Tara Chaturdashi
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Computed for New Delhi. Sunrise decides which tithi a day belongs to, so these can differ elsewhere.
The fourteenth lunar day dedicated to the Mahavidya Tara.
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Times of year when marana prayoga bears most fruit
The speaker says that many of the deaths around Holi and within a day or so of Diwali are unexpected deaths, because that is the time when such prayogas bear the most fruit. He also says marana is at its peak on Tara Chaturdashi: in the Bengal region, whatever marana prayogas are to be done happen then, and even big people, traders and businessmen with mutual enmity, get them done at that time.
Marana without any item of the target: what the practitioner must already have
The speaker takes the case where nothing connected to the target's body is available. Then, he says, the one doing the marana must himself have attained siddhi: he has Kritya prayogas and the like siddh, his deities are awakened, he has done anushthan of particular mantras, and guru-given vidyas are available to him. With that, at a special time such as Tara Chaturdashi, the prayoga is done through a Mandala and a Putla in the cremation ground.
The Chaturdashi and Amavasya of Bhadrapada Krishna Paksha carry a most particular importance in the kshetra of tantra.
The speaker opens by saying that the subject is extremely necessary: the Chaturdashi and Amavasya of the Krishna Paksha of the month of Bhadrapada, whose importance in the kshetra of tantra is of the most particular kind. For those people who especially perform tantric sadhanas of any most particular deity, this time is extremely important.
Their prayoga kaal is the Aghor Navratri around this Chaturdashi and Amavasya, when Shakta and Kaul tantrics complete their sadhanas at Tarapith and Tarachandi.
The prayoga kaal for them falls on precisely this Aghor Chaturdashi, Tara Chaturdashi, Amavasya and so on. The Chaturdashi and the navratra around it are also called the Aghor Navratri, which has already begun; in Bengal especially at Tarapith, and at Tarachandi in Bihar, Shakta and Kaul tantrics complete their sadhanas within these nine days.
Those working with Dakini vidya name the nights of Holika and Diwali — but the night of Ashtami and this Tara Chaudas stand beside them.
That the pair of nights usually named is not the whole list. To those perfecting or who have perfected Dakini vidya it is said that the nights of Holika and Diwali are greatly special; but they should know that alongside them stand the night of Ashtami and this Chaturdashi, which is called Tara Chaudas.
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.
Which tithi to begin Tara or Batuk Bhairav sadhana?
The speaker says that for Bhagavati Tara take either Navami or Chaturdashi — the Krishna Paksha Navami or Chaturdashi. For Bhairav ji there is the monthly Kalashtami vrat, the Ashtami of the Krishna Paksha.
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.
Which are the two chief nights of Bhagavati Tara in the year?
One is the night of Ram Navami: on the day the Navami of the month of Chaitra is in effect, at the middle of the night, is the birth of Bhagavan Shri Ram, and that night hour has been held to be Tara Jayanti, Tara Navami. And after that, the second night held to be Bhagavati Tara's chief night is the Chaturdashi and Amavasya of Bhadrapada. On these two days special sadhanas related to Bhagavati Tara are done in these regions.
Eleven days again from the Tara Chaturdashi, then sava lakh in Navratri
A listener says he has done the eleven-day sadhana of Maa Bhavani by his method and is doing one mala daily. Do this, he answers: beginning from the Chaturdashi, from this Tara Chaturdashi, do at least an eleven-day sadhana again. In Navratri do a sava lakh japa in nine days. Then from Sharadiya Purnima, on the day it falls, again do its japa of a sava lakh. In Diwali, when your month of Kartik comes, again do a sava lakh. Do this much and you will get great joy.
When should prayogas be done instead of in Sawan?
He hopes listeners will do whatever vidhi vidhans they have done in the right manner, will not do a prayoga in a wrong manner, and will avoid doing a prayoga in Sawan. Do the prayoga in Bhadwari — in the month of Bhadrapada there is the Tara Chaturdashi and the Amavasya, and there will be a great many prayoga vidhis then. Those in personal contact, whose work is running, will all be made to do the prayoga vidhi by him. But do not, in a rush, let this Sawan — a greatly divine Sawan — go to waste. Do not use it up in prayoga; in this time let there be as much seva, puja, archan, japa, havan and daan-punya as possible for Mahadev and Prabhu Vishnu together with Ma Bhagavati Jagdamba, so that the strength of our mantras increases, our deities are pleased, the pitrs and forebears of the kula are pleased, and our material and spiritual life both advance.
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