Navnath
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The nine revered Siddhas (Gorakhnath among them) of the Nath tradition, invoked as part of Guru-Ganesha worship before a sadhana.
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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.
Why is worshipping graves (Mazars) on Thursday contrary to Sanatana Dharma?
Thursday is sacred to Lord Dattatreya, so worshipping spirits, graves, or unscriptural entities on that day is contrary to Sanatana Dharma — such unscriptural worship feeds low astral and ghostly energies (Pretas and Pishachas).
Navnath Chaitanya sadhana as the foundation of Nath Shabari vidya
The speaker says that in the field of Nath Shabari Vidya the Navnath are the root, so the very first sadhana is the Navnath Chaitanya mantra sadhana, which he had his group do for eleven days from Makar Sankranti. Once the Navnath have been made chaitanya, they must be woken again before any Shatkarma one ever does, because it is those nine who grant success to the karma. He compares it to Omkar: until Om is chaitanya nothing else becomes chaitanya, since everything is in Omkar. Whether one follows a tantrokta vidhan or does bhakti, if the Navnath are not woken and their alakh adesh not applied, it will not bear fruit. He adds that an experienced sadhak may doubt such a basic sadhana — like a class-ten student asked a class-one question — but that is exactly why it comes first.
Householders outside a Nath parampara get a limited vidhan; demanding the full one brings dosha on both sides
The speaker says disciples inside a parampara are told the vidhi in full, but for someone who cannot become a disciple, or has limits and does not want to come in fully, vidhans have been given so that one may stay a grihastha, do things in a certain way, and still gain the Navnath's grace and progress. If such a person insists on receiving the whole vidhan, then both the giver and the doer incur Dosha, because it is outside the schedule — every sadhana has its copyright, and the Nath family rightly asks why it should give its thing outside its parampara; no one will do such a foolish thing. So the giver tells only as much as benefits the other person and gets his work done — and then the seeker, given something below his level, doubts that anything happened at all.
Meaning of Adesh and Alakh in the Nath tradition
The speaker says the word Nath sadhaks use is really not "Adesh" but "Adish" — Adi plus Ish, the first Lord, Bhagwan Shiva — which has been corrupted into Adesh. "Alakh" means that which has no end, the jyoti that burns forever; hence "Alakh Adesh". There are different processes for waking the alakh and different ones for giving it, but when ordinary people say "Adesh, Adesh", what it means is that we are remembering Bhagwan Shiva and bowing to him.
Sadhana without a guru mantra: the Navnath as the nine gurus
Asked by someone who has a guru but has not received a guru mantra, the speaker says it is not a matter for much worry. A guru mantra is necessary and a Guru is absolutely necessary — but the idea that without a guru one's bhakti or puja-path is diminished or will not bear fruit is wrong, and he does not agree with it; those who plant such doubt in people's devotion do the greatest wrong. He has a video on which sadhanas can be done without a guru. In Shabari, the Navnath he had the group awaken are themselves gurus — nine gurus; on the 28th, Guru Pushya Nakshatra, he will have the Guru Shabari done again, and he has given three or four guru-related sadhanas before — start with these and do not stop. If you have a guru who is not giving the mantra, talk to him.
Why a simple sadhana feels unconnected: Mayong and the spoken transfer of a siddhi
When a participant said he could not connect with the Navnath sadhana as with earlier ones, the speaker says this happened to everyone because the sadhana was so simple — and people today dismiss simple things, though in tantra the actual work is a two-minute affair. He gives Mayong, near Assam, famous for its magicians, where the most tantra-abhichar work is done: anyone who knows will tell you it is that simple and runs entirely through parampara. As in his video on how a siddhi is transferred, traditional vidyas are given so simply that at a fixed time one only has to speak — "from today this thing of mine, such-and-such itar-yoni being, you take it" — read over rice, hand the rice over, and it is done; to call it there is a name and a mantra of barely a few syllables. So the simpler the sadhana, the less engagement it demands — just 21 mantras and a bhog — and the less connected an experienced sadhak feels, while newcomers who had never done sadhana enjoyed the decorating and gained atma-bal, which was needed.
Navnath, guru sadhana and ishta mantra as the protective layers before any prayog
The speaker gives an example of what the simple sadhanas are for: suppose a friend's house has a tantra in it, something that walks at night. The Navnath one has learnt to awaken are the first to protect you when you wake them, and by their grace and adesh your other mantras will run. Second, the guru sadhana he will give makes all mantras protect the sadhak himself and his family. Then the Ishta Devata's mantra that he will have siddh-ed is what one goes and throws there — a lemon, say — and the mantra will work there; but when the attack comes back at you from there and you have not woken your gurus, not given them bhog and prasad, and have no guru or diksha from anyone, that is the danger. That is why he has said he will have sadhanas done for a whole year: what he gives first has the greatest importance, and only then does one use the rest.
Datta sadhana is chiefly done by sadhaks of Maharashtra and by those in the Navnath parampara or in his own; less so in Bihar, UP and the north-east.
He says most sadhaks of the Maharashtra region certainly perform Bhagwan Datta's sadhana, and that all the sadhaks connected with the channel who are in the Navnath parampara, or in Bhagwan Datta's parampara, or in a parampara related to his avatars, certainly do it. Sadhaks of Bihar, UP and the north-east may do it less, but those of that side certainly do.
Sabar mantras that invoke Muslim shaktis: how they entered and why the speaker forbids them
The speaker says the siddha sadhus of every Sanatan tradition, especially the Nath parampara, accepted disciples of other religions and did not refuse them Diksha; he calls this openness the biggest weakness, since through those disciples the mixing (ghaalmel) was done, and he refuses to name the figures people relate to positively because he does not regard the admixture as positive. So if a Sabar Mantra gives the duhai of a negative shakti linked to Muslim power, declares such shaktis great, or asks you to walk on their aan-shaan, do not do that mantra at all: the Navnath and Gurudatt parampara lack nothing, crores of mantras exist — you simply do not know them. Using those shaktis, he claims, finishes your very roots: a thing uttered from the mouth of one who eats what carries the gau-dosha can annihilate your kul shaktis, your own devi-devatas become kunthit, you never progress, and after death are fit for nothing.
What is the first step for someone who wants to do Mahakali sadhana for life?
Choose the Guru method first — Bhagavan Dattatreya, the Navnath, a renowned Guru-form of your own region, or one of the three Shaktis. Then perform the Dev Deeksha Vidhan on a proper muhurta; the speaker offers the coming 26 December, or Makar Sankranti on 15 January.
What special sadhana should be done on Guru Purnima?
Asked whether special sadhana should be done on Guru Purnima, the speaker says it absolutely may. All those who have performed the sadhana of Bhagavan Gorakhnath in particular should do the Guru Gorakh Sabari Navnath sadhana and the like again on that day, as a one-day observance. Those who have done Bhagavan Dattatreya's should do the sadhana of Bhagavan Dattatreya. This you may do.
Whom should you hold as guru until a guru is obtained?
Until a guru is attained, the speaker says, you must hold on to some one swaroop in the form of guru and walk with it. Carry Bhagavan Dattatreya; or take any one of the Navnaths; or take the eighty-four siddhas. According to your region, take whoever attracts you most, whoever seems a siddh purush. If you are from Uttar Pradesh, hold Devraha Baba — than whom, he says, there will be no more capable siddha yogi — or Guru Gorakhnath ji, whose mantras too are given on the channel. Carry Telang Swami in the guru parampara, or Lahiri Mahashay, or Baba Neem Karoli.
Where is the vidhan for Guru Gorakhnath ji's mantra?
Search the Siddh Sabari Vidya channel, he says, or the link is in the description of this channel — there is a link in the description of every video. Go into it, and do the Sumeru Sabar of Guru Gorakhnath ji first of all. There is a vidhan for awakening the Navnaths which you may do. There are two mantras of Bhagavan Gorakhnath and two separate vidhans; for the beginning, do any one of those two.
Does the Navnath sadhana need new grain and new vessels if repeated?
Asked whether, to do it again, one again needs grain and new vessels for the Navnath sadhana, he answers: yes, absolutely, it should be done in that very same manner.
What should be done in the Navnath sadhana if there is no space for vessels?
If there is a problem of space and you are not able to keep the vessels, he says, then in the Navnath sadhana do it without vessels — but do it with a photo of the Navnath and of Bhagavan Dattatreya.
Dattatreya as the guru-swarup accepted across all paths
For one who wants to go further still, the speaker says what he would recommend as best is the sadhana of Bhagwan Dattatreya, because he is the samyak swarup of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh; the sadhaks of every path, Shakta, Kaula Sampradaya, Shaiv or Vaishnav, accept him, and he has full importance in every panth and sampradaya. Whatever swarup one follows, Dattatreya integrates into it, and if his kripa is obtained one gets a Guru in physical form too, advances on the spiritual path, and receives the kripa of the Guru Mandala. One may take refuge in his swarup, or, if not that, take one of the Navnath.
Dattatreya's sadhana needs diksha, but his sharanagati is open
The speaker says that one who takes Bhagwan Dattatreya along should jap his Mala Mantra, which is on his channel; this is what comes before the arambhik sadhana of Bhagavati Pitambara without Diksha. He acknowledges that Dattatreya's sadhana too requires diksha, but says he is the param Guru: if a guru is not being obtained because one's Prarabdha has not yet formed one, then at the very least his sharanagati should be accepted. How the preliminary Dattatreya sadhana is done is told in full in a video on his channel; the sadhana of Guru Gorakhnath and the Navnath is on his Siddh Sabar Vidya channel, and one of these preliminary sadhanas should be done first.
What should a new sadhak do in this Gupt Navratri?
A new sadhak should first of all do a guru-related sadhana. He may do that of Bhagavan Dattatreya, or of Bhagavan Ramakrishna Paramhansa; or of whichever shaktis are seated in the form of guru in his own area; he may do Guru Gorakhnath ji, or any one of the nine Naths, or the vidhan given for the nine Naths together on the Siddh Sabari Vidya channel.
What is to be done with the wheat kept in the Navnath sadhana?
The wheat that you had kept in the vessel in the Navnath sadhana — you may mix it, and you may also perform its visarjan.
What preconditions apply before a siddha-composed mantra may be taken up?
Say to somebody that these mantras should not be done, the speaker recounts, and the reply is a quarrel. His position is that there are many things to be done first: at the least do the aarambhik sadhanas, do the sadhana of the Navnath, do the sadhana of Guru Gorakhnath ji, and if you must do it then do it outside the house — and if there is very great difficulty, do it in a Shiva temple, not shut up inside the home. The objection thrown back is: were these mantras not composed by the siddhas? He answers that yes, the siddhas composed them — does that mean we will do them here inside the house?
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