Navarna Mantra
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The mantra chanted before Chapter 1 and after Chapter 13 to enclose a complete Durga Saptashati recitation (Chandi Path) — chanted 1, 11, or 9 malas by the prescribed method.
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Chandi path: what a full Durga Saptashati recitation contains
Setting out the difference between Chandi path, Navchandi path and samput path heard of in Navratri, the speaker first describes the full mool path. The shastras say the thirteen main chapters of the Durga Saptashati are read with six angas (Shadanga): chiefly Kavach, Argala, Keelak and the three Rahasyas that follow. With them come the Ratri Suktam, the Atharvashirsha, the Saptashati Nyasa and the Navarna vidhi, and after the thirteenth chapter the Devi Suktam and the Rahasya paath. Before the first chapter the Navarna Mantra is chanted for one mala, eleven malas as per vidhi, or nine, and again after the thirteenth, so the whole paath is chiefly enclosed by the Navarna. This whole vidhi is what is called Chandi Charitra, Durga Saptashati path or Chandi Path, and it counts as one paath.
Questions to settle before Navarna japa: adhikar, pranav, nyasa, Ganpati-Bhairav pujan
The speaker says the sadhika had no one to guide her, so she began watching the same channel's videos, which praised the Navarna mantra greatly. She reasoned that if Navarna could be awakened and its siddhi obtained, many siddhis would follow by Bhagavati's grace. She had nothing to do with the questions of who has adhikar for Navarna, who should do it, whether it is done with pranav, whether nyasa is required, and whether Ganpati and Bhairav pujan are needed — she simply bought a red chandan mala, red cloth and a red asan, took the vidhan commonly given, and began 108 malas of japa every day.
Can mantra japa give experiences and premonitions even without diksha?
The speaker says yes: the sadhika had no diksha, nothing, yet the mantra showed its effect — within 9-10 days came fragrant air, dreams of Dakshineshwari Kali calling her, and wandering in divine lokas; by 1.25-2 lakh japa she was fully surrendered to Bhagavati and premonitions began. He adds that if a person's grahas and nakshatras are right at the time, a yoga of benefic planets is running, there is a special yoga of the ninth house, and the eighth house is awakened, then all these things come at once on entering sadhana. What was not known, he says, was what mistake she was making.
How the shaktis delude an unguided Navarna sadhak
The speaker says that as the sadhika pressed on with more japa, the shaktis began to give delusion: in dreams she started receiving mantras — do this mantra, this is the deity, these are the shaktis — and every one she was told she would search on the internet and follow. About two months into her anushthan she found online some Navarna-related mantras claiming that a samput of certain bija mantras fully awakens divya drishti; the craving for divya drishti had already taken hold, and YouTube, he says, is full of such material. With practice her 108 malas now took only 3.5-4 hours and she raised the count; it was still just Navarna, done with pranav. Between four and five lakh her state became so ugra that any shakti she meditated on seemed to stand there in person — while she no longer looked at her own body and had completely skipped her home.
Avesh, uchchatan and bodily breakdown from unguided Navarna japa
The speaker says that as the third month completed, the most difficult phase began in the sadhika's own body: constant pain, a feeling of avesh upon herself, an almost permanent intoxicated state, heavy shoulders and a drooping neck — until she who had done up to 150 malas a day could no longer even lift the mala. Uchchatan and irritability set in, and red blisters broke out on her body. After four or five months she contacted the channel whose videos she had followed; she was told there was no problem, that Bhagavati had only protected her, and that she should at least do some malas daily and havan. She did, but got no peace; the uchchatan grew, household troubles and debt grew.
How much Navarna or Kunjika japa is safe without a guru's guidance?
The speaker says the most important lesson is that when you do japa of a mantra, you do not know which energy, which deity of your own house, is being awakened by it, who is accepting it, and what havoc it is going to cause. This is why he stays neutral about Navarna and Kunjika and keeps saying: do not do them without understanding the subject. The results promised everywhere do come — but only when done vidhivat. If you do it on your own whim, without guidance, do a fixed, small quantity; a large quantity will unbalance the energy, and neither he nor the listener has the capacity to make Jagadamba herself manifest. Navarna, he says, is not to be done directly on its own; there are rules for it.
Why is the Navarna mantra called the Gayatri of Tantra?
The speaker says Navarna is not merely Durga's mantra: it is the mantra of that Bhagavati's nine Chandikas, of her nine principal shaktis; all ten Mahavidyas are present in it, as are the Navdurgas. Through it every kind of shakti awakens and all the vidhans of shatkarma can be done. As Gayatri is in the Veda, so Navarna is in Tantra — no other mantra in tantra is held its equal. Yet, he says, such a great tantric mantra is nowadays handed out like halwa-puri — every video says do Navarna — while nobody discusses how to do it, how much, whether diksha is to be taken, and how much may be done without diksha.
Why is the Chandi kavach the greatest of all kavachs?
Because, he says, of all the kavachs in the world the best is the kavach of Bhagavati Chandi, since Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh — all three — are its rishis. In the viniyog we read Brahma as the rishi, but it is composed by all three. Its devata is Chamunda, and Chamunda here means Bhagavati Mahakali directly.
Why the Navarna mantra is called the most explosive shakti in tantra and must never be tampered with
He says he always forbids the Navarna mantra to those without knowledge: take it to be the most explosive shakti in this world — in tantra it is the Navarna. In the Vedic mantras it is the Gayatri, and in tantra the Navarna; these two mantras are the ones by which everything is possible. One should not play with it or talk nonsense with it.
What is forbidden to an uninitiated person with the Navarna mantra?
Never, even by mistake, any tampering with the Navarna mantra. If you have received diksha, then do it. Otherwise you should not ordinarily even do nine utterances of it in the mind by speaking it. It is not to be sung, it is not to be played on YouTube like a song on a tape recorder.
What comes before the thirteen adhyayas in a complete Saptashati paath?
Before that, one mala of Navarna japa. In that too this same rule will hold. Then nyasa, and the Saptashati viniyoga, and after that the paath of the thirteen adhyayas, exactly as it has been given.
Should the Navarna mantra be done alongside?
No. Do not do japa of the Navarna mantra. If you do not know it, if you do not know of it, if to this day you have not held a mala — do not do it. Remembering Bhagavati, do only this much. It will not be fruitless.
Can the Navarna mantra be done without diksha?
The speaker says the Navarna is the greatest mantra in tantra; if someone says they will do a lakh and a quarter of it, or a crore, without diksha, harm can come there and he will forbid it — do not do that much.
Does the Navarna mantra need diksha?
He tells Chinki Joshi ji that the Navarna mantra should be done after being initiated, and should not be done without diksha — there are mahashaktis in it. He also refers Dr Richa Singh ji to a separate video on the channel about how one comes to know that a sadhana has succeeded and what experiences occur.
What should be recited by one who is not initiated in the Navarna mantra?
Answering Neha Chaudhary ji, who was given prasad by Maa Kali in a dream, he says to do japa of the Navarna mantra if you are initiated; otherwise, if you are doing the paath of Bhagavati's Durga Chalisa, then do japa of the Jayanti Mangala mantra to the best of your capacity.
Which mantra is done for fear in sleep?
If fear comes in sleep, the speaker says, it is the japa of the Navarna mantra that is done. It is good, he adds, that japa is happening at all.
The daily order is approved, with Shiva ji added back into it
A listener gives his nitya pujan order: Ganpati Atharvashirsha, Badvanal, Bhairav Namavali, Navarna mantra, Sarva Shloki, then Navarna mantra, and at the end the first mantra of the Argala. The order is entirely proper, the speaker says. But you are doing nothing of Shiva ji: at the very least utter the names of his twelve Jyotirlingas. You have skipped Shiva ji altogether, saying that Bhairav is Shiva himself so we are doing Bhairav ji — that is fine, but do Shiva ji's as well.
Case: a 41-day Navarna mantra sadhana copied from YouTube without diksha
The speaker presents a true case from the Corona period: a man with no Diksha of any kind, who had long served Bhagavati, went through every Navarna Mantra video on a very popular channel, was motivated by the experiences reported there, and began a night-time sadhana. On red cloth and a red asan he sat from about 10:30 pm to 2:30 am trying to complete 108 malas; for 41 days he kept an Akhand Jyot, offered Naivedya to Bhagavati in a solitary room, then did the Chalisa, the Ashtottara Shatanama, Navarna japa and one mala for Ganpati, nothing else. The sadhana completed calmly with no fear, no Avesh and no visitation; he continued nine malas daily and had beautiful dream experiences, which the speaker calls the proper, positive response for any Sadhak. That was 2021.
A panchagavya bath and one mala of Panchakshari do not consecrate a mala
The speaker says the Mala used in the Navarna case was an old red-chandan mala that, in his view, was not consecrated at all. The man had done no pratishtha and no vidhi of that kind on it; he had only bathed it in Panchagavya and panchamrita and, following the channel, done one mala of the Panchakshari Mantra with Pranav over it, which the channel said would consecrate it. The speaker says that absolutely cannot consecrate a mala; had the man at least done the Ishan mantra one could grant that something was done, but this was something else entirely.
Symptoms after a wrongly done Navarna sadhana: fear, avesh, dizziness and illness
The speaker lists what followed in 2022 in the Navarna case: first a pull in the food pipe and an urge to vomit when sitting for japa, especially in the evening, with medical tests finding nothing; then constant anxiety and fear. The channel owner told him to repeat the sadhana over the nine days of Navratri, and after that came a constant sense of someone nearby, jolts on falling asleep, a feeling of falling followed by heavy dizziness and low blood pressure, a stomach and liver that weakened with no dietary cause, definite evening Avesh (heavy body and shoulders, urge to sway, teeth grinding, rising anger, then collapse), and intense fear in his old japa hours of 11:30 to 2:30 that someone stood by his head or at the window. The speaker points to the reversal: the mantra whose sadhana removes fear was itself producing fear.
A wrongly done intense sadhana touches the whole of life: job, children, wealth
The speaker says that around March 2022 the man in the Navarna case lost his work-from-home job, probably because illness kept him from joining office; he does not put much weight on the man's own view that the mantra caused it. But since the sadhana ran with such intensity, he says, it was bound to affect life somewhere: when a mantra gives its right fruit it lifts a person from the floor to the sky however adverse the circumstances, and when a sadhana is done wrongly, difficulties come. He records what followed: in September 2022 the man's wife, carrying twins, lost one to miscarriage; in December 2022 a son was born with epilepsy, who recovered on medication by early 2023; a long-pending court case wholly in his favour was overturned at final judgement, causing heavy loss and forcing him to liquidate all his stock-market investments; his body was harmed, he was mentally disturbed, and quarrels broke out at home. Though in direct contact with the channel owner, no proper solution emerged.
Can the Navarna mantra be chanted without diksha and without a yajnopavita?
The speaker says the first fault in the Navarna case is that the man had received no Diksha whatsoever, and not everything, he says, is a matter of bhakti-bhavana. The second is that his Yajnopavita had never been done; he did not wear one at all. Without wearing the yajnopavita, he asks, how will you perform these mantras? Whether every person is an Adhikara-holder for Navarna Mantra japa, he notes, is something he has discussed many times before.
Should Om be added before the Navarna mantra and Namah after it?
The speaker says the Navarna the man had been given carried Pranav in front and "namah" after "vichche", whereas in the original Navarna Mantra, as anyone in a Guru Parampara would know, neither exists. Some 90% of YouTube videos say Om must be added to balance the mantra's energy, but he says a tantric mantra has its own rule, which is exactly why a Guru is necessary; who should add pranav and who should not is a separate matter. Adding namah is the graver error: mantras are held to have gender, feminine, masculine and so on, and without knowing what namah does to a mantra's gati one has added it on one's own. Navarna, he says, is not a plaything; the man chanted this wrong mantra for many days and even did Purashcharana with it.
Navakshari nyasa on a mantra that has grown to twelve syllables
Asked whether he did Viniyoga and Nyasa with the mantra, the man in the Navarna case sent the version published by Gita Press. The speaker says that with Om in front and namah behind, the mantra was no longer the nine-syllable navakshari Navarna Mantra but had become an eleven-syllable, in effect twelve-syllable, mantra, and yet he performed the nyasa of the navakshari on it, which was already an error.
Whether pranav goes with the Navarna mantra is decided only by the diksha guru
The speaker says the man in the Navarna case chanted with Pranav attached and was not an adhikari for that at all. Whether pranav is attached to the Navarna Mantra or not is a separate matter altogether: it applies only to those who are initiated (Diksha), and what their Guru instructs can differ from person to person. It is never a common rule, he says; always remember this.
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.
Navarna japa calls for bali and naivedya for the yoginis and Kshetrapal pujan
After all the other faults, the speaker says, came the "bumper" fault of the Navarna case: the man never once offered Bali, bhog or Naivedya. The Navarna Mantra is a tantric mantra, he says; with its japa the Yoginis come, and they received no bali, no naivedya, no food at all. Nor was Kshetrapal ever worshipped. Navarna has great glory and all its rules; perform it without fully knowing them, and everything that happened in this case will happen.
Which shakti a wrong japa stirred is a separate diagnosis; mool mantra without kavach brings trouble
The speaker says he has discussed only the effect and ill-effect of the mantra in the Navarna case, that is, how it was chanted wrongly. Which shakti of the man's home was awakened by the wrong japa, what became Avesh-ed on his body, whether some shakti of the roads and ghats attached, whether a Kshetrapal Dosha or a dosha of Bhairav ji occurred, and what happened on account of which, is an entirely separate subject. He adds that many Sahasranamas and Kavach texts say that japa of the mool mantra without reciting the kavach brings such troubles, so that too is a related factor.
Take tantric mantras from a Shakta sadhak after diksha and upadesh
The speaker says this is why he tells everyone that tantric mantras like the Navarna Mantra should be taken from the right person, a proper Shakta Sadhak: take the knowledge, receive Diksha, receive the upadesh, get one's doubts resolved, and only then perform the anushthan. Today you may be succeeding in every way, he warns, but the future can turn dark. Stay aware, stay alert and do sadhana in the right manner. His purpose, he says, is not to lessen anyone's faith in the mantra or its deity but to remove confusion, so that no one performs a karma without Adhikara that harms them and their family; harm to even one sadhak of Sanatan is a loss to all.
With parents and parents-in-law living, the ancestors' form is filled with the grandparents' names onward
Yes — why would you not be able to. The names to be written are those of the grandfather, great-grandfather and so on, so living parents are no obstacle. The Navarna Mantra, asked alongside, may be recited only if you are initiated.
Do Vinigyoga and Nyasa have to be repeated for every recitation in an Anushthan?
Once only — Viniyoga and Nyasa are done a single time in a japa, not repeatedly. But the Kunjika (Siddh Kunjika Stotram) and the Navarna Mantra should only be recited at all by someone initiated and holding their guru's instruction.
Can the Navarna mantra be recited without Deeksha, following the procedure from a book?
No. The Navarna Mantra should not be recited without initiation and a guru's grace, and the speaker says he has never supported performing it from a book. It is the king of great mantras, with its full procedure set out in scripture — performing it at one's own discretion is improper.
Navarna mantra samput around the Saptashati adhyaya for the undiksha reader: one mala each side or at least nine, without pranav
The speaker says that if one does the Navarna Mantra and the like, make a Samput with one Mala each side — one mala before the first adhyaya and one mala after. If one does not do that, do the Navarna at least nine times. It is done without Pranav. For fuller japa and the methods of siddhi and the like, he says, one should take Diksha and then do them.
Why does the beej Chamundayai stand in the Navarna mantra?
Bhagavati Chamunda is in herself the most blazing and ojaswi, and one may say the most fierce, of the devis. The beej akshar Chamundayai that has come in the Navarna, he says, has not come there without reason: that form of Jagadamba stands present in direct form within that mantra.
May an undiksha person japa the Navarna mantra?
For one who is not diksha-holder, he says, they never speak in favour of the Navarna mantra — they always forbid it. There is much opposition to this from people who invoke bhaav: why will it not happen through bhaav, does Mother not look at bhaav. He asks people to stop tampering in the name of bhaav.
Which mantras must the undiksha never japa, and what changes after diksha?
Navarna and Panchadashi are such mantras that people who are undiksha should not japa them. If the utterance comes in the middle of some path, that is a separate matter. And once one has become diksha-holder, this mantra should never at any time be spoken with the mouth.
What is the Mahavaran of the sixty-four Yoginis?
In the Mahayantras, where the sixty-four Yoginis are worshipped, sixty-four Bhairavs are worshipped with them — not the fifty-two people know of — and along with them sixty-four Ganpatis in the Siddhi form. Siddhi meaning Ganpati; so Siddhi Maha Ganapati, Siddhi Kshipra Maha Ganapati, the word Siddha prefixed to every name.
What is the Bisa yantra?
The Navarna yantra is very famous. In Navarna, he says, people know the Bisa yantra — he would not himself call it Navarna, but people have seen a great deal of the Bisa yantra, of which the saying current among tantrics is that whoever has the Bisa, what harm can Jagadisha do him.
Kamya prayoga uses metal too, and marana prayoga needs well water and an iron kalash
Metal is used for kamya prayoga yantras too, but much has to be watched. He says almost everyone knows the kamya prayoga of Navarna; every single mantra has its own kamya prayoga and can be used in everything. Those without full knowledge, he says, do the purashcharan of a mantra and descend straight into kamya prayoga — which serves only while the enemy is not of that order.
What does the Devi Atharvashirsha give?
In its Phalashruti it comes that the fruit obtained from studying all five Atharvashirshas is obtained from the recitation of the Devi Atharvashirsha alone — and along with it Bhagavati grants a great deal more, including the glory of the Navarna and of the Panchadashi Vidya.
How should the viniyoga and nyasa of the Navarna mantra be done?
Asked in what manner the viniyoga and nyasa and the rest of the Navarna mantra should be done, he answers: do it by speaking it aloud.
Can 27000 Navarna japa be got done by a pandit in Shakambhari Navratri to wear a yantra?
A listener wants to have 27000 japa of the Navarna mantra done by a pandit ji in Shakambhari Navratri and then wear the yantra. Yes, brother, absolutely you can do it, the speaker says — the pandit ji will tell you how and by what vidhan it is to be done.
How are the tattvas within us connected to the Saptashati?
He says to the listener Abhishek that all the tattvas are within us, and in the Saptashati the relation of these tattvas is also with that shakti which is present there. Agni, Vayu, Sur Tattvani — when you go into the Navarna it comes with the three tattvas. Although, he notes, in the prevalent Saptashati the viniyoga and nyasa with the tattvas has not been given.
Can women perform havan with the Tantrokta Navarna mantra?
Women can perform havan with the Tantrokta Navarna mantra, he says. More than the Navarna mantra, though, he says to use the first mantra of the Argala. If you have the deeksha of the Navarna mantra, then you can do it.
What exactly is a guru needed for?
What is the need of a guru, he asks: that he should make the uccharan clear — if there is a beej in the uccharan, how the pronunciation goes in that beej. For that a guru is necessary. And if there is a doubt or a misgiving in your mind, for that a guru is necessary — as, for instance, the doubt people keep about whether to attach Om to the Navarna or not; there is a guru for that. The meaning of guru here becomes: one who removes your doubt and misgiving.
In Gupt Navratri, is a Navarna mantra anushthan better or a Saptashati path?
Asked whether in Gupt Navratri a japa anushthan of the Navarna mantra would be better or a Saptashati path, the speaker answers that when you do the Saptashati path you should do it with the Navarna mantra as samput. The whole vidhan of the Saptashati path, in which manner it is done, has been explained on this very channel in a live, showing the whole granth of the Saptashati — it is live on this channel under the name Saptashati Sarvasvam. Those who cannot do thirteen adhyayas in one day should do the Saptashati path in the Mahavidya krama, whose full vidhan has also been given.
For a sava lakh Navarna anushthan, are the navagraha and shodash matrika mandals needed?
To Raju Acharya ji, who asks whether along with ghat sthapana the navagraha mandal and the shodash matrika mandal must be established for the sava lakh japa of the Navarna mantra in Navratri, and whether they must be worshipped daily, he answers that if you are going to do the anushthan of sava lakh then at the very least, if nothing else, certainly light an akhand deepak. As for the mandals: if you do ghat sthapana, do all the puja on that very ghat. There is no need to make separate mandals — do the shodash matrika pujan on the ghat, do the navagraha pujan on the ghat, and do the daily puja on it too, in name only, saying "नवग्रहेभ्यो नमः यथा उपलब्ध उपचारम् समर्पयामि" and offering a single flower; but certainly offer it by name.
A listener suffered great loss of Lakshmi five years after performing a havanatmak prayoga of the Navarna mantra
A listener writes that about five years earlier he performed a havanatmak prayoga of the Navarna mantra and suffered great loss of Lakshmi. The speaker replies that if he were to forbid the Navarna mantra here, ten people would immediately start abusing him live for forbidding Navarna japa.
Other tantra channels shove extra beejas into the Navarna and panchakshari mantras
The speaker says other channels that make tantra videos have shoved in the Navarna mantra, the panchakshari mantra, every mantra — do it, do it well, do it like this, put Om on it, put Om on both sides, insert this beej in the middle, insert the Shreem beej. He never says do Navarna japa this way or that, because Navarna is in itself maha-explosive and in the highest degree consistent with science.
Should Navarna or Siddh Kunjika be done without diksha?
In his own reckoning, the speaker says, Siddh Kunjika and Navarna japa should not be done without diksha. He says listeners are free to agree or disagree; he is putting his view according to his own experience. If you do it, do it within a limit — he is not forbidding it — but if you do unlimited japa while not being initiated and not being an adhikari of the pranava, and you do japa with the pranava attached, then harm is done to the devatas.
How much Navarna japa is acceptable?
He tries from his own side, the speaker says: do Navarna, do one mala, do a mala or two — that much should be done. But you sit and do 108 malas of it daily, 108 in the morning and 108 in the evening. Do you even know how the mandala pujan is done in Navarna japa, and how many shaktis will come? At least you know that the navagraha and nine shaktis are contained in it.
Is bhaav enough when only a lota of water and five raisins are offered?
And you keep, the speaker says, one lota of water, five raisins counted out, two cloves, one camphor — and then say, how will they not be pleased, how will the work not be done? Then in five raisins you say, my bhaav is this much. If it is bhaav, he asks, why are you doing so much? With bhaav, fold your hands and sing a stuti.
May a woman do Gayatri japa after being shown a sign in a dream?
A woman who does Navarna japa says she received a sign in a dream to read the Gayatri mantra, and asks what to do. If you are a woman, the speaker answers, the adhikara of Gayatri japa does not belong to a woman; you should not do Gayatri japa. As for the Navarna, if you do its japa and are initiated, that is very good; if you are not initiated, then you should do its japa within a limit, in a limited quantity.
May the Navarna mantra be read after reciting the graha mantras 108 times?
A listener says that after having his kundali seen, an astrologer told him to recite the mantras of Mangal, Chandra, Rahu and Budh 108 times each, and asks whether the Navarna mantra may be read after that. The speaker answers that yes, he may read it — that much.
Can the Durga Saptashati be recited without Navarna diksha?
The speaker says no. Two things are wrong: skipping the nyasa because one does not know the vidhi, and reciting the Saptashati without the Navarna because one has no Navarna diksha. Without diksha the Navarna cannot be chanted — it is no ordinary mantra but one of the three mantra-rajas alongside Tripura Sundari's Shodashi and the Panchadashi, and these are never to be transgressed. He dismisses the "she is Jagdamba, she is Mother" objection: Mother is one thing, the mantra's effect another. The uninitiated do not know whether its bija is voiced in ga-kara or ma-kara, whether they belong to Kadi, Hadi or Sadi, that every mantra has its own yantra whose avaran of anga-shaktis is seated with peeth pujan, or that diksha follows the region's peeth — things told only in traditional diksha. So take Shakta diksha; there is nothing else to do.
How the uninitiated get adhikar for the Navarna and the Saptashati path
The speaker says that if you have no deeper knowledge, at the very least take the upadesh of the Navarna from someone who wears the yajnopavit and does Gayatri and the like — a sadhak or a brahmin — take Shakta diksha, and take upadesh or adesh for the Saptashati. Request the brahmins who recite the Saptashati during Navratri, in Navratri itself, to give you adesh and initiate you in the Shakta line. Whoever wears the yajnopavit and does trikaal or two-time Gayatri, or recites the Saptashati daily, can give that adesh; it confers adhikar and no dosha attaches. This much should be done so that the path can be recited without dosha or problem.
What should be done if bodily trouble arises each time an anushthan is performed?
A listener says that when he performs the initiated Navarna anushthan, some bodily trouble or other arises, and asks the remedy. See, the speaker says, if trouble is increasing very much from performing the anushthan, then first of all you should, through the sadhaks, tell your guru ji and have the anushthan performed through him first. After that, do it yourself.
What should be done during Shani's Sade-sati or Dhaiya?
Hold to one — Narayana, Bhagavati or Shiva — and certainly perform their Kavach. Then, if a punishment of Shani's is being received, do the Prayashchitta: circumambulate the Peepal tree, on seven Saturdays, seven times or a hundred and eight if the trouble is great, doing japa as you go.
What is the Navarna mantra, and whose is it?
Its root Shakti is Bhagavati Mahadurga. In Mahadurga all of them come — the Navadurga who manifested from her, the three Mahashaktis Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, and the ten Mahavidyas as well. It is not a mantra, the speaker says, but a Mantra-raja.
If the Navarna mantra is done daily, must the sankalp be taken daily?
Vipul Gaur ji, he answers, if you are initiated, then do the Navarna mantra from your guru with vidhi-vidhan, having known its condition. If you are not initiated and ordinarily wish to do a mala or so, then a sankalp is not needed as such — a mental sankalp; even so, if there is something special, you may take one. But to do the Navarna without diksha is simply not proper.
The Navarna vidhi is never told online: take a proper Shakta diksha, then the adesh of your guru, and japa the mantra
No. Asked for the vidhi of the Navarna mantra sadhana, the speaker says this vidhi can never be told online by him. Take a proper Shakta diksha, then take the adesh of your guru, and japa that mantra.
Which two mantras does the Devi Atharvashirsha discuss?
The Panchadashi first and the Navarna second. The speaker calls these the mantra-raj of the Devi, the most divine of the divine, beyond which there is nothing at all. Bhagavati has only these two as chief, and they are chief because it is these that the Atharvashirsha names openly.
Can the Chandi paath be done without diksha?
If you are doing it in Sanskrit and have no diksha, the speaker says, then everything must be known thoroughly well, so that there is no error or fault in the pronunciation. One mala of the Navarna will pass without diksha. But for the Chandi paath one should at least, while practising, take upadesh from some Brahmin who performs Gayatri; or if there is an elder in the house who does sadhana and puja, take upadesh and permission from him. Doing it with permission taken will be best.
What is needed to take up the Navarna mantra?
Take diksha from some guru, and then do it, the speaker says.
What does it actually mean to say a diksha was received?
The speaker tells a questioner that his own account contradicts itself. He asks how the kuldevi gave the diksha — by appearing before him, in a dream, or by possessing someone's head. First learn clearly what diksha means, he says, and then say that diksha was given: merely saying it is not diksha. Even when a svapna diksha does happen, the upadesh of that mantra has to be received; only if the mantra carries upadesh is that diksha complete. When a guru gives that diksha he makes clear the whole vidhi of the mantra including its pronunciation, its mahatmya, and, if it is keelit, how it will be made nishkeelit.
Which is better — a thousand paath of the 32 Nama or a sava lakh of the Navarna?
This has become like asking whether we should drink amrit or go to the kalpavriksha and ask of the kalpavriksha, the speaker says. Both have their own importance and their own capacity. Where the Navarna mantra is the mantra-raj, there Bhagavati Jagadamba herself says in the mahatmya of the 32 Namavali that it is for the removal of every kind of sankat that the 32 Namavali exists. Both have their own importance. The Navarna is a mahamantra. Do not compare the two.
Should the Navarna mantra be japa'd without diksha?
He says it in plain terms: do not do the japa of the Navarna mantra without diksha. Doing japa without diksha is not proper.
Is online diksha a valid diksha?
Online diksha is no diksha at all, the speaker says plainly. Neither is the diksha of the Navarna given over a microphone a diksha, nor is the diksha of the Panchadashi given over a microphone one. All of this — the diksha that a guru gives entirely in the proper manner, by the shastrokta vidhi, that alone is the proper diksha. Keep this matter in mind.
May a havan of a mala mantra be done at home?
Asked about the havan vidhi of the mala mantra, the speaker says that it is not to be done at home — he always forbids it. There, the mala mantra is done in the rarest of cases, if the matter is being discussed personally; if he has told someone to do it in such and such a manner that is a different thing, but it is not for everyone. He says the same of doing a havan at home for the Navarna mantra.
Which mantra is most abused today?
He says that of the mantras most ill-used today the Navarna mantra is the foremost. Some channels are based on that mantra alone, with one in every two videos on it. The reference of Gita Press Gorakhpur is being given nowadays, that it is written there to do the japa without the pranava — but, he asks, where is it written there that without a guru's upadesh you may perfect the mantra, do its japa, and obtain the adhikara for the mantra?
Which two mantras does the Devi Atharvashirsha describe in full?
The speaker says that in earlier times things were kept so secret that nobody knew what a mantra even was, and that today there has been so much publicity that people feel the mantra is nothing. He calls the Navarna the mantra-raja, called the king of all mantras. In Bhagwati's Atharvashirsha — the one atharvashirsha by which alone the fruit of all five atharvashirshas is obtained — a full description is given of two mantras only: the Panchadashi of Bhagwati Rajarajeshwari, Ma Tripurasundari, Ma Jagadamba, and the Navarna mantra.
What is shown of the Navarna mantra in serials?
He says it is being shown that in the Navarna mantra people are killed by the name Chamunda. With this mantra, he says, you are doing yourselves as much harm as nobody else will do you. And when anyone explains this very thing properly, people abuse him abundantly — that he is a hypocrite, a fraud, is looting, is frightening, that there is nothing to fear and one should do it treating the Mother as mother.
What of those who say they have done it for ten years and nothing happened?
To those who say to treat the Mother as a mother, that nothing will happen, that we have done it for ten years and nothing has happened, the speaker answers: quite right, nothing has happened, and nothing will happen ahead either. Do it for ten births in place of ten years and nothing will happen. When the matter has been discussed in a thing like the Atharvashirsha, in the Upanishad, in the Dev Upanishad, and its whole extended subject given, then the matter is straightforward.
If the upanayan has not been done, can maya beej replace the pranava?
Asked whether, the upanayan not having been done, the Satnam path may be recited putting the maya beej in place of the pranava, the speaker says yes, it may absolutely be done. For the japa of the Navarna, he says, he repeatedly asks for deeksha. Asked whether there will be any harm from this, he says there is no harm at all.
Can the Navarna mantra be done in the Ashadha Gupt Navratri after deeksha?
A listener says he has made a guru and has also taken the deeksha of the Maa Durga Saptashati mantra, and asks whether he may do the Navarna mantra japa in the Ashadha Gupt Navratri. When you have taken the deeksha, then do it with complete joy, the speaker answers; do it with the mind applied. When the guru deeksha has taken place, then do it at ease.
People run past a rule even when a video sets it out plainly with experiences, so the restriction must be judged with your own intelligence
Because the others place no restrictions at all. He names the Navarna mantra as the worst case — that it may be done with no rule or prohibition — and says that even when a video sets out the rule clearly with experiences, people run past it. His request: learn to use your own intelligence.
Who is Mahasaraswati/Chandi, and what is the Chandi Navarna mantra?
Saraswati, goddess of learning and the arts with Vedic origins, has a higher warrior aspect called Mahasaraswati or Chandi, who together with Mahakali and Mahalakshmi is invoked in the Chandi Navarna mantra — believed to embody the combined primordial bija-sounds of all three goddesses.
Preparatory sequence before a full Saptashati havan begins
The speaker says that on havan day — say the path was done till Ashtami and the havan is on Navami — one first performs the full shaap vimochan vidhan, does only a path (no ahuti) of Kavach, Argala and Kilak, and completes the opening havans of Guru, Ganpati, the dikpals and so on. In a full-Saptashati havan there is no separate obligation to offer the Kavach; the first mantra of the Argala may be offered as a navahuti, and the Kilak's first mantra must be offered, and only that one. Then the Ratri Suktam and Atharvashirsha are recited, the Saptashati nyasa done, the Navarna japped and one mala of it offered in havan, nyasa done again, and the first chapter begins. He adds that this is best learned practically beside a specific acharya.
Closing a Saptashati havan: chapters 12–13, the Navarna ahuti and the three Rahasyas
The speaker says that in the twelfth and thirteenth chapters ordinary sakalya ahutis may be given. After that the Navarna mantra is offered once more, and after the Navarna ahuti the three Rahasyas must be recited.
What rules govern the Vedic mantras, and who should not utter Mahamrityunjay?
The Vedic mantras have very many rules, he says. A woman cannot do Mahamrityunjay — it is Vedic and she should not even utter it — yet people do not accept this, and women sit and do Mahamrityunjay. Where anyone has said so, he asks, singing goes on, bhajan goes on, of Mahamrityunjay, of the Panchakshari, of Durga ji's Navarna. These mantras, he says, are obtained in diksha and never uttered from the mouth.
What has been done to the Navarna mantra in popular portrayal?
The speaker says these people use the Navarna mantra so much: some tantric performs a maran prayoga on someone, simply reads out a maran mantra, and the next man is finished on the spot. Yet the mantra by which every single thing of the entire creation can be obtained — the mantra called the greatest mantra of tantra, of which it is said that in the Vedas there is Gayatri and in tantra there is Navarna — has been turned by these people into a maran device. Kaal Bhairav, made as the remover of even the fear of Kaal, the Kaal of Kaal himself, is the very one by whom we have been made afraid.
Can the Navarna mantra be japped without diksha?
The japa of the Navarna mantra without diksha — brother, the speaker says, we are absolutely against this. Gayatri and Navarna, according to him — and he warns that hearing the truth will feel a little bad — should not be done without diksha, according to him. Do them only after obtaining a guru. Ordinarily, he says, do nine times, do twenty-seven times, that is plenty. If you go as far as even one mala, then that and no more.
What should be done in place of Navarna japa?
If you are doing Saraswati, the speaker says, then do one mala — and its japa should be done without the pranav. The second thing is that in its place, if you wish, you can use the mantras of the Argala and the like; you can use the other mantras of the Saptashati, by which the fulfilment of your desire may come about. And if Navarna alone is to be done, then Navarna is the mantra of Mahadurga; it is not only of Durga ji — nine shaktis are seated in it.
May the Navarna mantra be done?
Japa of the Navarna mantra: if you are initiated, then you can do it.
May the Navarna mantra be done without a guru on Holi night?
Asked whether the Navarna mantra can be done on Holi night without a guru, he says there is a whole video on it: search "Navarna mantra Grihastha Tantra" and the very topic asked will be found written on the thumbnail. Hear the whole thing, it will become clear, and after that take your own decision on whether to do it or not.
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