Shamshan Kali
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The form of Kali associated with the cremation ground, worshipped in advanced Tantric rites.
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Shamshan Kali belongs to the cremation ground, not a home
The speaker says that if Shamshan Kali is seated in a house, her established place is the cremation ground; if one worships her mantras and her form, the shaktis related to her will come — so how can they be peaceful? A Grihastha should not do this at home at all. But if one insists on worshipping this very form, at least the rule of the lemon garland must be followed. A single lemon, he says, can pacify a great deal and should not be taken lightly; through it one can try to pacify Bhagwati.
What are the rules for householders visiting Shmashan Kali (cremation ground Kali) temples?
Public temples may be visited on general auspicious nights like Amavasya or Chaturdashi; visiting an isolated cremation-ground temple daily instead requires alignment with one's lineage deities and specific ceremonial offerings.
On which deity vigrahas must the Mandar Vidya rudraksha mala never be placed?
Where Bhagavati Kali is concerned, if it is Dakshina Kalika and the like, they may be made to wear it. But if there is a Shri vigrah of Shamshan Kalika in your house and you are performing her pujan, or if you worship Bhagavati Tara and her Shri vigrah is present, then do not have this mala worn upon them. It will then become disordered and the matter becomes different. No harm will come to you, the speaker says, but even so a matter of dev dosha arises, because the mala will be a thing consecrated by the Mandar Vidya kalpa and the rest, and that is not to be put upon the other Mahavidyas in that way.
Which deities must not be brought inside a householder's home?
Walk on the grihasthi path, he says, so that your welfare happens and no such tattva or dev shakti becomes present that would harm the other people of the family. So an ugra devata should be worshipped outside, in a temple outside, and should not come inside the house. Their seva puja is to be given, not stopped — the right that is theirs must reach them — but according to where their form belongs. Shamshan Kali's puja is not done seated inside a home; those who have it done may do good or ill to themselves, but the ruin of the one for whom it is done is certain.
A man claiming Shamshan Kali siddhi recited the mantra mangled, having never done shravan
Everyone wants to do bhakti, but the trouble is what they mean by it — pick up the mala and rattle off the japa. The speaker recounts a man in a group who thundered at him, saying, you do not know, we have accomplished Shamshan Kali. He replied that he had not accomplished even ordinary Kali. Told to watch the man's video, he watched it, and says the mantra recited there was mangled to shreds — Kali's mantra reduced to nothing.
Risk of shmashan sabar mantras made siddha without proper vidhi: illness and loss of Shri
The speaker says that sabar mantras of shmashan-linked fierce shaktis — the Shamshan Kali mantra, the shmashan forms of Raksha Kali, the Shmashan Chandika mantra, the Aghor Kali mantra — which people make siddha in fierceness to defeat an enemy, bring illness into the body when done without the correct vidhi-vidhan, and the body's Shri Tattva is said to be lost. For a Grihastha the reason is that such a mantra carries a duhai — someone is being addressed — so the Yogini and mahashaktis of an alakshmi nature reside in it, and loss of Shri often follows. He says only those who do these things practically will understand this; those who only listen may say anything, but it is true.
Which forms should a householder keep at home?
Householders who live with their families should be very careful about forms. At home, do the seva and puja of saumya and paushtik forms in particular; when you are outside the house you may worship these other forms if you wish.
Ugra vigrahas are worshipped from the side, never face to face, by a householder
The speaker says the Ugra shaktis — the shmashan forms of Mahakali, Shamshan Kali, Shmashan Bhairavi, all shmashan Shri Vigrahas, and any vigraha made in an ugra form — are not worshipped from in front. A Grihastha must not stand before their eyes, meet their eyes and do mantra japa; those detached from household life may, but the listener should not. So at a Kaal Bhairava temple where he is installed in an ugra form, worship is done standing right beside the Shri Vigreh, not in front of it.
Who used to do the veer bhav sadhanas of the shamshan kshetra?
The veer bhav sadhanas of the shamshan kshetra used to be done, the speaker says, by a king's soldiers, a senapati, one who takes part in war, a kshatriya or one who does kshatriya-related work, or one who performs tantra-related siddhis for the welfare of society; such people would go and stay in a settled manner and perform siddhi. Not as today — Shani is troubling, so off to the Shamshan Kali temple; enemies to be destroyed, everyone arrives at the Shamshan Kali temple.
Should mudra and bali ever be shown on camera?
Never, the speaker says. These things are never for showing. Yet the bali of a mahish is shown live with the announcement that Aghor Kali is being worshipped, that Shamshan Kali is receiving bali. He fears that people proving themselves tantrics will next display the mudra of the Panchamakara and their Bhairavi live as well.
The power is obtained by befriending a Sanatani guru, serving him and taking diksha from him
He says they befriend a pure Sanatani guru who has shakti and samarthya, serve him, take Diksha from him and are made to perform sadhanas — and that the sadhaks of that level have always performed the sadhana of two mahashaktis: first Bhagavati Tara and second Bhagavati Shamshan Kali.
Tara and Bhagavati Shamshan Kali are the root of those mantras in ninety per cent of cases
He says that there, generation upon generation, the dead of ten and twenty and no one knows when remain living — kept so by the same people through mantra bala; and the root of that mantra will be Tara and Bhagavati Shamshan Kali in a maximum of ninety per cent of cases. They can never do it with Hanuman ji, he says; they will do it only with Ma, and it is these tantratmak forms of Ma that they use with authority in mleccha tantra.
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.
Can Shamshan Kali be worshipped at home?
No, he says — do not do it. If Shamshan Kali is your kuldevi, then in the symbolic manner do the puja of Adyakali herself; and otherwise, if the vidhi-vidhan of your house has been running from before, then do that. Do not begin a new puja. Do the Mata's puja in the form of Kali ji; do her puja in the symbolic form.
Which are the chief forms of the shamshaan?
Among the chief forms there, he says, are Bhagavan Mahakal, Bhagavati Tara, Bhagavati Mahakali, Bhagavati Shmashan Kali, and all the shaktis connected with the shamshaan. Among them, those said to be foremost are the ones we call Shmashan Bhairav — which simply means the Bhairavs of the shamshaan.
What goes with you at the end?
A grihastha is never successful without Narayan's grace, he says. Having dealt with Bhagavati Kamakhya, Bhagavati Shashthi, Bhagavan Narayan and Bhagavati Saraswati, at the very last you will meet Bhagavati Shmashan Kali and Bhagavan Shmashan Bhairav. And there neither your Maruti car will go, nor your Range Rover, nor your mansion worth crores. What will go is what we discuss on this channel — do the panchakshari japa.
Which Kali Sahasranama is sattvik, if one attracts negativity?
Ashish ji writes that he has learnt that negativity is attracted by the Sahasranama he recites. Do the Dakshina Kali Sahasranama, the speaker answers; do the Adya Kali Sahasranama, and it will not happen with those. If you are doing the Shamshan Kali one, then there will be difficulty.
What argument is used to justify Shamshan Kali worship at home?
The speaker reports the argument put back to him: you yourself say that the root form of all the shaktis of Bhagavati is Ma Parvati. So Shamshan Kali is one form of Parvati ji — what difficulty will there be if we do it in the house? What will happen if we do the puja of Bhadrakali in the house? And what difficulty will there be if we do all these things having eaten and drunk?
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