Srimad Bhagavatam
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What is Narayana Bali performed for, and what supplements it when negative entities block the ancestral rites?
It is performed for individuals who died untimely or unnatural deaths, to assist their transition and relieve severe ancestral affliction; if negative entities block the rites, invoke Lord Bhairava first, followed by full recitations of scriptures like Srimad Bhagavatam or Garuda Purana dedicated to the deceased.
What remedies pacify ancestral or lineage deity wrath (Kuladevata and Pitru Dosha)?
Recite one chapter of the complete Devi Bhagavata Mahapurana daily before a ghee lamp with a Sankalpa seeking forgiveness for ancestral and personal errors — if financially able, also arrange Narayana Bali (for unnatural deaths), Tripindi Shraddha, and a Shrimad Bhagavata Parayana.
Which scriptures should be studied together for a correlated understanding of Tantra and the Puranas?
Mahakala Samhita should be paired with the Linga Mahapurana; the Mundamala Tantra with the Kalika Purana and Devi Bhagavata; the Yamala Tantras with relevant Vaishnava Puranas; and in Kubjika Tantra, the presiding manifest deity is associated with Devi Renuka, worshipped through Panchanga Vidya.
The jeevan-mukta stands under a different rule, as Shukdev did when he set out for tapasya
Those who are jeevan-mukta — who have in their heart entirely abandoned every kind of relation, in whose mind there is no vikara of any kind and no relation of any kind at all. If they go in such a state, he says, their case is different. As an example he gives Shukdev ji as the puranas describe him, speaking with his mother while setting out for tapasya, when she stops him and he says it cannot be, we will not stop.
Should Shiva not be worshipped alongside the Saptashati paath?
Asked whether the puja of Shiva ji should not be done along with the Saptashati paath, he rejects it outright: why should it not be done, where has this description been found, who has given such knowledge, has someone told you in order to remove you from the very root? Without the pujan of Shiva ji the fruit of the Saptashati will not be obtained at all. Do the Saptashati or any pujan whatever, do the Srimad Bhagavat — and if you do not do the puja of Shiva ji, the fruit will never be obtained. The puja of Shiva ji is absolutely necessary.
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.
Does reciting the Bhagavat and the Shiv Mahapuran remove suffering?
Asked whether sufferings are cut by reciting the Shrimad Bhagavat Katha and the Shri Shiv Mahapuran, the speaker says they absolutely are cut. See the phalashruti written in the Puranas, he says — infinite times punya is obtained; it should simply be done in the proper way, with vidhi vidhan. But "proper way" does not mean you should give up water: after bathing in the morning, sitting on an asan before Bhagavan, if you recite even one adhyaya daily, then you will have no particular need of anything else.
Who becomes the ananya priya of Bhagavati?
Whatever karma you are doing in Navratri, all these karmas are dear to Jagadamba, and one who keeps the Navratra vrat and performs all these anushthans becomes her exclusively dear one. On the one hand Bhagavati says in the Gita that no one is dear or undear to me — but know, he says, that the same one says in the Srimad Bhagavat that one who in this manner performs my puja and anushthan, shringar, stuti, havan and the rest becomes my ananya priya.
What should be done for an angry pitr who takes sawari?
A listener says one of their pitrs is very angry — the ancestors had beaten him and driven him away — and that when his sawari comes upon someone in the village, they weep a great deal, and now no devata of the house comes any more. You should make arrangements for his sake, the speaker says: first of all you should try to appease him, and if his name and so on is known, you should have a Narayana bali done for him. Along with the Narayana bali, first for at least three months there should be a daily panchbali and a path of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita made by sankalp in his name. After that they should be taken to the Pishach Mochan tirtha, the Vimal tirtha in Kashi — and it is best if the person on whom the sawari comes goes along with them. Going with them, have a Narayana bali done there, and then have one root path of the Shrimad Bhagavat done. With this much done, their shanti and tripti will certainly happen and their gati should occur; and if it still does not, then the further process should follow after a full year.
The Sudarshan Chakra ends the daityas sheltering in the ashram of Shukra's mother
He recounts a video on Shukracharya he had shared: when the daityas go into the ashram of Shukra Dev's mother, Bhagavan Vishnu's Sudarshan Chakra arrives and all of them are ended by it. Before the ending, Bhagavati who is Shukracharya's mother — whose name he says is not coming to mind — stands before the Sudarshan Chakra saying you may not go.
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.
What should be done for a dying man who cannot obtain release?
To a questioner who writes that her father-in-law is at the last stage before death, that he has cancer, that the doctors long ago gave up, that he weeps in agony daily and is not obtaining release, and that it is very painful to see him so, he answers: in such a situation you should recite, or have recited, the Gajendra Moksha of Bhagwan beside him, daily. By its effect he will obtain release as quickly as possible.
Why is kusha held to be so important?
Anyone who has heard the kathas of the Shrimad Bhagavat and the like will know how much importance kusha has. Without the water of kusha — by sprinkling the water of kusha — we purify a place. And whenever there is some negative shakti that has not at all been sanctioned, it is through kusha that it is removed.
A rejection of karmakanda amounts to claiming to be greater than Parashara and Vedavyasa.
He asks whether, with the Pitr Karma Vipaka and all that the rishis and munis have taught, you have become greater than Parashara ji, greater than Vedavyasa ji — for if his words were accepted in that manner, then the Srimad Bhagavat that comes within the puranas Vedavyasa composed would come to an end, the whole account of Dhundhukari would come to an end, all the subjects would come to an end. If karmakanda has no importance and one need only do nam jap, then why is so much shringar of the Lord done there, why is so much flower thrown along the way?
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 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.
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