Akhand Jyot
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The unbroken lamp kept burning continuously throughout Navratri — relighting it fresh each day, rather than keeping it unbroken, is considered improper. It must stay lit until the Kalash is shifted at Visarjan, after which it's allowed to extinguish naturally and fully cooled with Gangajal before the Kalash is carried out for immersion.
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The Akhand Jyot at the end of Navratri
The speaker says the Akhand Jyot of Navratri must keep burning until visarjan — until the Kalash is shifted; once the visarjan mantra is read and the Kalash shifted, it should go out. The leftover oil is kept in a box and used all year for tilak mixed with roli, and can be applied to the forehead of someone unwell with a prayer to Bhagavati; the ash left is also kept. Before the Kalash leaves the house the jyot must have burned out fully and been cooled with a sprinkle of Gangajal — carrying the Kalash to the river while the jyot still burns at home must not be done, unless a different vidhan has come down in the family.
What is the three-lamp worship setup on Pratipada?
Light three separate lamps on Pratipada — for the family deity (Kuldevi), for Lord Ram, and for Goddess Tara — kept distinct from any continuous flame (Akhand Jyot) or witness lamp (Karmasakshi Deepak) already burning.
Should a householder set up a Kalash (Kalash Sthapana) during Gupt Navratri?
Householders generally don't need to establish a Kalash during Gupt Navratri unless already advanced in sadhana and committed to repeating it every Gupt Navratri for at least 5 consecutive years — otherwise, Kalash Sthapana belongs to Chaitra and Sharadiya Navratri, with an Akhand Jyoti or simple regular worship sufficing for Gupt Navratri.
Daily recitation vidhi of the Durga 108 names in the anushthan
The speaker says 108 paths are done every day of Navratri. The opening of the stotra — Ishwar uvach, shatanam pravakshyami and so on — is left out, he says, and each path begins directly from the first name, Om Sati Sadhvi Bhavaprita, and runs to the 108th name, Savitri Pratyaksha Brahmavadini, at the 15th shloka; the phalashruti is read only with the 108th path. One keeps at least eleven red flowers: a flower is held in the hand, ten paths are done and it is offered to Bhagwati, and so on, with eight paths on the eleventh flower. Doing this after 9 PM is ati uttam, he says, because it is Navratri and the night has special importance; an Akhand Jyot keeps burning as long as the path goes on.
Akhand jyot going out again and again in Navratri
The speaker says that when you light an Akhand Jyot in Navratri and the like, under Abhichara it will go out for one reason or another, again and again. The result, he says, is that first of all your Navratri Sankalpa does not get completed, for some reason or the other.
Misconception: soot on an akhand jyot wick is the deity's eyes
The speaker says one ordinary reason an Akhand Jyot goes out is that soot builds up on the wick and you do not clean it. He mocks those he calls "great scholars and great fools" who say the soot on the wick is the deity's eyes appearing: a lamp burning continuously will collect carbon, and if you do not clean it the wick and the lamp will go out. He says if you believe the god is in the soot and the puja reaches the deity through it, then do not remove it, and your akhand jyot will die within two to four days instead of lasting nine.
What is the Akhand Deepak and Japa requirement across the four Prahars?
Light an Akhand Deepak from the morning of Mahashivratri to the following morning (or from the first evening Prahar until 7 AM), ideally with a night vigil (Ratri Jagran) — chant at least 5 malas per Prahar if 108 isn't possible, or alternatively Shiva Sahasranama or Rudrashtakam with devotion.
A daily jyot is lit in the name of the household devi and of Sheetla of Kade Dham
If there is knowledge that yes, in our house she used to come upon someone, or there is some such matter, then first of all, daily in the house, in the name of the Maa whose swaroop you worship; and since the insult was made at Kade Dham of Bhagavati Sheetla, in her name — in the name of both, kindle at least one jyot each. And recite the Tantrokta Devi Suktam.
Do the clay articles have to be fresh each day of the five-day sadhana?
If, from the day of Dhanteras when you are going to begin the sadhana, someone is burning an akhand jyot and has kept it lit from that day onwards, then the matter is different. But if you are doing a day-by-day sadhana, or doing it with a day left in between, or doing it weekly, then everything — all this clay-made material — will be new each time.
May Bhairav be given a place outside the house, and which lamp is lit?
If you have space outside the house, where you raise Hanuman ji's flag, you may give him a place there in the form of a trishul, as a symbol, at some good spot or in a pot. If you give him a separate sthan there, a lamp of mustard oil in his name should certainly be lit morning and evening.
How many lamps does a householder need for all his deities?
With these two lamps the pujan of all the devis and devatas of a grihastha will be done. If you have both time and money, light a separate lamp for each deity — there is no difficulty in that — but ordinarily two lamps should certainly be lit. For naivedya, the naivedya of the principal shakti comes first.
What rules must be observed by one who has an akhand jyot lit?
Asked for details about the akhand deep and what rules must be followed, he says one will have to do only as much as is written in it. At the ashram a nine-day anushthan of Bhagavati is going on where the akhand prajwalan has been prescribed, and the arrangement exists for anyone who wishes to have it done; for nine days the akhand jyoti will burn in whichever names are given, along with the whole family. For those having an akhand jyot lit: garlic and onion and the like are not to be eaten, heavy tamasik food is not to be eaten, and if possible take food containing sendha namak.
Must one keeping an akhand jyot avoid sea salt and observe brahmacharya?
Food of sea salt should not be taken. That much, he says, is the whole of the rule that has been told. Brahmacharya palan and the like is essential — that must certainly be done.
How many Durga Chalisa paaths should be done daily in the temple during Navratri?
Asked by a listener who wishes to have an akhand jyot lit through him in Navratri and to do a daily Durga Chalisa paath in the temple whether that is all right, he says yes, do it. Asked how many paaths — twenty-four with rule — he says do more; do at least twenty-seven.
May one break the sitting, and must the lamps stay lit?
If it is not happening in one sitting, get up, the speaker says — get up after making your offering, walk about, then sit again after ten or fifteen minutes and do the next part of your pujan. Only let the lamp remain lit: do not let the lamp go out, let sixteen lamps go on burning continuously. If sixteen cannot be kept burning continuously, then at least two lamps should burn continuously — those of cow ghee.
What separate lamp is kept for Bhagavati Pitambara?
When you perform the path of the Ashtottar Shatnam, it is not merely a path — the asan is laid, the dhoop and deep are kindled, and you are doing japa seated before the lamp. Beyond that, for Bhagavati Pitambara keep one separate lamp for as long as you do the path, in which haridra must certainly have been put; and in Navratri let it be a lamp of ghee.
Should a second akhand jyot be kept in Navratri?
A listener writes that an akhand jyot has been burning at home for a year and asks whether a second should be kept separately in Navratri. If that jyot is dedicated to Bhagavati anyway, then if you keep one more separately you will have to keep it for the nine days only, or else carry it on — the decision is yours. According to the speaker, if you have to keep an akhand jyot burning in the house always, then let the one already burning stay as it is; and if you wish to kindle one separately for nine days, you may do that too.
Which oils may be used for the puja lamps?
If ghee cannot be managed, then both of mustard oil, or of til — but the til oil must be pure. Everything must be pure, the speaker says: whether it is ghee or mustard oil, whatever is within your capacity. And the lamp must keep burning as long as the japa runs.
What lamp is kept for the family abhishek, and for how long?
Do your own puja and abhishek first thing in the morning if possible, and after that tell every member of the family. Light a lamp there as well — a karma sakshi lamp, somewhat large, which burns at least till twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
Can the small akhand jyoti lamp be used for deepdaan?
A listener asks whether deepdaan can be done in the small lamp used for akhand jyoti, taking 108 at one go, since the long wick does not burn fully in it. No, brother, the speaker says — take the lamp with a soi batti; that will be better.
What is the narikel deepdaan vidhi?
The second, he says, is the vidhi of deepdaan in a coconut. He says he speaks of it again and again, in many lives too, and no longer shares the video repeatedly: the deepdaan vidhi in a coconut, at any parva kaal, with 108 vartikas — that is, making 108 wicks — and how they are to be made was shown live in the full vidhi. By doing it, if there is even one per cent of positive energy with you, its capacity increases so much that they obtain the capacity to protect you, and guidance is properly received.
What should be done alongside lighting eleven lamps?
Whenever you kindle eleven lamps together, the speaker says, do one thing: light dhoop on both sides, beside wherever the eleven lamps are lit. Use the wet dhoop — the kind that comes among agarbattis, the wet one. Bamboo, he adds, should not be used.
Case: a 41-day Navarna mantra sadhana copied from YouTube without diksha
The speaker presents a true case from the Corona period: a man with no Diksha of any kind, who had long served Bhagavati, went through every Navarna Mantra video on a very popular channel, was motivated by the experiences reported there, and began a night-time sadhana. On red cloth and a red asan he sat from about 10:30 pm to 2:30 am trying to complete 108 malas; for 41 days he kept an Akhand Jyot, offered Naivedya to Bhagavati in a solitary room, then did the Chalisa, the Ashtottara Shatanama, Navarna japa and one mala for Ganpati, nothing else. The sadhana completed calmly with no fear, no Avesh and no visitation; he continued nine malas daily and had beautiful dream experiences, which the speaker calls the proper, positive response for any Sadhak. That was 2021.
Keeping Navratri for the first time: kalash sthapana on Pratipada and following the local muhurat
The speaker says that in the new samvatsar beginning, every person may do Navratri, even someone doing it for the very first time. Kalash sthapana is done on the day of Pratipada in a shubh muhurat; one may also follow the regional practice — whatever time the learned brahmins and scholars of one's area give — and on that day, as convenient, do the kalash and Ghatasthapana and light the Akhand Jyot. The full method of kalash sthapana, the vidhan of the akhand jyot and the rules of Navratri — what if the lamp goes out, how and when to do havan, which day the paran falls, how the nine-kanya pujan is done, and what a man does if Brahmacharya is broken by a nocturnal emission — he says are already given in separate videos and are not repeated here.
Night japa vidhan on Pratipada: a karma sakshi lamp, offerings to the four guardians, and nine malas of Shailputri
The speaker says that on Pratipada night — or earlier, at Sandhya, once the Aarti is done with the family or alone — one sits again on the asana around eight o'clock. The Akhand Jyot is burning; light a separate Karma Sakshi lamp, offer Dhoop, deep and Naivedya, and offer Akshat and flowers in the names of the guru, Ganesha, Batuk Bhairava and Bhagwan Narasimha. Then jap nine Mala of the mantra of Bhagavati's first form, Shailputri Durga, and offer the japa to Bhagavati; that is all. If one wishes, light nine camphors and nine cloves in some vessel. The first day's pujan is complete; it takes little time, is authentic, and brings Bhagavati's full grace. The mantras of all nine Durgas for the nine nights are in one PDF he provides.
In a great many houses of the Vindhya region an akhand jyoti has burned on til oil for generations.
The speaker says he does not think it is written anywhere, and has never heard of such a thing; and as for burning til oil, go into the Vindhya region — in a great many houses an akhand jyoti has been burning for a long time, and it is burning on til oil itself. He sees nobody there falling ill.
How long should the akhand jyot burn?
The akhand jyot should burn until you have done the paran on the Dashami tithi. The whole subject, he says, has been discussed at great length on the channel.
What do people wrongly do with the akhand jyot at visarjan?
People read the mantra for kalash visarjan and release akshat, and at that very moment pour water over the akhand jyot and extinguish it. Instead, he says, take out whatever ghee and oil is there and keep it — it will serve for applying tilak — and let a little oil remain so that it finishes of itself while the paran is being done.
Is it compulsory to light an akhand jyot in Navratri?
Asked whether it is necessary to light an akhand jyot in Navratri, he answers that if you cannot light it there is no difficulty; only kindle a karma-sakshi deep, and keep the akhand jyot kindled for as long as you will be performing the anushthan.
Who should not light an akhand jyot at all?
Especially those who live alone and have to leave their place to go to different places — for the akhand jyot there is also this rule, that they must never leave it alone. It is the direct form of Jagadamba; one is not to leave her alone and go from the house or the place. Someone or other will be at home. So those who are alone should not do it in this way either.
Which side of the deity the Akhand Jyot is placed on
The speaker says the Akhand Jyot is lit after the Kalash has been established. If it burns ghee, he says the lamp is placed on the right-hand side of Bhagavati's image or Shri Vigraha; if it burns sesame oil, it is placed on her left.
Akhand Jyot going out during Navratri: relighting and prayashchitta
The speaker says the wick of the Akhand Jyot should be long enough that it never needs changing midway. If the flame still goes out for any reason, he says to relight it the moment it is noticed. Then, when next sitting for puja or path, do one Mala of "या देवी सर्वभूतेषु क्षमा रूपेण संस्थिता नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः" as a plea for forgiveness and Prayashchitta, whatever the cause of the lapse. With that, he says, the prayashchitta is done and Bhagavati will be gracious.
How long the Navratri Akhand Jyot must keep burning
The speaker says the Akhand Jyot must keep burning until the Kalash is moved for Visarjan. Once visarjan is done, if the flame goes out on its own there is no problem. But it must never happen, he says, that after kanya pujan one lets the jyot die by not adding oil or ghee. Until Bhagavati has been given her send-off in the same way she was invoked, the flame must stay lit.
Akhand jyot for prana raksha in the name of the kul shakti, with 27 black peppercorns
The speaker says the first vidhan is to light an Akhand Jyot in the name of the kul shakti with a Sankalpa for the afflicted person's life, and to put 27 black peppercorns into it in the name of the 27 Nakshatras — even if one does not know their names. If the kul shakti is not known, the same lamp is lit first in the name of Bhairava ji, or of whichever main deity the whole family worships together.
The raksha akhand jyot has no muhurta, kharmas or malmas restriction and burns until recovery
The speaker says this akhand jyot burns until the person recovers, for at least seven to ten days, and at the time the prayog has struck one must not check whether the moment is auspicious or whether kharmas or malmas is running. It is a karmic lamp for the protection of life, not an Anushthana for any deity, so it can be lit at any time whatsoever.
Of the three immediate vidhans against a maran prayog, the akhand jyot is compulsory
The speaker says the three vidhans — the Akhand Jyot, the Kshetrapala Nikari and the flour chaumukh lamp — should be done immediately. Of the three, the first, the akhand jyot, is compulsory; of the second and third, whichever is possible should be done.
What does keeping a ratri jagran for the first time mean?
A listener says that for the first time in his life he kept the ratri jagran, and by his grace did the Shri pujan well for the first time. It is Bhagavati's will and kripa, he answers, and the mahima of Shiva, that you were able to keep the ratri jagran. And upon the many people who kept a ratri jagran for the first time, kripa has certainly been present.
What should be done with a home shivling when travelling for months?
Asked what to do about the nitya seva if one must be away from home for seven months and there is a Narmadeshwar shivling at home, he says: if there is Narmadeshwar ji, Shaligram ji, a Devi shila, a Sonbhadra shila, a sphatik shila and so on for chakrarchan, then before going, whatever lamp is running should be completed. Many people light an akhand jyot so that it goes on burning until they return — do not make this mistake.
Starting the Navratri navgrah jap: Pratipada, kalash optional, morning best, after guru-Ganapati pujan and the Bhagavati path
The speaker says the jap and pujan begin on the Pratipada of Navratri after Kalash sthapana, Akhand Jyot and so on; but one who does no akhand deep or kalash sthapana and only does puja-path can certainly still do this sadhana. It may be done morning or evening as one's business or job allows, though morning is best. The order on each day: first the kalash sthapana (on Pratipada) and the initial pujan, then guru and Ganesha pujan, then whatever path of Bhagavati one does, and only after that this jap. He says all the mantras (of the nine grahas, their mothers and Bhagavati) are put on one page on screen and will be given in the description or a PDF for copying.
How many lotus flowers should be offered daily during Navratri?
The prescription is a hundred and eight lotus flowers daily; if that cannot be managed, one or nine, as many as you can get. Consecrate them with a Stuti — the Tantrokta Devi Suktam, or a single mantra recited eleven or twenty-seven times, or Devi Sarvabhuteshu Lakshmi Rupena Samsthita — and offer them at the Kalash, the Vigraha, the photograph, or the Akhand Jyot.
What are the rules for the Akhand Deepak, Ganesh Deepdaan and Karma Sakshi lamp?
On the Akhand Deepak: decide yourself — keep it if you will be able to bear it, and do not keep it in a state of disturbance. For the Ganesh Deepdaan use ghee. The Karma Sakshi lamp stands in the name of all the deities, since the Jyot is literally their own form. The Kusha count in a Ganesh tarpan may be twelve or nine.
Can an akhand deepak be lit near Tulsi ji, especially in Kartik?
Asked whether an akhand deepak may be lit near Tulsi ji, especially in Kartik, the speaker says that whenever you light an akhand deepak near Tulsi ji, at that time install the Shaligram shila there as well, or do it after installing the Shri vigraha of Bhagavan Shri Narayan. If you light the akhand jyot outside and rain falls, there will be difficulty, so whenever you take a decision, take it with thought.
Karma-sakshi lamp and akhand jyot in a Saptashati parayan
The speaker says the third thing is that, for whatever reason, the man was never told the rule that whenever you do the path you light a Karma Sakshi deepak, and keep an Akhand Jyot and the like in Navratri. The akhand jyot rule he had been given instead was: one akhand jyot per parayan — light one today, light a second one tomorrow with tomorrow's path, let today's burn until it finishes, and then remove (visarjan) it. That was his rule.
Prerequisites before a first Mahabhairav anushthan
To a listener who has done no sadhana yet but wants a 41-day Mahabhairav mantra anushthan with an Akhand Jyot at home because of household trouble, the speaker says the Mahabhairav video never told anyone to do that sadhana at home at the start — the first time, it is not to be done at home at all. Taking up Mahabhairav directly without Tapobal will leave you badly unbalanced. First do at least five lakh japa of the Panchakshari Mantra — if not five lakh, then sava lakh without fail — and only then begin Mahabhairav japa at a temple by the vidhi; once the mantra is done, start your prayoga of the stotra with Samput.
This reinforcing anushthan needs no akhand deep and no kalash sthapana, only the regular practice kept up.
In this anushthan, he says, you need neither light an akhand deep, nor perform kalash sthapana, nor do anything special. Whatever you were doing regularly, you will do just that; the only difference will be that during the period of the anushthan you keep your whole manner of living under full brahmacharya palan and so on, living a satvik life.
For a sava lakh Navarna anushthan, are the navagraha and shodash matrika mandals needed?
To Raju Acharya ji, who asks whether along with ghat sthapana the navagraha mandal and the shodash matrika mandal must be established for the sava lakh japa of the Navarna mantra in Navratri, and whether they must be worshipped daily, he answers that if you are going to do the anushthan of sava lakh then at the very least, if nothing else, certainly light an akhand deepak. As for the mandals: if you do ghat sthapana, do all the puja on that very ghat. There is no need to make separate mandals — do the shodash matrika pujan on the ghat, do the navagraha pujan on the ghat, and do the daily puja on it too, in name only, saying "नवग्रहेभ्यो नमः यथा उपलब्ध उपचारम् समर्पयामि" and offering a single flower; but certainly offer it by name.
If you do ghat sthapana once, are you bound to repeat it?
He says he says it again and again — that from all the education and diksha he has received so far and whatever guru grace he has, he has learnt this: if you do ghat sthapana in any Navratri, then when that Navratri comes again the next year you will have to do ghat sthapana in that one too, and it should be done for five years. The rule is held to be that for five years you will call Bhagavati again and again in that Navratri, and the shaktis of the house stay awakened there. So if you do ghat sthapana in Gupt Navratri, you should do ghat sthapana again and again in that same Gupt Navratri every year. If you do not do it, light an akhand deep.
Which other Navratras are there, and must a householder keep them fully?
Besides these there are the Shakambhari Navratra, the Aghor Navratra and, in truth, many more such subjects which the sadhaks of a given guru parampara follow very well. But if you are wholly a householder, he says, it is not at all necessary that in these Navratras too you light a nine-day akhand deep and perform special pujan vidhi-vidhan; do ordinary pujan only.
What should someone do who has moved house and can no longer do the full Navratri anushthan?
A listener who used to keep an akhand lamp and make a mandal in the temple beside his former residence asks what to do so that no dosha attaches now that he has moved. The speaker answers simply: do as much as is possible.
May the vigraha be lifted from its asana during the nine days?
If you have done kalash sthapana, kindled the akhand jyot and have a shri vigraha placed, then the vigraha is not to be moved for the nine days of the Navratra. If your daily rule is to bathe Bhagavati, ask your guru whether the asana may be shifted; according to the speaker's own knowledge and practice the asana should not be moved. Arrange the abhishek so that they need not be lifted from the asana. Only the first day carries the full formal bath; from the next day on they should not be removed.
Who may keep a jyoti kalash at home?
Anyone at all may keep a jyoti kalash in the house, the speaker says. If it is the rule in your household to keep one, then keep the jyoti kalash.
Can the ghat and the akhand deep be served without fasting?
One does have to keep a fast, at least a little, for the seva of the ghat and the seva of the akhand jyot, the speaker says; their seva will not happen without the fast. Do not do it half-finished. Ask Bhagavati for the strength — Jagadamba, make us capable, so that we keep the fast and serve you in the proper manner. And if you cannot keep the fast, then do the nitya pujan, morning and evening, well and grandly; grace will be obtained in that too. It is not as though grace will not come in that.
What is done with the leftover wick of an akhand jyot?
Asked whether the leftover wick of the akhand jyot should be given visarjan or put to some use, the speaker says that if it has not burnt and has simply remained over, you may keep it; and if he means the burnt khadi batti, you may also use that in a tilak and the like. Of the akshat grains japa'd upon, he says you may feed them to birds.
Can both an akhand lamp of ghee and one of oil be lit?
They may be lit, he tells Ashish ji — but given his age and how much he is doing, the speaker says he has only one fear: that at the age at which he is doing so much today, when tomorrow he goes to do a job, all of this will be left behind. Today you do arti and shayan pujan four times a day, which is a very good thing — but will you be able to do it lifelong?
What does the speaker say must be carried together?
Everything is to be carried along, he says: the lok vyavahar of tantra is also to be carried; what is shastrokta is also to be carried; the philosophy is also to be carried. But it must also be understood which is to be applied where, and how it is to be carried. Take everyone along; nothing is to be left out. You are not to make flowers in a lamp all day; and it is not that we will not light an akhand jyot or a lamp — we will do all of it, but by the vidhi, taking everyone along. Nothing is small and nothing is great; all are to be carried together.
Should a chameli oil lamp be kept burning through a whole sadhana?
No, the speaker says: the chameli lamp should not burn through the entire sadhana kaal. And those who are newly lighting a chameli oil lamp should not be frightened — know that when it is lit in chameli oil the lamp burns down very quickly and the whole lamp catches fire. So nothing should be nearby, or it will catch fire at once; it flares up completely.
Why does a jyoti kept before Ma keep going out?
Ajay Sharma ji writes that he has kept a jyoti burning before Ma for three years, but for some days now it goes out during the pujan and goes out again when relit. If you are burning it in ghee, the speaker answers, then if the ghee does not melt the wick will not burn properly. Attend to that first.
What does it mean when a til oil jyoti keeps going out?
If the til oil is also right and the wick is also right, and the jyoti keeps becoming still and there is trouble, then the very first thing to get done in your house is the nikari — not by yourself, but through some knowledgeable person who performs pujan and path. Someone or other is making an attempt on your house at this moment; it has not yet succeeded, but if it does succeed there will be trouble. The jyoti not burning is a rarest case, he says: you are kindling the lamp and even with everything correct it will not kindle. Do not do it yourself at once, because things are very active and they will immediately get a medium — so send their puja through a knowledgeable person, have the Kshetrapal nikari performed, and then see; you will obtain benefit.
What does a nine-day Saptashati anushthan actually cost if done at home?
The speaker invites listeners to do it themselves and see. Do the ordinary paath of the Durga Saptashati every day at home — an ordinary paath is three, three and a half or four hours. You will offer at least a flower to Mai; you will do kalash sthapana; in the akhand jyot at least three or four kilos of ghee or three or four kilos of mustard oil will be used; you will keep the fast daily and will eat and drink. Do that much, he says, and see whether the limit will be less than fifteen or twenty thousand — for one person doing it.
An akhand jyot, a Chandi path and a samputit Chandi path are being arranged
The speaker says that as in Chaitra Navratri, when the akhand jyot sthapana was had done for many people and the video of it is on the channel showing with what grandeur it was done, the same kind of anushthan will take place this time as well. For those who wish to have the akhand jyot sthapana done, of mustard oil or of ghee, there is an arrangement; for those who wish to have the full nine days' Chandi path done there is an arrangement; and for those who wish to have the nine days' samputit Chandi path done there is an arrangement — but the arrangement is limited, since the capacity is of only two paths in a day. Those who come first will have it done.
Kalash sthapana, akhand jyot, nine days of pujan and the tenth day's visarjan
The second thing is the whole anushthan: that kalash sthapana should also take place, that the akhand jyot should be had done, and that one's own full nine days of pujan-paath should happen. There is an arrangement for everyone. The sahyog rashi written there should be looked at, and if something similar happens nearby, ask there — it is not for one day; it is an anushthan of the full nine days, ten days, since nine days happen just so and on the tenth day there is the puja of visarjan as well.
Must one fast while an akhand jyot is burning if health is poor?
Asked whether it is necessary to fast when the akhand jyot has been kindled if health is not good, the speaker answers: health is not good — if you can look after the akhand jyot, then this is the point, that if you are going to eat salt, take the food of the salt which is the pahadi salt; at that time do not take the food of sea salt. Doing it in this way too you can do the seva and puja of the akhand jyot.
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