Hanuman Jayanti
Every question on the site tagged Hanuman Jayanti, each answered from a timestamped source rather than a summary written from memory.
Computed for New Delhi. Sunrise decides which tithi a day belongs to, so these can differ elsewhere.
Lord Hanuman's appearance day, falling on Chaitra Purnima — the close of the Pratipada-to-Purnima window during which His worship is held to yield the greatest results.
16 notes from our sourcesNotes from our sources
Hanuman worship through Chaitra Navratri, Pratipada to Chaitra Purnima
The speaker says every home must worship Hanuman in chaitra-navratri, daily from Pratipada up to Chaitra Purnima, which is Hanuman Jayanti; this brings many benefits, and worshipping him with a proper vidhi for one wish brings many more. The ways he gives, from simplest up: reciting Hanuman Chalisa, which is enough if that is all one does, but must be done; the Havan of the Chalisa by the vidhi he has taught; archana with his 108 names using flowers or tulsi leaves, two or three minutes, which pleases him greatly; and for a wish, archana with his Sahasranama from Pratipada to Purnima, which he says Hanuman certainly fulfils. If Bhagavati Anjani, his mother, is worshipped and remembered alongside, nothing can stop the work from being done, since mother and son are both being served.
What is to be done on the Chaturdashi?
On the Chaturdashi, on the Sunday, you will do your morning pujan as usual. In the evening period, the Yam deepdaan will be special on that day. That day is also the Hanuman Janmotsav, so a special pujan of Bhagavan Hanuman ji may be done in the evening — offering the chola, doing deepdaan, doing a havan with the Chalisa at a Hanuman temple.
A lamp keeps burning by Tulsi ji and another at the main door throughout.
A lamp will certainly keep burning near Tulsi ji, and a lamp will certainly keep burning at the main door. As for those who wish to keep a vrat — whether it be of the Chaturdashi or whether they be observing the Hanuman Janmotsav — those people will do it on the Monday.
The Amavasya being nishith-vyapini and the Chaturdashi taken by udaya, both parvas fall well — so the Hanuman vrat and Janmotsav pujan are kept on the Monday.
For proof of this you may look at the divine kshetras where Hanuman ji's pujan is going to happen and where the Janmotsav is going to be celebrated, the speaker says; according to him too, wherever he has looked, this is what is being done. Because the Amavasya is nishith-vyapini and the Chaturdashi is being taken according to udaya, both parvas are becoming very beneficial for you. So those whose kuldevata is Hanuman ji, or who are going to celebrate his Janmotsav, or whose ishta aradhya he is, or who keep a vrat for him, or who are going to do the Chaturdashi pujan — all of them will keep the vrat on the Monday and do their special pujan on that same day.
What is the first pujan on Chaturdashi?
Chaturdashi is the third day; the Pradosh vyapini Chaturdashi falls on 11 November, and the Chaudas pujan is to be done on that day. In the Chaudas pujan the very first pujan of the evening is of Hanuman ji. According to the southern mantra and according to the kalpa bhed, this day is held to be Hanuman Jayanti — the south holds Hanuman ji's jayanti on Kartik Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi rather than on Chaitra Purnima. So everyone should certainly do the pujan of Hanuman ji that day.
How is the Hanuman pujan done?
There is no very special vidhi vidhan for it. On the day of Chaturdashi, at evening or in the morning, bathe and first of all go to a Hanuman temple. Have the chola offered, having made a sankalp, or if there is arrangement to offer it yourself, offer it yourself. Women will not apply the chola themselves — they will have the pandit ji make the sankalp and have it applied.
What is written on the pan leaves for Hanuman ji?
For Hanuman ji it is eleven pan leaves on which we say again and again that Ram is to be written. Mix the orange sindoor into chameli oil, or into desi ghee, and with the finger with which we do tilak — the small one beside the kanishthika, on which people wear an engagement ring — write Ram on every pan leaf: ra with an aakar and a bindu above it.
What lamps and bhog are offered to Hanuman ji?
At least five laddus, five tulsi leaves, and the lamp that is lit of five grains or seven grains. If you cannot do that, light a lamp of atta: make five lamps of atta, one-mouthed only — not five-mouthed, not four-mouthed for Hanuman ji — and take them to the Hanuman temple. You may light them either with mustard oil or with desi ghee.
When does the Hanuman sadhana begin, and which Kavach should be used?
From the Purnima tithi falling in Chaitra — Hanuman Jayanti — and running Purnima to Purnima, at least a month. Use either the Ekmukhi or the Panchmukhi Hanuman Kavach; where the house has a Pret or Pishach related fault, use the Panchmukhi.
In south India the birth festival of Hanuman ji is kept on the Kartik Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi
He says that in the month of Kartik, before the Chaturdashi — in south India on the Kartik Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi tithi — the birth festival of Bhagavan Shri Hanuman ji is celebrated, and he will give this thing at that time.
How many Hanuman jayantis are there, and is jayanti the right word?
Two chief parvas are coming, he says. One is Hanuman ji's jayanti — by kalpa bheda two jayantis of his are chiefly observed, though in fact there are three, and there is also his own wedding anniversary. If all of these are discussed, he says, a separate uproar will start; an uproar will begin over the word jayanti itself, that jayanti does not exist, do not say jayanti, that the word is used for a dead person.
What does the word jayanti actually mean?
Posts have been made about it several times, he says: jayanti is the correct word. The very meaning of jayanti is the giver of victory; Bhagavati has a Jayanti form. There is no jayanti-vanti of dead people — people only began writing it later. Jayanti is the right word; janmotsav is not, because these beings did not take birth, they are deva swaroop.
What should be done at every Sanatani home on Hanuman Jayanti?
On the day of Hanuman ji's jayanti, the day of the Purnima in particular, he says, if you did not do jhanda pujan or dhwaj pujan at home on the day of Ram Navami and did not give the dhwaj its place, then do it. In the home of every Sanatani, he says, there must certainly be a dhwaj of Bhagavan Hanuman ji.
Is there a wedding observance of Hanuman ji?
Yes — as he had just said about Bhagavan Hanuman ji, his vivahotsav too is observed. And there are a great many special prayogas and vidhi vidhan attached to the vivahotsav, he says.
Of the three Mahabhairav anushthans only the rajasik one's video is put up; shamshaan material is never shown at all
One anushthan of Mahabhairav is of the shamshaan, he says, and the second is a rajasik anushthan. The rajasik one will be the one whose video is put up; of the shamshaan one they never put up any material at all, and it should never be shown. And the third, because it is Hanuman Jayanti, is of Panchmukhi Hanuman ji, of Markateshwar Hanuman ji — who is also called shamshani, masani Hanuman ji — and of Bal Hanuman ji in particular, in the night kaal.
What should be done at home on Hanuman Jayanti itself?
We will do all of this, he says, but do not sit comfortably at home eating jalebi. On the day of the shamshaan, when it is Mahabhairav, do the deep daan of Mahabhairav; and on the day of Hanuman Jayanti perform a havan with the Hanuman Chalisa, with your family — at the least, do it with the family. It is a Saturday, and Saturday too is Hanuman ji's day. The time of Shani Dev is running, he says; Shani Dev is very dangerous, and if you wish to be saved from him, then perform a havan of the Hanuman Chalisa with your family.
No notes match "".