afterwards. Start them at least after a month or so, along with the vidhan of the dhuni with apamarg wood; then full reduction comes about in these things. Doing them directly carries the possibility of some problem, meaning it may not succeed.
Can a murti of Batuk Bhairav be installed at home?
Yes, absolutely, the speaker says. The whole vidhi for doing it is published on the channel, with its PDF — search for the vidhi of Shri Vigraha Pratishtha, Grihastha Tantra, and you will get it; in it the pratishtha of Kuber ji has been demonstrated. There was also a separate video for the pratishtha of Batuk Bhairav ji, but everything in both is the same. But the shri vigraha should be of Batuk Bhairav ji only — take care that it is not of Kaal Bhairav ji.
Can Batuk Bhairav be installed alongside any Devi?
The sthapana of Batuk Bhairav ji, whichever devi it may be, you may absolutely do alongside them, the speaker says.
Bhairav as Shiva's form, guardian of every Shakti Peeth, and a post rather than only a deity
The speaker says Bhagavan Bhairava is held to be the very form of Shiva; the authority to give danda was first given to Bhairav in the kshetra of Kashi; he is present for protection at every Shakti Peeth and is the gram devata and Kshetrapal. But Bhairav is not only a deity — as Indra is a post, so is Bhairav. In 98 percent of places Bhairav is Shiva's own form, but at a few tirthas and Shakti Peeths other deities stand in the form of Bhairav; Batuk Bhairava, the child form of Shiva, is everywhere and is Bhagavan Sadashiva.
What is the rule about jayfal in the khappar?
One thing only is to be kept in mind, he says: if it is a devi, then certainly give jayfal. If it is not a devi — as when you are doing it for Bhairav ji — then even among Bhairav ji there are Bal Bhairav, Batuk Bhairav, Kaal Bhairav, and in some places jayfal is not given. So do not put only the jayfal. In the Kalika Yogini there is jayfal; with Hanuman ji there will be no jayfal.
Can jayfal be given as bali to Bal Bhairav?
Asked whether jayfal can be given as bali to Bal Bhairav, the speaker answers: no, it should not be given to Bal Bhairav.
Which forms of Bhairav go with Sheetla Bhavani of Kade Dham?
Asked which forms of Bhagwan Bhairav go with Maa Sheetla Bhavani of Kade Dham, the speaker says that with Bhagavati Sheetla there is the form of both Batuk Bhairav and Kaal Bhairav. These two are what chiefly go with her.
Does japa of the Batuk Bhairav mantra harm a pregnancy?
A listener says she did japa of the Batuk Bhairav mantra in Navratri without knowing. There is no mistake of that kind, the speaker says by name: no negative effect falls upon a pregnancy from japa of the Batuk Bhairav mantra or from japa of Bhagavati's mantra. If someone has told you this, they have told you wrongly. Bhairav ji is a Mahashakti and is himself ready for the protection of all these.
Who guards a child at the time of pregnancy?
Whenever the time of pregnancy comes, the speaker says — as he has told in an earlier live too — there is first Bhagavati Shashthi, who is Dev Sena; and for the protection of the child it is Bal Bhairav and Batuk Bhairav who go with her, the swiftest of all. Bal Bhairav eight, Batuk Bhairav sixteen: in this way they go, and they guard. It is simply not possible, he says, that anything of this kind has happened on account of a kavach path — take this thing out of your heart and out of your mind. There is no mistake.
Why should Batuk Bhairav sadhana be done after Ganpati?
After that, for the protection of the house and family — because tantra, abhichar and the like have become a whole category of processes — and for the destruction of that, and for the nivritti of doshas known and unknown that have formed, do the anushthan of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairav ji, in the house. Everyone should certainly do the seva puja of Batuk Bhairav ji. Any kind of obstruction that has become stuck, that will not move at all, goes away merely by the sadhana of Batuk Bhairav ji, and many kinds of sins are destroyed.
Of which metal should a trishul be for a Batuk Bhairav sthapana?
Asked, if the sthapana of Batuk Bhairav is to be done in the form of a trishul, of which metal the trishul should be: keep the trishul of brass; you can keep it of silver. You can keep it up to six inches as well; if you want to keep it outside, in a courtyard and so on, then you can keep a big one too, of about up to one hand. In a small box of rice — yes, it can be done, standing, with red and yellow rice mixed together.
Ganga Dashahara and the Batuk Bhairav Jayanti fall on the same day, and everyone should do the sadhana then
On the day Ganga Dashahara falls, on the 30th of May, on that same day falls the Jayanti of Batuk Bhairav ji. Ganga Dashahara and the Batuk Bhairav Jayanti fall on the same day; this time it falls on the 30th of May. On that day everyone should do the sadhana, puja and deepdaan of Bhairav ji; he says they will also put up a separate video. Remember it on the 30th of May.
Which mantra should be used for the smaran of Bhairav ji?
Asked which mantra to use for the smaran of Bhairav ji, the speaker says to use his dhyan mantra — "करकलित कपाल कुंडली दंड पानी" — and to remember him with that. Or use this mantra: "करतु समय सपरिया विघ्न विच्छेद हेतुर्जयति बटुकनाथ सिद्ध साधका नाम". Or utter his ten names: "कपाली कुंडली भैरवो भी मलोचना".
What about strange dreams that come from outside the house?
If there is masan dosha and the like, if you are seeing disordered dreams and there is nothing of that kind in the house but something outside, then on the day of Amavasya or the day of Chaturdashi you may do the pujan of Bhairav ji at a Bhairav temple, or at home too. The mantra for the japa of Batuk Bhairav ji has been given on shabar; you may take up that japa — women too and men too can do it. And for the sake of the pitr you will certainly do it.
Can the pran pratishtha of a Mahakali murti be done on Dhanteras?
On the day of Dhanteras you can do the pran pratishtha of any dev shakti at all, he says. Do it comfortably; do it in the afternoon time, in the Abhijit muhurat, or comfortably at the afternoon time. You can do Batuk Bhairav ji's that day as well. On the day of Dhanteras itself do everyone's — do Kuber ji's too, do Batuk Bhairav ji's too, do Bhagavati Kali's too. Do everyone's together on that same day. And if you do not do it yourself, if you call an acharya ji and have it done, that is better still; and if you are doing it by watching a video, then watch and revise it well, understand each vidhan, bring the materials, and only then do it.
Can an old Lakshmi yantra that is not worshipped daily be used?
Told of a four-year-old Lakshmi ji yantra, with Lakshmi ji seated on a lotus, whose nitya pujan does not happen, he says: if the yantra is fine, not broken or damaged, and there is bhav toward them, then absolutely do the pujan. Asked whether the pujan and anushthan of Batuk Bhairav may be done for the five days, he tells Abhishek ji: absolutely you can.
Order of the first sadhanas for a new sadhak without a guru
The speaker says that whatever brings a person into sadhana — tantric attack, enemies, debt, illness, family strife, or simply the wish — coming in is the best thing, and for one who has found no Guru the order is fixed. First the basic vidhi-vidhan of sitting at one's place, which is compulsory before every sadhana; then the guru sadhana, done on the one form that exists chiefly for the guru, since no direct guru or Diksha is there; then, once the guru Mandala's Kripa is obtained and the Dev Deeksha vidhan is done, the Ganpati Vinayak mandala; and only after both are complete, Bhairav — the Batuk Bhairav sadhana. He says all of these must certainly be done, and that lamp-lighting basics are also essential for a new sadhak.
Batuk Bhairav sadhana as the third sadhana of a new sadhak
The speaker says that once the guru and Ganpati sadhanas are complete, the third sadhana is Bhairava's. Bhairav has many forms — Batuk Bhairava, Kaal Bhairava, Bhoot Bhairav, Mahabhairav, Shamshan Bhairav, Mahakal Bhairav and the Bhairavs of every Shakti Peeth — but the one a new sadhak must do is the Batuk Bhairav sadhana, for the security and completeness of his sadhana. Before taking it up, he says, one must first clear the fear that worshipping Bhairav brings bhoot-Preta; how much and how to do it is covered in separate videos, which he does not repeat here.
For repeated pregnancy loss with a Chudail-like force present, Batuk Bhairav is preferred over Mahabhairav
Batuk Bhairava is the better choice here, not Mahabhairav — provided the questioner genuinely knows that a Chudail-like force is what is present.
Heaviness, fatigue and dizziness after beginning a mantra japa mean the count must come down — with Shiva Abhishek and Batuk Bhairav alongside
Reduce the japa count — too much energy is being generated. Begin abhisheka of Bhagavan Shiva so the energy is balanced and your capacity grows enough to hold it, and recite Batuk Bhairava alongside.
Can a Batuk Bhairav mantra received as Upadesh rather than Deeksha be recited?
Yes — if it was given in the form of Upadesh, then you have received it and can perform it.
Batuk Bhairav Stotra or Satnam japa on the Ganga bank during the eclipse is called divine in itself
Sitting on the bank of the Ganga and reciting the Batuk Bhairava Stotra or Satnam japa during the eclipse is, the speaker says, a divine matter in itself — it absolutely should be done.
May the family eat the Bhog offered to Bhairav at home?
Yes, absolutely — the Bhog offered to Bhairav ji at home may be eaten by everyone. And the Bhairav Tandav and the Kaal Bhairav Ashtak may certainly be recited at home in the ordinary way, as may Bhairavam Visham-kasht-haram and Devraj-sevyamana Kaal Bhairavam.
Where do Ganesh and Shiva go when Durga is the principal deity?
When Bhagavati Durga is installed, Hanuman ji stays on the right and Bal Bhairav ji on the left. Ganpati ji then goes to Hanuman ji's right — so he is to Durga ji's right and to Hanuman ji's right both. And Shiva ji goes to Bhairav ji's left, beside him. A Shivling too is placed the same way.
Is Batuk Bhairav sadhana required before a Sabar or Mahavidya sadhana?
Batuk Bhairav's sadhana is necessary in every house and with every power. Whichever form of the Mother you worship, Batuk Bhairav's worship is extremely necessary — after Guru sadhana comes Ganpati, after Ganpati comes Batuk Bhairav or a Bhairav form or the Kula Bhairav, and only after that the grahas of your chart.
Deities worshipped alongside Bhagavati in the Navratri vrat: Ganpati, Bhairav, Hanuman, Narsingh, and Datt as mahaguru
The speaker says that along with Bhagavati one must worship Ganesha, Bhairava, Hanuman and Bhagwan Narasimha — all four. Even just offering Akshat and flowers in the four names makes the puja accepted, so one should not worry; if one knows the full vidhan, good, otherwise only this much. The way is: sit on the asana, do achaman, meditate on Ganpati and one's guru — and if one has no guru, on Bhagwan Dattatreya, the mahaguru of all, in whom Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are one — offer akshat and flowers in his name, then in Ganpati's, then in Batuk Bhairava's, and then begin the Durga Saptashati path.
How are kul Bhairav related to Kaal Bhairav and Batuk Bhairav?
The speaker says that just as there are Kaal Bhairav, Batuk Bhairav and Bal Bhairav, who are mahashaktis, so in their amshatmak form there are such powers as have been given the place of kul Bhairav.
If only Hanuman ji is worshipped at home, who is the kul Bhairav?
The speaker says that if you have always done Bhagavati's seva-puja and Hanuman ji are worshipped alongside, with no other deva worshipped, then worship Batuk Bhairav in a subtle, symbolic manner, because everyone is present in the chowki — but the chief Bhairav will be the Hanuman ji already worshipped: they have become your kul Bhairav.
If the devi is worshipped but the Bhairav is unknown, whom should one worship?
The speaker says that if the devi is worshipped and you do not know who the Bhairav ji is, then worship Batuk Bhairav ji in the form of the kul Bhairav.
Can you ask the devi herself who the Bhairav is?
The speaker says that if the sawari of Bhagavati or of your household devi is coming upon someone, ask her clearly whom to worship in the form of Bhairav. If she says that until now no one has been given a place in the post of Bhairav, then do Batuk Bhairav.
What should a new sadhak do who cannot find out who their kul Bhairav and kuldevi are?
The speaker says that if you are newly doing sadhana and taking new information about who your kul Bhairav and kul devi are, and it has not become clear, there is no difficulty: do the seva-puja of Bhagavati and Mahadev, do the seva-puja of Batuk Bhairav, and the puja given in the form of Bhairav ji will be obtained by whoever is to receive it.
Kaal Bhairav Ashtami falls on 16 December, running from dawn at 5:30 through the whole of that day.
The speaker says Kaal Bhairav Ashtami this time falls on 16 December; the Ashtami will remain from 5:30 in the morning at dawn until the next day, so the whole of 16 December is Bhairav Ashtami. If you do not have knowledge about the Bhairav of your kula, then do their seva-puja in the form of Batuk Bhairav, or as he has explained so far.
How should Nandi ji be worshipped along with Shiva ji's abhishek?
The speaker says that whenever Shiva ji's puja is done, Nandi ji's pujan should be done first of all — just as Bhairav ji and Langur Veer walk before Bhagavati, foremost of all. On Bhagavati's right side, he says, are Hanuman ji; on the left are the kul Bhairav or Batuk Bhairav; and there are two more veers, in front and behind. In the same way, Nandi ji walks first before Shiva ji, so Nandi ji's pujan and abhishek should be done first and only then Shiva ji's.
Which deities must compulsorily be worshipped in a home?
Asked whether Hanuman ji's pujan too is compulsory alongside the panch devas and the kuldevi, the speaker says absolutely — without Hanuman ji's dhwaja in the house, what is going to happen. Ganapati ji's puja is entirely compulsory; you will do Lakshmi-Ganesh's puja; you will certainly do the puja of some one swarup of Narayan; you will certainly do Shiva ji's puja, Bhagavati's puja, Hanuman ji's puja; there must certainly be a tulsi plant and Hanuman ji's dhwaja.
Of what metal should the trishul established for Batuk Bhairav be?
Asked by someone who followed his video on establishing a trishul for Batuk Bhairav ji but could not find an iron one and kept a brass one, the speaker says there is no difficulty at all. A brass trishul, a silver trishul, and if you have the means a gold trishul; and if you have the means a platinum trishul with diamonds set in it — keep whichever you wish. Only do not keep one of tin, and do not keep one of steel.
Servants at the ancient Batuk Bhairav temple of Delhi began to call the temple their own.
He recalls telling in a previous live what the servants at the ancient Batuk Bhairav temple in Delhi do, and how they began to say: this is my temple, whatever I want will happen, that is all. When someone says such a thing, he says, understand that the time which ought not to have come has now begun for them — the beginning of their fall has already taken place.
Worship at home after the Mahabhairav prayoga: Batuk Bhairav form only
The speaker says that if you do the path and puja of this at home, that is only afterwards, not in the beginning: at the start, as long as karan (Madira) is being offered, it happens at the temple. When you do it at home, lighting a four-faced lamp is no longer compulsory; you may light a one-faced lamp, and you worship the Batuk Bhairava form. At home, he says, you will not install the form of Mahabhairav or Kaal Bhairava.
The Aapada Uddharak Batuk Bhairav Ashtottar Satnam suits a beginner best — with its two or three nyasa procedures left out at first.
The Aapada Uddharak Batuk Bhairav Ashtottar Satnam Stotra is the most exact for a beginning practitioner. It carries two or three Nyasa procedures — do not attempt them at the start. Do the Viniyoga simply and recite the 108 names, before an installed Trishul or a picture of Batuk Bhairav.
When should the Batuk Bhairav Anushthan be held, and with what Sankalpa?
From the Ashtami tithi of the Krishna Paksha, or during the Navratri falling in March–April. The Sankalpa is for Batuk Bhairav's full grace, for his grace to remain over the lifelong sadhana to come, for no obstacle to arise in any sadhana, and for every sadhana to complete under his protection.
Should the Nyasa be done for the Batuk Bhairav Ashtottar Satnam?
Perform only the Viniyoga to begin with. The full procedure is given in the Purva Pithika, but do the Nyasa only after you have completed 1100. Nyasa, the speaker adds, is not needed by everybody.
May the Pranav be uttered at the start and end of the Batuk Bhairav Ashtottar Satnam?
Yes, do it. And in the Viniyoga of the Datta Mala Mantra, saying "Datta Devata Prityarthe Kripa Prapti" is not necessary — say that in the Sankalpa instead.
What does 40,000 japa of the Batuk Bhairav satnam bring?
For those who have made siddh the stotra and satnam of Bhagwan Batuk Bhairav ji, who have done its purashcharan: it is held that from 40,000 purashcharan, from 40,000 japa, Batuk Bhairav ji becomes manifest in a shadow form, and grants the drishti by which the capacity is obtained to see that form of his whose tejas we can bear. But only if done properly, he says.
Those who have already done five or eleven thousand japa should do 108 daily near the Shiva temple through Savan
If you have already done 5,000 or 11,000 japa, then in the month of Savan kindle lamps and the like in his name near the Shiva temple and do that japa with your wish — whatever your wish is: you were doing it for protection, for the destruction of enemies, for victory in some place. Go on doing 108 daily through the whole of Savan, at whatever time — morning, evening or night — your presence there can be arranged.
How is the lemon fixed on Batuk Bhairav's trishul?
Asked whether the lemon is to be fixed upright on Batuk Bhairav's trishul, he answers yes, it will be fixed upright — it cannot be laid on its side on them.
Can stotras be listened to on a speaker, and is path without a lamp improper?
Asked whether the Batuk Bhairav Stotram, Rudri path and Mahishasura Mardini may be heard on a speaker on waking in the morning, and whether doing only the path without a lamp is improper, he says you may listen on a speaker — people are listening in any case, and there is no dosha in listening. But for the Rudri path a speaker will not be proper.
Can the Batuk Bhairav sabar mantra be used as a dhyana mantra?
Asked whether the Batuk Bhairav sabar mantra can be used as a dhyana mantra, he says that can also be done, there is no difficulty in it. But a dhyana mantra is its own dhyana mantra: the dhyana mantra that runs "Karakalita Kapala", the satvik dhyana mantra of Batuk Bhairav ji — do that, and it will be better.
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.
In what circumstances may a woman take the prasad of Bhairav?
Asked in which circumstances a woman may take the prasad of Bhairav, with the questioner adding that even in the Kashi mandir it should not be taken, the speaker says it is not like that. If it is to be seen, then apart from the Kashi kshetra, in other regions, or where the sadhaks and pujaris of a place say that a woman may not take it, it should not be done there. Otherwise, Bhairav ji pujan takes place at home, of Batuk Bhairav ji and so on, and they can take it; and in those mandirs where prasad is given to everyone, all may take it. Where Bhagavan Bhairav ji is present in person with his shakti, where Bhairavi is present, there a woman can do both pujan and prasad — as in the Vindhya kshetra where Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav ji is seated with Bhagavati Bhairavi, there you may do seva puja and may take prasad.
Should different mantras be japped on separate malas?
Asked whether the following mantras should be japped on separate malas — Dattatreya ekakshari, Batuk Bhairav sabar mantra, Mahabhairav mantra, Shiva Panchakshari mantra, Durga ekakshar beej mantra — the speaker says you can do the japa of all the mantras together; only for the mantra that is for the sake of Bhagavati, keep a separate mala for that, or else consider who your ishta is. If you wish to do the chief sadhana of Bhagavati, then keep only one mala separate for her; the japa of all the rest can be done on one mala. And if there is a mantra of Bamati Kali, then that japa will not be done on this mala — keep it in mind.
At what time should Bhairav and Shani be worshipped?
Keep the time of the puja and seva of Bhagavan Kaal Bhairav, Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav, Bhagavan Mahabhairav and Shani Deva from after sandhya, when it begins to grow a little dark, until night, he says; and keep this one before sunrise in the morning. It is very greatly fruitful.
A Batuk Bhairav deepdaan and a Shani mala mantra anushthan brought one listener relief and unpublicised results in a court case.
A listener writes that he did a Batuk Bhairav deepdaan and a Shani mala mantra anushthan, from which he got great relief and, moreover, obtained unpublicised results in a court case. The speaker thanks him and tells the others to be motivated by such people and to do it themselves — if you do these things, fruit will certainly be obtained.
What is recited for Bhairav ji, and what about the pranava?
After that comes the stotra and satnamavali of Bhairav ji. Everywhere in it the tantric pranavas have been written in, so the problem of whether to say Om or not no longer stands before you: Om is written there, so pronounce that and comfortably recite all the names, the full 108 names of Batuk Bhairava ji. A purashcharan of these also exists, he says, but since Shiva ji is the main work now, their recitation will certainly be done.
How little time do the namavalis actually take?
One abhishek and second the japa of Panchakshari, he says. Taking the 12 names of Bhagavan will not take you even a minute. How long will taking the 108 names of Bhairav ji take you; how long will taking the 108 names of Bhagavati take. It will take less time than the number of times you remember your beloved through the day — to take the name 108 times, to read the 108 names. And do 21 mala of japa. Take the enjoyment.
What makes the Kamakhya mandal a Mahachakra?
Ordinarily the six Mahadurgas are worshipped in the Shatkona. But Kamakhya's own principal form has six faces — so in that Mahadurga mandal a doubled Avaran worship takes place, with six separate Bhairavs alongside; and at the principal place Bhagavati Kamakhya is worshipped with Umananda Bhairav. That is why it becomes a Mahachakra.
Is a fast kept during Ambubachi?
These four days a fast is not to be kept — but japa certainly is. Whichever Kavach you have been reciting — the Mahabhairav Mala Mantra, the Batuk Bhairav Brahm Kavach, Bhagavati Kalika's Kavach — perform the Purashcharan of that same Kavach these four days, completing a hundred recitations each day.
What if eleven hundred recitations are not possible?
Then do a hundred and eight recitations daily — you absolutely may. And whatever recitations and worship you were already doing, do all of their japa during Ambubachi.
Mahabhairav or Batuk Bhairav?
If there is trouble from an enemy, then do Mahabhairav; otherwise do Batuk Bhairav ji's. And more than Batuk Bhairav's mantra the speaker stresses the Ashtottar Satnam, because it is wondrous in itself — its use runs in the order of creation, sustenance and Shringar.
Installing a Batuk Bhairav murti at home: tithis and the first puja
A Batuk Bhairav vigraha can be installed on Ashtami, Chaturdashi or Purnima, on a singhasan or a red or yellow asan (a red or yellow cloth on the singhasan too). Before that, the speaker says, its pratham pujan must be done with one's own hands — as with any vigraha, Yantra, Mala or kavach, however much vidhi it arrived with: without pratham pujan its full kripa does not come, just as a bride's sanskar is incomplete until the bichhiya is put on. Bathe it in cow's milk and Gangajal, then in mild attar, rose water or agar water; a vigraha is bathed in panchagavya or panchamrit, wiped, smeared with chandan, given tilak, new cloth, flowers, dhoop-deep-naivedya, aarti and archan with its ashtottara shatanamavali. A coconut or lemon bali may follow — a daughter-in-law has her husband break it, and a pregnant woman does not do it at all.
What should accompany the daily japa at the threshold?
Along with whichever mantra you are doing, the speaker says to recite Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav's stotra and satnam at home daily — even once will do, though five, seven, ten, eleven or twenty-seven is wonderful. And certainly offer one lemon bali in the name of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav, as Kul Bhairav, on the chaukhat of your door.
What is the agni utara, and what may be used for it?
Where this problem arises, the speaker says, if you have done a purashcharan of any mantra of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav, or of the Kamrup Kamakhya kavach and the like, an agni utara should be done with those. In the agni utara camphor is placed on a kushmandi and lit, or a lemon is cut and it is lit on that, or it is lit on a coconut. It should be done continuously — agni utara means a jwalant, a living utara.
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.
Which mantras should already be practised before attempting the utara?
Place a gota camphor on the coconut, one that will burn a while. You should already have practice of Batuk Bhairav's stotra and satnam, or of the Batuk Bhairav mantra you do; otherwise the Batuk Bhairav sabar given on the channel. The speaker says Bamanti Kalika should be made ready for emergencies but not recited daily, and the same for the Janjira. In sutak, he notes, the puja of many deities cannot be done.
At what time should the utara be done, and with which stotras?
It is most excellent, the speaker says, if it is done at the time of sandhya, when both belas are equal. It can be done with Bhagavan Narasimha's mantra, with the Narasimha mala mantra and the like; with Batuk Bhairav ji's stotra and satnamavali, or with his sabar mantra if you have done the shraddha; or with Hanuman ji's Janjira, or his other mantras, or the Bajrang Baan, which he says everyone keeps as siddha and anyone can do.
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.
The basic sadhanas — Guru, Ganpati, Batuk Bhairav, Panchakshari — complete within a year at one a month
A year. Within a year you can comfortably complete the basic sadhanas — Guru, Ganpati, Batuk Bhairav, Panchakshari — a month at a time: the Panchakshari in Shravan, some sadhana in Chaitra Navratri, Batuk Bhairav in Margashirsha, Ganpati in Magh, looking at what falls where.
How is the Viniyoga handled in a Samput recitation?
No — the Viniyoga will be done only once. You will begin from the Shiva Uvacha, and it is the Shiva Uvacha you are to repeat again and again; the Viniyoga is done a single time.
Can the Jayanti Mangala Kali mantra and Batuk Bhairav's 108 names be done on one mala?
Absolutely you can, the speaker says. Do the japa in the manner set out in the Vajra Kavach. Even if you japa only an ekakshari, that too is correct — there is no difficulty.
May a woman be given a thread abhimantrit with the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach?
Asked whether women may be given a thread, abhimantrit with the Batuk Bhairav Brahma Kavach, to tie at the waist, the speaker says it is better to do it with the Kamakhya Kavach.
What size should the murti of Batuk Bhairav be?
Asked whether the murti of Batuk Bhairav must be only three inches, the speaker says it depends — it is not that it must be three; you can keep one up to six. At home you can even keep one up to ten, but then let the seva and puja be done properly.
What is the route of the trikon after leaving the Vindhyavasini temple?
Coming out from there, the darshan and pujan of Vindhyeshwar Mahadev; after that go straight to Kotwali and do darshan there — Batuk Bhairav ji, Bhagavati Bhairavi, then Bartar Hanuman ji — and then leave from there. You may also go to Lal Bhairav, but it will become long; so in place of Lal Bhairav take the road straight from beside Bartar Hanuman ji and come to the Pratyangira chauraha. There do the darshan of Bhagavati Pratyangira. On the way is Nihut Veer Hanuman ji; do his darshan at the time of returning. While going, wherever the sthan of devatas falls on your left side, go on kindling camphor there.
Can several deities' sadhanas be done together with a main Narsingh sadhana?
Asked whether, along with the main sadhana of Bhagavan Narsingh, the sadhana of Bhagavati Kamakhya Durga should also be done, and whether Batuk Bhairav's should be done with it too, the speaker says it will depend on whose the chief sadhana is to be. Everyone's sadhana cannot be done at once; it will have to be done kramagat. And there will be one chief sadhana only — the rest will be in the limbs alone.
What is the name of Batuk Bhairav's vahan?
Asked the name of Batuk Bhairav ji's vahan, the speaker first says Kaal Kantak, then corrects himself: the name of Kaal Bhairav ji's vahan is Kaal Kantak. The name of Batuk Bhairav ji's vahan is different and is not coming to his attention. Kaal Kantak is theirs, Kaal Bhairav ji's, of the chief svarup. Asked further who the Bhairav ji of Mata Kela Devi is, he says he has no knowledge of it.
What is dear to Bhagavati Mahakali and to Batuk Bhairav?
Asked what is dear to Bhagavati Mahakali and Batuk Bhairav ji, as abhishek is to Shiva ji and tarpan to Ganesh ji, the speaker says that archan is dear to Bhagavati Mahakali; archan is greatly dear to all the svarups of Bhagavati; archan is greatly dear to the 64 yoginis too; and along with archan, havan is very dear. And as for what is dear to Batuk Bhairav ji — if you go especially into the Bhairav svarup, then all the Bhairavs there are, the Bhairav svarups, are pleased most of all, and are pleased quickly, through japa. Japa is very dear to the Bhagavan.
May a householder worship Kaal Bhairav at home?
Asked which stotra or paath of Hanuman ji is good for all kinds of situations, the speaker says: do the Badvanal. Asked whether householders may do the puja of Kaal Bhairav, he says that at home, instead of doing the mantra japa, puja and sthapana of Kaal Bhairav, one should do that of Batuk Bhairav; the puja of Kaal Bhairav should be done outside the house, in a Shiva temple and such.
What counts as the rising of one's good merit?
The speaker declines a fixed answer: it depends on the person, and on what they hold as priority. Ninety percent of people take earning money as the sign; others take it as whatever desire of theirs has been fulfilled.
Ganga worship on the Dashami tithi, and Batuk Bhairav Jayanti at Ganga Dashahara
On the Dashami tithi the worship of Bhagavati Ganga should be performed. The Ganga Dashahara period is the day on which Batuk Bhairav Jayanti falls, and his particular worship is performed then — there is already a video on the channel about it.
Supporting pujans and offerings a Saptashati parayan needs
The speaker says the fifth mistake was that there was no Ganesha anushthan of any kind, no Bhairav anushthan, no Batuk pujan, no Yogini pujan, no special Naivedya, bhog or offering, and no Bali of any kind — only the plain path was going on. Had the man even followed the archan paddhati's own havan-based vidhan once a week, or once a fortnight, some further vidhans would have been covered and a little peace would have held. He never did.
Will Kaal Bhairav stop a masan?
Nobody will tell you a prayoga connected with Batuk Bhairav or Bal Bhairav; he will say Kaal Bhairav. Kaal Bhairav will not stop them, the speaker says — know it clearly. Kaal Bhairav will stop them only when, along with that masan, the mother of the one in the womb is also alive and has herself walked in tantra, that is, a Dakini. Only if Dakini and masan are together will Kaal Bhairav place a restraint there.
How do knowledgeable tantriks misuse the oot vidya?
The speaker says knowledgeable tantriks go where such a death occurs and do this base kind of work by their vidya, because if a prayoga is to be done upon someone and the person opposite is a sadhak or a bhakta where Dakini vidya will not work, then by this vidya they make an intrusion. That is why it is repeatedly said to give Batuk Bhairav a place in the house and to worship him — through Batuk Bhairav such shaktis are pacified, and he has the capacity to restrain them.
The child shaktis are undergoing their own prarabdha, so the notion of being bound by mantra or tantra does not apply to them
A child's word only a child will accept. In their child form they are undergoing their own prarabdha — so do not apply the notion here that a mantra worked, a tantra worked, they were bound or not bound. If their death occurred in the womb or from any cause, that is their prarabdha, and it is the prarabdha of the family they are in that they had to go into that yoni. Our body is complete with five elements; theirs is of one, of the vayu tattva.
Can Ganpati and Batuk Bhairav be worshipped together to resolve a problem?
And along with them, if the puja of Batuk Bhairav has begun — do not do them together. First do eleven days of Ganpati, then do eleven days of Batuk Bhairav. If your trouble has not been solved between these two, then after that begin both of them together.
A single gobar ka kanda serves for all five ahutis — Ganesh, Shiv Baba, Kali Mata, Batuk Bhairav and Sitaram
A question about a single gobar ka kanda is read out repeatedly while the speaker complains about a recurring technical fault. The listener names five: one of Ganesh ji, one of Shiv Baba, one of Maa Kali Mata, one of Batuk Bhairav, one of Sitaram ji. He tells Asha Patidar ji that she can absolutely do this — there is no difficulty in the ahuti.
Which Bhairav is worshipped where Sheetla Mata is the kuldevi?
He says both Bhairavs are worshipped alongside Sheetla Mata. Go into the region of Chhattisgarh and it is Kaal Bhairav there; go into the region of Bihar and it is Batuk Bhairav. Go into the region of Uttar Pradesh and the two are in different places, different Bhairavs. So you will have to see which of them are worshipped in your own place, and do accordingly.
How does one learn the form of one's kul bhairav?
A listener recalls that he has said the sadhana of the kul bhairav should be done, and asks how to know about the form of the kul bhairav, adding that the kuldevi is called Sati Maiya. He answers: see, if it is Sati Maiya then do the sadhana of Batuk Bhairav alone; hold Batuk Bhairav as the kul bhairav and go forward. Bhairav there certainly will be, but a kul bhairav is difficult to know in manifest form until someone tells you — so carry Batuk Bhairav.
Which deities are prescribed for a house under uchchatan?
When the matter has reached that state, the speaker says, take the mantra of the fierce deities — whether Hanuman ji's Batvanar, or the kavach of Panchmukhi Hanuman ji, or the stotra and Satnam of Batuk Bhairav ji, or the paath and process of Mahabhairav ji — and any one of these, even if only for a week, awaken it or make it siddh, sitting first in a Shiva temple or in a Bhagavati temple.
A Batuk Bhairav japa "given" to a household that worships a Dakini can corrupt that household's own shakti
The speaker's example of a subject raised to cause harm: suppose a family has a Dakini worshipped — Dakini is absolutely worshipped as a mother in villages, and they are worshipping their own. If someone wants to corrupt that household, he prescribes a Batuk Bhairav mantra vidhan, "yes, do Batuk Bhairav japa" — and if the person starts that japa, thinking it came through a dream, the condition of the worshipped shakti will go bad. The proper process, he says, is that when the mandal pujan happens, the knowledgeable one who gives the mantra first frees that Dakini, or that matrika in yogini form, by sankalpa — so that whatever pujan this person does, no effect of the japa falls on her.
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.
Which tithi to begin Tara or Batuk Bhairav sadhana?
The speaker says that for Bhagavati Tara take either Navami or Chaturdashi — the Krishna Paksha Navami or Chaturdashi. For Bhairav ji there is the monthly Kalashtami vrat, the Ashtami of the Krishna Paksha.
Is it good to recite the Batuk Bhairav satnamavali when leaving the threshold?
A listener says she recites the Batuk Bhairav satnamavali at the time of going out from the threshold. He answers: absolutely do it, it is very good.
Which mool mantra of Batuk Bhairav precedes the Bhairav Namavali?
Asked whether the twenty-one-syllable or the twenty-two-syllable mantra, or some other, should be recited before the Bhairav Namavali, he asks in return which Bhairav Namavali is being done — that of the Kaal Sankarshan Tantra, of the Rudrayamal, of the Bhairav Yamal, of the Devi Yamal. According to whichever it is, the mantra also changes; the Kaal Sankarshan one will be different, the Rudrayamal one different, and all the remaining tantras have their own separate ones.
What must be installed in the place of an entity that has been removed?
And when you remove it, he says, after that you must certainly give a place there to some divine energy, some divine shakti relating to Sanatan culture — especially the Panchmukhi Hanuman form, or the form of Bhairav ji. Among Bhairav ji, give it in Batuk Bhairav; and do not think of Batuk Bhairav as an ordinary saumya Bhairav. He closes by saying that they will meet again after a somewhat longer time, and that meanwhile videos will keep coming on the channel.
Once several stotras are made siddha, must all be recited daily?
To Mohit ji he answers with an example: suppose a person made the path of the Argala Kavach siddha, made the Dattatreya Mala Mantra siddha, made some stotra of Hanuman ji siddha, made the Hriday Kavach of Kali ji siddha, made the Hriday Kavach of Batuk Bhairav siddha — so now four or five stotras are siddha. If you cannot get time daily, then take the names of all the devi-devatas whose kavach or stotra you have made siddha, and certainly do the path of each one on some one day in the week. If Bhairav ji's is to be done, do it on Sunday; the Dattatreya Mala Mantra on Thursday. It should be done once in the week, and a yearly havan should certainly be done at some time.
What should be done with the daily dahi-bada bhog of Batuk Bhairav?
Asked what to do with the dahi-bada offered daily as bhog in Batuk Bhairav ji's japa, the speaker answers that whatever dahi-bada bhog is offered to Batuk Bhairav ji should be taken by you yourself — eat it with enjoyment.
May the Bhairav mantra be done along with Gayatri paath?
If your yajnopavit sanskar has taken place, the speaker answers, you may do Gayatri japa. If you wish, you may also keep a murti of Batuk Bhairav ji, and japa of Bhairav ji's mantra may be done along with Gayatri — there is no difficulty in it.
In which puranas is the full description of Batuk Bhairav found?
Asked in which purana the complete description of Batuk Bhairava will be found to read, the speaker says that in the puranas you will find separate descriptions here and there. Even so, if you study these two — the Brahmavarta Purana and, second, the Skanda Purana — then you will get it to read.
Why was the Batuk form manifested at all?
For the ending of the rakshasa named Apada, the speaker says — Apad was the very name of that rakshasa. He had asked of Bhagavan Brahma ji the boon that his death should come at the hands of a child. In such a state, aradhana of Bhagavan Sadashiva was performed by the devas, aradhana of Bhagavati was performed, and the wish was made for this form: that you should manifest some such form.
How should the daily and special-day puja of Batuk Bhairav be done?
Ankur ji asks how to do the daily ordinary puja of Batuk Bhairava, and the special puja on Ashtami, on his birth jayanti, or on any other special day of his. The daily pujan should be done just as it is for ordinary gods and goddesses, the speaker says. And their whole vidhan of pujan is available on the channel, in which everything has been told — what bhog is to be offered to him, how and what is to be done; you may do it by that vidhan.
Should Batuk Bhairav be given a copper or a brass lamp?
Asked whether a copper or brass lamp may be lit for Batuk Bhairava, since a clay lamp is not always obtainable, and what real chameli oil is, the speaker says you may certainly light a brass lamp. Lighting a copper one will give a little trouble; do not light copper, light a brass lamp. And if chameli oil is not obtainable, then use mustard oil.
Which balis are added to a Saptashati recitation, and on which day?
On Saturday, give bali in three places: for Bhagavati, that is your Kuldevi if you have a particular one; for the sixty-four Yoginis; and for Bhairav ji. For instance a Jaiphal for Bhagavati, a lemon for the sixty-four Yoginis, and clove and camphor for Batuk Bhairav.
What order does the daily sitting follow, and are the Kavach, Argala and Kilak done every day?
Guru, Ganpati and Batuk Bhairav ji's Ashtottar Satnam first, then the recitation of that day in whatever manner the Mahavidya krama prescribes. And yes — perform the Kavach, Argala and Kilak daily, and only then go on to that day's recitation.
Why does the Batuk Bhairav Brahm Kavach come without its Nyasa?
Because performing Batuk Bhairav's Nyasa brings in his mula mantra — the eighteen-syllable or the twenty-one-syllable — and which one you were given at initiation differs. So the Viniyoga was given and the Nyasa was not. Even without it, a Kavach is running in a Nyasa pattern of its own.
May Kaal Bhairav be worshipped at home?
Only in the Kashi and Ujjain Panchakroshi and the Ashta Bhairav territories — where residents are obliged to it — or where he is the Kula deity or a right exists. Elsewhere, do not worship Kaal Bhairav at home; worship Batuk Bhairav ji in his place. Deepdaan for Kaal Bhairav is a separate matter and remains permitted.
Is Durga merely the aggregate of the Devas' Shaktis?
No. She emerged from the assembly of all the divine Shaktis at the killing of Mahishasura — but the root principle in Durga ji is not merely the aggregate of all the Shaktis. She is the one who gives Shakti to all of them. This, the speaker says, is a thing to be understood.
Only what everyone is generally entitled to is given out; the complete Mala Mantra needs at minimum the Upadesh for Bhairav ji
No. The speaker says he can give only what everyone is generally entitled to. The half-and-incomplete Mala Mantra he sees being given in place after place he will not give; and for the complete one, at minimum the Upadesh for Bhairav ji should have been obtained.
Where no one can be found, the Tandav stotra of Kshetrapal Bhairav and Vatuk Bhairav's hundred and eight names
If you wish to gain control over it yourself and truly no one is to be found, then the Tandav stotra of Kshetrapal Bhairav — "यम यम यम यक्ष रूपम", this whole stotra — download it as a PDF from the internet, learn to sing it, and have it recited before that person, along with the Ashtottar stotra which is the hundred and eight names of Vatuk Bhairav; have the paath of both of these done.
A bhagat has bound someone's oot pitrs and will not release them — what should be done?
Two things have to be done, Mahi Blog ji, he says. If they are oot, then over an oot the rule of Bhagavan Shri Ganesh holds — all of you should have this information. Because Bhagavan Ganpati in the form of Bal Ganesh, and Batuk Bhairav, both of them — chiefly, from the puja of Ganpati, the oots obtain capacity and shakti. Because with Bhagavan Ganpati there are somewhat tantrokta matters: understand it from just this much, that the head of Bhagavan Shri Ganpati was cut. The rest of the secret has not been written out and told for everything in the puranas.
How are Ganpati and Batuk Bhairav placed around Bhagavati there?
There, in the swaroop of Bhagavati that is there, the Batuk Bhairav who is there and the Ganpati who is there are both in their bala swaroop, and in bala swaroop they are established as the protection of Bhagavati's east, at different doors. So on one side of a door Ganpati, on the other side Bhairav; then on another side a second Ganpati, a second Bhairav — many gana Ganpatis and many Bhairavs are established there, or that place has been given to them.
Which ekakshari bija can be used for dehri and body protection?
The speaker says he does not insist on the Samput being made with Bhairav ji's Ekakshari; one may use any bijakshara, even of a saumya devata, though which deity's mantra to use is not a common matter. One may use the ekakshari of Hanuman ji, of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairava, of Narasimha ji, of Bhagavati Kali or of Durga ji; whichever it is, at the least receive that mantra by Dev Deeksha vidhi at some divine time, do 4 lakh japa of it and 7000 japa of the Saptashloki, and then use it for life. It serves not only for protecting the dehri but also for the protection and Bandhan of someone's body, and with shraddha, he says, it can be used lifelong for the protection of home, family or a person's body, sitting anywhere. He adds that a fuller vidhan of it will be shared on the channel in future.
What is gained by serving the peepal and the bat vriksha in Kartik?
He says that if the ashwattha, that is the peepal tree, is served in Kartik and its pradakshina done, and the pradakshina of the bat vriksha done, then Bhagwan Batuk and the Tridev, all of them, are pleased. Near the bat vriksha, Shiva's Batuk Bhairav form and his Dakshinamurti form are greatly pleased.
The nightly path is done in red vastra on a red asana, with two lamps and three preliminary paths.
First remember the guru. It is most excellent if done wearing red vastra and a red asana. Two lamps will be lit, with red wicks in them: one will be of mustard oil in the name of Batuk Bhairav ji, and the second a ghee lamp in the name of Bhagwati. Sit facing east or north, wearing red cloth. First do guru smaran, then path of the Sankat Nashan Ganapati, then path of the 108 names of Bhairav ji — let these three paths happen at the beginning.
A video of the Batuk Bhairav sthapana and chal pratishtha already exists and will be put up
Asked to make one on the chal pratishtha of a vigraha, he says a video on chal pratishtha already exists with him — a video of the sthapana of Batuk Bhairav ji, of the chal pratishtha, in a general way — and it will be put up. Asked whether sadhana may be done in the Datta mala in Gupt Navratri, he answers yes, certainly, it will be very good.
Pranava or Shri beej, and in what order should initial sadhana begin?
Those whose yajnopavita has not been done should do japa attaching the Shri beej; those who have the yajnopavita may do it attaching the Pranava. Asked in what order initial sadhana should be started, he says a playlist exists: first of all guru sadhana — the sadhana of any one of the shaktis connected with guru — then the sadhana of Ganpati, then of Batuk Bhairav or Bhairav ji, then of the deities of the kula, and after that the chief ones.
Can Dakshina Kali be served alongside Sadashiva?
Asked whether the grace of Dakshina Kali can be obtained along with the service of Sadashiva, or whether her service should be done together with Bhairav, the speaker says that Dakshina Kali is Sadashiva-Bhairav-sahita. So for one thing, Sadashiva himself is with her in the form of Bhairav; hence you may perform the seva of Dakshina Kali along with him. If you go into tantra, then the seva of Batuk Bhairav becomes compulsory, and the seva of Kaal Bhairav becomes compulsory too. In Adya Kali, in Dakshina Kali, Sadashiva alone abides.
What is the order of upasana within Durga upasana?
In Durga upasana, Ganapati is first of all; then Batuk Bhairav; then Hanuman; and then, at last, Bhagwan Narsingh. And the direct worship of Bhagwan Narsingh is done by only a very few — somewhere in the direct manner someone will say that in Durga upasana, among the four veers, the puja of Narsingh Veer also takes place. There is no need to do all of that in that way, he says; people will not even want to do so much. Only those who need it should do it — those who wish that what is here should be complete, when there is that kind of samarpan, and when Bhagavati grants the capacity.
The kinds of sukshma sharir were covered in an earlier live, and a yantra needs the basics first
The question about the kinds of sukshma sharir he has described very well in an earlier live: how many kinds there are, and along with that which of them is how powerful, what modes of imbalance occur on its entering a body, and how and what should be done. As for the vidhi of making a Batuk Bhairav yantra: how will you make it, he asks — the beginning things of the yantra will first have to be learned, and only after that.
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.
Can the havan for the Batuk Hriday be done with ghee and guggul instead of til laddu?
Yes, do it, he says — for the hriday it can be done with ghee and guggul. He also notes that the video of Bhagwan Shiva's Amogh Kavach is on the channel.
How many paths of the Kaal Sankarshan tantrokta stotra should be done?
For the Kaal Sankarshan tantrokta he cannot say anything, he answers, because the same matter will arise again: there is a beej mantra in it too, the mool beej given within it. And attend to this — on separating them out, there are not 108 names, only 105. If you get the mool stotra you will find 108 in it: the Kaal Sankarshan tantrokta Batuk Bhairav stotra. Read it once and see; it will be only 105. If you have the mool book, the mool grantha, you will find 108 in it. Otherwise it is called ashtottara, but three names are found short there. And since the mool mantra and all the rest is given in it, guru kripa becomes necessary there.
Who are the Bhairavs of the Vindhyachal Shakti Peeth?
Know that in the Vindhyachal Shakti Peeth there is not one Bhairav, he says. Your taking darshan of Lal Bhairav is a very good thing; Lal Bhairav too is Bhairav. Just outside the Vindhyachal temple, Bhagavati Sheetla is on one side and Batuk Bhairav ji on the other — he is the Mai's chief son, whom we call Chandi Hriday Nandan. And on the road directly opposite the temple, the one that goes towards the kotwali, you will find the world's only temple where Bhairav and Bhairavi are together; it has its own mahatmya, and is of the Pauranik age — held to be from the beginning of creation. That too is an old peeth, and it is he who is chiefly worshipped there as Bhairav.
May a Bhairav vigraha be kept at home?
Asked what should be kept in mind before keeping a vigraha of Bhairav ji at home, he says that the vigraha of Batuk Bhairav may be kept.
Batuk Bhairav Jayanti falls on the same day as Ganga Dashehra, and a house without Batuk Bhairav is not fully protected
On that very day, he says, is also the jayanti of Batuk Bhairav Baba. For nearly two years he has been urging listeners to give Bhairav ji a place in the house and to do the puja-path of Batuk Bhairav ji, because without Batuk Bhairav a house is not fully protected.
How does someone with no Bhairav at home install a kula Bhairav from the Ganga?
Those in whose house Batuk Bhairav ji is not established should, if they are going to Ganga ji that day, remember him from there — standing in Ganga ji, remember Batuk Bhairav ji and the Bhairav of your kula. Take along a trishul, or you may keep a photo of Batuk Bhairav ji, or a shri vigraha; in his opinion a shri vigraha is proper if it can be had, and if not then you should take a trishul.
Which Bhairav is paired with each of the Ashta Matrikas?
Asitanga is the Bhairav of Brahmi; the Bhairav of Maheshwari is Ruru; of Kaumari, Chanda Bhairav; and of Bhagavati Vaishnavi, Krodh Bhairav — the same Krodh Bhairav who is worshipped alongside Ma Bhagavati Chhinnamastika. Unmatt Bhairav is worshipped with Devi Varahi, and with Indrani, that is Indrakshi, Kapal Bhairav. To those whose kuldevi is Chamunda and who ask who goes with her, he answers that chiefly Batuk Bhairav is with all the shaktis, but seen in that way, with Chamunda the puja of Bhishan Bhairav takes place, and with Lakshmi that of Sanhar Bhairav.
How many forms does Batuk Bhairav himself have?
We know only of Batuk Bhairav, that Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav is; but, he says, you will scarcely have the information that the swaroop of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav too is in three forms. There are three Batuk Bhairavs, and in the various kinds of this very tantra the mention of these three Bhairavs is found: Skanda Batuk, Chitra Batuk and Virinchi Batuk.
The katha of Martand Bhairav with Devi Mahalasa, Malla and Mani was shown in full in the Mahakali television serial
Turning to the south, he says we hear the katha of Bhagavan Martand Bhairav and the rest, and the katha of Devi Mahalasa, of Malla and Mani — the story shown in the Mahakali television serial, in which there was the full description of Martand Bhairav and Bhagavati. In it, of the forms Bhagavan Shankar assumed, it is said he assumed two forms; and besides Martand Bhairav, the Tantra Prapanchasara, the Tantra Chintamani and the like hold various forms, among which a place is also held for Batuk Bhairav.
Who is the Bhairav of Tripur Bhairavi among the Mahavidyas?
Speaking of the ten Mahavidyas, he says one should know that of Bhagavati Tripur Bhairavi among the ten Mahavidyas, the Bhairav — the form that has been called Tripur Bhairav — includes Batuk Bhairav within it. That is, if in the Mahavidyas we are performing the pujan of Batuk Bhairav, then somewhere along with him Bhagavati Tripur Bhairavi too is being worshipped. Therefore in one's own home the puja of Batuk Bhairav ji should certainly be done.
Every house without a place for Batuk Bhairav should perform his sthapana and pujan, and give Bhagavan Bhairav a place
He closes by saying: all of you certainly do the Ganga ji snan; and in whosoever's house there is no place for Batuk Bhairav, perform the sthapana and pujan of Batuk Bhairav ji in your house. All of you give a place to Bhagavan Bhairav, to the kula Bhairav. Abandon being frightened of them; abandon people's prapanch.
What does Batuk Bhairav pujan at home do?
By performing the pujan of Batuk Bhairav ji at home no harm of any kind occurs; rather harms are destroyed, arishtas are destroyed, arishtas are pacified. There are very many such calamities which come to an end by the mere smaran of Bhagavan Bhairav; therefore the pujan of Batuk Bhairav should certainly be done.
What should Bhairav sadhaks do with their mantras in this Sawan?
Those who have been doing Bhairav ji's vidhi vidhan till now, and those doing the Mahabhairav mantra, are told not to do a prayoga. This time the Mahabhairav mantra is not to be used in prayoga but to be strengthened. Everyone should strengthen their mantras in Sawan, which is better because Purushottam Maas is alongside — the mantra will bear fruit much more, and siddhis too will come at once. Whether it is the ashtottara shatanam of Bhairav ji, the Batuk Bhairav hriday, the Mahabhairav stotra or the Mahabhairav mantra, do the same vidhi vidhan you did before, in the same place — the Shiva temple if that is where you did it, at home if that is where. This whole sixty days will be dedicated, and there is no restriction of hour in Sawan.
What should be done against a persistent hostile affliction?
If this trouble is happening very much to everyone, he says, then the very first thing everyone should do is a havan of Batuk Bhairav ji at home on a Sunday or a Tuesday — do it or have it done. And his kavach too should be worn. He adds that the Shiv Mahapuran katha will absolutely be begun.
Batuk Bhairav upasana at home is now widely known and widely done, but many further Bhairav subjects lie beyond it
That there is a form of Bhairav ji and that the upasana of Batuk Bhairav ji should be done at home — this much, he says, everyone has come to know, and everyone is doing that much. But even after this there are many further subjects.
What is the order of what should be done on the Chaturdashi?
Do the deep daan first — that is the very first thing for Bhagavan Bhairav ji, he says. Those who have Bhairav ji's shri vigraha, a temple and so on, and all those who keep a vigraha of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav ji at home, should do his snan, shringar, pujan, deep daan, arti and havan. Make the whole day Bhairavmaya.
Why should ugra pujan not be done at home in certain households?
As he often says, if the household deities include some brahma who is worshipped, or some deity of the bhoot-pret yoni who has come to be worshipped and whom you worship in a deva form, then the pujan of Baglamukhi Mai, the pujan of Sarveshwar, the ugra pujan of Batuk Bhairav ji, the pujan of Mahabhairav ji and the japa of Hanuman ji's Badvanal will all cause them distress. So do not do that thing at home, if that is the case — there is a method by which they are not distressed, but at least go to a Shiva temple and do it. Keep it to five malas, he says, and it will be of great use.
How many forms does Bhagavan Bhairav have, and which should a home worship?
Bhagavan Bhairav's form is not one. Chiefly he is said to be established as Kaal Bhairav, Batuk Bhairav and Baal Bhairav; the Brahmavart Puran and Brahmanda Puran give many forms, and the tantra granthas give many more that a reader will never have seen. At home, the speaker repeats, worship your kula Bhairav if you know him, or else Batuk Bhairav chiefly; a third option is the Bhairav of a Shakti Peeth.
Can Kaal Bhairav of Kashi, the most ugra form, be worshipped inside a house?
He is the protector of Manikarnika and the rakshak of Ma Vishalakshi, and people ask whether so ugra a form can be worshipped at home. The speaker answers that performing entirely ordinary pujan of Kaal Bhairav creates no difficulty; but if you are doing vishisht pujan, keeping his swaroop before you, then move into the Batuk swaroop — he too is the very same.
Why is Batuk Bhairav puja at home compulsory?
Batuk Bhairav's puja is extremely necessary, he says. Just as you do the pujan of Ganpati and the puja of Hanuman ji, in the same way Bhairav ji's puja should compulsorily take place in the house — Batuk Bhairav should be worshipped in every home.
Should one chase experiences and miracles in sadhana?
Everyone should do the puja of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav in his own home, the speaker says, and only when you begin the ordinary pujan will you be able to do the special pujan. Of the experiences he posts, nobody's is of one or two or ten days; and where an experience does come in a day or ten, that person is in the middle of sadhana and is made to do it again. It never happens that you did sadhana today and had darshan today. Do not run after experience, do not run after chamatkar — do sadhana.
What should be done on Bhairav Ashtami itself?
On 16 November of that year — and in whichever year Bhagavan Bhairav's Ashtami falls, whenever you hear this live — Batuk Bhairav's puja should certainly be done at home. The whole vidhan is on the channel, from the ordinary puja to the special puja, together with how to do the trishul sthapana of Bhairav ji for those who want the special pujan at home, and how to offer the bhog.
Who may take the bhog of which Bhairav?
Whatever bhog or prasad is offered when you do Bhagavan Kaal Bhairav's puja in a temple, women are not to accept it and it is not to be given to them. Batuk Bhairav's bhog — offer him boondi ka laddu, or whatever you offer — may be accepted equally by women and men alike. The bhog offered in Mahabhairav pujan, whose mantra is on the channel, may likewise be accepted by everyone if the pujan is done at home; everyone may take the prasad.
What is the difference between Batuk, Kaal Bhairav and each Devi's own Bhairav?
Asked about Batuk, Kaal Bhairav, all the Mahapeers, and the purusha tattva Bhairav who is each Durga's own consort form, the speaker answers that everything is separate according to the swaroop. There are differences — and even being different, all are one.
Can the sattvik khappar be offered to Batuk Bhairav as well?
The sattvik khappar may be offered for Batuk Bhairav, the speaker answers, but Bhagavati's khappar will be present alongside it. And do not advance so far right now without being told and without knowing, he warns, because a dudhiya khappar is also required. If you begin giving khappar on your own, difficulty will start. Do only as much as he has stated in that sadhana. If you are doing the Kalika Yogini sadhana, then give the khappar to her; with Bhairav ji many things become different.
Can Neelkanth Bhairav be worshipped like Batuk Bhairav?
For Neelkanth Bhairav the vidhan is to take diksha and do it with the full vidhi vidhan, the speaker says, whereas Batuk Bhairav's puja can ordinarily be done by everyone — and both are Bhairavs. He gives an example: for Bhagavati Baglamukhi, Mahamrityunjay is worshipped in the Bhairav swaroop, Batuk Bhairav is also worshipped, and Swarnakarshan Bhairav is there too in her anga vidya. In the same way, here there is Neelkanth Mahadev, Neelkanth Bhairav, and Batuk Bhairav also.
What is the difference between a Devi's designated Bhairav and Batuk Bhairav?
There is swaroop bheda, the speaker answers, but Batuk Bhairav's puja can be done with every form of Bhagavati. Whichever swaroop you are doing upasana of, you should and must do the upasana of the Bhairav of that swaroop; but if you perform the upasana of Batuk Bhairav, it will serve in every swaroop, because Batuk Bhairav is present in every swaroop anyway.
Can an old brass trishul already kept beside Bhagavati be used for Bhairav puja?
If nothing has previously been consecrated upon that old brass — that is, if no astra pujan or similar vidhi has already been performed on it — then you may perform on it, in the name of Batuk Bhairav ji, the vidhi he has given: cleansing it with panchgavya and so on, and then doing it again upon that.
Is there a dosha in worshipping Shiv ji instead of a Devi's designated Bhairav?
The puja will simply become incomplete, the speaker answers. Shiv ji is indeed there in the Bhairav swaroop, but if you want special grace and are performing puja by their special vidhi, then it becomes necessary. The swaroop exists precisely so that his special pujan may take place. So whichever swaroop you are worshipping — if you are worshipping Bhagavati Baglamukhi or doing some aradhana of hers — do at the very least the Batuk Bhairav along with it.
Why is Batuk Bhairav called a ramban and a brahmastra?
From the day of the coming Kalashtami — Kaal Bhairav Ashtami — do Batuk Bhairav's puja without fail, he says. There is no field in which you will not need Batuk Bhairav: quarrel and strife at home, pret dosha, obstruction of tantra, the mind not settling on study, no job, wanting wealth, wanting a child, dosha of the pitr. Even where there is dosha of a Brahmarakshas — Bhairav holds Brahma's head in his hand in every swaroop, and there can be no greater pret pishaach than that, yet he seizes even it directly. And on top of all this Batuk Bhairav is saumya and shaant.
Can a khadi batti lamp be lit in Batuk Bhairav's puja?
You may light it, the speaker says, there is no difficulty — but use the soi batti as much as possible.
What sattvik bhog should be offered to Batuk Bhairav at home?
Offer boondi ka laddu; among sweets, in the nitya pujan bhog, you may offer him kishmish, kaju, panchmeva and the like if you wish. And that bhog may be accepted by everyone — Batuk Bhairav's bhog will be accepted by all: women, men, children, the aged. When the pujan of Kaal Bhairav is done, only men should eat his bhog.
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.
Does the pratyakshikaran of Batuk Bhairav's 108 names take six months?
No, the speaker answers — do it now and it will happen now. As soon as the 108 names are completed, as soon as you read the last name, Bhairav ji will manifest before you and say, ask, child, what boon do you seek. Whether you will hear it or see it, he says, he does not know; but the moment you read the 108 names he will become pratyaksha. The rest is your own capacity, whether you can speak with him or not.
Is it more fruitful to samput the Bhairav Hriday with the Batuk Bhairav mantra?
The speaker says he does not know what the questioner's capacity is. If you samput the Bhairav Hriday with Batuk Bhairav, it will become extremely intense — and whether you will be able to bear its power and its energy, he says, he does not know.
How should bhog be offered so that bhoot-pret cannot eat it?
That depends upon the house, the speaker answers. To another listener asking for a Batuk Bhairav mantra anushthan, he says there will be no need of a Batuk Bhairav mantra anushthan — do his Mahabhairav mantra, it will be the best of all, and everyone will be included in it; and secondly, the Batuk Bhairav Ashtottara Satnamavali will be given, so do that.
Which Shiva and Bhairav are worshipped where Manasa is the kuldevi, and why does Shiva come last?
On Manasa Ma's Bhairav he says he will post a whole video and tell the questioner everything, but is not putting it up now — let the Bhairav anushthan be completed first; for the present, do Batuk Bhairav without fail. And on order: Shiv ji's puja will be at the very end. First Batuk Bhairav, then Devi ji, then Shiv ji — guru, Ganpati, then Batuk Bhairav, then Hanuman ji, then Lakshmi Narayan, then whichever swaroop of Bhagavati you wish to worship, your kuldevi, Bhagavati Durga, some form of the Mahavidyas, and after that Bhagavan Shiva.
How is a silver trishul installed for Batuk Bhairav in a home temple?
Do it by the same vidhan he has already given for installing a trishul, the speaker says. A silver trishul may also be kept.
Can a meat-eater install Batuk Bhairav at home?
Do not perform the pratishtha of the murti of Batuk Bhairav, the speaker answers. Keep his photograph and do whatever pujan you have to do. If you want to worship after doing the pratishtha, then do it while accepting the rules.
Can the Batuk Dashanaam stotra be recited?
Yes, you may absolutely do the Batuk Dashanaam stotra, the speaker says, reciting: कपाली, कुंडली, भैरव, भीमो, भूमलोचना. It can be done, he repeats.
How is Mrityunjay Bhairav made siddh?
You people have to make him siddh directly, the speaker says — obtain his grace by becoming initiated. He closes by saying that from the next day onward whatever special vidhi vidhan is connected with Bhagavan Kaal Bhairav and Batuk Bhairav will keep coming on the channel, and that listeners should make their preparation.
The claim that Bhairav must not be worshipped at home has needed video after video to answer
The speaker says that in Sanatan sanskriti so much brainwashing has taken place that he has had to make video after video and live after live on a single topic — the brainwash topic that Bhairav ji should not be worshipped in the house. He points out how many people in the live must have worshipped Bhairav ji at home for the first time, begun his pujan-paath, and worshipped Batuk Bhairav ji, because of those videos.
What vidhan can be done at Holi for masan kriya performed on women at home?
He points the questioner to the vidhi of the Mahabhairav mantra given on the channel, and to a sabar mantra of Batuk Bhairav given on the Siddh Sabari Vidya channel. With that sabar mantra one is to consecrate the object: make rotis of wheat, apply ghee drawn from cow's milk, and put gud in as well; make seven such rotis, wrap them in a banana leaf, then take the utara from the body of the person on whom the masani kriya has been done, and along with it take the utara of one water coconut, and give it into the Holika.
May someone initiated by a village guru perform the sadhana of Kaal Bhairav?
Asked by a listener from Chhattisgarh, initiated by a village guru, whether he can do the sadhana and siddhi of Bhagwan Kaal Bhairav ji, he says that for Kaal Bhairav ji he would say to do it while staying in someone's company. Batuk Bhairav ji you can do — the vidhi-vidhan is on the channel.
May the japa of Batuk Bhairav be done mentally?
Yes — mental japa of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairav ji, may be done; and, he adds, the mental path of the Kamakhya kavach and the like may be done as well.
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