Bhagvad Gita
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Krishna's discourse to Arjuna at Kurukshetra on duty, action, and devotion; embedded within the Mahabharata.
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What atonement should be performed for accidentally killing a cat (e.g. in a road accident)?
Make a formal resolution (Sankalpa) and donate a small gold-foil cat (Swarna Vidalika, roughly ₹1000–1500) to a Brahmin or submerge it in the Ganges, followed by a Rudrabhisheka or short Mahamrityunjaya recitation of 21,000–27,000 chants.
What is the scriptural basis for combining spiritual practice with active defense rather than passive non-violence alone?
Krishna's teaching to arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita — 'Klaibyam ma sma gamah partha naitat tvayyupapadyate' (do not yield to unmanliness) — is cited to argue that peace is unattainable without the capacity to check hostile forces, so scriptural knowledge must be paired with defensive strength.
If a soul is already in the ghost realm, can another negative energy attach to it, and how is it liberated?
Yes — a soul in Preta Yoni can absolutely have other negative energies attach to it. If Narayana Bali alone isn't enough (because the soul is bound by black magic or a Tantric rite), the liberation sequence is Chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita with a Sankalpa, then Bhairav worship, then Narayana Bali, then Tripindi.
One-day remedy for inadvertent ancestral impurity: Gita path and Tulsi abhisheka
The speaker says remedies differ by dosha, but gives one general one. A boy of the house fills a copper lota with pure water, adds a little Gomutra and Gangajal, and recites the 11th chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita 11 times holding the lota in both hands — on any Sunday (either paksha) or on an Amavasya, all in one day, finishing between 10 am and 12:30 pm (the path may begin at 7–8 am), without blowing on or making the water jutha. The charged water is then poured over a Tulsi plant placed facing the sun, with a prayer to Surya Narayana and Tulsi that the Pitrs be freed of whatever impurity they got knowingly or unknowingly, and a request to all pitrs to be present in the plant in their portions and receive their share. He says the root, stem and top of Tulsi house different classes of pitrs — Oot, pitr and Jujhar — and by the grace of Surya Narayana, Narayana and Tulsi the pitrs become fully pure. It is a one-day prayoga; it works for impurity incurred unknowingly, and is not as effective if the fault was deliberate.
What spiritual risk comes from independently invoking lower entities like Preta or Pishacha?
Invoking lower entities such as Preta, Pishacha, or lower-order spirits pollutes the practitioner's auric field — according to the Bhagavad Gita, one attains the realm of the entity one worships, so independent practice of such entities carries severe spiritual liabilities.
Prayagraj is Narayan himself, so the Vishnu Sahasranama or the Gita's eleventh adhyaya follows the bath
The third thing is Prayag ji. Prayagraj is said to be Narayan himself, Bhagwan Shri Hari Narayan. So after you have bathed, do the stotra and satnam of Bhagwan Narayan, or the Shri Vishnu Sahasranama, or whatever is possible for you, of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. If you are one who recites the Bhagavad Gita, then recite the eleventh adhyaya; endless fruit is about to be obtained. The punya of Ganga snan has already been got, and the punya of Prayag ji will be got from here, because he is of the form of Mahavishnu.
Why the eleventh adhyaya in particular?
The eleventh adhyaya, he says, is the one in which Bhagwan Narayan displays his most vast swaroop; and in that swaroop all the shaktis are gathered. So do its paath. This, he adds, is only the discussion of the general subject — the subject of the aradhyas, the tantrokta subject, the subject of mantra siddhi, the subject of japa and the rest, all of that is separate.
The kul pitrs are brought into favour first — hard for those who never do Tripindi, the Gita or panchbali, but to be done especially in these five days.
First of all, for the sake of the kul pitrs — the kul pitrs should be brought into your favour. For those who never do Tripindi, never read the Bhagavad Gita, never do panchbali, never do anything, it is a little difficult; but in these five days especially this should be done for the kul pitrs.
Can a big sadhana be done after a father's death, and until when not?
Asked by a listener whose father has passed away whether he can do no large sadhana, and until when, the speaker says: until the Holika Dahan takes place, after which in the new samvat you will again perform a new anushthan. Until then you can do as many recitations of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita as possible — do the repetition of any one adhyaya; it will be very good.
How is a sankalp worded for grace in future sadhanas?
Speak that very subject. As, for example: Navratri is coming now, and at present you are performing the upasana of Bhagavan Narayana and doing the path of the Gita. If you want grace in the sadhana you are going to do in future, then say — I am performing today's anushthan for this purpose, that I may obtain the capability for the sadhana that is to be done in the coming Navratri, and that your grace may be obtained.
What is the permanent solution for a troubling pitr?
Whether the pitr troubles a daughter or a son, the solution is one — that they should be satisfied and contented. Temporary remedies, giving water, doing jeev seva, will stay temporary. If you want it permanently, then either, if you know which pitr it is and know their name, let Narayan Bali be done for them and let their gati happen; or else the Tripindi fourfold, four times, four samvatsaras, and a daily Gita path in the house. Only then will it happen, if you want a permanent solution.
Like Shri Krishna on the field of battle, he explains and leaves the choice to you.
His subject is his own, and he has placed all the proofs before listeners with clarity. To accept or not accept is your wish; the decision you will have to take. He compares it to Bhagwan Shri Krishna on the field of battle, who gave all knowledge and then said: your wish, do it or do not do it.
What should be added for Purushottam maas?
If you want it more divine and have the time, then if possible do the path of the fifteenth adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, the Purushottam Yoga — it is Purushottam maas. It is small, very small; it will take four or five minutes.
Can that path be done in Hindi rather than Sanskrit?
If you cannot do it in Sanskrit, do it in Hindi — there is no difficulty at all, the speaker says. Bhagwan will not come and say, oh, you did it in Hindi, we will not give you the fruit. It has to be done with bhav; we are not doing tantra, we are doing bhakti.
What may one do who cannot perform puja for a year?
Manoj ji, you can do the path of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and the path of the Shiv Gita, the speaker answers. If you cannot do puja for the year, then you may do path and the like — but do not light dhoop and deep, or do as the pandit ji has told you by vidhi-vidhan.
For anyone who can manage no large anushthan, the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita paath is open — and for the pitrs, Bhagwan Dattatreya is the most divine deity of all.
For those who can perform no large anushthan, no Sanskrit paath, and do not wish to do anything, he points to the subject of the paath of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita which they have already given — anyone can do that, it is ordinary. Within that too, he says, if you perform an anushthan of Bhagwan Dattatreya, then for the pitrs he is the most divine deity of all.
Eleven hundred paths of the eleventh adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, or of one's own aradhya, are taken up after that.
After that, either the path of one's own aradhya, or of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita — and take the shelter of the eleventh adhyaya. Since the listener is himself a brahmin, he should learn the uchcharan and do at least eleven hundred paths of it, keeping water in front during the path so it becomes abhimantrit, and sprinkling that water with kusha on the upper part of the main doorframe of the house.
When should Narayan bali be done, and what follows it?
Only when this work is done — the eleven hundred paths complete, and panchbali and the service of creatures and trees done for at least three, four or six months — should you then have Narayan bali done first at Kashi Pishach Mochan for your father. Immediately after, from the very next day, have one mool path of Srimad Bhagavat ji done in Sanskrit by a single brahmin, with a sankalpa made for the father.
What does the mahatmya of the Gita's eleventh adhyaya say about this?
In the mahatmya of the eleventh adhyaya, the speaker says, the whole subject is there: however great the presence of a paishachik shakti may become, if its path is done and the abhimantrit water is sprinkled in the house, they will first of all be freed from that shakti. By the darshan of Bhagavan's vishwaroop, pretatva is burnt to ash, they become of pure varna, and the purity of the departed soul also comes about.
What can be recited during sutak?
He says that in sutak one can do the manasik paath of kavach and stotra. Do the paath of the Gita and the like.
Why do marriages and mangalik work not happen in a household?
He says that where mangalik work and marriage do not take place, leave aside tantra-mantra — first of all this is an obstruction related to the pitr of your kula. For their removal, first perform a parayan of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita to the best of your capacity for at least a year, and perform particular vidhi-vidhan in Pitr Paksha and the like. If pitr shanti does not occur, then there will be more than enough obstruction in marriage and mangalik work.
The third adhyaya of the Bhagavad Gita states that men satisfy the devatas with mantra
In the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. He says Bhagwan Shri Krishna states in the third adhyaya that human beings should satisfy the devatas with mantra, and the devatas, being satisfied, should bring about the progress of human beings.
Teachers who accept everything but the mantra path never obtained knowledge in a parampara
He names Acharya Prashant, calling him a mahanubhav and a mahadusht who accepts everything but not these things, and says such a person never obtained knowledge in a gurukul or from a guru — he has only read books and put out his own interpretation. If Krishna speaks of devatas being satisfied by mantra in the third adhyaya, he asks, why then do you forbid mantra path and say pauranik mantras and the Puranas give no benefit, when it is in the Puranas that everything is described?
The pret is settling its own accounts, human birth alone being a karma yoni
That pret and pishach too is settling its accounts, the speaker says, as he had said earlier: the yoni of the human being is a karma yoni, while pret, pishach and devata are all bhoga yonis — they are enjoying. Whatever karma we do now, after death we will get that kind of yoni and will enjoy it; whatever good or bad we do there, no fruit of it will come. Bhagwan Shri Krishna has said this in the Gita, he says, not I.
Should a person be karma-pradhan or bhakti-pradhan?
Read both karma yoga and bhakti yoga in the Bhagavad Gita, the speaker says, and walk according to what seems proper to you. In his own view, one should do karma and surrender the fruit of that karma to one's aradhya — that itself is the greatest bhakti and the greatest karma.
Parents taunt that puja and the Gita will make you a sadhu, and that the time would be better spent productively
The parents say: why will you do puja, do you want to become a sadhu? Why are you reading the Gita, do you want to become a sadhu? Who recites this much? Do not do so much drama, do a little, a two-minute time-pass. In the time you spend doing puja path, will you not do some productive work — study, become an IAS or whatever; why are you becoming all this, do you want to become a pujari?
What should be done for the mukti and shanti of a deceased relative?
Asked what to do for the mukti and shanti of an aunt who has passed away, the speaker says the vidhi vidhan that exists in the tradition should certainly be done, and along with that one should have the recitation of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita performed. And if one is not able to have it performed, then oneself recite the seventh adhyaya for the whole period, as long as the sutak-patak is in force.
What should someone do who has mrityu sutak till Bhai Dooj?
Asked what to do on Narak Chaturdashi by a person who has mrityu sutak in the kutumb until Bhai Dooj, he says: right now do the path only and only of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, or of the Gita of your own ishta aradhya. Do the naam japa of Bhagavan mentally. Only this much should you do now in sutak, and nothing else.
The Vishwa Virat darshan Krishna granted is held to have been shown by use of Bhagavati Tara's vidyas, Nara and Narayana standing as Krishna and Arjuna.
If it is looked at in that way, then in the avatar of Bhagavan Shri Krishna also — the darshan of the Vishwa Virat Swaroop that was caused to be had by Bhagavan Shri Krishna, in that too it has been held that he displayed that Vishwa Virat form of his by making use of the vidyas of Bhagavati Tara. Somewhere you will find it to read that it was Nara and Narayana who were present in the forms of Bhagavan Shri Krishna and Arjuna.
The katha runs only to prompt listeners to their own swadhyaya, and is not a katha of the Vyas gaddi
The speaker says this katha of the Shiv Mahapuran runs only in order to prompt listeners to do swadhyaya themselves. It is not a katha of the Vyas gaddi, he says — in it there are no such niti-niyam and that kind of maryada, which is why a Vyas gaddi katha cannot take place in the night at all. This one is only to make Sanatan Dharma awake, and he asks listeners to read the mahatmya of the eleventh adhyaya of the Bhagavad Gita to see why he takes so much trouble.
How should the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita be used during Pitru Paksha?
No separate ritual application is needed. Take a Sankalpa and simply recite the chapter, together with its Mahatmya — that recitation is itself the application.
A relative who died last year and is not yet joined to the ancestors may be named for recitations, though Pind is a separate matter
For recitation his name may be written; Pind Daan is a separate matter. There is no difficulty in including him in the Bhagavad Gita, Parvati Gita or Sahasranama recitations.
What is the remedy for persistent skin problems?
The largest factor is the wrath of the family ancestors (Pitru Dosha), which causes the most difficulty of all. The best single application is recitation of the seventh chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita; there are also rites directed to Surya Narayana and to Budh Dev.
Does Gita recitation in Pitru Paksha need a separate Sankalp for the ancestors' satisfaction?
The ancestors are named inside the Sankalpa itself rather than in a separate one — either directly, or by routing it through your Ishta Devata: by Narayana's grace, for the satisfaction, contentment and nourishment of my family's ancestors.
What recitations may be added on top of Panchbali during Pitru Paksha?
If you have the wish, means and inclination: the Gita's seventh or eleventh chapter, or the whole of it, or your own Ishta's Gita — Shiva Gita, Devi Gita — or the Pitru Bisa. But do Jeev Seva without fail, because it is service to living creatures that satisfies the ancestors' souls.
Are Vinigyoga and Nyasa needed for the daily namavali recitation?
Not needed. Adding Viniyoga and Nyasa moves the practice into formal procedure, and once it is that formal you will not manage it daily — which is the problem.
What should be done if the ancestors are Malin — impure or afflicted?
Two things: recite the eleventh chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, and the 108 names of Bhagavati Ganga (Ganga 108 Names). Sprinkle the water kept during the japa throughout the house, and wash the threshold — without a Chaukhat, half the Anushthan does not succeed at all.
What should be done about an old human skull buried in the land?
First have a Tripindi Shraddha performed at that place so it obtains its Gati, or a Gita recitation with Sankalpa — try for its release first. If it does not accept, or is causing trouble, then go into the Tantrokta operations: a Varah or Varahi havan there, or a seven, nine or eleven day Mahavidya havan.
What can be done where the Pitrs have been bound?
If the Pitrs are bound because of an Abhichar, then first call a knowledgeable person to your home, look at the operations and have the cutting-away done, and only then proceed. If you want to do it yourself and know no particular procedure, do a Samput recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa or of the Sundarkand, or the eleventh chapter of the Gita.
What if remedies for the Pitrs are repeatedly obstructed?
Have eleven recitations of the eleventh chapter of the Gita performed on the Amavasya tithi with a Sankalpa. Obstruction means some Kshudra Shakti has entered among the Pitrs, or an Abhichar has entered, and is not letting it complete — get that bound first, or driven off.
How does the thirty-four Yantra procedure actually work?
None of those hundred and eight goes into the taveez. Write it a hundred and eight times on Bhojpatra, pack the Yantras into wheat flour as a hundred and eight pellets and put them into a flowing river or a pond so they reach the fish — a water-element matter, accomplished by Varuna's blessing. Then make a fresh Yantra to wear.
Pushya nakshatra, a Sunday and Shukla Paksha fall together, and Krishna names Pushya as his own in the Gita.
Because on that day there is Pushya nakshatra, it is a Sunday, and it is Shukla Paksha. He cites Bhagavan Shri Krishna in the Vibhuti Yoga of the Gita — among nakshatras, I am Pushya nakshatra.
What does the Gita teach about the pride of doership?
That one must not have the pride of doership. Read the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, read your own aradhya's Gita — everywhere it is said that one should not have the pride of being the doer, that we are running the household, we are running the world, we are running the whole hospital, we are running the whole office. That abhiman must not be there. We are not the doers; God is the doer.
Where does Aryama stand among the pitrs?
We know, he says, that in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita the Lord himself has said that among the pitrs he is the pitr named Aryama. The origin of Aryama is not described in this passage. Aryama Pitr, he says, is directly a form of Bhagavan Narayan.
What does an anushthan do to the prarabdha?
When you walk on the path of dharma, when you begin to do seva and bhakti — whether you do the Saptashati path by rule, or any anushthan told on this channel, or one of your own — then when you begin to do an anushthan, whatever the sankalpa you take in it, the energy of punya that is formed in you has God cutting away all the prarabdha at the root.
How is a young person mocked for doing puja?
If he so much as touches the Bhagavad Gita they will say, do you want to become a sanyasi, a baba ji? You do puja so long, you recite the Hanuman Chalisa — what is all this for; do not do it; this nonsense will not run; where did you pick up this mala; whom have you joined? They will say, will you become a baba ji, look at the state of the baba ji people, they are all lying in jail. Only those baba jis in jail will be visible to such people, he says. The real baba jis, who are grinding down their bodies and doing the bhakti of Bhagavati day and night, are never visible, and their example is never given.
What remedies does he give for heavy pitru dosha?
To a listener who says he has a great deal of pitru dosha and is not able to have anyone called, he says there is no difficulty and gives three things he can do himself. First: daily, when the floor is mopped in the house, have the mopping done with sendha namak added. Second: the seva of living creatures must certainly happen — roti for the cow, roti for the dog, for the crow, for beasts and birds; whatever is given must go out of the house every day, by rule. Third: let some one member recite the seventh adhyaya of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita daily, even in Hindi, and while reciting put three kusha and a tulsi leaf into a copper lota.
How is a Brahmdev to be pacified?
Asked how Brahmdev is to be pacified, he says it depends on which kind of Brahm they are. There are 52 kinds of Brahm. Without seeing, the things that are common in it are the abhishek of Shiva and the path of the Gita.
Did Arjuna found a sect after receiving the Gita?
No. The speaker's argument: Krishna gave Arjuna the Gita at Kurukshetra, had him perform Anushthans, gave him Siddhi and victory — and Arjuna did not then declare a faith of his own and tell people to follow him because he was God's companion. That, he says, is the difference to grasp.
What is the aim behind calling mala japa and Havan mere show?
To cut the household off from its own energies. His claim: once you break under that influence, the powers of your house, the energies of your house, your Kula deities and your Kshetra Rakshak stop receiving these energies — and then your protective armour breaks.
Why does Pushya Nakshatra carry particular importance?
Because Bhagavan Narayana says in the Gita that among the Nakshatras he is Pushya, the king of Nakshatras. Both Shani Dev and Dev Guru Brihaspati come into it as its deities and lords, so both hold importance there — worship in Ravi Pushya pleases Shani Dev as well, not only Brihaspati.
A daily path of the seventh, ninth or eleventh adhyaya of the Gita should continue for the pitr even after the karmakands are done.
And when all these karmakands have been had done, the speaker says, even after that a path should keep taking place daily for his sake — the seventh adhyaya, or the eleventh adhyaya, or the ninth adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, any one adhyaya, in Hindi itself. Or if some Brahmin does the puja of Shaligram ji, then if he does the path by sankalp for their sake and offers it, that is exceedingly excellent. And the older these become, the more uproar they will create, the more trouble they will cause. If one wants to do it independently, do the fourth adhyaya, or as far as the stuti goes, do the eleventh adhyaya.
May the photo of a departed relative be kept and worshipped at home?
It is a matter of ones own bhavna, the speaker says: if your bhavna is joined with them, you can keep them. As far as pujan is concerned, pujan should be within a limit, in his view — whoever a person loves, father, mother, grandfather, maternal grandfather, keep theirs. And as far as puja path goes, rather than doing their puja path in that way, one should do a path of Bhagavan, of the Gita and so on, and dedicate it for their sake; that is the most excellent puja. Otherwise, if you do their puja, their atma will be bound, will then not take gati, and will be caught in attachment.
Does a Gita path in Hindi give the same fruit as in Sanskrit, and which way should a pitr photo face?
On the first matter, the speaker says that if photos are kept, their face should be toward the south direction; yours will then fall toward the north, and your face will be toward the south when you make pranam to them. As to the fruit: when you do the path in Hindi you will remain devotedly surrendered in bhav and will understand the subject, so you will certainly get the fruit. And when you have done the path in Hindi for two, four or six months, then gradually begin in Sanskrit — then your bhav will also remain, the joy of reciting in Sanskrit will be of a different kind, and because it is the dev vani its fruit increases many times over.
How to worship ancestors once they are given their proper place
The speaker says that once the ancestors have been seated at the place and in the direction that is properly theirs, one should light dhoop and deep before them, offer flowers, offer bhog, and recite the Bhagavad Gita as far as one is able. From that, he says, they will certainly be satisfied and will give their blessings in the right way; if their gati has really not happened and they are still there, they will never let any trouble come in future, and if their gati has happened, the punya still reaches you. Service and worship done in the wrong place in the wrong way, he says, only increases your troubles.
What daily practice supports family health and removes obstacles?
Male family members reciting Chapter 11 of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita daily, sprinkling water consecrated with Tulsi and Kusha grass around the house, and offering a Thursday Deepdaan to Lord Dattatreya (with care that the ghee doesn't overflow) supports family health and relieves obstacles.
How can bound family deities be freed if a father died due to black magic?
If a father died due to black magic and family deities remain bound by an active black-magic entity in the house, daily recitation of Chapter 11 of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita — combined with Kusha-Tulsi water, Ratri Suktam, and house fumigation — severs that influence and breaks the bondage of ancestral spirits and family deities.
Gita path in the mourning year: which chapters and how to sit
The speaker says there is no bar at all on Bhagavad Gita path in the year of mourning; everyone should do it through the whole year. If all 18 chapters are not possible, he says to read the third or the seventh chapter in Hindi with its mahatmya so the meaning is understood, and then the thirteenth chapter with full attention; at most it takes 15 minutes and can be done daily. One should not sit at the puja place but a little away or outside, on a Kusha Asana in white clothes, may do Achamana, wear a Pavitri and tie the Shikha, and keep the Yajnopavita in its normal position, remembering Narayan and mentally dedicating the path at his feet for the Sadgati of the departed. Done this way, he says, the grace of the deities and ancestors stays through the year.
Gita chapter 7 with kusha water for the kul pitr
If one gets time at midday during the kul pitr prayog, the speaker says, recite the seventh chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita — in Hindi is fine — with a lota of water in front into which kusha has been put, and be sure to sprinkle that water in the house and on the chaukhat. This may be done at midday or in the morning as part of one's own puja-paath. Together with the chaukhat seva, he says, it becomes a most divine prayog for the pleasure and peace of the kul pitr and for release from their wrath.
What is the remedy where spirits are present alongside the family ancestors?
Recite the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita daily and sprinkle the consecrated water through the house. A copper pot of pure water with Gangajal, Kusha and Tulsi; recite; then sprinkle everywhere, five splashes at the Chaukhat, and the family drinks what remains.
Why must a devotee of Shiva still hold faith in Krishna?
Because the Gita records that Shiva recited it first, before it reached Nara-Narayana and then Arjuna. Faith fractures only where information is absent — that is when people start ranking Durga above Krishna or Krishna above Durga.
Where should a complete beginner with no guru start?
A listener says he wishes to do sadhana but is entirely new, and asks where, how and when he should do it. He answers by name: if you have no guru and have nothing at all, then even before mantra paath he would say that you should recite the puranas — whichever shakti you have faith in, begin reading the puranas connected with them. If you have very great faith in Bhagavan Shri Krishna, then there are the eighteen paths of the Gita — doing one paath daily, complete it once in eighteen days. Begin in this manner, he says; after that, then go on to mantras.
On which tithi should the Gita paath of one's aradhya be done?
After doing this for three to six months, he says, your next work — and in between, from time to time — on Ekadashi you should do the Gita paath of your aradhya, or on whatever tithi is your aradhya's. Do it once a month or once a paksha; do a paakshik paath. If you do Bhagavati's, then do it on Ashtami, Navami or Chaturdashi; do it on Purnima or Amavasya. If you do Ganapati ji's, do it on Chaturthi, do it on Chaturdashi. On Sankranti, everyone's can be done.
On which tithis is the Gita paath of Bhagavan Shiva done?
If you have to do the Gita paath of Bhagavan Shiva, he says, then do it on Panchami, do it on Trayodashi, do it on Dwadashi, do it on Chaturdashi, do it on Amavasya or Purnima. Choose one tithi and begin doing it.
A child dressed as Krishna should be made to recite eighteen shlokas of the Gita
Krishna ji, he says, had the whole eighteen adhyayas of the Bhagavad Gita by heart — so recite eighteen shlokas to us; now sit. Recite Dharmakshetre Kurukshetre, the first shloka; sit down. Have the child memorise shlokas in the sitting room: you had become Krishna, so now you will have to memorise shlokas, and along with it you too will come to know them. And where the Bhagavad Gita has been memorised, kalyan is bound to happen — whether laukik gati comes or not, paralaukik gati will certainly come, since there are so many subjects in the Gita mahatmya.
Which mantra may be japa'd for Bhagavan Shri Narayana?
The speaker says that in this manner he cannot say which mantra — for that the whole subject would have to be looked at. But the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita's shloka, and the Shrimad Bhagavat's mantra Krishnaya Govindaya Hare Paramatmane and so on, you can do the japa of as far as possible, mantra-wise, because this shloka is in the form of a pauranik shloka.
Can sadhana be done after a father's death, and which adhyaya?
Brother, you can do sadhana even now, the speaker says. In sadhana, do the sadhana of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. If the father's death has happened having attained a full life, then recite the tenth adhyaya, take the sankalp and do their sadhana. If it is sudden and the like, then recite the seventh adhyaya or the eleventh adhyaya.
How does one keep the mind steady in sadhana in every circumstance?
Asked how to keep the mind steady in sadhana in every circumstance, the speaker answers: Gita paath. Whose Gita? If you chiefly worship Bhagavan Sadashiva, recite the Shiv Gita — every question of yours will be answered in it. Whoever your ishta is, recite that ishta's Gita; otherwise the Bhagavad Gita is always there. Recite the Shiv Mahapuran and you will get answers to very many of your questions; recite one adhyaya each day, or half an adhyaya.
Is shakti one or many?
The second thing, the speaker says, is that shakti is only one and has held different forms; this is the breadth of our Sanatan. And it is for this reason that he says again and again: read the Gita of your own ishta. In every shakti this same one thing has been said in every form.
How much power is in the Gayatri mantra?
Asked how much power there is in the Gayatri mantra, the speaker exclaims, and says he will not speak the mantra itself, but that in the Veda Gayatri is supreme, and in all the Gitas that exist it has been said that among mantras I am Gayatri — in the Shiv Gita Shiva ji, in the Shiv Mahapuran too Shiva ji, and in the Gita Shri Krishna himself. So her mahima is limitless.
What punya comes from building a temple, and what is done for an untimely death?
Asked what punya comes from having a temple built, the speaker says limitless punya is obtained; it is said that people who have temples built deliver many generations. Asked by a listener whose elder brother died an untimely death two years ago and who is now being greatly troubled, he says it depends upon what his age was — if his death occurred through abhichaar and the like, in an untimely death, then he will trouble much more. If the untimely death occurred by accident, then by having Narayan Nagbali and the like done, and by having the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita recited for him with vidhi vidhan, gati can be given.
What is the first instruction when entering the field of tantra?
That whoever explains the subject properly will tell you that if you wish to do tantra sadhana then, whether you are taking diksha or not taking diksha, you must first do some particular path and puja connected with the pitrs. The speaker says he says it safely: recite the eleventh adhyaya of the Gita and dedicate it to your pitrs.
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.
The harm is reaching a position by siddhi without having earned knowledge, though the benefit people receive should still be looked at
For the rest, he says, people are benefiting, people are taking the name of God, people are being reformed — that is a very good thing; the benefit that is happening should be looked at, leave the harm aside. But this thing should not happen. That is why it is said that when a person of knowledge does an act of this kind, it is very good; if you go to a position of this kind, obtained on account of siddhi, without having earned knowledge, then this very difficulty arises. In the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, he says, Bhagavan Shri Krishna has said that a person who is distinguished in society should speak and act only after much thought, because society follows him. Now one who has become a distinguished person, whom people in the country and abroad are listening to and following everywhere, and who is doing all kinds of foolish babble — there is an absence of seriousness within them. When their katha-puran runs, only joking is going on in it.
Which Gita paath is prescribed for household discord?
And along with it, the speaker says, if a collective paath of any one of the seventh, the ninth or the eleventh adhyaya of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita begins to be done, then from the very first day the effect will be visible and this kalah and klesh will at once begin to be wiped out. If there are 10 members and any five of them start doing this, the buddhi of the remaining five also becomes right of its own accord and the effect of all these things is destroyed.
Why is the eleventh adhyaya of the Gita called a brahmastra in itself?
The eleventh adhyaya, the speaker says, is a brahmastra in itself — the adhyaya of the Vishwarupa of Bhagavan. However large and complicated a problem of life may be, and however unsolved, begin the paath of it, commit it to memory. Bhagavan himself accomplishes even a matter that seems difficult and impossible.
Can japa or Gita paath be offered to the souls of animals and birds?
Absolutely, the speaker says — there is no prohibition at all. Japa and the like can be offered even to jeev-jantu, and by the effect of that offering they can take on a very divine form. Gita paath too can certainly be done and offered.
Can the Gita's eleventh adhyaya be done for the pitr in a Shiva temple, and to whom is it offered?
Yes, the speaker says: the eleventh adhyaya of the Gita for the pitr can be done in a Shiva temple, and offered there. But if Narayana is present there, offering it to him is better; if not, offer it to Shiva ji — because in a former age the Srimad Bhagavad Gita was narrated by Bhagavan Shiva himself. Read the mahatmya and you will find it; so it can absolutely be offered to him too.
May one do Dattatreya tarpan for the pitrs under a bilva tree?
A listener says he is doing the path of the seventh adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita as instructed, and asks whether he may sit under a bilva tree and perform the tarpan vidhi for the pitrs with Bhagavan Dattatreya's ashtottara namavali. He answers: if you have done the path of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita for at least a sava mahina, then start the Bhagavan Dattatreya vidhan, the tarpan one.
May women do Gita path and other upaya for the pitrs?
Asked whether women can do Gita path or any other upaya for the pitrs, he says: absolutely they can. There is no problem in reciting the Bhagavad Gita. Wear the durva ring, the kusha ring.
What should be recited for one who is dying, and what should be donated?
Cloth should be washed and then donated, he says — clean, tidy cloth. The paath of Gita ji can also be recited to the person; but the Gajendra Moksha will be more effective.
What should be done if a dead person troubles you?
Do the path of the Tantrokta Bajrang Baan five times daily at night by the ordinary vidhan, lighting a lamp of mustard oil, he answers. And why is the dead person troubling? Somewhere his sadgati has not taken place. For that you should do the path of the eleventh adhyaya of the Bhagavad Gita, and if by vidhi-vidhan you also perform his pind daan it will be the very best. Get his gati done, he says.
What may be done during sutak kaal?
On the point that during Sutak kaal there is only manasik japa, the speaker says yes — japa of the twelve names of Bhagavan Datta may be done. And, he adds, it would be good for you to recite the seventh adhyaya of the Gita.
What about the fear of Varna-sankar after an inter-caste marriage?
Study the ninth chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita once, thoroughly — what Bhagavan Shri Hari Krishna says on this subject, what he has said regarding Varna-sankarata. The doubt of your heart will be removed and you will then be able to take the right decision.
What is the remedy for depression?
Not a remedy, the speaker says. Look for the cause of your depression in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, whatever that cause is. Arjuna had to kill his own Guru and cut down his own brothers — what depression is greater than that; and when he was freed of it through Krishna, yours and mine will certainly end too.
How is a house protected where negativity is already present?
The first thing is to weaken that negativity — to render its capacity void — for which the prayoga of the eleventh chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is used. After that comes the Chaukhat in the house, and then the binding of the house along with the Chhidrapal Nikari.
Does a Brahm in the house obstruct Bhagavati's service?
No obstruction of any kind will arise in Bhagavati's service and worship from these three Brahms being worshipped, nor will your worldly or otherworldly prospects be spoiled by their presence. What will certainly happen, the speaker says, is that they will act as your helpers.
What should be done on the morning of an Amavasya, and what havan should follow?
If you are a Vaishnava, or have shraddha in Bhagavan Narayana — though here, he says, the tradition is of the Panchdev — then on that day the paath of the eleventh adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita should be done in the morning; by that alone your day is made. After that, if possible, on that same day, in the morning or at night, whenever you get time, whenever it is proper, a havan should be done with the first mantra of the Argala. And this, he says, should be done on every Amavasya.
How can a brahmarakshas be driven out of a house?
Brother, it will drive you out — from where will you be able to drive it out, he answers. If you go to drive it out, then it is done. It is not as though a monkey has come out and you are asking how to drive it away with a stick. Even so, Manu Pujari ji, he says: do the paath of the eleventh adhyaya of the Gita eleven times daily in the morning, and again eleven times in the evening, beginning from Ekadashi and continuing without a break for as long as possible; then see a little what happens.
Why is a pregnant woman forbidden the pujan sthan?
Going to the pujan sthan is forbidden because the level of energy there is never balanced or of one kind, the speaker says, and the growth of the child in the womb needs stability. He compares it to a doctor forbidding repeated ultrasounds because of the effect of radiation on the child's brain: in your pujan sthan there is the dwelling of devis and devatas and shaktis and their coming and going, so it too is a field of energy. Because of the presence of the devatas' energy, the jeevatma that has come into the body and is about to assume its form will face difficulty. And the second, shastrokta view is that from the third or fourth month, since it is a woman's body with a child in the belly, some fluid or other keeps issuing from the body, so the possibility of the body being impure remains; if in such a state a touch occurs to some object or to the deities in the pujan sthan, that too will incur a dosha.
What path is prescribed in Kartik for pitrs who are stuck?
In the month of Kartik, taking a sankalp for them, do path of the eleventh adhyaya of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, or path of the Shri Parvati Gita if you are especially a Bhagwati bhakta; or do the gita and the sahasranama of whoever you are a bhakta of, or the Shri Vishnu Sahasranama, with the sankalp that their gati be accomplished — along with the akash deep.
Can the Kavach, stotra or raksha mantra be done during sutak and patak?
Asked by a listener whether the Kavach stotra and the raksha mantra can be done in sutak and patak, the speaker answers that at that time it should not be done. In the period of sutak and patak one should only do mansik naam japa, or recite the Gita of one's aradhya, or recite the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita.
How can others be encouraged towards the bhakti of Mata Durga?
In today's time there is only one way, he says: encourage the person out of the suffering he has — tell him, do this thing and you will get release from your suffering. Once he has even a little experience of it he will begin to like it, and then he will do that bhakti. Otherwise people today do not want to do anything without their own profit. And Bhagwan Shri Krishna says in the Gita that with people of this dambhi kind one should never speak shastrokta matters at all; there is no need to tell them do this, do not do that. Leave it.
The answer is set out in the Gita's fourth to seventh adhyayas, read in Hindi
The answer to your question will be found very well in the Bhagavad Gita, he says. Read Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, these two chapters in the Gita, once; from the fourth adhyaya up to the seventh. Read Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, these three or four things, in Hindi — do not go into Sanskrit; he has said to read it in order to understand it. The answer to your whole question will be found.
Can the Hanuman Chalisa havan be done with ghee on cow-dung uplas, and what of Gita daan?
The havan of the Hanuman Chalisa with ghee upon cow-dung uplas can absolutely be done. As for a listener's call that on the coming Gita Jayanti everyone should donate 108 Gitas: why donate, he asks — who reads a Gita they have been given? You may make the Gita daan and the next man will read it. Better than that would be to send some one shloka to as many people as possible on Gita Jayanti, or sing a shloka yourself and forward it, or put it on your Facebook. That would be far better. If you give a Gita in daan, someone will take it and never read it in his life; at most he will keep it and ring a bell and begin doing puja to it.
Gita chapter 11 daily with kusha water sprinkled through the house against family abhichar
The second task, the speaker says, was for any member of the family to recite the 11th chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita at least once a day at midday — in Hindi is fine, Sanskrit is not required. A lota of water is kept there from the start; after the recitation that water is sprinkled through the whole house with Kusha, and whatever remains is drunk by everyone. When nobody was free at noon, he had them move it to the morning; later, by Jagdamba's grace, the family learnt the chapter in Sanskrit from YouTube and one member taught the rest, which he counts as a step forward.
Serving the pitrs, the devas and living beings cuts prarabdha and brings sadbuddhi, atmabal and medha
The speaker teaches that as soon as you begin working for the Pitr of your own kul, doing work for the devi-devtas, and serving living beings, Prarabdha starts being cut immediately. As it is cut, sadbuddhi begins to come; then atmabal arises within you; and when atmabal comes, medha buddhi develops — the sense of how to go further on this path so that the work becomes pure. His example is the family in the case, which by Jagadamba's Kripa got the sense to learn the Gita's 11th chapter in Sanskrit.
Which Gita chapter is to be recited daily, and over what period?
Along with it, do one paath of the eleventh adhyaya of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita daily. Let this be your niyam every day from Ashadh Purnima — that is, Guru Purnima, which is falling on the 3rd — up to the Purnima of Sawan. The sankalpa in it should be only this: God, may you be pleased, and may this vighna badha, this deva badha, this badha of pitrs and prets, be pacified by you, and may complete shanti be obtained. Both things are to be done together.
What should someone bound by a family custom not to visit for a year do?
He tells the questioner that according to the parampara of his house, if one is not to go for a full year, then do not go for a full year. For now, do the paath of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita and do the paath of the Shiv Gita.
The unnamed "hukka baba" does not accept the Atharvaveda and tells people to reject anything involving puja, path, yajna or havan.
He refuses to name him — the "hukka baba" — and says he does not accept the Atharvaveda at all, and tells people not to accept anything where puja, path, yajna or havan comes up. He calls himself a vedanti and is very learned, his manner of speaking extremely sharp; but his whole thought, the speaker says, is a plastic thought — he reads bookish things and expounds them as they are.
If Shri Krishna is Parabrahma, why did he worship Bhagavati Durga?
The speaker turns the question round. Why did Shri Krishna, who according to the Gita is Parabrahma Parameshwar, do the upasana of Bhagavati Durga at all? What need was there for him to tell Arjuna to go and do the aradhana of Shiv ji to obtain the Pashupatastra? Why did he send the mighty Bhima to go and bring Bhairav ji? Why did he say, please Hanuman ji? There was no necessity — he was the Purna Brahma Paramatma. He had every one of these things done, and there is a reason behind each.
How is present karma related to future prarabdha?
The speaker takes the example of a pregnant woman who does not take proper food and does not look after her garbha: if a deficiency then arises in the child that is born, your whole life will go in making it up, and the deficiency will remain within the child lifelong. In the same way, he says, our present karma is at this moment forming the garbha of the future — it is building our prarabdha.
What does Bhagavan Krishna say about spreading the Gita?
The speaker cites Bhagavan Shri Krishna as having said that whoever takes the Gita to every household, whoever recites the Gita more — that is, in today's terms promotes it — will be that much nearer to him, and he will be that much nearer to that person. So, he asks, this nearest of relationships with Ishvar, in which we are to become Krishna-like: you are creating an obstruction in the middle of it, today and tomorrow. Krishna forgave Shishupal a hundred times; when you commit a hundred at one stroke his Sudarshan chakra will move.
When does a jiva come to know of its past births?
For that, the speaker says, go to the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, and then read the Parvati Gita: it will be written there that when the jiva is in the mother's womb, all the gati of all its previous births comes into its remembrance, all of it stays in its memory — how many times it took birth — and there it performs the garbha stuti, saying that we took birth so many times and our condition was such, we did such and such wrong deeds, this time we will not do so, this time we will do the aradhana of Bhagavati. This happens particularly when a person comes into a human womb.
What does the Padma Purana mahatmya of the ninth adhyaya relate?
If, by Bhagavan's grace, we look at the mahatmya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita according to the Padma Purana, the speaker says, then on reading the mahatmya of the ninth adhyaya it is found that an apsara had been cursed by Rishi Durvasa and had become a kamalini. She was in a pond as a lotus, a kamalini, when a gandharva passing overhead crossed above her and fell — his shakti became blunted. He asked her who she was and how such a state had come about, and she told him that she had been such before, that she had received a curse, but that she then studied the ninth adhyaya of the Bhagavad Gita and this happened.
How does the third adhyaya of the Gita free the pitrs?
Unless you link things, the speaker says, you will not see it — as they are now reading the mahatmya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and linking it with the pitrs. In the mahatmya of the third adhyaya it is told that a certain Brahman was very wicked; dacoits killed him and he sat as a brahma-pishach. His son, who was very much a tapasvi, when no news of his father came, went out to search for him, and sitting beneath the very tree upon which the father sat as a brahma-rakshas, recited the third adhyaya. The father manifested there in person, his form changed, and he said: you need not go to Kashi — the boy was going to Kashi — my liberation has taken place here itself.
Why does the third adhyaya work, and not merely the story?
Nothing comes of merely reading the story, the speaker says; nothing comes of reading these mahatmyas of the Padma Purana alone. Read the third adhyaya itself and you will come to know why the mukti happened. When you read the third adhyaya and read very carefully, shloka by shloka, the upadesh that Bhagavan Narayan is giving to Arjuna about the atma and about gati, and try to understand the subject, then you will understand: the one who has died has nothing left — no wealth, no property, no honour, no enemy, no friend — he is lying empty, having become a bhoot, and he knows that what is being read is the very truth. As soon as he assimilates it within himself, Bhagavan grants him the sight of himself and says: go, brother, your gati has taken place; this was what had to be explained to you.
Why should the Gita be heard while one is alive?
Consider, the speaker says, that same third adhyaya: as long as we are alive nobody has time; it is rubbish, there is abusing to do, quarrelling to do, this to do — but no reflection upon it, neither by him nor by you. Yet after death, sitting in the pitru lok or the pret lok, we shall be calling one another to come and hear the Gita. So before someone has to recite the Gita to you after your death, hear it while alive; read it while alive.
What should be done during the shraddh kriya itself?
After that, when you perform the shraddh kriya and the rest in Pitru Paksha, at that time you must certainly have eleven repetitions of the eleventh adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita performed. If you have that much done, the speaker says, there is a 99% chance that those who died through abhichar karma — and even if they are in the bondage of abhichar — will be released by the grace of Bhagavan Narayan. Their gati will take place from there and they will not remain bound.
What is the ladder from kavach to mala mantra to Hriday to Gita?
Now multiply the kavach paath by a hundred, the speaker says, and it becomes the mala mantra. Multiply the mala mantra by a hundred and it becomes the Hriday. Multiply the Hriday by a hundred and it becomes the Gita. So at the last comes the Gita — and of any devi or devata whatsoever, the Gita gives the greatest fruit.
What shaktis are contained in the Om Jayanti Mangala Kali mantra?
There is a full video on the Om Jayanti Mangala Kali mantra, the speaker says. There are the shaktis of eleven devis in it, together with the kuldevi. It is not of Kali ji and Durga ji only: Svadha too is in it, that is, the shaktis of the pitrs are in it as well. And Yama — that is, Aryama, who is the chief deity of the pitrs, a form of Narayan, of whom in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, in what he thinks is the seventh adhyaya, Bhagavan has said that among the pitrs I am the pitr named Aryama — and his chief shakti, Svadha, by whom their satisfaction is obtained, is in that mantra too.
What should be done for an akal mrityu of twenty-five years ago whose kriya was never done?
Asked what to do for the mukti of someone in the house who died an akal mrityu twenty or twenty-five years ago and for whom no kriya-karm was done, and how to be saved from the dosha of it, the speaker says: for that, have the Narayan bali, Tripindi and Nagbali performed, and have a saptah yagya of the Shrimad Bhagavat performed, have the mool paath performed. And yourself too, if you can, do the paath of the Shrimad Bhagavat and the rest, or that of the ishta whom you worship. And do the paath of the third adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita again and again — a hundred percent their gati will take place, if it was an akal mrityu. But continue it for some time, and with the whole heart surrendered.
How can a qualified brahman perform the third adhyaya for such a dead person?
If there is a qualified brahman who does trikal Gayatri and the rest, and who also worships the Shaligram shila, then merely by installing that Shaligram shila and having him recite before it, if a repetition of the third adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is had done at least 27 times, or 21 times, or 11 times each day, in Krishna Paksha — or at the very least on the Amavasya — but targeting those who died an akal mrityu, then their sadgati certainly takes place. After that, however, you should do the shraddh and the rest; you should do the Tripindi and all these things. And if you do not have that much capacity, then at the least hold on to the Gita, so that their peace may come first.
Two negative comments are enough to end a beginner's motivation
It is not a matter for anger, the speaker says, but a matter for explaining, so that people understand: a person becomes motivated to do some sadhana only with great difficulty. And he is still only thinking that he must do sadhana when, by hearing and reading two or four negative things, by reading the comments, that person abandons his hope. This same thing is in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita — this is the mahatmya of the eleventh adhyaya. And in the mahatmya of the first adhyaya which they had read: there was a man of knowledge, but he insulted everybody and kept corrupting everybody, and afterwards what degradation befell him? This is what happens from doing all this.
Should the mahatmya alone be read, or the adhyaya with it?
The mahatmya alone is not to be read, the speaker says; along with the mahatmya the seventh adhyaya must be read too. There is no difficulty for you in the paath of the seventh adhyaya on account of your financial condition: you do not need to do anything in it, you have only to take a sankalp. Water is free, the tulsi leaf is free, and the paath you can do with your own mouth. There is no difficulty at all.
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