Aghor Amavasya
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Computed for New Delhi. Sunrise decides which tithi a day belongs to, so these can differ elsewhere.
The Amavasya (new-moon night) of the Bhadrapada month, observed as a major date for Aghori and Tantric practice.
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Who should observe Aghor Amavasya and Mahavidya Tara Amavasya?
The speaker says this day is very important for everyone connected with the tantra sampradaya: those in the Nath Sampradaya parampara, the Kaula Sampradaya parampara, the Shakta parampara or any other parampara. He adds that it matters just as much for someone doing tantra-related kriyas on their own, without any guru parampara, and for anyone worshipping any mahashakti by the Tantrokta method, even if their vidhan is sattvik.
When the Aghor Chaturdashi to Tara Amavasya sadhana window opens and closes
The speaker explains that the sadhanas begin the moment the Chaturdashi tithi sets in during the night, and go on until the Amavasya tithi is over (its visarjan); through that whole stretch people keep doing whatever mantra and tantra sadhana they have to do. He gives the 2021 example: the Amavasya joined with Chaturdashi fell on Monday 6 September, the Chaturdashi tithi was on 5 September, so all sadhanas started from the night of 4 September. He asks ordinary sadhaks who do not know this to learn it and do it correctly.
Fruit of sadhana on Aghor Chaturdashi and Tara Amavasya compared with ordinary days
The speaker says sadhana done on these days gives many times the benefit it gives on ordinary days. Not only does the Tapobala of that mantra grow and its energy grow, but a great many of the sadhak's known and unknown sins are destroyed as well. For this reason, he says, every tantra-lover and every sadhak must take advantage of Aghor Chaturdashi, Aghor Amavasya and Mahavidya Tara Amavasya.
Special case: mantra sadhana that is not giving results
The speaker addresses those who do mantra-tantra sadhana, who work at awakening mantras and are engaged in sadhana, but whose practice is not giving any special effect. To them he says: take advantage of this day of Aghor Amavasya and Mahavidya Tara Amavasya and see — you will get a very special benefit.
In which Hindi months do the Shakambhari and Aghor Navratri fall?
Asked in which Hindi month the Shakambhari and Aghor Navratris come, the speaker says the Shakambhari will come now, in the middle of December and January; and the Aghor one is yours around Bhado, Bhadrapada.
These are also the days for giving siddhis up — kshudra shaktis, or powers obtained unawares that now obstruct one's own progress, are abandoned here.
Their relinquishing. Those who have to give up their siddhis — who have perfected kshudra shaktis, or who by known or unknown causes have obtained siddhis on account of which their own progress may be obstructed — abandon all of them in these very times. That is part of why Tara Chaturdashi and Aghor Amavasya carry so particular an importance.
As the day before Diwali is Kali Chaudas, these Bhadon nights are Tara Chaudas and Kaushiki Amavasya, also called Aghor Chaturdashi and Aghor Amavasya.
As we call the day before Diwali Kali Chaudas, in that same way these two nights of Bhadon are renowned by the name of Tara Chaudas. They are also famed as Kaushiki Amavasya, and by the names Aghor Chaturdashi, Aghor Navratra and Aghor Amavasya.
Kaushiki's most prominent day is the Bhadrapada Amavasya, so ask where Mahasaraswati's shakti arrives — and what is dissolving into Aghor, or Aghor into what.
The most prominent day of Kaushiki is this Kaushiki Amavasya, the Amavasya of Bhadrapada. So relate it, the speaker says: where is the shakti of Mahasaraswati arriving and meeting? To those who say that it cannot be so in Aghor, he answers — see what is dissolving into Aghor, or what Aghor is dissolving into. Look at it both ways.
By what names is this Amavasya known in Bengal?
The whole region of Bengal and Bangladesh knows it by the names Tara Chaturdashi, Aghor Amavasya, Aghor Chaturdashi and the like. And take it as settled, he says, that as the pujan of Bhagavati Kalika is done through the whole Bengal region on the night of Diwali, so on the Bhadrapada Amavasya and on the night of the Chaturdashi, whatever pujan-paath there is related to Bhagavati Tara takes place on this very night.
Should a householder keep away because the word Aghor is attached?
This is a very important night for Bhagavati Tara, he says — and we who are householders should never think that because the word Aghor has become attached to this Amavasya it is therefore not for householders. It has very great importance of its own for us too.
An hour, or an hour and a half for a beginner — and on this tithi the shaktis are fully awake
At most it will take you an hour; if you are new it will take you an hour and a half. But do it for three days and Bhagavati has done a little grace — if she has cast her glance. Because at this time whatever shaktis are related to these remain fully awakened and remain pervading; so if you make their invocation they will certainly, certainly do grace. It is a special tithi, and this everyone should do on this night.
Which one-day anushthan can be done on Aghor Amavasya?
The anushthan of that very mantra of which you have done the most japa and whose effect you want should be done on that night before Bhagavati — let it be the mantra of any devata whatever. Along with it let there be the pujan of Bhagavati, and a request to her: O Jagadamba, make this mantra the most intense. This, he says, is what he is telling in relation to material matters; for spiritual benefit you may do as you wish, as per the vidhi.
Can a one-day anushthan be done on Aghor Amavasya for the siddhi of a chalisa?
Yes, certainly it can be done, he says. On Aghor Amavasya, in the vidhan told by the chakra vidhi, forty-one paath have to be done. The chakra vidhi that has been given — how any chalisa is to be made siddh by the chakra vidhi — that you may do on that night.
It is meant for the ordinary householder who cannot recite Sanskrit
If you are an ordinary householder, do not know how to recite Sanskrit, and do not know any very special vidhi-vidhan — or if you wish to do it for some other devi or devata — then it is on the Aghor Amavasya, that is the Amavasya of Bhadrapada, on the day on which it is present at night, that you have to do this thing. It will fall on the twenty-sixth or twenty-seventh, he thinks; he has not looked, and will put the date in the group later.
Sattvik food by day, then a lamp each for Tara and Akshobhya Shiva at night
On that day, in the daytime, eat and drink whatever is to be eaten — but ordinary sattvik food only. At night, after bathing, light one lamp each for Bhagavati Tara and for their Bhairav who is Akshobhya Shiva, sit before them, and do the chalisa paath by the chakra vidhi.
One night here carries the effect of ten ordinary nights
Everyone should make one chalisa siddh, he says — even if you do nothing at all, keep one chalisa made siddh. In one night its effect will be had in excess: what you would get by doing at least ten nights of it on ordinary nights will be attained by you in this one night alone.
Which precautions should be kept on the day of Aghor Amavasya?
Asked which precautions to observe on the day of Aghor Amavasya and which tantra kriyas to keep safe from, he calls it a very proper thing to have asked, because Amavasya is in itself a different kind of day for tantrics. As to keeping safe on that day, he says, ordinarily on the day of an Amavasya tithi in any case, for householders —
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.
Can the first mantra of the Argala be japa'd instead of the Durga Sahasranama?
Yes, certainly it can be done, he answers. If it is possible, do it a thousand and eight times, on this night of the Aghor Amavasya.
The guru mantra alone may be completed in those three days
Ajay ji, yes, certainly, he answers — you should complete the guru mantra itself; it will be very fine. And, he says, you have already told me: the mantra of the one whose swaroop this is is already obtained by you; they have done such grace upon you from time to time. So message once on Telegram, and we will see and have something special done for you. Do a small three-day anushthan related to them; you are also in so good a place, and every arrangement is already with you.
What is the simple seva of Neel Saraswati?
Bhagavati Tara herself is Maa Neel Saraswati, he says; the whole time is hers alone — Aghor Amavasya, Aghor Chaturdashi. Speaking straight, he says only this much, Anand Bhaskar ji: in a simple vidhi-vidhan you may do the ordinary paath of her stotra and the like. If you want her seva in a special vidhi-vidhan, then in an ordinary way it will simply not be possible, however much you do it, because things will then have to be kept according to her.
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