Ganpati
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The elephant-headed deity of auspicious beginnings, son of Shiva and Parvati.
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Shiv Sahasranama with a lotus for long-stalled work
The best vidhi for making Shiv Sahasranama siddh, or for Sadashiv's kripa through it, is the lotus, the speaker says. Bring one lotus, bathe it, tilak it with kesar, take a Sankalpa holding it — "this work of mine has been stalled a long time, Sadashiv, bring it to fruit" — and recite the whole Sahasranama at least once (5 or 11 times if there is time) still holding it; then offer the flower on the Shivling. Before this, as in every vidhi: two ghee lamps on akshat, one for Shiv ji (all devatas) and one for Parvati ji (all shaktis, since the ten Mahavidyas came from her body); abhishek — one lota per family member if you wish; bel-patra, Tripundra, shringar, dhoop and naivedya with sweet water; yellow cloth and a yellow asan. If the Shiva temple has no Ganpati murti, place the durva meant for Ganpati on the shivling's argha — he accepts it. Do this for the nine days. Rules for the lotus: on a Thursday do not pick it yourself; and before taking a flower from any pond, garden or lonely place, fold your hands and ask the yaksha or devata guarding it for leave — who knows what someone has seated under that tree — or you go for dosh-nivritti and come back with a new dosh. Later, to a listener who found the Sahasranama too hard, he says: do the Rudrashtak for nine days instead.
Why anger rises during mantra japa
Asked why more anger comes from japa of Ma's mantra, the speaker says it happens with any mantra, and gives two explanations. First: when a sadhak sits to jap, Muladhara — right at the seat — is the first chakra to activate, and with it kama and krodha surge; this is the starting phase of sadhana, and the lord of that chakra is Bhagwan Ganesha. That is why he is prathama pujya: when Ganpati controls these, the surge does not trouble the later sadhana. But how much Ganpati sadhana do we do — "Gajananam bhutaganadi sevitam" and done; 11,000 or 21,000 finished in two or three days, then five or nine lakh of Bhagavati's mantra: control will match. The order is Guru, Ganpati, then Bhairava, then Hanuman, then the main sadhana, with the kula devi-devata worshipped too. Second: the mantra's prakriti — with beej mantras, whether you sound gakar or makar and the anusvar correctly matters (he gives the Kalika beej); done backwards it troubles the body. And by shatchakra, an unbalanced chakra raises anger: setting Muladhara aside, the navel chakra is where the imbalance usually is, with Ram, the agni beej. Know your prakriti before large sadhana.
Guru and Ganpati sadhana before a Bhairav sadhana, in both the sabar and tantrokta streams
The speaker says this sadhana will be compulsory for every person coming into the field of sadhana; it has no adverse effect, so it can be done without any worry. Its place is after guru pujan — that is, after guru sadhana, whether Navnath sadhana, the Navnath chaitanya mantra, Guru Gorakh Sabari or Guru Gayatri — and after Ganpati sadhana has been done. Whether one is in the sabar field or the ordinary tantrokta field, people of both can do this Bhairav sadhana: after guru and Ganpati, it is Bhairav ji's sadhana that is to be done, and every person is to do it.
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.
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.
A right-turned trunk holding a modak or flower, never a dancing Ganesha at home
A right-turned trunk (Dakshinavarti) holding a Modak or flower is considered supreme, dancing (Nritya) forms should be avoided, and Ganesha is best established alongside Goddess Lakshmi or with Riddhi-Siddhi and Shubh-Labh.
Should metal Ganesha and Lakshmi idols be replaced and immersed every year at Diwali?
No — a permanent metal idol of Ganesha or Lakshmi should never be immersed; only clay idols bought specifically for Diwali are meant for annual immersion, while the metal idol stays on the altar and is simply dressed in new garments each year.
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.
Oot: children who died unfulfilled and how they are pacified
The speaker says that the Oot of a house — the small children who died in the womb or after birth, whose janeu had not yet been done — find their peace through the bal form of Ganesha ji, through their Tarpana, and through the pujan of Bhairava ji and the like.
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.
Haridra Ganapati purashcharana and Tarpan must be mastered first, so a revived mantra's energy can be calmed the moment it rises too far.
Before Sanjeevan for a deity like Bagalamukhi, a practitioner should first master Haridra Ganapati Purashcharana and Tarpan — so that if the revived mantra's energy rises too far, Ganapati or Devi Tarpan (mastered in advance) can immediately calm it.
Month-long nag kesar vidhan of the Daridra Dahan Shiv Stotra anushthan
The speaker's daily vidhan: finish the household's regular puja, take a sankalp to Sadashiv that the daridrata in one's home end and dhan-dhanya grow — adding rog and dukh too, since disease is itself a kind of poverty — then sit on one's asan holding one fistful of nag kesar and recite the Daridra Dahan Stotra at least 8 times, best 16, and tie the nag kesar in a yellow cloth or pouch. Then take a lota of water with a little mishri (milk too if possible), two ghee lamps, flowers and bilva patra, touch the lota to the chaukhat of the house one lives in — even a rented one — and go to a Shiva temple: light both lamps, do abhishek and shringar, pour water over Ganpati, Gauri, Nandi and Skanda (durva for Ganpati, bilva patra and flowers for the rest, a shami leaf on the shivling if found), open the potli, restate the wish and offer all the nag kesar on the shivling. Pick up two or three grains, carry them home and keep them where money is stored; the same cloth is reused every day. This is continued daily from a Shivratri to the next month's masik Shivratri — a full month (Phalgun Mahashivratri to the Chaitra masik Shivratri, for example) — and on the closing day gau vansh are fed according to capacity, even ₹100 worth, best of all stray cattle.
Home pratishtha of a metal idol with ghee, raw milk and the Devi Suktam
The speaker gives a simple home method for the pratishtha of any deity's Vigreh — Hanuman ji, Shiva ji, Bhagavati Durga, Kali, any devi or devata — for households that will not call a pandit. His rules: for Lakshmi-Ganesh puja do not bring clay idols; install solid metal ones, small or large, and never change them. Do not merely wash them and set them down: when seating the idol in its place, smear the whole idol with cow's ghee, and while pouring a stream of raw milk over them recite the Tantrokta Devisuktam. He says the pure sattvic shaktis of the Ganesha and Lakshmi tattvas then enter and the pratishtha is done; the samskaras, including the agnyuttarana vidhi, are taken as covered in brief by this. He notes a fuller, simplest-Hindi murti-pratishtha vidhi with a PDF exists on his channel, but this too is a simplest method.
Why is Tulsi never offered to Lord Ganesha, and what should be avoided in the final Havan offering?
Tulsi leaves or rosaries must never be offered to Lord Ganesha; black pepper should not be used in the final complete offering (Purnahuti) — use standard Havan Samagri, ghee, sweets like modak or kheer, and Devdar wood instead.
What sadhana sharpens a weak communication skill or artistic ability?
For someone whose communication skill is weak, the speaker recommends worshipping Ganpati as far as capacity allows, saying this strengthens Budh, sharpens communication, and quickens the intellect by his grace. Asked later about becoming accomplished in music and painting, he again points to Vidyadhar sadhana — that is, Ganpati sadhana — as the relevant practice.
Holika-night dahi vada offering that restores a siddha mantra
The speaker's vidhan for the evening of Holika Dahan: prepare at least nine urad dal dahi vadas, set them one each on nine leaf-plates (sal leaf best; banana leaf, market dona-pattal or small clay pots will do), top each with dahi and a little Gud, and do it after the daily Guru–Ganesha smaran, ideally without garlic or onion that day. For a Sabar Mantra, lift each plate and speak the mantra over it at least nine times (three or five if it is very long); for an Ekakshari or deity/mahashakti mantra, hold each plate in the left hand and do one Mala with the right, nine malas in all. Cover everything with a large sal or banana leaf, carry it to the Holika Dahan site, tell Narayan that you offer this siddha mantra as Havya into the holy fire and ask him to make it fully effective, offer it all and come home. He says the timing should be worked back from the Holika Dahan hour according to how long the mantra is.
Preparation for the Durga 108 names anushthan: preliminary puja, dress, direction and materials
Before the puja of Bhagwati Durga, the speaker says, first worship Guru, Ganesha and the Navagraha, then do the puja of Jagadamba as the vidhi and one's capacity allow, completing all the vidhans of Kalash sthapana if one is doing it. The sadhak wears red, faces east or north, sits on a red asana, and must apply a mark of rakt chandan on the forehead. Before Bhagwati he keeps at least 50 grams of tilak made of pure Ashtagandha or of kesar in a good box, and Haldi and Kumkum in separate vessels. Then the Sankalpa is taken and the path begun.
Havan of the Durga 108 names for male sadhaks: ghee with honey and guggul, eleven ahutis per name
The speaker says the samagri of this Havan needs special care because it is a Paushtik Karma — the stotra is being made siddh in its pushta form — so men give Ahuti with ghee, mixing honey and a little Guggul into it. The 108 names are written out separately as a Namavali for the havan only (the path itself uses the whole stotra): the first ahuti in the name of Sati, the second Sadhvi, the third Bhavaprita, and so on to 108. Because 1,100 paths were done, eleven ahutis go with each name, about 1,100 in all. At the start, he says, the ahutis of guru, Ganpati and Bhairav ji are all given first; these come afterwards, and then the purnahuti.
Take refuge in one of Jagadamba's four Veeras: Hanuman, Bhairav, Narasimha or Ganapati
The speaker says that those who serve and worship Shri Ma Jagadamba must take refuge in at least one of her four Veeras, the four Mahashaktis who stand as Veer and Gana: Hanuman, Bhairava, Bhagwan Narasimha or Ganesha. He says one should try to attain siddhi of that one Veera's vidya by the extended vidhan, and that Hanuman's Badvanal Vidya is one such route. He says whoever takes Hanuman's refuge and does these vidhans can have every kind of suffering and dosh in life removed by this single Anushthana, and that keeping it for life brings many benefits.
A witness lamp, Ganesha and the Guru remembered, and Kusha-grass water in copper before the recitation
Light a witness lamp, remember Ganesha and the Guru, prepare copper-vessel water with Kusha grass, and recite the Samputita Stotra 1, 3, 5, or 11 times, invoking Dattatreya's Smritagami attribute — then sprinkle the consecrated water on the afflicted person or give it to them to drink.
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.
Why is Lord Vinayaka worshipped first in any Sadhana, and what distinguishes popular knowledge from Tantric Sadhana of specific forms?
Worship of Lord Vinayaka is a sequential requirement before any Sadhana, but accomplished Tantric practitioners have invariably engaged in specialized Sadhana of specific esoteric forms — knowing about a form through media, harboring devotion, is entirely different from undertaking its Sadhana without an authorized Guru.
What does reciting the Narada-revealed Ganapati Stotram for six months accomplish?
For general seekers, reciting the Ganapati Stotram revealed by Devarshi Narada in the Narada Purana for six months fulfills all desires — including progeny, wealth, and knowledge.
Which trunk direction is auspicious for a home Ganapati idol, and how many idols may be kept together?
Both right-trunked (Dakshinabhimukhi) and left-trunked (Vamamukhi) Ganapati forms are auspicious for domestic worship — the fierce-versus-gentle distinction applies only to specialized Tantric Kamya rituals; two idols in a home temple are permissible, but three should be avoided.
Unrest at home during a huge stotra anushthan is a test before the result, not a failure
The speaker says uchchatan does come when one has done a very great amount. He knows two or three people who recite the Ganpati Atharvashirsha in the thousands — taking a sankalp of a thousand paths, doing Havan at every hundred — and who tell him that nothing is changing in their lives. He tells them to stay positive: they are creating an enormous energy with a stotra said to grant every punya and erase the greatest graha doshas, and when that energy comes to give, it will give a great deal; having done so big an anushthan they will not receive anything small, so they are first tested to see what level they can go to, and only accordingly do they receive. In that state of test, uchchatan will come — peace will break, there will be fights at home — but that is not a negative effect of the sadhana, merely the vidhan for passing from that level to the next. Separately, he adds, if the mind turns away from a path it may just be that going to one place too often makes the mind wander — it is fun at first and then drops off — which is a different matter.
What should be done on first setting foot in Prayag?
Ask pardon inwardly before the foot touches the ground, whatever the mode of arrival, then salute Adi Ganesha together with Veni Madhav as the city's guardian deity and ask that the journey be made fully successful.
What counts apply to Kavach and Stotra practitioners at the Kumbh?
A thousand a day for the Sankat Nashan Stotra so that it becomes a divine weapon; a Bagalamukhi Kavach taken to the point of being irresistible; and five hundred a day for the Datta Mala Mantra.
What counts apply to Ganapati and Bhairava practitioners at the Kumbh?
12,000 of the Sankat Nashan Stotra at a thousand a day. Those doing Bhairava's Ashtottara Satanama, or initiated in his mantra, are told the period is highly divine for them — Bhairava's awakening happens fastest of all.
Sankalp and opening puja for the eleven-day Bajrang Baan siddhi
The speaker says the first day's puja is done at a temple — "Ram" written on a Peepal leaf, or at least on five Tulsi leaves, offered there — after which one comes home, puts on red clothing, sits on a red woollen-blanket asana and does the usual Achamana and purification. Then, holding tulsi leaves, ₹11 and the coconut kept at home, one takes Sankalpa in plain Hindi (or Sanskrit if one knows it), pronouncing name, Gotra and place: for the grace of Hanuman ji, for the siddhi of the bajrang-baan and for its full effect whenever one uses it, to awaken it by 11 recitations daily for 11 days from today — 11 at least, or 21 or 27 as one's capacity allows, since the full Bajrang Baan is fairly long. Everything in the hand is set down by Hanuman ji unbroken; the coconut stays there. Before the sankalp a Karmasakshi Deepak must already be burning (one lit since morning is fine). Then guru and Ganesha puja, remembrance of the Kuldevi, and puja of the Ram darbar first — water sprinkled and tilak given to Shri Ram, Mata Janaki, Lakshman, Bharat and Shatrughna, on a vigraha if one has it, otherwise on the photo.
Switching between sadhanas: the biggest mistake that blocks divya drishti
The speaker says Divyadrishti definitely comes, and the biggest mistake sadhaks make is changing too much — a year of Ganesh upasana, "nothing happened", then on to whatever baba they saw on YouTube. Do the new sadhana if you like, he says, but do not abandon the old one. If one holds only Ganapati Atharvashirsha for a long time, one will need nobody: at some point the shaktis come on their own and the information one wants starts arriving. As evidence he cites two or three people who have kept up the Atharvashirsha since he first posted it nearly a year ago; one has recited it thousands of times, and whenever the speaker sees him his Aura has become remarkably strong and full of capacity.
Vindhyachal lore: the Devi in male form, all who come as yoginis, and the gods entering as women in the Arunasura story
The speaker says Vindhyachal is the only dham where Bhagavati Vindhyavasini is held to be present in the form of a man, and every sadhak and every visitor there is held to be present in the form of Yogini. He cites the Puranic story of the daitya Arunasura: when the Tridev went to her region, they found Navadurga and the ten Mahavidyas busy with her arrangements before she woke, and various Bhairava and Bhairavi present; and before entering the Vindhya region every deva gives up the male form and takes on a female one — Ganesha becomes Vainayaki, Maheshwar becomes Maheshwari, Vishnu becomes Vaishnavi — and only then tells Jagadamba his tale of woe. This region, he says, fulfils every wish.
May a panchmukhi rudraksha be established for all deities?
For all the deities, he says, you may establish the panchang rudraksha — for the sake of all the deities. He mentions a full thirty-minute video he had made earlier and not published, in which the nine-graha rudraksha, the Shiva-Shakti rudraksha, Ganapati ji, all of them were covered.
Which deities is the householder already worshipping at Diwali?
At the time of Diwali the pujan of Lakshmi and Ganpati ji is being done, and the pujan of Kuber ji is being done. The speaker says separate videos have been put up for Kuber ji's pujan and shared again and again — do not leave out Kuber ji's pujan.
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.
Can the Ekdant stotra or a Baglamukhi 108-name anushthan be done on these nights?
Asked whether the Ekdant stotra can be done on the night of the mahanisha, the speaker says it can absolutely be done. Asked whether an anushthan of the 108 names of Bhagavati Baglamukhi can certainly be done on the night of Chaudas, he takes the question as put.
In what order should a beginner take up the different deities?
The speaker says that at the beginning one has to do the upasana of various kinds of mantra and various deities. One begins first with Ganpati, then Bhairav ji, then Hanuman ji, then Mahadev; then one comes to the main sadhana, and alongside it makes the kavach siddh, the astra mantras siddh, the khadgamala siddh and the hriday siddh.
Opening ahutis go to guru, Ganpati and the Navgrah; the main 108 are given with the Mahabhairav mantra.
The speaker says the opening ahutis are for guru, Ganpati, the Navgrah and so on — the havan that is done for these — and after giving the ahutis with all those mantras, the main ahuti you will give with the Mahabhairav mantra. With the Mahabhairav mantra 108 ahutis are to be given.
Where does the Batuk Bhairav Hriday paath sit in the daily worship?
The speaker says the hriday should be taken into the nitya pujan: first the guru, then the paath of Ganpati, and after that you should take the Bhairav hriday paath into your nitya pujan. In this way, he says, complete this sadhana.
Can the initial pujan be done standing if the vigraha is placed high?
Asked whether, since the arrangement of Ma's vigraha in the pujan room is high up, the whole initial pujan — of Guru, Ganesh and the kuldevi — may be done standing, he says yes, it can be done; do it seated as well. If such a situation is not possible, it can be done below too. At the time of Navratra and the like, give her a place on some pidha or bajot, and afterwards put her back up.
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.
What should one do whose sadhana keeps failing?
A listener says he is unable to do the sadhana and has tried three times. If the sadhana is not happening, do the first puja of Ganpati ji, he answers — an obstacle is coming again and again, and until the seva and puja of the remover of obstacles is done, it will not become successful. Asked separately which paaths of the Saptashati are proper without diksha, he says he has already told: do it by the Mahavidya krama, and you may do it in Hindi.
What if one has already eaten before the archan?
If you do the archan on tomorrow night, the speaker says, and you had eaten and drunk — he says it again, there is no difficulty. You had eaten and drunk; do snan and the rest, put on auspicious clothing, let the asana be washed and everything be in good order; now make the sankalp and perform the archan in this manner, having done the smaran of guru and Ganapati, and then do the sahitya archan.
The group anushthan covers Swarnakarshan Bhairav with his anga vidyas and Swarnakarshan Ganapati
If you do not have the adhikar for it — that is, your guru has not taught or told you this — then do not do a prayoga of this kind, the speaker says. If you wish, you may join in the anushthan. The anushthan of Swarnakarshan Bhairav will take place tomorrow night, but not of him alone: along with all his anga vidyas. Swarnakarshan Bhairav is only what is written in the main; Swarnakarshan Ganapati will also be there along with him.
Should joining the group anushthan replace one's own home practice?
All of this will take place tomorrow, and you may join in if you wish, the speaker says — but what has to be done at home by yourself is not to be abandoned. By yourself do the Mahalakshmi Ashtak, the sahasrarchan of Lakshmi ji, or the sahasrarchan of Lakshmi Narayan; do it with Ganapati ji, or do it independently of Bhagavati alone. But do the sahasrarchan; and even if that too is not possible, then certainly do a hundred and eight paths of the Mahalakshmi Ashtak and offer them to her.
How is the Chaturthi vrat kept?
Asked to explain how the Chaturthi vrat is kept, the speaker says it is to be kept the whole year through — Chaturthi meaning Ganapati ji's. In Chaturthi, he adds, the matter connected with Chandra dev must also be looked at and taken into account.
How does a Ganapati dosha attach?
Asked how a Ganapati dosha attaches, the speaker refers the questioner to an existing live, the Chor Ganapati video, in which the whole subject connected with vinayak dosha has been told — how a vinayak dosha attaches and how its removal is done. Small children too, he says, get the dosha.
What are some of the forms of Ganapati that ordinary devotees never encounter?
Beyond the household Lakshmi-Ganesha, there are 32 Ganapatis, twelve, sixteen and 56 Vinayakas. Ganesha with Mahaganapati is Siddha Lakshmi; the tantric subject of Uchchhishta Ganapati involves Nila Saraswati, which the speaker says would disturb ordinary people.
Ganapati and the Navagraha, both completed in the first half of the day
Bhagavan Ganesha and the Navagraha, both completed in the first half of the day. The main sadhana then begins from Makar Sankranti, either later that day or that night.
How should Ganapati sadhana be performed across the Kumbh?
Sankatanashana Ganesha Stotra at up to 500 daily, reaching around 21,000 across the period, with Durva grass offered and a fourfold Tarpan of each of the twelve names — 48 tarpans in all.
What can be done by someone whose family will not permit any practice?
Memorise the twelve, sixteen or eighteen names of their chosen deity and repeat them while going about the day, from after the morning bath until sleep — with Brahmacharya observed and no meat eaten through the Kumbh.
What happens if Brahmacharya breaks during a sadhana?
Where the Sankalpa carried a desire, that desire is not fully fulfilled. Nocturnal emission is not counted an offence — but for fierce powers such as Bagalamukhi it causes difficulty regardless, which is why Ganapati sadhana is a prerequisite.
The Ganpati sadhana, with eleven hundred to eleven thousand paths of the Sankat Nashan Ganesh stotra over two to six months.
The sadhana of Bhagavan Ganpati — in which, if nothing else, you should have done japa of the Sankat Nashan Ganesh stotra for two months or six months, eleven hundred, twenty-one hundred, eleven thousand, as many as possible. Because when you perform Ganpati's sadhana, it is he who will give you that base by which you will be able to preserve the capacity of any mantra within yourself.
Until Ganpati makes the Muladhara firm a sadhak stays uchchatit and keeps running from his sadhana.
Until he makes your Muladhara firm, you will remain uchchatit. Becoming uchchatit after performing japa of a mantra of some kind, running from the sadhana for one reason or another — this can only be set right by the grace of Bhagavan Ganpati. If you do not perform his sadhana, then that energy and capacity will simply not come into your body, that you should be able to absorb the energy of the sadhanas within yourself and be able to save those punyas with you.
What does the phalashruti of the Sankat Nashan Ganesh stotra say?
That when we complete even eleven hundred paths of the Sankat Nashan Ganpati stotra, or up to eleven thousand, then according to the phalashruti the path of obtaining what we need in worldly life is opened out and it begins to be obtained. Vidyarthi labhate vidya, dhanarthi labhate dhanam, putrarthi labhate putran, moksharthi labhate gatim — whatever is wanted, Bhagavan Ganpati gives, if the path is performed for six months.
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.
How are the four arranged around Bhagavati?
If Bhagavati is standing and looking towards you, then in the space between you and Bhagavati, Bhagavan Shri Vinayak is seated. On Bhagavati's right side Bhagavan Shri Hanuman ji is seated; on Bhagavati's left side Bhagavan Shri Batuk Bhairav ji is seated; and towards the back part, the rear, Bhagavan Shri Narsingh ji is present. In all four directions the four chief Mahavirs are present.
Which names are repeated in the Sankat Nashan?
The twelve chief names that are in the Sankat Nashan — it is of those alone that the path is done again and again.
What is the Ashtavinayak sadhana for?
The speaker says the sadhana of the ashta-vinayaka is capable of removing every kind of kasht and every kind of dukh from life. Its specific indication, he says, is when crises of any kind keep coming again and again: in that situation a person should take up the Ashtavinayak sadhana in their life.
Which of the eight Ganpatis stands in which direction?
The speaker places the eight Ganpatis in eight directions: Mayuresh Ganpati in the east; Chintamani Ganpati in the agni kona; Maha Ganapati in the south; Siddhi Vinayak in the Nairitya kona; Vighneshwar in the west; Girija Atmaj in the Vayavya kona; Ballaleshwar in the north; and Varad Vinayak in the Ishan kona. This, he says, is how their sthapana is to be done.
Pujan sequence for each of the eight Vinayaks
The speaker says the pujan of all eight Ganpatis is identical and begins with Mayuresh in the east. For each: Avahan with a flower; water three times while reciting the mantra (for washing the hands, for achaman, for snan); Durva Grass; Bilva patra and flower; then Naivedya of one Laddu with one clove and one cardamom placed on it; then water three times again. Eight Ganpatis get eight separate laddus, each with its clove and cardamom, and he says the order of bilva, flower and durva may be switched without any problem. He kept the sequence the same and completely simple so that anyone can do it, and says that after two or three chaturthi pujans it is all by heart.
Name mantras of the eight Vinayaks in the pujan
The speaker worships each Ganpati by prefixing every offering with that Ganpati's name in the form "श्री … गणपते नमः", then the offering line, and closes each with "श्री … गणपते प्रसन्न भवतु". The name forms he uses are Mayureshaya (with Gauri Sutaya), Chintamani Ganapate, Mahaganapate, Siddhi Vinayak Ganapate, Vighneshwaraya, Girija Atmajaya, Ballaleshwaraya and Varad Vinayakaya. He says these mantras are all written on screen for the viewer.
Janeu in the Ashtavinayak pujan
The speaker says he has not offered a janeu to any of the Ashtavinayak in this video, because he does not know whether the viewer has the Adhikara to offer a janeu. His rule: if you wear the Yajnopavita, certainly offer a janeu to all eight Vinayaks; if you do not wear it, do not. Later, just before the havan, he adds that one janeu should be offered for Ganpati ji, and that even someone who does not wear one should dedicate just a single janeu.
Ahuti sequence of the Ashtavinayak havan
The speaker opens the Havan with the shloka "ओम श्री गजाननं भूतगणादिसेवितं कपित्थजम्बूफलचारुभक्षणं उमासुतं शोकविनाशकारकं नमामि विघ्नेश्वरपादपंकजम्" followed by "श्री अष्टविनायक नमो नमः". He then gives Ahuti with "श्री … गणपतये स्वाहा" for each Ganpati in the same order as the pujan — Mayureshwar, Chintamani, Mahaganapati, Siddhivinayak, Vighneshwar, Girijatmaj, Ballaleshwar, Varadvinayak — five oblations to each, and closes with a single "श्री अष्टविनायक गणपतये स्वाहा" to all eight together.
Gauri Ganpati are worshipped first, and where mantrochcharan is not known the pujan may be spoken in Hindi with plain bhav.
After the sankalp, the pujan of Gauri Ganpati is done. The sankalp has made it clear, the speaker says, that the Gauri Ganpati and kalash pujan and everything else is being done for the purpose of obtaining diksha from Bhagwan Dattatreya. Mantra recitation now begins — and if one does not know mantrochcharan, he says, then with an entirely simple bhav we will do it speaking in Hindi.
Two supari stand for Ganesh and Parvati; each is invoked with a flower and given water four times — feet, hands, achman, snan.
One supari is Ganesh ji, the second supari is Maa Bhagavati Parvati. Taking a flower, their avahan is made — wherever you may be, come here and be established — and the flower is then offered. Water is then poured four times over each: first for washing their feet, then for washing their hands, then for achman, and then for snan.
Mauli thread serves as vastra and upavastra, each offering followed by water three times for achman — a vidhan open to men and women alike.
After snan, vastra and upavastra are offered by breaking off mauli thread and offering it, saying "O Shri Ganesh, accept this vastra", then pouring water three times; the same is then done for Maa Parvati. After vastra, upavastra and yagyopavit, water must certainly be poured three times, for achman. The speaker says the vidhan is being told in so common and simple a way that it is for everybody — men and women both can do it.
Ashtagandha, then sindoor, then akshat — each applied to a flower and offered to Ganpati first, then to Maa Parvati.
Ashtagandha tilak is done: taking a light touch of the gandh on a flower it is offered to Ganpati ji, then a little gandh is taken and offered to Maa Parvati. Then the sindoor tilak, applied to a flower and offered first to Ganpati ji and then to Maa Parvati. Then akshat is offered to both. The speaker says the full vidhan is being shown slowly, one item at a time, so that an ordinary person can watch and do it.
Naivedya to both, and on a paan leaf with its front tip cut off, supari, two laung and one elaichi offered to each separately.
As much upchar pujan as you know should be done; panchopachar may be done, or what is being done here. Naivedya is offered first to both. The speaker says paan patta could not be obtained here because of some shortage of resources, but that all of you should certainly offer paan patta — cutting off the front tip of the leaf, as shown in other videos. On the paan leaf, supari, two laung and one elaichi are to be offered separately to each. Then bhog is offered and dhoop and deep are shown.
Durva and flowers belong at the very beginning, and dhoop is shown to Ganpati only, never to Bhagavati.
The speaker says the durva grass that had been left out may also be offered at the beginning — doob grass, flowers and the rest should all be offered at the outset. In the demonstration the flowers and grass had not arrived and so are being offered now. He states that dhoop is not to be offered to Bhagavati; dhoop is to be offered only to Ganpati. Then the aarti is done.
The aarti is shown three, five or seven times, water poured around it, and dakshina offered to close the Gauri Ganpati pujan.
In this way the pujan of Ganesh Ambika, that is of Gauri Ganpati, is completed. The aarti should be shown five times — three times, five times or seven times. After showing the aarti, a little water should be poured all around the aarti. Then dakshina is offered with the words: that we may obtain the full fruit of whatever pujan we have done, O Ganpati, O Ambika, I offer you dravya dakshina according to my capacity.
The mantra is written on two bhojpatras and the lamp of Shiva and Parvati lit in Dattatreya's place.
He wrote the Panchakshari mantra on two bhojpatras, offered one to Bhagwan Shiva and kept the other before him; where Mata Anasuya, Maharshi Atri and Bhagwan Dattatreya had their lamp, he lit the lamp of Bhagwan Shiva, Maa Parvati and Ganapati ji; he did their pujan and their abhishek by the shodash upachar vidhi.
What does guggul dhoop mixed with ghee give?
He who offers dhoop to Bhagwan Shiva mixing ghee into guggul attains the Rudra loka and obtains the pada of Ganapati.
Many obstacles came in the middle and sutak broke the sadhana on the third day.
A listener reports that last time he did the Sankat Nashan Ganesh sadhana, a great many obstacles came in the middle, and on the third day the sadhana became khandit because of sutak.
What is the remedy when Ganapati pujan keeps running into trouble?
If trouble is coming in the pujan of Ganpati ji, Lakhan Singh ji, then the very first thing is that you should reduce the pujan at home a little and do the pujan of Ganpati ji in a temple — at least for one paksha certainly. After that, begin it at home.
Each sadhak charges the material with his own aradhya's mantra — Datta, Ganpati, Bhairav, Hanuman, or whichever kavach of Bhagavati he holds.
Those whose aradhya is Bhagwan Datta, or who have particularly performed his anushthan, use his; those who worship Ganpati ji use Ganpati ji's mantra; those who have done a Bhairav ji anushthan use Bhairav ji's mantra; and in the same way Hanuman ji, and whichever forms of Bhagavati, whatever kavach there may be — all of these will be used. Some material has to be added in each case, and he will state it as he goes.
The panchang, shatkarma and achman come first, then a brief Ganpati and guru pujan, before the material is charged 108 times with the mala mantra.
Perform the initial kriyas — the panchang they do, the shatkarma and the rest, the achman at the beginning, that whole vidhi — and do the Ganpati pujan and guru pujan briefly, in ordinary short form. Taking Sharad Purnima as the example day, do all that first. Then, if you have performed an anushthan of Bhagwan Datta's mala mantra, even of 1100, you will charge the material with that same mala mantra, at least 108 times.
Dried aak wood is added to the apamarg for a prayoga made with Ganpati's kavach.
Supposing the listener has completed Bhagwan Ganpati ji's kavach and wishes to make his prayoga, then he should use a little of the samidha of aak. If dried aak wood can be got, it is excellent to use it. Apamarg will be there anyway; let aak be there as well.
Can khas-root deepdaan be done daily for Ganpati?
Yes, absolutely, the speaker says. To do it in a special manner, do it from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi in any paksha, which is most excellent; and you may also do it daily if you wish, which is very good. The deepdaan done in the month of Bhadrapada is the most excellent of all, and at that time khas-root deepdaan should certainly be done to Bhagavan Ganpati.
Should one recite the Vairi Nashan Kali kavach directly?
He says that if there is need, do it; but if there is no such enemy, what is the need? First do Ganpati sadhana and the like, do Bhairav ji's, and then do Kali ji's. The Vairi Nashan Kali kavach is meant for when there is some wicked person who is troubling you — when there is no need, why do it.
How many Ganpati should there be in a house?
Asked about three Ganpati having accumulated in the house, he says there should be only two Ganpati.
First sadhana without a guru: kula parampara, else Dattatreya, then Ganpati and Bhairav
For the initial sadhana, the speaker says: if there has been a guru parampara (Guru Parampara) in your house, if anyone has been initiated or has been a sadhak, then do it according to whichever parampara they belonged to. Otherwise, the upasana of any Mahashakti, or of Bhagavan Dattatreya — the guru-form, whom he calls the most capable guru in the whole world, the divine guru — and after beginning with his sadhanas, then go on to Ganpati sadhana, Bhairav sadhana and so on, doing all these things one by one.
Is it right to serve a deity in the bhava of a brother or a child?
A listener says he worships a black stone at home in the form of Bhairav and serves it like Laddu Gopal, feeling as if he were his younger brother. It is a very beautiful and good bhava, the speaker says: what could be better than worshipping a deva shakti in some relation of one's own — as brother or sister, as mother or father? But in excessive self-absorption people begin to do all sorts of crooked things, and that should not be done. Make them your brother with bhava, make them mother and father with bhava, but never forget the maryada of a deva.
How is the sadhana of Gandharva Raj Vishwavasu to be done?
The sadhana of the Gandharvas can be done, the speaker says, but for it one should first do three sadhanas chiefly, and do them being initiated: the sadhana of Shiva ji, the sadhana of Yaksharaj Kuber, and then the sadhana of the Gandharva Raj. The sadhana of Ganpati too will be necessary in it.
Why must Ganpati sadhana come next, and what happens without it?
After the guru comes Ganpati sadhana. We say again and again, he says, that the sadhana that is of the very first rank in life cannot happen at all without completing Ganpati sadhana. If you do not do Ganpati sadhana, then in whatever sadhana comes afterwards, obstruction and hindrance is bound to come — obstruction will come even at the very last stage. Therefore Ganpati sadhana is extremely necessary.
Which Ganpati should be taken up?
In this too people become troubled, he says: which Ganpati is to be done — Ucchhishta Ganpati, Matang Ganpati, Haridra Ganpati? There are very many forms of Ganpati ji. So which one of them are we to do? None, he answers — take it in the ordinary way.
What is the ordinary Ganpati sadhana he prescribes?
Either do the sadhana of the Ashtavinayak, which has been given on the channel; or if you cannot do that, then continue the sadhana of the Sankat Nashan Ganesh Stotram for six months. Do not do it for two or four days. In six months, whatever your material desires are, the buddhi and the thoughts that should arise within you for them, and the behaviour that should be in your speech and conduct — all that practicality begins to arise within you.
Why is Ganpati placed at the Muladhara important for sadhana?
He is seated at the Muladhara, the first chakra. It is by him that your whole body is controlled in the first place. If that becomes disordered, you will not even be able to sit — and in sadhana one has to sit.
What does Ganpati sadhana do to the body's impurities?
Therefore first of all Ganpati, who should control the Muladhara and set it right. However many impurities there are in your body, from that very place they will begin to be removed. Do the path once, do it eight times, do it 21 times, do it 27 times.
Guru, Ganpati and Bhairav first, then the stotra and satnam of one's own ishta aradhya by vidhi vidhan
A new sadhak should always do the beginning like this: guru, Ganpati, Bhairav, then the japa by vidhi vidhan of the stotra and satnam and the rest of his own ishta aradhya. After that their prayoga and so on; and when this is complete, then the further vidhi vidhan should be done.
Can the Chaur Ganapati vidhan be taken up without adesh?
In the Chaur Ganapati vidhan we read that at each door of our body, in each kosha, Ganpati is seated, and by doing mantra japa they yawn. Now everybody, having read Chaur Ganapati somewhere, says yes, do Chaur Ganapati. There is a rule, brother — in which mantras it is to be done and not done, where there is adesh and where there is not. This is an atikraman, that just do it. Benefit will certainly come, but the dosha that is attaching will attach in parallel.
Who are Vishwakarma's parents and daughters?
The speaker says Vishwakarma's father is Vastudev and his mother is Bhuvana, the sister of Dev Guru Brihaspati. Vishwakarma has three daughters: Sanjna, who was married to Surya Narayan, and Riddhi and Siddhi, who were married to Ganpati.
What does a Surya worshipper receive from Riddhi and Siddhi?
The speaker says that once you have begun Surya Narayan's puja, then whether or not his mandal pujan is performed, and even if we are worshipping him alone, riddhi and siddhi will come to you just like that — not the puja of Riddhi and Siddhi, but the attainment of riddhi and siddhi.
Repeat the sadhana already begun; a new one comes only after the basic Guru-Ganpati sadhana
He says again: if you are already doing some sadhana, repeat that very one. A protective sadhana may be taken up if you have not done one — many have been doing Ganpati ji's sadhana, have done the Sankat Nashan, have done the Ekakshari japa of Dattatreya Maharaj. Once their basic, initial sadhana of Guru and Ganpati is complete, then the sadhana of Bhairav ji or of Hanuman ji is to be done — and either may be begun from Dwadashi or from Chaturdashi. In his own view you should do Hanuman ji's Panjar now, which is the fastest; or if you wish, the Badvanal.
Whose pujan is done on Amavasya?
For the Amavasya pujan, seeing the sthir lagna and so on, he says they will separately put out a community post about when it falls; or according to your own region, whenever you wish, do the pujan of Lakshmi-Ganesh ji, of Yamraj, of Kuber ji, of Chitragupta ji Maharaj, and along with them of your kula devi-devatas, and of Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati — panchopachar, dashopachar or shodashopachar pujan. First of all will be Ganpati ji, then Lakshmi ji, then the kula devi-devatas, and along with them Yaksharaj Kuber ji.
How is the one-by-one avahan and snaan done?
Just as with four or five children in the house you catch one, bathe him, set him down and take up the next, so here too with the chief shaktis or chief vigrahas: if you wish, one by one, with full bhakti bhav, do the avahan of each — Gajananam Bhutaganadi Sevitam for one devata first — if you know the mantra; otherwise simply place akshat and flowers before them, then bathe them with milk and the rest, with panchamrit, bathe them with pure water, wipe them well, and seat them in their garments.
What happens if the chaukhat tilak is not done?
Very often you will find this too, he says: from not doing the tilak and the rest, injury to the foot begins on that day; people do get hurt. Take it as a kidvanti even so, but it should be done. If you will believe, then it is belief; otherwise consider it superstition, a kidvanti, whatever, and go wherever you wish, Europe or America, no problem. But it should be done. Everyone should certainly do the pujan of the dahleez, of your own chaukhat, on the night of Amavasya, as the Dehli Vinayak pujan. And if unfortunately there is no woman in the house, then one should do this pujan oneself.
Should I buy a new Lakshmi-Ganesh idol every Diwali?
Stop bringing the murti of Lakshmi Ganesh ji every Diwali, he says. People bring a clay murti, a chinese-clay murti, and worship it for the year; shopkeepers especially — in every shop there is a Lakshmi Ganesh murti of chinese clay with the coloured kalash. Next year a new murti comes, the pandit ji too has puja done on the new one; the old one is carried off and kept beneath a peepal, or thrown into water, or found broken somewhere in the house. You do puja for a whole year and then this very shraap attaches to you. Stop committing this offence, he says.
What should be brought instead, and when consecrated?
Whatever metal you have the means for — brass for the means of brass, silver for the means of silver. Bring a shri vigraha once and have the pran pratishtha done by vidhi vidhan by a pandit ji or an acharya who knows; otherwise do it yourself on the day of Dhanteras. Do not remove the old one now — the old one will be given visarjan after Dooj; keep it in a separate place until Dooj. But on the day of Dhanteras take out time and do it fully by vidhi vidhan. Even if you are a crorepati earning crores, the offence you are committing of carrying the murtis away and throwing them, removing each year's murti, will bring you onto the road one day.
What size vigraha, and is the standing-Lakshmi rule real?
Bring metal shri vigrahas into the house, solid and not hollow, according to your means — as small as looks right to you at minimum, and at the larger end a murti up to six inches. If you have a business establishment, there too the murti should be solid. As for the totka running that at a business establishment there should be a standing Lakshmi ji's photo or vigraha and at home a seated one, because customers come and go there while at home Lakshmi ji should sit — is there any logic to all these things, he asks. There is no logic.
Which form of the vigraha does he recommend?
In his view: Bhagavati Lakshmi seated on a lotus asana, Bhagavan Ganesh seated on a lotus asana; or Lakshmi ji and Ganesh ji seated on a good asana; Bhagavati Lakshmi seated upon a gaja, or Ganpati ji seated upon a mushak — though a mushak one is hard to find. But a Bhagavan Ganpati seated upon a sinhasan, and a Bhagavati Lakshmi seated upon a sinhasan or a lotus asana — such a beautiful shri vigraha you should consecrate permanently, both at a business establishment and at home.
Where should someone who has done nothing so far begin?
Those who have done nothing at all should begin their sadhana with Bhagavan Ganpati — you may begin with Lakshmi Ganpati ji — or you may begin with Bhagavan Dattatreya; you may do the Dattatreya mala mantra and the rest. You may perform the dev deeksha vidhan on the day of Dhanteras, on the day of the Amavasya Kaal Ratri, on the day of Dooj, and on Akshay Navami which is coming; and you may do the guru varan of Bhagavan Dattatreya and then their sadhana. Or, if you are a new sadhak, you may begin the Sankat Nashan sadhana of Ganpati ji — first of all you should certainly do the Ganpati guru sadhana; otherwise do the sadhana of Bhairav ji, if you are doing an initial sadhana.
What should be done with the old clothes of the deities?
When the clothes of Bhagavan become old, what should be done with them, a listener asks. We give them pravah, he says — pravah is the one and only remedy; it also dissolves in water. He also tells Abhishek Tomar ji that he seems very troubled and should message after Diwali so that everything can be talked over, and tells Suman ji to do only one anushthan — either the Sankat Nashan or the Chalisa, one of the two.
Pujan sequence on the Pratipada of the Annapurna anushthan
On the Pratipada tithi, the speaker says, one first does Gauri-Ganesha pujan, then pujan of the Guru, then Navagraha pujan, then dhyan, and then the pujan of Bhagavati Annapurna herself with shodashopachara, or at least panchopachara with snan and bhog. After the pujan the dhyan mantra of Jagadamba is read and the Viniyoga done; the full mantra vidhan (dhyan mantra, viniyoga, karanyasa, anganyasa and jap mantra) he does not recite but gives as a PDF linked in the video description.
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.
The many forms of Ganpati: 56 Vinayaks, sixteen Vinayaks and lineage Ganapatis
The speaker says Ganesha has many forms: 56 Vinayaks are recognised, sixteen Vinayaks are recognised, and within Kula Parampara every parampara, every vidya, every Mahavidyas and upa-mahavidya has its own separate Ganapati. Each of these, he says, has a whole independent tantra and a full independent Mandala sadhana, with worship of its upa-mahavidyas, its shaktis and its anga-vidyas.
Sankat Nashan Ganapati Stotram as a new sadhak's first Ganpati sadhana
The speaker says a new Sadhak should, with eyes closed, take as his first sadhana for Ganpati the Sankat Nashan Stotra given in the Narada Purana. By doing it, he says, not only is Ganpati's Kripa obtained, Tapo-bala accumulated and Prarabdha destroyed, but, as the stotra itself states, the kamana for which it is recited is also fulfilled. The full vidhi-vidhan of the anushthan, he says, is given separately on his channel.
Obstacles that come when a sadhana is begun without a Ganpati anushthan
The speaker says that without the Kripa of Maha Ganapati, or without taking refuge in some one form of Vinayak and doing his sadhana, puja and seva, no special success comes in sadhana and many obstacles arise. A sadhak who takes up a special sadhana with no Ganpati Anushthana at the start gets heavy laziness, sleep and torpor, thoughts that never steady, concentration that keeps breaking, and Uchchatan setting in. These vighnas belong to Vinayak, he says, and connect directly with the Muladhara — the first chakra, where the body meets the asana, is Ganpati's seat — so until his kripa is obtained no anushthan completes without obstruction.
Tithi window for the Sankat Nashan Ganapati anushthan
The speaker says the Sankat Nashan Stotra anushthan is best done from Chaturthi tithi through to Chaturdashi tithi, and that this works in either paksha of any month.
Writing the twelve names of Ganpati daily when there is no money for puja
The speaker says that when distress, calamity and money trouble are very great and there is no money even for Dhoop, lamp, flowers and prasad, the best vidhan is to do only Ganpati's Japa and to write daily the root stotra of his twelve names — beginning with Vakratunda and running to the twelfth name. He says Ganpati then opens the paths of wealth very quickly and a path opens for release from debt and loans, but the phalashruti states six months of continuous practice; doing this daily is how one strengthens one's financial, bodily and mental state.
Ganpati japa with pranav and no Bhairav pujan alongside Navarna
The speaker says that the ordinary Ganpati sadhana the man did alongside the Navarna was also done with Pranav, so a mantra Dosha attached there too. Asked about Bhairava pujan, there had been none in particular: he would read the Kaal Bhairav Ashtak once and, when very pleased, the Shiv Chalisa on Mondays and Fridays. That, the speaker says, is no Bhairav pujan.
Which Ganapati is invoked before beginning the katha?
Shri Mahaganapati, who has ten arms and is the adhipati of the Ekadash Rudra Vinayaka and the fifty-six Vinayakas. Every avatar and every swaroop has its own separate tantric vigraha of Ganapati, and Mahaganapati is the king of them all; by his remembrance alone every Vinayaka becomes pleased and every inauspicious act turns auspicious.
What is the order of pujan after the shivling's first bath?
After that, complete your entire crama of pujan — the Gauri-Ganapati pujan and the rest that follows, whatever you do. Then, when you again do the abhishek of Shiva ji, do the abhishek with milk, with curd, in whatever way you do abhishek, and perform the abhishek and shringar.
How is the Sankalp for mantra Siddhi taken during an eclipse — mentally or aloud?
Complete the Ganapati (Ganesha) pujan and the Sankalpa before Sutak begins, not after. Then in the evening recall it mentally as being under the previously uttered Sankalp. And take the Sankalp aloud — not mentally.
Which sadhana should be done for a good rank in a competitive examination?
The Sankat Nashan Stotra of Bhagavan Ganapati (Ganesha). Sitting before Ganapati, recite it at least 12 times daily for his twelve names; if there is more time, offer Durva Grass and do 108 recitations. The speaker calls it divine, extraordinary and the easiest of all.
What closes the Bhadrapada calendar?
The Ganpati Navratri — Ganesh Chaturthi to Ganesh Chaturdashi, with different prescriptions by which it may be done, and with the question of whether the image should be immersed treated separately.
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.
Which form of Ganpati suits a householder?
Any form of the Ashta Vinayak may be worshipped, and Maha Ganapati too. By the speaker's reckoning, every householder should particularly perform the service and worship of the Siddhi Vinayak form — one of the Ashta Vinayak, in which Riddhi and Siddhi stand on either side.
Are the Ganesh of the Vedas and the Ganesh we worship different?
The objection is not to the claim but to the manner: that the deities are not respected and are spoken of however one likes. Even granting the claim — fine, they are different — subjects connected with Sanatan must be spoken of with manner, with the honorifics kept.
Should Ganpati be immersed from the home?
Absolutely not proper, the speaker says. His objection is to what the videos show: an image consecrated and worshipped for ten days being thrown about, climbed on, broken anyhow, with no respect at all — while the ashes of your own father and grandfather are treated with respect and carried to the Ganga.
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.
Can a Ganesh Chaturthi sadhana be begun while an annual vrat is running?
Yes. Asked whether, having begun an annual sadhana from Hal Shashthi, one may also begin the month's sadhana from Ganesh Chaturthi while it is still running, the speaker says yes — if you can manage it there is no difficulty; you may do both sadhanas.
Where does Ganesh stand relative to Durga — right or left?
Bhagavati Durga exists in four-armed, two-armed, eight-armed, ten-armed, sixteen-armed, eighteen-armed and thousand-armed forms, and the placement changes with the form. In a Gauri-Ganpati installation Bhagavati stands to Ganpati's right; with the eight-armed Durga, Ganpati goes to her right; with the ten-armed, he moves to the left.
What should be done when an Anushthan of a mantra received in a dream keeps being obstructed?
Before the Anushthan of the mantra received in a dream, perform an Anushthan of Bhagavan Ganpati's Sankat Nashan Stotra — even one day's. For instance, if the mantra Anushthan is to begin on the Ashtami, do the Ganpati Anushthan for three days, from the Chaturthi to the Saptami.
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.
Pitru Beesa ahuti procedure: three opening ahutis, then twenty honeyed kishmish
The speaker says to first kindle cow-dung kande in the ordinary way, then give three ghee ahutis: one in the name of the Guru, one in the name of Ganesha ji, one in the name of the kula matrikas. Then take the Pitru Beesa — a PDF he has given on his channel, twenty lines, twenty chaupais — and after reciting each chaupai, dip one kishmish in honey taken out into a silver bowl and cast it onto the kande, making twenty Ahutis in all. The last one is cast saying "mam sarva kula pitrubhyo namah" and then swadha.
Who stands as Bhairav at the Kolhapur Mahalakshmi temple?
The speaker says that if you go by the tantra granthas, you will be astonished to find that there Ganapati is present in the form of Bhairav, as the dwarapala; and if you go by swarup-bheda, then Narayan turns out to be her Bhairav. According to the Puranas Ganesh ji is a swarup of Narayan himself, so a slight difference arises. He adds that he obtained this from the priests of the Mahalakshmi temple when the listener had asked before.
Who is worshipped at the door in a mandap pujan?
The speaker says that in the mandap pujan of anyone at all, of any devi, both Ganapati and Bhairav are worshipped there. At the Mahalakshmi temple the pujan of two Ganapatis takes place on both sides; he cannot give the two names, but Ganapati is what is established there in the form of Bhairav.
Does scripture support Ganapati standing in Bhairav's place?
The speaker says that whenever you read a description of the devi's loka in any grantha or Purana, this thing is seen there too: Bhagavati has innumerable swarups and innumerable lokas, and in whichever loka's description you read, very often you see Ganapati seated at the gate in place of Bhairav. This, he says, confirms what he said earlier — that it is not necessary that Bhairav ji alone be in Bhairav's form; it may be Hanuman ji, it may be Ganapati.
Should a murti or a yantra be kept at the puja place at home?
The speaker says a murti should always be kept in panchayatan — one chief devi-devata and with them the remaining shaktis. If, for instance, you chiefly worship Narayan at home, then Narayan will be in the middle and in the four corners Bhagavati on one side, Shiva ji, Ganapati ji and Surya Narayan: that is the panchayatan.
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.
How should a panchayatan be arranged with Maa Kali in the centre?
The speaker says Maa Kali will remain in the middle; and around her, on both sides in front of her, Ganapati on one side and Surya on the other; behind, on both sides — Vishnu ji towards her right portion and Shiva ji towards her left portion. He offers to make a photo of the panchayatan for the questioner.
How can Rahu and Ketu be pacified at home without a specialist?
Four things: keep the house and especially the bathroom scrupulously clean on Saturdays and Wednesdays and keep the soles of your feet clean; worship Shiva's family and the Sankatnashan Ganapati with twelve Durva; fly Hanuman's red flag with a lamp morning and evening; and feed the street dogs before you eat.
How should the jaiphal be cut, and how else may bali be given?
It is not necessary that the jaiphal will cut only if soaked in water: if you have a sharp knife, set it upon the jaiphal and strike hard with the hand in a single stroke, and it will come into two pieces. Bali may in any case be given by making a trikon and such a mandala; and otherwise it can be given by kindling fire and burning it — agni bali, he says, is the most divine and astonishing of all.
If I cannot meet my guru, may I use a Sabar prayog myself, and in what order should sadhana begin?
If you have perfected the Sabar mantras, then you may use them, the speaker says. Asked where to do kuldevi sadhana and Shiva sadhana, at a temple or at home, and in what order, he says: if you are new and are doing your first sadhana, then first of all you should do the sadhana of the guru mantra. If there is no guru, then Bhagwan Dattatreya holds within himself the swaroop of all three, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, so japa and sadhana of the mantras relating to Bhagwan Dattatreya should be done. After that, if you wish to do Shiva ji's sadhana, then before that do the kuldevi's sadhana; and before even that you should do the sadhana of Ganpati and Bhairav. In order, this is how it goes.
How did Shiva come to be seated at Vaidyanath?
Since Sati's heart had fallen there, Shiva could be seated in that place only in the form of the heart. So a leela was arranged: the Atmalinga, which was Shiva himself, was given to Ravana as a Jyotirlinga. Ravana wished to carry it to Lanka, went by that very route, and in the Vaidyanath kshetra the leela was worked by Ganpati and the Jyotirlinga was established there.
If so many preliminary sadhanas are required, is the fruit not divided?
This is the great confusion among practitioners: Guru form first, then Ganapati, then Bhairav, then Hanuman, then the Kula deities, then the grahas of the birth chart — who will do all this, and by the time the principal sadhana is reached, has the fruit not been divided among them?
Ten days from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi, one durva offered on each of the 108 recitations, with abhishek and archana on the first and last day.
Ten days, Chaturthi to Chaturdashi in either Paksha. Each day 108 Durva are needed: offer one Durva to Ganapati on each recitation of the Sankat Nashan Ganesh Stotra. On the first and last day add milk Abhishek, Shringar, Panchopachara and Archana with the 108 names, then 108 recitations.
Why should a new practitioner keep the daily count high?
Because a new practitioner needs Punya-bal and Tapo-bal. The count could be reduced, but for now eight recitations are kept daily. And during the Ganapati sadhana the Datta japa continues in parallel — 11 mala of the Ekakshari and five recitations of the Mala Mantra at the start of each sitting.
Ganpati sadhana as the precondition for success in any anushthan
The speaker says that without the sadhana of Bhagwan Ganesha no one can obtain complete success in any special Anushthana or in any field of life, so Ganpati sadhana is extremely necessary. In tantra, he says, it has various stages: a very step-by-step vidhan through beej mantras is given for the ashta-vinayaka and Maha Ganapati swarups. The sadhana he presents here is instead for an ordinary sadhak or ordinary householder, to cross every difficulty that comes in life.
When the ten-day Ganpati sadhana is called for: failed sadhanas, Ketu, progeny, wealth, vidya and exams
The speaker says this Ganesha sadhana should certainly be done when great difficulty is coming in some field of life and many sadhanas are being done without success; also by anyone who wants to advance in sadhana, so that no obstacle arises in their main sadhanas ahead; also when there is an ill effect of Ketu in the janma kundli; and for matters from the birth of children to wealth, obtaining vidya, or a competitive exam that is not yielding success. In his view every person should do this sadhana in their life.
Timing of the ten-day Ganpati sadhana: Chaturthi to Chaturdashi of any paksha
The speaker says the sadhana is begun on the Chaturthi Tithi of any month and either paksha, Krishna or Shukla, and concludes on the Chaturdashi tithi, making a sadhana of ten days. If one is going to do it in the month of Bhadrapada, when Ganesh puja is publicly celebrated everywhere, that too is very fitting; the sadhana can be done in that month as well.
Materials for the Sankat Nashan Ganpati Stotra sadhana: a new white copy, a red pen and the stotra
The speaker says one must first bring a white copy, a completely blank new one, and a red pen. One must also have the Sankat Nashan Ganpati Stotram; he says he will link a PDF of it in the video description, to be downloaded and kept as a printout.
First-day Ganpati puja: snan, new clothes, janeu, bhog and offerings
The speaker says that on the Chaturthi one does Ganesh pujan with five, ten or sixteen upachars, as one is able or knows. If there is a murti or photo, the murti is bathed with milk and panchamrita, dressed in new clothes, and a Yajnopavita must be offered; a man who wears the janeu may put it on the murti, but a woman only offers it and does not put it on. Then a bhog of Laddu or Modak is given, Durva Grass must be offered after the bhog, and Dhoop, Bilva and red flowers are offered; a fragrant lamp, best of all one burning ghee, is lit.
Writing the Sankat Nashan Ganpati Stotra eight times on the Chaturthi
The speaker says that after the puja one first remembers one's Guru, or whoever one mentally accepts as guru, and then begins writing the Sankat Nashan Ganpati Stotra in the new copy with the red pen. It is written eight times, the count given in the stotra's own Phalashruti, which he asks listeners to read. This writing is done only once, on the Chaturthi, and the written copy and pen are kept beside Ganpati during the sadhana.
Daily paths of the Sankat Nashan Stotra: 27 to 108 a day, each offered on a durva blade
The speaker says that after the writing, the paths begin: at least 27 and, if one can, 108 paths daily, kept up from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi, which makes the path pure and its effect very intense. One keeps Durva Grass at hand, 108 blades if possible; one path is done over one blade and the blade is offered to Ganpati. If durva is scarce, ten or eleven paths are done over a single blade before offering it, so 108 paths are completed on eleven blades. If durva cannot be found, red flowers or any flower offered to Ganpati serve, red kaner or gudhal being best.
Seat, direction and the shorter routine on the later days of the Ganpati sadhana
The speaker says the asana and clothing may be red or yellow, and the direction faced east or north, either of the two. Ganpati need not be bathed every day: the snan is on the first day only, and from the next day one sprinkles Gangajal on him, offers bhog, lights dhoop and lamp, and does the paths. The eight writings likewise belong to the first day alone.
Closing havan of the Ganpati sadhana: ghee and guggul, twelve ahutis with each of the twelve names
The speaker says that on the Chaturdashi, once the day's 108 paths, or 27 if that was the daily count, are complete, a small Havan should certainly be done if possible. Only two things are used: a man offers Ahuti of ghee mixed with Guggul. The ahutis are given by name: the Sankat Nashan Ganesh Stotra carries twelve names of Ganpati, and with each name twelve ahutis are offered. He says he will put the twelve names in a separate PDF linked with the video. After the havan come Purnahuti and Aarti.
Concluding the Ganpati sadhana: donating the written copy and feeding a small boy
The speaker says that on the Chaturdashi itself the copy in which the stotra was written eight times is taken to a temple that also has a Ganesh murti, a Shiv temple being one such, and donated to the Brahmins there with a Sankalpa, along with some anna and Dakshina. If possible, at least one small boy is also fed a meal or sweets by one's own hand. No varna is to be looked at in the boy; he need not be a brahmin, and a well-behaved boy is very good. The texts say a boy under twelve, but in today's conditions five, six, seven or eight years is best. With this the sadhana is complete.
After the ten days: eight daily paths for life, yearly repeats, and the promise of a fulfilled sankalp
The speaker says the path is not to be dropped once the ten days end: at least eight paths daily, morning and evening if possible, for six months without a break, and in his own view for life. The ten-day Anushthana itself should be repeated every year whenever Ganesh puja comes or in any month that suits, and repeating it every month is best of all. If one keeps this up for a whole year, he says he gives it in writing that the sankalp one is doing it for cannot fail to be fulfilled, however strong the thing written in one's Prarabdha, if Ganpati bestows his grace. The wish must be dharma-yukt, not against dharma: a son, children, wealth, vidya, success in a competitive exam, continued for one year.
Precaution: clear doubts two or three days before starting the sadhana, not on the day
The speaker says any doubt or question about the sadhana can be put in the comments or in his Telegram group, but he asks listeners to note that a message sent on the very day the puja is to begin may not get an immediate reply. So one should try to clear all doubts two or three days beforehand and only then begin the sadhana.
In what order are the deities of the temple bathed?
Inside, first bathe Nandi ji — but if the vigraha of Ganapati ji is being given for bathing, then bathe Ganapati ji first, and Nandi ji after, with water. The karma sakshi deepak will already have been lit. After that bathe Bhagavati Parvati ji, Skanda ji and Kumar ji; then bathe the jaladhari of Bhagwan Shiva and perform the abhishek of the shivling.
What should be present with a shivling established at home?
In the shivling established at home there should be the Shiva parivar, he says: the shivling, its arghi, the trishul, Nandi ji, the serpent Vasuki ji. Besides that you may also keep a shri vigraha of the Shiva parivar in which Skanda ji and Ganapati ji also are; and if their murtis already exist separately, then there is no need to keep them again.
After dev diksha and the guru naam, which sadhana should be taken up?
A listener asks whether, to enter the field of sadhana after dev diksha and the guru naam, he should do the sadhana of Ganesh ji, having done one purashcharan with a second due on Poonam. The speaker answers that the Sankat Nashan Ganapati Stotram has already been given — download the PDF, in which every subject is fully given, of the guru, of Ganapati ji, of Bhairav ji — do it that way, but for the present do Shiva ji's.
Can one japa mala serve for both Ganesh and Bhagavati?
Asked about doing japa of Ganesh ji's and Bhagavati's mantras on one and the same japa mala, he says that if there is no option then never mind, do it. But if you have the option and the capacity, then keep one mala only for the devatas and one mala for Bhagavati.
What can be done for a government job besides hard work?
Asked by a listener who says he is doing all the hard work for a government job but would like some upay as well, the speaker says that for one who specifically wants a government job, there is material on the channel for Bhagavan Surya Narayana and for Bhagavan Ganpati ji. And according to the birth kundali, according to the lagnesh, certainly have an analysis done once of the position of Surya Dev and of Shani Dev; if some prayoga or vidhan is formed accordingly, do that too, so that you get benefit in this as well.
What should be done about a dream of reciting the Ganapati Atharvashirsha?
A listener says that many times he sees Ganapati darshan in a dream, seeing himself reciting the Ganapati Atharvashirsha, and asks whether it is good and whether there is some indication. It is good in any case, brother, the speaker says — but this is not a subject to be told. All these things are not to be told publicly: delete the comment. Everyone will have heard it in any case, but these things are not told.
Budh is nourished even by ordinary good karma, and the more he is nourished the faster attraction rises.
The more it is nourished the more imbalance it also produces, he says, and Budh's influence is complete in this. We nourish Budh even unknowingly, as we nourish all the grahas by our good karma. For instance, if you have a mausi or a bua — held to be connected with Budh — whom you love and respect greatly and to whom you give gifts, Budh has been slightly nourished. If you do upasana of Bhagavan Ganapati, Budh is nourished; of Bhagavan Narayana, Budh is nourished; of Bhagavati, he is nourished especially. And when this nourishment increases, attraction increases very rapidly.
What is done for Ganpati ji after the sankalpa?
After the sankalpa, Bhagavan Shri Ganpati ji is remembered first. The Sankat Nashan Stotra has been given in full there; recite the whole of it. One recitation is to be done. With that the remembrance of the guru is done, the sankalpa is done, and the recitation for Ganpati ji is done.
Which powers are present at Kamakhya?
Countless powers are there, but principally the ten Mahavidyas along with eight principal Bhairavs seated near Bhagavati's main Mahamudra. And the twelve Vinayaks — in the Kamarupa region the Vinayaks come to be present in Bhairav form as well, with their own Shaktis, the Vainayaki.
Ghee lamps and Yogini offerings after the garland, counted by deity
After the garland is put on, the speaker says at least 13 ghee lamps are lit there, with one red flower and some sweet on a betel leaf in front of each, and the deity's Yoginis are prayed to for removal of the dosh — 13 yoginis for Kali. The number of offering places changes with the deity: 9 for Durga, 12 for Shiva, 4 for Ganesha, 11 for Hanuman, 8 for Baglamukhi, 9 for the Matangi form, 8 for Bhairava. If one does not want to go by the count, at least 11 offerings and 11 lamps are lit in the temple that day.
Worshipping the afflicted deity's own ishta to restore stopped experiences
The speaker says that if the offence was against a deity like Hanuman or Bhairava and the experiences from a paath have stopped, one prays to that deity's own Ishta Devata — the one he reveres and whose word he heeds. For Hanuman that means praising Shri Ram and asking him to free one from the dosh (Shri Ram Stuti, Ram Raksha Stotra, his 108 names) and serving Sitaram ji and Bhagwati Anjana; for Ganesha, also worshipping Bhagwati Parvati; for Bhairav ji, certainly worshipping Bhagwati Kali with the "Kshama-Rupena Samsthita" verse, through whom the offence is forgiven and the experiences begin again. He calls this the general vidhan by which special Kripa returns — done secretly, never shown.
The Ganesha–Kartikeya marriage contest: circling the earth versus circling the parents
The speaker narrates the last chapter of the Kumar Khand of the Rudra Samhita: when Shiva and Parvati decide their sons are fit for marriage, Ganesha and Kartikeya each insist on marrying first, and the parents set the condition that whoever first circles the whole earth will be married first. Kartikeya sets off at once; Ganesha, who cannot walk even a kos, instead bathes, seats his parents on an asana, worships them, circles them seven times and prostrates seven times, then asks to be married — and when told to go round the earth like Kumar, answers that by worshipping and circling his parents he has, through his buddhi, already circled the ocean-bounded earth seven times. The speaker notes the text keeps saying this was done "taking recourse to lokachar": there was no real dispute, the whole leela is a message for society.
Parents as a son's greatest tirtha and the husband as a wife's
The speaker says the Vedas and dharma shastras state that whoever worships his parents and circles them obtains the same fruit as circling the entire earth, and that a parent's lotus feet are a son's great tirtha — other tirthas are far away, this one is at hand. For a son the parents, and for a woman her husband, are the best tirtha within the home; a wife gains the fruit of tirtha by serving her husband and a son by serving his parents. He adds the text's warning: one who leaves his parents at home to go on Teerth Yatra incurs the sin of killing them both, so if the parents are able, never go without taking them along. Tirthas come only after serving one's parents with body, wealth and intellect as far as one can.
Keeping the intellect alert in a crisis instead of panicking
The speaker relates Parvati's praise of Ganesha after his argument: a pure intellect has arisen in you, and one whose buddhi keeps its excellence even when a crisis is upon him has his sorrow removed just as darkness is removed at sunrise. He stresses that this is meant for everyone: crisis comes to all, and the trouble begins when one panics, loses heart and stops thinking with the intellect — he recalls how a hare made a mad lion fall into a well. Parvati adds that Ganesha has followed the dharma laid down for a child, and the parents accept his word as final.
Ganesha's wives Siddhi and Buddhi and his sons Shubh and Labh
The speaker says that besides the Prajapatis Manu and Daksha there is a Prajapati named Vishvarupa, whose two daughters Bhagavati Siddhi and Bhagavati Buddhi — the pair everyone calls Riddhi-Siddhi — were married with great festivity to Ganesha. Ganesha's two sons are Shubh-Labh, also called Kshema and Labha in the Puranas: Kshema (Shubh) from the wife Siddhi and Labh from the wife Buddhi. With this Shiva and Parvati became grandparents and their household was complete.
Skanda as Shiva's tejas: foremost in virility, strength and brahmacharya
The speaker says that in every matter related to virility, fierceness, strength, Brahmacharya and blood, the name of Kumar stands first. Kartikeya was born directly from Shiva's Tejas: just as Ganesha, formed from the ubtan of the pores of Bhagavati's whole body, is Bhagavati's own embodied form, so Kumar Skanda, born of Shiva's tejas, is Shiva himself. Each of the two, he says, has his own speciality.
Starting the Navratri navgrah jap: Pratipada, kalash optional, morning best, after guru-Ganapati pujan and the Bhagavati path
The speaker says the jap and pujan begin on the Pratipada of Navratri after Kalash sthapana, Akhand Jyot and so on; but one who does no akhand deep or kalash sthapana and only does puja-path can certainly still do this sadhana. It may be done morning or evening as one's business or job allows, though morning is best. The order on each day: first the kalash sthapana (on Pratipada) and the initial pujan, then guru and Ganesha pujan, then whatever path of Bhagavati one does, and only after that this jap. He says all the mantras (of the nine grahas, their mothers and Bhagavati) are put on one page on screen and will be given in the description or a PDF for copying.
Which chapter of the Shiv Mahapuran carries the complete Ganesh narrative?
The thirteenth chapter of the Kumar Khand in the Rudra Samhita — the second of the seven Samhitas — which holds the complete story of Bhagavan Ganapati. The frame is a conversation between Brahma and Narad, recounted by Sut ji.
What is promised to someone who recites the Ganesh Akhyan daily?
That whatever desire is held, if the complete Akhyan is recited daily with that desire, the desire is certainly fulfilled. The sonless obtain a son; a girl not finding a groom obtains one very quickly; one whose wealth was destroyed obtains wealth.
Was Ganesh born only once?
No. By the distinction of Kalpas, Ganesh's birth is said to have been even before Brahma's. In an earlier Kalpa his head fell away at the mere glance of Shanishchara and an elephant's head was joined on; the account being told here is the Shvet Kalpa, where Shankar himself severs it.
Is the Ganapati born in the Shiv Mahapuran the same as Maha Ganapati?
No — always keep this in mind. Maha Ganapati is present from the beginning of creation and is a Mahashakti; the Ganapati discussed in the Shiv Mahapuran or spoken of generally is not the same. By Kalpa-bheda many Ganapatis have been, just as many Brahmas, Vishnus and Rudras have been.
Why did Parvati want a Gana of her own?
Because although the countless Ganas under Shiva's command did obey her orders, not one was independently hers. Nandi, Bhringi and the many Pramath Ganas all carry out Shankar's orders and stand at the door — but they are not our Ganas, she says, and our mind does not meet with theirs.
In the Devi Mahapurana Mahabhagavata, Vinayak guards the Devi's inner door and Bhairav the outer gate — as in a temple
In the Devi Mahapurana Mahabhagavata — not the Shrimad Devi Bhagavata — the Devi's realm is described with Ganapati seated at every door. At her principal gate Bhagavan Vinayak stands in her service; and at the outermost gate the place belongs to Bhairav.
How was Ganesh made, and what was he told?
From the Ubtan, the film on her own body, she formed a figure complete in every auspicious mark and by her Sankalpa-shakti gave it life. He asked what her work was; she said — you are my son, become my doorkeeper today, and let none enter my house without my order, not even by force.
Why is Ganpati worshipped first in every Avaran, and what does that block?
Connect it to Tantra, the speaker says: wherever Ganpati's worship has been done — and whenever the Avarans of Bhagavati are worshipped, Ganpati is worshipped first — then even if some disruptive power is present at that place, once his worship is done its entry becomes forbidden and it cannot come.
Shiva came to the door for the sake of Lila, was barred, and was struck twice with the staff
Ganesh would not let him in — the mother is bathing, without her order you cannot go inside, go away from here. Told "I am Shiva and no other", he struck him with the staff; told again that this is my own house, he grew angry and struck a second time.
Shiva's Ganas first tried to reason with the boy at the door, asking who he was, and then turned to threats
They tried to explain first — who are you, where have you come from, what do you want to do, go far from here if you wish to live. Shiva, who knows everything but is performing this Lila in the manner of the world, had positioned himself outside the house and sent them.
Calling the Ganas beautiful was a taunt at their strange and peculiar forms, not affection
It was a taunt, not affection. All of Shiva's Ganas are strange to look at, each of a different and peculiar form. Girija's son, fearless and showing them the staff in his hand, asked who they were and where they had come from — you people are very beautiful indeed — and told them to go far away at once.
The Ganas said he was spared only because he too was a Gana, and the threat of death did not move him from the door
They said they were Shiva's foremost Ganas and the doorkeepers there, ordering him away by Shiva's command; that he too is a Gana and so is spared — had he not been one, he would already have been killed. He did not stir from the spot, and they went back to complain.
Ganpati chased and thrashed the Ganas with Bhagavati's own given staff, whose blow none could bear
They came back to threaten him again and he lost his temper. Ganpati took up the staff and chased and beat them. It was Bhagavati's own given Shakti — who could bear its blow? Well thrashed, they went back to Shiva.
The beaten Ganas pleaded that they had only been protecting maryada, and Shiva called them cowards
That they were only protecting Maryada — they had merely been threatening him and had not wished to beat him, and yet he said such a thing. Shiva, standing a Kos away holding the Trishul, tells them they are cowards, heroes only in name, and orders them back to strike him whoever he may be.
Bound by his mother's order and facing a settled resolve to kill him, Ganesh was greatly grieved
Because he is bound by Bhagavati's order, and these people are growing angry and saying that they will now kill him. He was greatly grieved on hearing the Shiva Ganas speak with such settled resolve.
Parvati's condition: argument is fine, but none enters her house without first defeating her Gana in battle
That if it is argument, well and good — but if they wish to enter the house, they may do so only by making war, defeating her Gana and obtaining victory. Without conquering her Gana, no one at all can enter the house.
The Devi sent word that these Ganas were nothing before him and that he should carry out his duty, fit or unfit
That he had done very well; that these people would not now enter by force; that these Ganas are nothing before him, to conquer a Gana such as he; and that whatever the duty, fit or unfit, he should certainly do it — for one who is once conquered will not then bear enmity.
Ganesh replied that both sides serve their own master, and that today let Parvati and Shankar each see their own strength
That he, alone and a boy, would still carry out his mother's order; that today let Devi Parvati see her son's strength and Shankar see his Ganas'; that if they are stationed at Shiva's door then he too is certainly stationed here — and that they should obey Shiva there, while here he obeys Parvati.
Ganesh opened by breaking their morale: being a boy alone, the shame of the lost battle would be theirs and not his
By breaking their morale first. I am alone and a boy and have never made war, he says, but I will fight today; and if Shiva and Parvati's battle is lost, it is you who will be shamed — being a boy, I have no shame in defeat or victory.
Parvati, Shiva and Ganesh each separately say "what is destined will happen" — a signal placed in the Purana
The speaker treats it as a signal placed in the Purana. First Bhagavati says it, then Bhagavan Shiva, and now Ganpati says it too — understand from that which way the signal points.
Nandi and Bhringi dragged him by the legs; he struck free, took up a Parigha and felled them all
Nandi seized one leg and Bhringi the other and they dragged him; he freed his legs by striking with his hands, took up a Parigha, and began felling them all — arms broken, backs split, heads shattered, shoulders severed, some flung upward, some dragging their broken legs away.
The fleeing Ganas saw Ganesh as Kala at the end of a Kalpa, and scattered like deer before a lion
They saw him as Kala. As deer scatter in ten directions on seeing a lion, so those thousands of Ganas fled; and as Kala appears fearsome at the end of a Kalpa, so did they all see Ganesh — the destroyer. Then he returned and took his place at the door again.
Ganesh pulled at Brahma's beard — and Brahma himself says he went there deluded by ignorance
Ganesh grew angry at the sight of him and began pulling out his beard. Read the signal, the speaker says: Brahma himself states in the Shiv Mahapuran that, not knowing that particular matter, deluded by ignorance he went there with the Rishis.
One Shakti, her mouth spread like a black cave, devoured every weapon thrown until only Ganesh's Parigha remained in sight
The one whose mouth was spread like a black cave ate every weapon the Devas threw, until not one Deva's weapon could be seen in that place and only Ganesh's Parigha was visible. As Mandarachal churned the ocean of milk, so this one boy churned the whole unassailable army of the Devas.
Apsaras and the Saptarishis filled the sky-path to watch, while the earth shook and mountains began to fall
The whole sky-path filled with Apsaras, the Saptarishis and others who came to watch — the accomplished ones who can move by that path. The earth began to shake and mountains to fall, because one boy had held off so many Devas, and Devas who had won many battles at that.
The Devi's staff blunted even Vishnu's power, and the two Shaktis surrendered their strength to Ganesh
The boy struck Vishnu with the staff Bhagavati had given him, and by that blow the strength of Vishnu together with all the Devas was blunted and they turned away from the fight. There was that much capacity in it — even Vishnu's powers were blunted there.
Ganesh struck down the Trishul with the staff Parvati had given and brought the Pinaka to the ground as well
He struck the hand holding the Trishul with the staff Parvati had given, and the Trishul fell. Shiva took up the bow Pinaka; Ganeshwar threw the Parigha and brought that to the ground too. Shiva being present in his Panchanan form, Ganesh struck and wounded all five hands of one side.
Vishnu declared that among Devas, Danavas, Yakshas and Rakshasas none in the three worlds equals this warrior
That this greatly strong one is blessed and is a warrior who loves battle: I have seen many Devas, Danavas, Daityas, Yakshas, Gandharvas and Rakshasas, but in the three worlds none can equal him in splendour, form, quality or valour.
Vishnu was felled by the staff, and Shiva, enraged, severed Ganesh's head from the trunk
The son of Shakti struck Vishnu again with the staff; being Bhagavati's given power, Vishnu could not bear it and fell to the earth, rising at once to fight again. At that Shiva, exceedingly angered, appeared before him and severed Ganpati's head from the trunk.
Why did Shiva sever his son Ganesh's head?
To honour a curse. Mali and Sumali, two Rakshasa devotees of Shiva, had the boon that he would come and protect them; when Sur Narayan fought them, Shiva struck him with the Trishul and he died. His father Kashyap Rishi cursed Shiva that he too would one day kill his own son himself.
Parvati's condition for ending the destruction: her son alive, and first-worshipped among all of them
That if her son should live again and become the first to be worshipped among them, and be from that day the president of all, then this destruction would not take place. If you do that for him, there can be peace in the world; otherwise you will not obtain happiness.
How was Ganesh's elephant head obtained, and how was he brought back to life?
Shiva told the Devas to go to the northern direction and join to the trunk the head of whatever they met first. In the Shiv Mahapuran what they found was a one-tusked elephant. Shiva then consecrated water by his Vedic mantras and sprinkled it, and at that touch alone he became alive.
Consecrated as Ganadhyaksha by the Devas, and given garments, ornaments, Siddhis and boons by his mother
The Devas consecrated him in the post of Ganadhyaksha, and Parvati took him into her lap and embraced him. She gave him garments and ornaments and many kinds of Siddhis, touched him with her auspicious hand, kissed his face, and gave him many boons.
Why is Sindoor used for Ganpati, and which Sindoor?
Because Parvati said that since Sindoor appears on his face, he will always be worshipped by people with Sindoor. Use the red Sindoor, or the orange one — both have their accounts. And, the speaker warns, do not offer Sindoor mixed with blood.
Those whose sadhanas and works are repeatedly obstructed should take refuge in Ganpati — and Shiva calls him his second son
Those in whose sadhana and Anushthan obstacles come again and again, and those in whose lives many kinds of obstacles stay present — the ones for whom a work is always on the point of being done and is left undone. They should certainly take the shelter of Ganpati.
Why must Ganesh be worshipped before any other deity?
Because of the joint boon of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva: that as the three of them are worshipped in the three worlds, so shall Ganesh be worshipped by all; that men should worship him first and then them; and that if anyone worships other deities without worshipping him, he will not obtain the fruit of that worship.
Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma each worshipped Ganesh, all called him Sarvadhyaksha, and Shiva gave his boons — Ganadhyaksha, and the foremost name in destroying obstacles
It is written plainly that worship without his worship is not even accepted. Shiva then worshipped Ganesh himself, then Vishnu, then Brahma, and all called him Sarvadhyaksha. Shiva's boons: that when he is content the world is content; that the son of Shakti should always be happy; that his name will be foremost in destroying obstacles; and that from today he is the president of all Shiva's Ganas.
On which tithi was Ganesh born, and how many Chaturthis are there in a year?
On the Chaturthi of the Krishna Paksha of Bhadrapada, at the auspicious moonrise hour. People observe Ganesh worship especially on the Shukla Paksha Chaturthi of Bhadrapada, but the Chaturthi of both Pakshas is his — the twenty-four Chaturthis of the year all carry his worship.
How long does the Ganesh Chaturthi vrat prescribed by Shiva run?
Until the Chaturthi tithi of the Krishna Paksha of Bhadrapada comes round again — that is, begun on this year's Bhadon Krishna Chaturthi and carried to next year's. Shiva's instruction is that the vrat be performed for one year, and that those wanting incomparable happiness worship on every Chaturthi.
What is the daily procedure of the Chaturthi vrat?
Bathe in the morning and make the request to Brahmins for the vrat; take the Sankalpa, worship with Durva, and keep the fast. When the first watch of the night arrives, bathe again and perform Ganesh's worship — making an image of metal, coral, white Arka or clay, and consecrating it.
What is Shvet Arka, and what else may the Ganesh image be made of?
The white Aak, white Madar plant — said to be at least forty years old. From its root the Vigraha of Bhagavan Ganpati should be made, and there is a description involving Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya Nakshatra; it becomes a Tantrokta prescription. Or else the image is made of clay.
What kind of Durva is offered to Ganesh?
The Durva for Ganesh's worship should be a span, twelve Angul, in length; possessed of three knots; and rootless — no root in it. Such Durva alone is offered to him, a hundred and one or twenty-one of them, upon the installed image.
What should someone in serious difficulty do on Chaturthi?
On the Chaturthi tithi, perform Ganesh's Abhishek, worship with fragrance, and offer twenty-one Durva while reciting the Sankat Nashan Ganapati Stotram twenty-one times — with the Durva as specified: twelve Angul, three knots, rootless. Do this through the year's twenty-four Chaturthis.
After the Chaturthi night worship: the young moon is worshipped, Brahmins fed, and a salt-free sweet meal taken
After worshipping and praising him, worship the young moon that has risen in the first watch — give him Argha, show him Dhupa and Deepa, and worship him as far as the offerings allow. Then worship Brahmins and feed them sweet foods, and eat sweet food without salt yourself.
How is the year-long Ganesh Chaturthi vrat concluded (the Udyapan)?
When the full year is complete, feed twelve Brahmins by Shiva's command, establish a Kalash and worship his image beside it. On the altar make an eight-petalled lotus and perform the homa by the Vedic rule without stinting — the Navagraha and Shodash Matrika mandalas, and homa with the Ganesh Gayatri and his Sahasranama.
At the Udyapan two married women and two Batuks are fed, a night vigil kept, and only the clay image is dissolved
Two Suhagan women and two Batuks — Brahmin boys under twelve — are worshipped by rule and fed respectfully before the image. Then a night vigil, worship again at dawn, and Ganesh requested to come again and dissolved. The Visarjan here, he clarifies, is of the clay image installed for the Udyapan.
The ordinary worship through the year: Shodashopachara, Durva, Sahasrarchan, Tarpan — and Sindoor, sandal, Ketaki flowers and Tandul
Shiva says that whoever, with faith and according to his capacity, worships Ganesh with Sindoor, sandal, Ketaki flowers, Tandul and many kinds of Upacharas for the fruit of all desires, will always obtain Siddhi and his obstacles will be destroyed. Ketaki flowers and Tambul both go to Ganesh.
All Varnas are ordered to worship Ganpati, women in particular, and kings seeking their own prosperity
All the Varnas — Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra — are ordered to worship Ganpati; and women in particular should certainly worship Ganesh, as Bhagavan Shiva himself says. Kings desiring their own prosperity should also worship him particularly.
Why is Ganesh worshipped first together with Ambika?
Because the first worship we perform is of Ganesh together with Bhagavati Ambika — Ma Parvati and Ganesh are the first invoked — and it is described here that when Ganesh is worshipped Bhagavati becomes pleased of herself. A mother is certainly pleased by the worship of her son.
The Ganesh Akhyan closes with celebration: Dundubhis, dancing Apsaras, a rain of flowers, and the whole world made happy at his establishment
The Devas sounded the Dundubhis, the Apsaras danced, the Gandharvas sang and flowers rained from the sky. At Ganapati's establishment the whole world became happy, a great festival began, and all sorrow and hardship was destroyed.
What is the full Phalashruti (fruit of hearing) of the Ganesh Akhyan?
One who hears it restrained becomes possessed of every auspiciousness. A son to the sonless, wealth to the poor, a wife to one who wants one, subjects to one who wants subjects, health to the sick, good fortune to the unfortunate, sons to one whose sons were lost, wealth to one whose wealth was lost, and her husband to a wife he abandoned.
How should the Ganesh Akhyan be recited daily through Bhadrapada month?
Recite it daily — about fifteen minutes — through the whole of Bhadrapada. Bathe Ganesh's Vigraha daily for that month, do a fine Tilak, offer Naivedya, offer Doob grass, recite the Sankat Nashan and then this Akhyan, holding whatever desire you have.
Recite the kavach of the aradhya whose kavach you actually wear
If you have chiefly worn the kavach of your own aradhya and it is connected with their form, then do that very kavach. If you keep Bhagwan Datt's kavach, sanctified with the Datta Vajra Panjar, then reciting that is excellent. If you wear Bhagwan Vinayak's Haridra kavach, then recite Bhagwan Ganpati's 108 namavali, or the kavach of Bhagwan Haridra Ganpati, or the kavach of any form of Bhagwan Vinayak — that is excellent. Or recite the kavach of Bhagavati Baglamukhi, which is excellent too, because by it every one of them is satisfied.
How many paths lead up Nilachal, and who guards the eastern one?
The ascent of the Nilachal parvat has begun by the eastern path. There are eight paths, by which the journey is made from all eight corners, and in the eight paths there are different dwarapalas. The dwarapalas of this eastern path are Ganpati ji, Manohar Agni Baital ji, Ghantakarna ji, Hanuman ji and Nandi ji. So the first darshan in the order of ascending the Nilachal parvat is that of Bhagavan Ganpati ji.
The first pujan on the eastern path is of the dwarapalas Ganpati and Manohar Agni Baital, before going further
The speaker says one should ascend on foot, and that when you come for the darshan of Bhagavati Kamakhya you should first stay in the city of Guwahati and take darshan of all — Urvashi Kund and the rest. Here it is Bhagavan Ganpati ji whose darshan and pujan is to be done first, and thereafter at this same place one must offer dhoop, deep and naivedya in the name of Manohar Agni Baital. The first pujan should certainly be of the dwarapala; only after that are we to go ahead.
Where does the parikrama begin and where does it exit?
The people seen coming from below upwards are on the parikrama path; the whole parikrama has to be done by it, and those coming out from behind the lion are on the exit path, the way out after emerging from the cave. The way in is from within the temple, the garbhagriha side. The parikrama begins at the place shown, where Vinayak ji is present in front, and it is around this very Vinayak ji that the whole circular path is made, in which the parikrama has to be done.
What must be done at Saubhagya Kund before darshan?
Certainly bathe. Before darshan one should bathe here, and Kamleshwar Mahadev is present there and should be given darshan. The kund seen on the other side of the enclosure is held to be for the devatas — in today's time not so many people accept it, but you will find the description particularly in the granths. Where Bhagavan Vinayak is present at the kund, you must perform his seva and puja after bathing, and take the command there, that the kripa of all the devi-devatas present at Saubhagya Kund be obtained; after that go for the darshan of Bhagavati.
What are the rules for the Akhand Deepak, Ganesh Deepdaan and Karma Sakshi lamp?
On the Akhand Deepak: decide yourself — keep it if you will be able to bear it, and do not keep it in a state of disturbance. For the Ganesh Deepdaan use ghee. The Karma Sakshi lamp stands in the name of all the deities, since the Jyot is literally their own form. The Kusha count in a Ganesh tarpan may be twelve or nine.
What should someone doing Ganesh sadhana do when there are dreams but no darshan?
A listener says he does Ganesh ji's sadhana, has some experience, feels someone is with him in dreams but it neither speaks nor gives darshan, and asks what to do to obtain darshan. He answers: whatever experiences are coming to you through dreams and the like, tell them to yourself or to your guru ji, do not make them public. Secondly, darshan is up to him, in what manner he will give it. You should do havan — you should do havan more and more of whatever mantras you are doing japa of; at the very least you should do havan on the Chaturthi tithi in both pakshas. Through havan, he says, things fructify a good deal more quickly.
The tantric secret of the gaja head is deferred to the coming Ganpati puja
Asked why a gaja head had to be joined to Ganesh ji, whether there are tantric secrets in it, and about the tantric importance of the three-eyed Ganapati and the Panchmukhi Ganapati, he says that all these subjects will have to be told separately. Ganpati puja is coming, and in it he will continually attempt, staying within his capacity and limits, to tell the tantrokta subjects connected with Ganpati ji.
Whose sadhana should be done to master technical and computer knowledge?
Asked whose sadhana should be done for help in learning technical computer language and becoming a master in technical knowledge, he answers: you want technical knowledge in computers, and for that you wish to do sadhana — do that of Bhagavan Ganpati. Who is greater than him in buddhi?
Does the vahan change when Ganesh ji's forms change?
Asked whether the vahan changes when the forms of Ganesh ji change, he answers: yes, absolutely.
What is the tantric importance of the red gudhal flower?
Asked about the tantric importance and secret of the red gudhal flower in Ganesh puja and in the puja of Kali Ma, he calls it a very good question and says only this much: that if a hundred flowers of Shami are offered, and if one red kaner or one red gudhal flower is offered, then the same fruit is obtained — on offering these two one upon the other.
Who receives worship first at any large function?
You cannot worship Jagadamba first, he says. Whenever a large function occurs, if a pandit ji or brahman ji who follows the vidhi-vidhan has come, he will first of all have the Nandi shraddh performed — the Nandi-mukh shraddh, the shraddh performed at a time of gladness. There the place belongs first to the pitrs, the right belongs first to the pitrs. After that it is Ganapati ji's, and only then that of the other devi-devatas.
What daily schedule of japa should a householder keep, and in what order?
Take out time, he says, and make a schedule even of half an hour of japa. If your time is not fixed, then whenever you get time in the twenty-four hours: if you have eaten, bathe, change your clothes, sit on the asana, light dhoop and deep, do the five minutes of initial smaran of Guru and Ganapati, and then come on to the main purashcharana you have to do.
How should a student do a prachand sadhana of Ma Saraswati for studies?
The speaker answers that a prachand sadhana will only happen with prachandta — do whatever sadhana of Ma Saraswati or of Ganpati you want to do fiercely. But if you want to do well in studies, then study well: it is the studying that should be done fiercely. Sadhana should be done with saumyata, at a fixed time and in a fixed number. If you get absorbed in prachand sadhana, the student's whole vidya will go over into that. Do the japa of the Saraswati Kavach and of Bhagavan Ganpati's kavach and try to siddh it — eleven a day is very good if the desire is to carry it long; more than that is not needed daily.
In what order is pujan done before worshipping a Shivling?
The speaker says that generally, before the pujan of Bhagavan Shiva, offer arghya in the name of Kirtimukh and offer akshat and the rest; after that the pujan of Nandishwar, then the pujan of the Bhagavan's astra the trishul, then on the Bhagavan's arghi the pujan of Ganpati, Kartikeya, Bhagavati Ashok Sundari and Bhagavati Parvati; then the pujan of all the devatas at the outflow path of the arghi; then the pujan of Vasuki Nag; and thereafter the pujan of the Shivling.
In the Sankat Nashan stotra, is it Vighnarajendram or Vighnarajam?
You have asked this very rightly, the speaker says. In some places Vighnarajendram is also written, and there is Vighnarajam; Vighnaraj is found in most places. And if you read Vighnarajendram it is the Indra of kings, and if you read Vighnarajam then it is king — so in both of them, in both it is for the Bhagavan alone. You may read whichever of the two you like; there is no difficulty. Saptam Vighnarajendram, saptam Vighnarajam: in Rajendram too and in Rajam too, in both the Bhagavan is king.
Why do people ignore correct advice and get entangled in such sadhanas?
The speaker says that just as some people's niyati takes them to such a place that even if Brahma ji himself told them to do the pujan of Vighnaraj Ganpati and all their trouble would go — and asked how to do the puja of Ganpati he would say offer durva to the Bhagavan, offer it by his 108 names — they still will not accept even Brahma ji's word, because their niyati is such. They will not accept. Niyati will make them suffer it and then be satisfied; they will suffer. And in just this way, the niyati of those whose complete destruction is to happen, such cursed people, will take them: they will get entangled in the sadhana of such devi devatas as cannot happen at all without vidhi vidhan, without parampara, without krama sadhana — it is not for everybody, but they will have it done.
How should the Sankat Nashan stotra be samput with Ganpati's beejakshar?
If you want to recite the Sankat Nashan making it samput with Bhagavan Ganpati's beejakshar, then first of all do at least four lakh japa of the ekakshari beej which is the Ganpati pranava, and only then make the samput — it will be very good, the speaker says.
Can a sankalp of 27000 be taken for Ganpati's twelve-name stotra?
Asked whether one may take a sankalp of 27000 of the Dwadash Naam stotra of Ganpati ji and do it, the speaker says one certainly can.
Can the twelve names be recited 108 times for health?
Asked whether 108 path of the twelve names may be done for the sake of arogya, the speaker says it can absolutely be done, brother.
Can Ganesh ji's tarpan be done daily on the vigraha?
Yes you can, the speaker says, but if you have put clothing on him, change the clothing daily after the tarpan. Do not keep him soaked — otherwise you too will feel the cold.
On which day should the twelve names be recited for a prayoga?
Asked how to use the phaladar path of the twelve names as a prayoga and whether the path should be done on Brihaspativar, the speaker says the path can be done on any day. For a prayoga, of which subject is the sankalp? It can be done on any day; in an emergency anyone may do it at any time. And you can do it for the sake of somebody else too, brother — there is no difficulty.
The separate thing that remained to be given for a child who does not speak is a solid ball made of pure 999 silver
A listener had earlier asked about her child not speaking and was told the japa of the mantra of the eleventh adhyaya, which is going on, and was also told that something separate would be given. It was the matter of the silver ball that had remained to be said, the speaker says: get one solid ball made of pure silver, the 999 silver which is entirely pure.
How should a silver ball be abhimantrit and worn for a child?
Having got the solid ball made, abhimantrit it with the twelve names of Ganpati ji and get it worn round the neck in a green thread or in a silver chain itself, on the day of Wednesday, in the hora of Budh, in whichever paksha. Especially if the pujan can happen on a Wednesday falling on Chaturthi, on that same day; and better still, if some Brahmin of a Ganpati temple, or any Brahmin who has the experience of reciting the Ganpati Atharvashirsha and who has done at least 108 path, gets that solid ball abhimantrit with the Ganpati Atharvashirsha 108 times in one single day — then get it worn round the child's neck in a silver chain itself, on Wednesday in Budh's hora, and especially if Wednesday falls on Chaturthi, on that day.
For which troubles of speech and mind is the silver-ball prayoga used?
If there is any kind of difficulty connected with speech, or connected with the throat especially, or if some dosh connected with the intellect or the brain arises in a child or is there from birth, then for them too this kind of prayoga should be got done by a special vidhi vidhan, the speaker says. And if you are yourself a sadhak, then you can also do it yourself — do it and see, there will be great benefit.
What if no Brahmin is available to do the silver ball's abhimantran?
And if there is no pandit ji, if nobody is being found, then having abhimantrit it 108 times with the twelve names that are the Sankat Nashan, then get it worn, the speaker says. The rest of the rule will remain the same: if Wednesday falls on the day of Chaturthi it is the most excellent of all. For the rest, if there is an emergency, then you may get it worn on any Wednesday. In that, Krishna Paksha and Shukla Paksha are not to be looked at.
What order of sadhanas follows the guru sadhana?
Asked which sadhanas of Ganesh ji and Hanuman ji may be done in the next stage after the sadhana of Dattatreya, that is of the guru, the speaker gives the order: guru, Ganpati, then Bhairav ji; after that, according to your birth chart, the sadhanas of the grahas connected with the fifth and ninth bhava, or the sadhana of the lagnesh, whichever needs to be strengthened; then the sadhana of the kul devi devta; and then the principal sadhana.
Which Ganpati sadhana should be done after the guru sadhana?
Asked which sadhana of Ganpati may be done if one is to do Ganpati after the guru, the speaker says: first of all do the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotra. That sadhana should certainly be done for six months. If you cannot do six months either, then the paath should be done from Chaturthi to Chaturthi, one month.
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.
Why do pujan and tantra sadhana still end in failure without Ganesh?
Because however much pujan-path we do and however many tantra-related sadhanas we perform, if we are not doing pujan-path connected with Bhagavan Shri Ganesh and no special prayoga related to him, then a very great failure comes to hand. He asks listeners to consider how much Ganesh-related sadhana they have actually done for all the troubles that drove them to sadhana.
Clients leave at the precise moment, an exam is missed by a mark or two, and a good interview still finds some deficiency
Work in which success is not coming to hand; work already made that spoils; a business meeting where clients come and then leave at the precise moment; a job pursued with much effort; an exam missed by one or two marks so it does not clear; an interview that went very well and yet some deficiency remained and nobody knows why it did not happen.
Where do all the obstacles of life come from?
Not only in trade and employment but in every field of life, whatever vighna baadha comes into whatever we do, comes on account of two particular deities: first Bhagavan Shri Ganesh, and second Bhairav ji. Ganpati is called Mangal Murti above all, and he is called both Vighnaharta and Vighnakarta — both at once.
What is done when a household is troubled by oots?
If in your body, in your house and family, or in the body of any woman of your family, distress is spread on account of the oots — then if an abhishek of Shri Ganesh is done with milk, they will be pacified quickly by it. Ganpati pacifies them at once.
Where does Ganpati take their grievance?
He at once takes it to his mother. In tantra it has been shown that Bhagavati Kali wears small children in her ears in the form of kundals. Whether it be Shamshan Kali or Ugra Kali, we think it is a fierce form and do not realise that she is wearing them there, that she is hearing that voice — but the medium that conveys it is Ganpati.
Why can nothing be done for the oots through the Srimad Bhagavad Gita?
Ganpati's pujan is therefore necessary first of all. Pitrs are of a separate nature and may be of many kinds, but for the sake of the oots you will not be able to do anything: an oot will simply not understand from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, since that buddhi is not within them yet. So this becomes the medium. It is a matter of going inside, he says; from the surface much can be said.
What are the two kinds of Ganpati prayoga?
A prayoga of Ganpati is always of two kinds. The first, which is the root prayoga, is upon a supari — and in supari, if it be a silver supari, then it serves particularly for oots, pitrs and everything connected with them. In Vedic or Pauranik pujan you will not at all come to know from the mantras that something is being said for the peace of the pitrs; only a particular marmagya might explain it.
When is the mritika Ganpati prayoga used?
The second is of mritika, of clay — used when you come to know that distress is being caused in some woman's body by the oots. The speaker sets out what troubles follow: various kinds of disease connected with the abdomen, that is with the stomach; the whole region of the stomach from the uterus onward, the region of their birth, the region of children — the maximum problems seen in tantra are connected with all those regions, because they are joined to that place.
How is the mritika Ganesh prayoga performed?
By mritika shodhan — purifying the clay, making a murti of Bhagavan Shri Ganesh from it, giving it a formal abhishek with milk and an abhishek with dhoop, offering bhog and doing the pujan. That clay murti is worshipped in the house at the brahma sthan, and then conveyed to the sthan of the Kshetrapal. Doing this with sankalp, the oots of the house go to the Kshetrapal, and the further kriya for them happens there.
He gives no prayoga until he has either done it himself or had it done
Because among the listeners the new ones send him a great many questions that are exactly like children's questions — how can it be so? A first recitation will take at least fifteen or twenty minutes; anything you do will take time. He says that until he has either done a prayoga himself or had it done by someone in his sadhak family, wherever there is need, he does not teach how the thing is to be done. Everything about Ganpati he is saying today, he says, has been carried out through people of his sadhak family, and he is putting it forward because of the results.
What Ganesh anushthan should every householder do?
Every householder should in his life do the sadhana of the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotram, and should do a proper anushthan of that stotra. If 108 recitations are done daily from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi, by the vidhan told in the video given on this same channel, that is most excellent. If you cannot manage it, then do at least three days, five days, seven days.
Can havan be done every day of the ten?
If there is a wish to do havan daily, do it daily — but do not do the purnahuti daily; do the purnahuti on the last day, that is on the day of Anant Chaturdashi. The bhog will change every day, but the heap of rice that has been placed upon the paan leaf is never to be moved and never to be removed; it will be removed only on the day of Anant Chaturdashi.
What order must be followed before any principal sadhana?
In the field of tantra, before beginning any particular principal sadhana, the sadhana of Ganpati and the sadhana of Bhairav ji are extremely necessary. Guru, Ganpati and Bhairav run in this order: first guru sadhana, then Ganpati sadhana, then Bhairav sadhana — in which you may also do the sadhana of your own kul bhairav. After that the sadhana of your kul devi-devatas, anything connected with the pitrs, anything connected with the kundali; and only then do you go to the principal sadhanas. If the sadhana is connected with Bhagavati, then after Bhairav ji the sadhana of Hanuman ji should also be done.
What is the Vainayaki Navratri?
Asked about doing ten days of Ganpati, he introduces the Vainayaki Tantra and the Vainayak Navratra — nine days is a navratra, so it is held to be that. Listeners should know, he says, that however many tantra granthas we have, they are not all present in manifest form everywhere even today; and leaving the tantra granthas aside, in the puranas too a great many things have been altered.
Why did the devas take a female form on the Vindhya?
They have written that on coming to the Vindhya region it is held that, apart from Bhagavati, on the Vindhya region Bhagavati is regarded in the male form and everyone else in the female form. So however many gods and goddesses there were, however many devas, they too went having assumed their own female form, their shakti svarup. The speaker notes that the serial Vighnaharta Shri Ganesha also showed this — that when Bhagavan Shri Narayan, Mahadev and Vinayak all went for the slaying of Arunasura, all of them assumed the female form.
What then is the Vainayaki Tantra?
At that time Bhagavan Shri Ganesh had assumed the Vainayaki svarup and gone upon the Vindhya mountain; and the tantra he gave as upadesh to however many of his devotees were present there is called the Vainayaki Tantra, some portion of which is described in the Gupt Kalpeshwar Tantra. Under it a great many vidhi vidhans are told and a great many subjects included.
When is the Vainayaki Tantra used?
In that same tantra the description comes that if disturbances of this kind occur in your house, being done by the unsatisfied souls of your own house, by the souls of children and so on — then it is there that the prayoga of the Vainayaki Tantra is done.
Which subjects come first within the Vainayaki Tantra?
First of all there come the twelve names of Bhagavan Ganesh that are given in the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotram. These twelve names have a separate subject connected with tantra for each, which he says he will have to tell in a separate video, briefly. Out of those twelve names — that is, twelve svarups — the prayoga has been done taking any one svarup. But it is chiefly held that if a prayoga connected with Bal Ganpati is done there, then shaktis of this kind are pacified completely and swiftly.
The Gauri Ganpati pujan is to be had done in solid rajat supari or else in one made from mritika
The most correct thing for it is the pujan of Gauri Ganpati — which, as already told, is to be had done either in solid rajat supari or else made from mritika.
What should be done if neither the silver supari nor the clay is possible?
Then, according to the present time, install a photograph — a chhaya chitra — of Bhagavan Shri Ganesh in a beautiful form seated in the lap of Bhagavati Parvati, and before it recite the whole katha of the birth of Shri Ganesh as described in the Srimad Devi Bhagavat Mahapuran. By that, however great a dosha connected with children there may be, it is removed; the vansh increases, santan is obtained; and along with it the disorders produced by bhoots — by shaktis of that kind — in every region of women, from the uterus and the stomach onward, are also pacified.
When should a murti be bought at all?
A new murti is never to be taken. In whichever year you bring a solid murti, a murti of metal, let their seva-puja be done by vidhi vidhan; then that murti will never go, nor are you to buy a new murti. He says repeatedly that at Diwali one should not buy a murti of Lakshmi and Ganesh — you are not to bring it. Bring a fine solid, beautiful one once, in one year, and never remove it.
What should be done when everything spoils at the last moment?
Do a particular sadhana of Ganpati for a long time. He says he says it again and again: whenever all your work begins to spoil, start the pujan of Gauri Ganpati. Do their pujan with your eyes closed — it is they who remove the sankat, however many troubles and obstructions come.
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.
Can a hollow silver murti be filled with another metal?
Asked about four-finger silver Ganesh ji and Lakshmi ji at home that are empty inside, and whether another metal may be filled into them, he answers that another metal should not be filled. If you can have it filled, have silver itself filled. But if it is to be melted, then if they have been worshipped for a long time, let them remain just as they are — small though they be — and bring a second one in solid, and let their puja also continue.
How should a newly brought ashtadhatu Ganpati be installed?
Asked how to do the prana pratishtha, in the Ganpati Navratra, of a new ashtadhatu Ganpati brought that day, he first tells Mishra ji that if he wears the yajnopavit — and then says that ashtadhatu Ganpati will not be found anywhere. Everyone listening should take this notion out of their minds, that any Shri vigraha made of ashtadhatu is available in the market.
When should the prana pratishtha of Ganpati be done?
Do the prana pratishtha of Ganpati on the first day, on the Chaturthi tithi itself, or have it done — and if you know how to do it, you can do it. Secondly, if you wish to do it yourself and you do not know any particular vidhi vidhan, then do five kinds of adhivas. He then sets out how it is to be done in ordinary sequence.
What is adhivas and how is it done?
After doing that much, and after an abhishek with ordinary water and so on, have their adhivas done. Adhivas of five kinds means keeping them in five places, leaving them there fifteen minutes each — as in grain, in fruit, in flowers, in sweets, in cloth, in water: in any five kinds of things among all these, in five places, keep them fifteen minutes each. And so long as they do the adhivas, that is remain steady there, at that time recite Ganpati ji's bhajan, his stotra, sahasranama and the like.
What is done with the adhivas materials afterwards?
After doing it in this manner, the flower or fruit that is now obtained, or the sweets — whatever comes out having done the adhivas — that itself is distributed in the form of prasad.
What is netra unmilan?
After having the adhivas done, if a band has been tied over the eyes of Ganpati, then netra unmilan is done. It is done with a salaka of gold; otherwise with some kundika, or else it will be with your dub grass. Netra unmilan is to be done, that is, the vidhi of opening the eyes. If you cannot do the particular Vedic mantras and so on for it, then do it by speaking, or touch both their eyes with the netra unmilan or with the Ganpati Gayatri.
What completes the prana pratishtha?
After that, having done shodashopachar pujan — pujan of sixteen kinds — or panchopachar pujan and so on, place Ganpati in their place and again recite the Atharvashirsham at the very least fifteen times. The prana pratishtha of Ganpati is done. After that begin your havan and the rest, and your own path and puja. It will be in this same manner for all the deities.
How is the sadhana of Vakratunda Ganpati done?
Asked how to do the sadhana of Vakratunda Ganpati, he answers that he will tell those twelve Ganpatis separately. Asked next by Vipin ji, who takes the name of Swarnakarshan Bhairav Baba in his daily puja, whether he may not then worship Bhagavan Narayan, he answers no, no, there is no such thing — if you take the name, why can you not do the puja of Bhagavan Narayan? There is nothing of that kind in the puja of Swarnakarshan Bhairav; take the name comfortably.
Can a one-day Ganpati sadhana be done, and what of Bhanvati Sikotar?
Asked whether a one-day sadhana of Ganpati ji can be done, he answers absolutely. Asked by a listener from Gujarat for the mantra sadhana of Maa Bhanvati Sikotar, he says she is a devi of that region — and that as for what Sikotar is, the questioner knows it well; so he will not give her sadhana without seeing and hearing what the situation is.
Can the house's own Ganesh murti be used for the pujan?
Asked whether the pujan may be done of the Ganesh ji murti that is in the house, he answers absolutely, absolutely. If possible, offer 1008 dub to Ganpati ji from their thousand-and-eight namavali; and if that too cannot be done, then from this same mantra, Shri Ganeshaya Namah, having taken a sankalp. Do even one puja of the year, even of one day, and Ganpati will be greatly pleased with that much; a great many things will be obtained by you.
Can both the Ganpati sadhanas be done together?
Absolutely they can be done, he says — he is even saying so: if you have to do a ten-day sadhana then you will do the Ashtavinayak sadhana comfortably in the morning, since that is a small sadhana. Only on the first day will it take you a little time in the arranging; from the next day it will be done comfortably. In the remaining time do the sadhana of the Sankatnashan.
What should be done when ancestral land has been seized?
Asked for some upaya or sadhana where the land of the ancestors has been seized by a powerful person, he answers: which sadhana do you wish to do? Take up that sadhana for a long time according to your shraddha. Look at the channel, sadhanas have been given there; in which of them is your faith, Tiwari ji. If you wish to take up Ganpati now and you wear the yajnopavit, then take up any one — the Atharvashirsham sadhana, the Sankatnashan sadhana, the Ashtavinayak sadhana — and continue it for a year.
Should there be eight supari or twelve?
Asked, since there are twelve Ganpatis in the Sankatnashan stotra, whether the supari will be eight or twelve, he answers that if you wish to do the sadhana of the Dvadash Vinayak then they will be twelve; and if you go into the Sankatnashan, then too they will be twelve.
Which way should the trunk of a Ganpati murti face?
Asked, for installing Ganpati ji in the puja room, which way the trunk should face, he answers: see, it is said that if Ganpati ji's trunk is towards the right side then it is very excellent.
Is there a tantrokta Ganesh sadhana a householder sadhak can do lifelong?
Asked to provide in future some tantrokta sadhana of Shri Ganesh that a sadhak could do lifelong, he answers that with the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotra and the Ashtavinayak sadhanas he has given, there is no tantra sadhana greater than these for ordinary householders. Do these two. What is written in the phalashruti — that whatever is wanted will be obtained — that is all we have to do with. He asks whether it is necessary that there be some particular prayoga of Haridra Ganpati in it, some dangerous mantra of Uchchhishta Ganpati, some beej of that kind, before it will be reckoned a tantrokta sadhana. Much can be obtained from a simple sadhana too.
What are the dates from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi?
Asked for the dates, he tells Krishna Devra ji that on the 31st is the Ganesh puja and that day is the Chaturthi, and that Anant Chaturdashi should fall on the 9th or 10th of September — it will be on one of the two days.
Who began the practice of installing Ganpati in the home?
Asked which way the trunk of the murti should be and how high the murti should be for installing Ganpati at home, he tells Ankur ji that he has spoken of it before and put up videos too. The custom of our installing Ganpati at home, whenever it began, was set going by Bal Gangadhar Tilak; the reason behind it was to unite people. Later people began sthapana in house after house. Earlier sthapana did not take place in the home; pujan takes place at home.
How many Chaturthis are there in the year?
But all of you know, he says, that taking the Krishna Paksha and the Shukla Paksha together there are twenty-four Chaturthis. And on every Chaturthi the puja of a different form of Ganpati is done — for all twelve months.
Why were the other Chaturthis never celebrated?
And there are the Ashtavinayak; and again these twelve forms; and these twenty-four Ganpatis, whose whole pujan is in different months according to different pakshas. About them, he says, it was never celebrated. About them nothing is known, people say. Some cause arose such that it came into currency.
Does each paksha's Ganpati have its own importance?
The Ganpati of each paksha has his own particular importance, he says — not only that of the month of Bhadrapada. So that custom and currency began, and as people's faith in it grew, they began to be worshipped in the house: that yes, today we shall do pujan in this manner, we shall install Ganpati's Shri vigraha at home and do pujan.
The trunk may be kept in whatever manner the murti is got, but its height should be kept small
For the rest, as to the trunk, there is no difficulty — in whatever manner you are getting it, you can keep it. The height should be kept small; the murti should not be very large.
What should be done for freedom from debt and for money to stay?
Right now, he says, we are on Ganpati-related matters because their time is nearest: riddhi siddhi come on account of them, shubh labh come on account of them, so do their sadhana and puja particularly. If you are of the Maharashtra region then you do particular pujan there in any case. He asks the questioner to do this time the sadhana of the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotra that is given on the channel.
How often should the Sankatnashan sadhana be repeated?
And if possible, in any one paksha of every month — be it Shukla Paksha, be it Krishna Paksha, any one paksha — repeat this sadhana again and again. Do it for one year and see: your whole problem will be solved.
With what should the sahasrarchan of Ganpati be done?
Asked with what substance the sahasrarchan of Bhagavan Ganpati should be done so that one is freed of disease and obtains blocked wealth, he answers: for freedom from disease, green dub — and for the obtaining of wealth as well. Sahasrarchan with dub is most excellent.
What should be done with a plastic Ganpati being replaced by a brass one?
Asked by a listener who worshipped a plastic Ganpati for two or three years and has now brought a brass one whether the plastic Ganpati should be immersed, and if so how, he answers: see, wherever you immerse a Ganpati made of plastic, it will only pollute. So if the Ganpati is made of plastic, take them out of the puja place and keep them somewhere as a decoration; keep showing dhoop and deep. Although, being made of plastic, there can be no other use for them.
Can Ganesh havan be done daily, and is name-japa ever harmful?
Asked whether the havan of Ganesh ji may also be done daily, he says absolutely. Asked whether there is any harm in doing japa of the name of Bhagavan Shri Ram, he says there is no harm, brother — keep taking the name of Bhagavan, there is no harm; do not be so excessively suspicious. It is for beej mantras that it has been forbidden: a beej mantra or a Vedic mantra should not be muttered at will in that manner. Do name japa; it is not forbidden at all. Asked whether, during this Ganesh pujan, pujan can be done by making a murti of turmeric and whether the visarjan will also be so or the vidhi different, he tells Uday Pratap ji that the video will be uploaded the very next day telling what kind of murti is to be made and how you can make it at home too — listen to it and the whole doubt will be cleared.
What is the upaya for the increase of intellect in students?
It has already been told, he says: the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotram. He tells Siddharth Singh ji that vidyarthi labhate vidya stands written in it — students obtain vidya. Read the phalashruti: from continuously reciting the Sankatnashan Ganesh Stotra for six months, it stands written plainly, taken from the Narad Puran, said by Bhagavan Narad. Read it once and see; there will be considerable increase of intellect.
How can one learn about the twenty-four Ganesh Chaturthis?
Asked how information may be obtained about the twenty-four, the twelve months, and both the pakshas of Ganesh ji, he answers that a book of the vrat katha of the Ganesh Chaturthis of the twelve months comes out — take it; almost all the information will be found in it.
Why is Sankat Nashan paath prescribed for six months?
Speaking of Matrinatmika, the speaker says they themselves prescribe it for Sankat Nashan. The reason: there are 12 rashis and there are 12 Ganapatis of Sankat Nashan, one Ganapati in each rashi; and you have 12 bhavas, each bhava with its own lord. So if you are doing the paath of the Dvadash Naam of Ganapati ji, six months is prescribed in it — for six months you are to do the paath of the 12 names as much as possible. Only then do they give their effect, he says, and there is no matter greater than it; it is a thing that gives a very powerful effect.
What to do when no job comes and Shani or a debilitated Guru is blamed?
To a listener who says he is not getting a job because of a Shani problem and a debilitated Guru, the speaker says that whichever graha is in whatever position is a separate matter. First of all, do the Sankat Nashan paath continuously for six months, as much as strength and capacity allow and as much as possible.
Consecrating the foot band with a rakshak deity
The speaker says the foot band is best consecrated with the mantras of the rakshak (protector) deities. Before wearing it, dedicate it to the shakti of any one of Bhairava ji, Hanuman ji, Ganesha ji or Narsimha ji: do their pujan, bathe the band in raw milk, offer dhoop and deep, scent it well, offer it to them and leave it for at least one day — longer is better; for instance offered to Bhairav ji on Navratri Pratipada and worn again on dashami. The offered band may be worn, but once it has gone on the foot it must never again be placed at the puja place.
A more special observance is being prepared for Ganapati and Shiva on the Monday Chaturthi
He says that for the Chaturthi and Monday falling together this time there will be a somewhat more special preparation from his side for Bhagavan Ganpati ji and Bhagavan Shiva ji, because after that only one more Monday will be obtained.
Can metal be filled into a hollow Hanuman murti?
Asked whether metal can be filled into a Hanuman ji murti that is hollow inside, he says that now, if you have metal filled in, they will heat it and pour it — and a worshipped vigraha becomes pratishthit, so do not have that done. And at the outset, do the guru pujan of Ganpati ji, that of Bhairav ji, and having done the pujan of Ram ji and Sita ji, then do it.
Why has sleep increased since doing five lakh Panchakshari?
A listener says that since doing five lakh Panchakshari last year, sleep comes a great deal, and asks the cause. He answers by pointing to what has not been done: if you will have done nothing at all of Ganpati ji, if you will have done nothing at all of Bhagavati, then.
In what order are the ahutis given in the guggul havan?
First kindle the cow-dung cake. Then give ahuti in the name of Guru and Ganpati; give ahuti in the name of Bhagavati; give one ahuti each in the name of the nine grahas; and after that, reciting the Hanuman Janjira, go on giving ahutis.
What is said about Ganesh ji and the Dakini and Shakini?
Below Ganesh ji are Dakini, Shakini and so forth, he says, and Bhagavati and Shiva ji control the gagan.
What should be done when a sadhana keeps breaking before completion?
Asked whether, if a sadhana breaks a few days before the end of a 30-day sadhana period, the effect and fruit will be obtained, the speaker says: if the sadhana is breaking before completion, then first of all, if this is happening again and again, do the seva and puja of Bhagavan Vighneshwara Vinayaka. And take the sankalpa in it — that for whatever cause this may be, be it pitr dosha, dev dosha, pret-pishach dosha, or a vichar, O Vinayaka, do the uprooting of that dosha, and have my sadhana completed.
Which Bhairav and Ganpati should be named when bathing at a sacred river?
The speaker agrees to try to publish the nameless list, but says the better course is this: in whichever region you are performing the act, do it in the name of whatever Shakti Peeth is nearest to that place. That will be the very best.
What should be done when a livelihood has been blocked for months?
Remember one thing, the speaker says: wherever there is obstruction in obtaining work or livelihood, perform this prayoga with eyes closed, whatever your Lagna or Rashi, without seeing or hearing anything else — for livelihood, for the money needed to run a household.
What exactly is the twelve-Durva prayoga?
Take at least twelve blades of Durva ankur, the Doob grass, and offer one to Ganpati at home on each of twelve daily recitations of the Sankat Nashan. With it, Akshat — unbroken rice tinted lightly with turmeric or yellow sandal. Recite the twelve names, offer one blade and a little Akshat, and repeat twelve times in the morning.
What should be done when the livelihood situation is desperate?
Keep the vrat of the Chaturthi day. Whatever your birth chart may be, leave it aside, whatever Dasha or Antardasha is running. Take Ganpati's refuge before anything else, so that grain and money are never short in the house — and only when the basic needs are met, take up a larger sadhana.
How is Ganpati tarpan done by someone who is not initiated?
In the Tantrokta method, use Durva in place of Kusha; or if you bathe in a river, offer the tarpan straight there. It is a Deva tarpan, so water is given straight from the Anjali. Say Shri Vakratundaya tarpayami namah and release the water, and so through the twelve names.
Why is tarpan pressed for Ganpati, and which mudra follows it?
Because tarpan is so dear to Ganpati that he will clear the way quickly. After the tarpan, display the Ganpati mudra: fold the left hand and place the right over it in the form of a serpent, the shape of his trunk. It is a small thing, and Vinayak pleased will give Lakshmi's grace of himself.
Which tithi-window belongs to which deity?
For Ganpati ji in particular, Chaturthi to Chaturdashi. For Narayana, Ekadashi to Ekadashi. For Bhagavan Shiva, Panchami to Amavasya, or Panchami to Chaturdashi.
What order should a first visit to Kamakhya follow?
Do not go straight to Kamakhya ji. Stay in Guwahati and, a day earlier, take the Darshan of Umananda Bhairav ji — the water in the Brahmaputra is lower now, so you can go comfortably by steamer. Only then begin the Nilachal ascent.
How many circumambulations does each deity take?
It depends on the form of the deity. For Bhagavan Shiva a half is done. For the Devi, nine or three. For Ganpati ji, three.
Why does Ganpati worship pacify the nine grahas?
Because by worshipping Ganpati the Shanti of the nine grahas takes place, however fierce one may be or angry with you. Chandra Dev becomes normal first and your mind becomes strong — and with a strong mind, climbing a mountain will take you no time.
The daily havan of the kul prayog: the rot, the thirty ahutis and their order, and the ash
The speaker says fire is kindled in the earthen pot or kund with cow-dung upale or mango wood. Beforehand, after bathing, a Rot is made from wheat flour, Gud and ghee with a little black Til, cooked in ghee, then crumbled and divided into thirty pieces: twenty-seven for the Kuldevi and three more. Facing out of the house and working quickly, with the mantras said in the mind, the first three Ahuti go to Ganesha, the kul guru and Hanuman; if the Kulguru is known he comes first and Ganpati second, otherwise Ganpati first. The remaining twenty-seven are offered in the kuldevi's name with namah added and no Om, for example Durgaya namah, swaha being optional; if her name is unknown one says kuldibbe namah swaha. He says namah is compulsory here and the usual havan rule of swaha without namah does not apply. Afterwards water is taken in the hand, circled three times round the kund and poured there, the fire is left to burn out, and the ash is removed and collected in one place.
In what order should sadhana be begun?
The beginning of sadhana should be made from guru sadhana. Then Ganpati, then Bhairav ji, then the main sadhana. And in between these are the devi-devatas of one's own kula, who are the most distinctive. Then also the sadhana of the fifth and ninth bhavas of the kundali and of the lagnesh. You may begin from guru sadhana.
For how long should the sadhana of any deva be done for grace to be had?
Asked how long a sadhana such as the paath of the Ganesh Sahasranama should be done for deva grace to be had, he says: according to him it is to be done again and again; and if you have time, do it from Chaturthi to Chaturthi, one month — at least this much. If you wish to go into a mandal then forty-one days, and if you wish to do three months it is better still, or if you do a hundred and eight days continuously it will be very good indeed.
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.
What does Ganpati's pujan do for the oots of a house?
And the commentators comment in such a way that the mind gets spoilt, he says. So there are many such things which are obtained in a guru parampara, and it is according to that that he is telling you: when you do the pujan of Bhagavan Shri Ganpati, then by that the oots of the house — those that may be of your house — become very pleased, and Ganpati, doing grace, provides them with capacity; their condition becomes right for the house.
The Devi Bhagavat Mahapuran makes plain how many Ganpatis there can be
It is for this that he says: when you read the Devi Bhagavat Mahapuran it will be understood how many Ganpatis there can be. We people know only one Gajanan, we know one Ganpati — there are many, many Ganpatis; there are many and many Bhairavs.
What then is the remedy when the oot pitrs are bound?
Whenever the oot pitrs are in a bandhan, then first of all do the pujan of Ganpati; do his sahasrarchan with dhoop and grass. Second, do a havan with the first mantra of the Argala — done by whoever is the first man of the house, that is, the eldest son, if it is possible for him; or have it done by some fit Brahmin if you do not know how to do it yourself.
Five malas of ahuti, a hundred and eight for Ganpati, kept up for three months
However great the bandhan being applied may be, if you all begin doing it continuously — it is to be done on the day of Amavasya itself; do it properly. If possible, give at least five malas of ahuti, and have a hundred and eight ahutis given for Bhagavan Shri Ganpati. Begin doing this much; at least three months, and after three Amavasyas things will begin to be understood by you.
Such a vidhi exists, but do first what has already been given
Yes, there is such a vidhi, he says — but why do you wish to read into all these things now? You were told the fifth and the ninth; we have already told you what is to be done and how; do that much. Start it, and only then ask; how will it happen by asking only? Begin the sadhana of Bhagavati, begin the sadhana of Bhagavan Ganesh. The whole vidhi-vidhan has been told to you.
Can the Devi be worshipped directly without a Ganapati puja?
No, it cannot be done, the speaker tells Saksham. The pujan will be in sequence: guru, Ganapati, Bhairav ji, Hanuman ji, and only then Bhagavati. Otherwise, at the very least, Ganapati ji and Bhairav ji, and then Bhagavati.
Is a separate form of Lakshmi needed alongside Parvati?
The presence of the Lakshmi tattva is within Parvati ji herself, the speaker says; there is no need to take a separate form of her for it. Look at the forms of Ganapati ji and you will find several in which shaktis connected with Bhagavati Lakshmi stand as his shakti aspects. This, he says, is exactly why it is said that such things should not be discussed before ordinary people — they will be thoroughly frustrated, saying Lakshmi ji is his mother, how can you say such a thing.
Where in the sequence does the name-smaran of the 64 Yoginis come?
The name-smaran of the 64 Yoginis is done after Bhairav ji, the speaker says: Ganapati ji, Bhairav ji, then the 64 Yoginis.
Ganpati sadhana for the uninitiated: Sankat Haran stotra in place of Haridra Ganpati
The speaker says that after the Dattatreya sadhana, one who has no Diksha and has accepted him as guru-swarup next does the sadhana of Bhagwan Ganesha. The sadhana of Haridra Ganapati is from the standpoint of tantra, by tantrokta vidhi-vidhan, so that is not done; instead, in ordinary Ganpati pujan, one recites the Sankat Haran Ganesh stotra. Its anushthan should be of at least seven days: 1100 paths in seven days at 108 paths daily, or 1100 paths in eleven days.
One day each for Dattatreya, Ganpati and Bhairav when there is no time for the three sadhanas
For one who does not have the time to do the full sadhana of Dattatreya, Ganesha ji and Bhairava ji, the speaker says to do at least one day's sadhana of each: Bhagwan Dattatreya on a Thursday, Ganpati ji on the Friday, Bhairav Baba on the Saturday, one day each over three consecutive days. Their kripa, he says, is extremely necessary. And whatever the devi and devta of one's kula require must certainly be done as well.
May a Ganpati murti be placed at the main door of a house?
The speaker says a murti of Ganpati ji is never to be fixed at the main door and the like; a pratik chinh, a symbolic mark, is what is placed. You may place such symbols before your house — a swastika, or Bhairav ji's trishul. But do not seat an adorned Ganpati ji at the main door. If you do seat Ganpati ji there, then arrange his daily seva puja there. In his own view the pratik chinh is best.
What should be done when an anushthan meets many obstacles?
If very many obstacles are coming in an anushthan, then Ganpati ji's puja is absolutely essential. For at least a sava mahina, or from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi, or from one Chaturthi to the next Chaturthi, from Krishna Paksha to Shukla Paksha, or Krishna Paksha to Krishna Paksha, or Shukla Paksha to Shukla Paksha — that is, one full month — do path of the Sankat Nashan Ganapati Stotram. By that the obstacles and hindrances of the anushthan will be destroyed.
What is the general rule when any obstacle blocks an anushthan?
Whenever excessive obstruction begins in an anushthan — of whatever kind, relating to money, to the body, to disease, to an enemy, so that your anushthan simply cannot be completed — take hold of Ganpati ji directly. Best of all is the Sankat Nashan, his twelve mool names, the mantra beginning Prathamam Vakratundam cha Ekadantam Dwitiyakam; begin one recitation of it each day. That much is enough: within a month Bhagwan Ganpati gives his full effect.
Why do obstacles arise in a Hanuman Chalisa sankalp?
Asked about obstacles in an anushthan for which a five-day sankalp of the Hanuman Chalisa had been taken, the speaker says it means that even if your kuldevi is awakened, someone who is at present receiving your puja and the rest wants it not to be found out. Therefore do the pujan of Ganpati ji and of Kshetrapal and the like, and this will be destroyed at once — this dosha will end at once.
Is it auspicious to steal a Ganpati vigraha or a Tulsi plant?
Asked whether the belief in the Sirohi and Udaipur region of Rajasthan, that stealing a vigraha of Bhagwan Ganpati and stealing Bhagwati Tulsi is held very auspicious, is a superstition, the speaker says he has never anywhere read this to this day. He asks the people of those regions and any sadhaks listening to send him proof, whether it is true or untrue, whether it is a kidwanti or some such matter. According to him it is a wrong thing: it is like gold, and the dosha of stealing gold attaches in it; stealing a dev vigraha is a very great offence.
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 Ganpati puja be done in Gupt Navratri, and may parents' feet be touched?
Asked about the puja vidhi of Shri Ganpati ji in Gupt Navratri, he says yes, it may be done — you may do it from Pratipada as well, and from Chaturthi as well. Asked whether the feet of one's mother and father should not be touched in Navratri, he says the feet of mother and father may be touched.
What is the importance of ikshu bali?
Asked about the importance of ikshu bali in Ganesh puja and Kameshwari puja, the speaker calls it a very good question. Ikshu bali means the bali of sugarcane. In the satvik vidhi, the energy that is in a pashu bali, that is in a tamasik bali, is held to be many times exceeded by the energy in an act of this kind, in a good act of this kind. Even in a symbolic form, a bali of this kind carries greater importance.
What about the astra puja and naag puja in Ganesh ji's tantric worship?
Asked about the astra puja and the naag puja in the tantric puja of Ganesh ji, the speaker says that of the naag puja there is no video, but a video of the astra puja had been made. He will upload it again before this time's Bhadrapada month: how the astra puja of Ganpati has to be done.
Sankat Nashan Ganesh Stotra anushthan: 108 recitations morning and evening for 40 days
The speaker says plainly that the one who does everything is Bhagavati Jagadamba — she does both the good and the bad. When the family joined his Grihastha Tantra sadhak group they described their trouble only in general terms and did not tell the full story of the possession, so the first sadhana he gave was to recite the Sankat Nashan Stotra of Ganesh daily and, if initiated, to do japa of one's guru mantra and the like. The sadhak did a fairly long and intense Anushthana of it — its Phalashruti says that what you wish for you will obtain: 108 recitations in the morning and 108 in the evening, easily done since it is a short stotra, for about a sava mahina, that is 40 days. He stresses that he keeps repeating '40 days' because it is a matter of experience, not something he says idly.
Dattatreya mala mantra milk tarpan at the threshold through Pitr Paksha to reach bound pitr
The speaker says he gave the sadhak two sadhanas for this Navratri season. The first, in Pitr Paksha, was the dattatreya-mala-mantra sadhana with the full Tarpana vidhi, because Pitr who are in Bandhan cannot receive anything offered for them — whatever you do for the pitr is not reaching them. The two easiest means of getting it through are a tantra prayog of Bhagavan Ganesha and Bhagavan Dattatreya, who is supreme since the three shaktis Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh reside in him. He prescribed tarpan with milk on the Dattatreya Tantrokta yantra, the tarpan milk to be poured at a Peepal, a Bargad and a Tulsi — and, because a Muslim thing was involved, the tarpan was done at the Chaukhat (threshold) of the house with a lamp lit; he says he will clarify that vidhan further some time. The sadhak did the Datt tarpan by this vidhi for the full sixteen days of Pitr Paksha, from Poornima to Amavasya, and reported great peace from the first day.
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.
Is the story of Tulsi's anger at Ganesh a true one?
A listener says that like the Brahma and Saraswati matter, another wrong thing is current — that Tulsi ji grew angry on seeing Ganesh ji and cursed him. Look, he says: the things that are current are of a very different kind. The kathakars and the commentators, not understanding the original thing, have set it down as it stands — and that is all it is.
The foundation before Pitambara sadhana: Guru, Ganpati and Ma Sharada
What Bhagavati or any devi-devta says comes first, the speaker says, is Guru, Ganesha and Ma Sharada; at least this much sadhana should be behind you. Was a guru mantra taken, and how much Japa of it was done, even as Ajapa Jap: by rule at least sava lakh. Leaving Haridra Ganpati aside, was even the ordinary Ganpati svarup served, his Kavach recited, his dwadash naam japa done, at least a ten-day anushthan, Modak offered? If you do not do the sadhana of the Vighnaharta, he says, he is the first to become the Vighnakarta, so how can you expect success and no trouble. The proportion of trouble differs from person to person, one succeeds after three days of Ganpati and another suffers even after ten, but the order must stay the same; go straight to the sadhana and there will be trouble.
Who is worshipped first — the Guru or Ganpati?
Only remember the Guru at that point — once, with Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwara. Then perform Ganpati's worship. Because on that day the Guru Mandal and Gurudev are the principal deity, and the principal deity's full worship cannot be done first of all.
How much Ganpati worship is done on Guru Purnima?
Perform it on whichever Ganesh Vigraha you already keep at home. If not more, at least the Panchopachara worship — Avahan, Asana, Argha and the rest, with Naivedya, Dhupa and Deepa shown. Then recite the Sankat Nashan Ganpati Stotram, which carries his twelve names. That much is enough.
Completely new practitioners begin with Ganpati in the month of Bhadrapada
Bhadon is coming — and in the month of Bhadrapada, those who are new practitioners and want to begin from the very start will begin at that time with Ganpati ji.
Can the same supari swaroop be used again for Gauri-Ganesh puja?
Asked whether the supari swaroop on which Ma Gauri and Ganesh ji are worshipped at the time of puja can be worshipped upon again, he says that if it is being continued, then it can be done; otherwise do their visarjan afterwards, or else they can also be kept where Lakshmi and Ganesh ji are.
Which bal swaroops should also be remembered?
Look at the bal swaroop of Bhagavan Ganpati ji, of Bhagavan Hanuman ji, of Bhagavan Shri Ramchandra ji Maharaj, of Bhagavan Krishna ji; look at Bhagavati Bala Tripurasundari; look at the bal swaroop of Bhagavan Kartikeya. The smaran and pujan of these too, he says, you should perform — when a special need arises, you can perform the pujan of all these bal swaroops.
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.
What is the correct order of guru pujan, Ganpati, Kaal Bhairav, kuldevi, Hanuman and Shiv?
First guru pujan, then Ganpati pujan, then the pujan of Bhairav ji, then the pujan of Hanuman ji, then the pujan of Lakshmi Narayan, then the pujan of Bhagavati, and then at last the pujan of Shiv ji.
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.
Can the bhog of all the family deities be offered in one vessel?
It is a very good question and everyone should listen to it and follow it, the speaker says. More than one deva and devi may absolutely be kept at home; there is no difficulty, as you wish. Offer the bhog in two places. If you offer in two places, then one vessel's bhog is for the whole Shiv Parivar and all the shaktis connected with Shiva, to whom a tulsi leaf is not surrendered — because if you put in a tulsi leaf, that bhog will not be accepted even by the amsha of Ganpati, Bhagavati Durga cannot accept it, Bhagavan Shiva cannot accept it, and a great many shaktis will not accept it.
How are deities asked to depart at the end of a puja?
In daily pujan, the speaker says, according to him there should not be any need to do visarjan; that whole vidhi is not for ordinary householders. But in the special pujan, when we make the request, then in the visarjan mantra we pray thus: that Lakshmi and Ganesh, Ganpati ji, together with Riddhi-Siddhi and Shubh-Labh, should always occupy their place in our dwelling and remain here. And to Bhagavati Durga we say: O Ma Jagadamba, depart to your own lok, and from there protect us by your vajra; and whenever an auspicious work occurs and I call you again, then O Mai, come here again with your family.
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