Dattatreya Jayanti
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23 Dec: The tithi began and ended without ever falling at sunrise (kshaya); the day it runs through is kept.
Computed for New Delhi. Sunrise decides which tithi a day belongs to, so these can differ elsewhere.
Notes from our sources
25 lamps in all — one Karmasakshee and 24 in a triangle — plus coconuts, cotton and Kalawa thread
A total of 25 lamps — one Karmasakshee lamp plus 24 arranged in a triangle — along with two or three coconuts for six coconut-shell lamps, cotton, Kalawa thread, flowers, Palasa-leaf cups, rice, Roli, and turmeric.
Silver Shri beej prayoga of Anagha Lakshmi for wealth
The speaker describes a vidhan he calls a great boon for Dattatreya sadhaks, though anyone may use it. Lakshmi's beej akshar Shri is made in silver; on Anagha Lakshmi Ashtami (the Ashtami after Dattatreya Jayanti in Margashirsha), or in a crisis on any Krishna Paksha Ashtami, it is placed on a plate, treated as Bhagwati's own form, worshipped with Kumkum through her names, shown Aarti, and kept where the household money is stored. From that Ashtami on, every day it is brought back to the puja place, worshipped again with kumkum 108 times or with 101 mantras, and returned to the money place, with red and yellow flowers always offered. Done this way, he says, her special grace is certain, especially for money problems.
A place for the adi guru mandala should exist in every home however small, which is why a consecrated Datta mudrika is sent out each Datta Purnima.
He says that just as Batuk Bhairav ji has a place in their own family practice, so Bhagwan Datta — a place of the adi guru mandala or of the guru swaroop — should certainly exist, however small. For this he mentions the Purnima that comes in the month of Margashirsha, Datta Purnima, at which they have tried each time to have a small Datta mudrika, at least consecrated, reach everyone.
Why is every mantra given forty days?
Because that is the minimum Mandala. The session sets out to answer why any mantra — Dattatreya, Shabar, Pauranik or Tantrokta — is given forty days, and what effects begin to be obtained within them.
Which mala should be kept if one mala is to serve for all Bhagavati mantras?
Use the Bhairavi mala — the Bhairavi Rudraksha. The nine-mukhi Bhairavi Rudraksha will be the best for this. In the same stretch the speaker also notes that Shiva ji's Panchakshari may be recited on Dattatreya Jayanti.
Timing of Dattatreya Jayanti rituals
dattatreya-jayanti falls on the Purnima, so the speaker asks everyone to do the Dattatreya anushthan chiefly at night on that day. Those who cannot do it at night may do the Dattatreya-related anushthan in the daytime on the following day; there is no problem in that.
Why did a toothache go away after deepdaan?
A listener writes that he had done the Dattatreya deepdaan on the day of the Jayanti, that his tooth was hurting very much at the time, and that by the next morning it had come down of itself. Yes — you did so much deepdaan, so it will have come down from the heat of the deepdaan, the speaker says; behind this there is science, this is science. In this our shraddha has little part; neither we nor you have any shraddha in it. This is bheem science.
Can a one-day japa of the twelve names be done on the jayanti to cut karma?
A listener who has a bhautik guru asks whether he may complete a japa of the twelve names on the following day, the jayanti, as a one-day observance, for the cutting of his whole karma. Certainly you can, the speaker says — do as much of it as possible.
From when is the Datt Purnima sadhana to be begun?
Asked whether the Datt Poornima sadhana is to be done from the next morning itself, the speaker confirms that it is to be done from the 7th itself.
On which days is the mantra worship performed?
The night of Mahashivratri; the night of Chaitra Shukla Ashtami and Navami; the Chaturdashi of Diwali; Bhagavan Dattatreya's Jayanti on the Purnima. Sharad Purnima and Magh Purnima are also accepted. And Guru Purnima, the seventh, is the most distinctive of all.
Dattatreya Jayanti on Margashirsh Purnima and the Anasuya katha of his three-headed form
The speaker says the Purnima of Margashirsha Maas is taken as dattatreya-jayanti, the day of his descent. He recounts the katha: when Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh came to test Mata Anasuya's satitva, she turned all three into infants by the power of her pativrat dharma, and from the grace of these three came three swarups — Chandrama, Durvasa and Dattatreya. Dattatreya is held mainly to be Vishnu's ansh, he says, but is the samyak form of all three, with three heads — Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh — and six arms.
Establishing Dattatreya as adi guru and beginning the Datt mala mantra on a Purnima
The speaker says the dattatreya-mala-mantra japa is begun on the Purnima of any month; if begun on Margashirsh Purnima, that day is Dattatreya Jayanti. At home one may establish a vigrah of Dattatreya smaller than six inches, or a Dattatreya Yantra, or do the japa before Bhagwan Sadashiv without either. A sadhak with no Diksha at all who wants one in physical form should establish Dattatreya as his first, adi guru — either the vigrah or the yantra, or the yantra wrapped in yellow cloth with the vigrah placed on it. On that Purnima, he says, do abhisheka with panchamrit, dress the vigrah well, offer dhoop, deep and naivedya as one is able, and light a ghee lamp with a little haldi added to the ghee.
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