Bhuta Shuddhi
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Purification of the five gross elements composing the body, conducted through three methods: Mantratmaka (mantra-based), Varnatmaka (seed-syllable based), and Bhautika (physical/ritual-substance based).
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What is Bhuta Shuddhi, and through which three methods is it performed?
Purification of the five gross elements (Bhuta Shuddhi) is conducted via three distinct methods: Mantratmaka (mantra-based), Varnatmaka (letter/seed-syllable based), and Bhautika (physical/ritual-substance based).
What is done before the ahutis are given?
Having done agni sthapan and the rest, having done the panchabhuta sanskar, and having properly taken out the kravyad amsha, the speaker says, when in the divine auspicious agni, in the varad agni, you give the ahuti of kheer, of cow ghee and of guggul in the name of Bhagavati Mahalakshmi, then the most divine effect is obtained.
Another person who knows nothing may give the dhuni provided they are pure — not a mother who has just cleaned a child, unwashed and unchanged, claiming bhava.
Merely taking Batuk Bhairav ji's name is enough; if you have the whole paath by heart, do it while reciting. If there is some other person who knows nothing, tell them simply to become pure and give the dhuni. Do not show cleverness, he says, by claiming you will do it in bhava with an unwashed body. He gives the case directly: a mother with a year-old child who has passed stool and urine and whom she has cleaned, doing it without changing clothes, without bathing, without washing the hands — do not do that.
Do it with purity or do not do it: pride that asks why so much is required should decline the practice rather than invite ruin.
He says there is no need to grasp at it, and he addresses mothers particularly: do not take it up. If you have so much pride and arrogance that you ask why you should do so much, then do this favour to God and to yourself — do not do it. If you are to do it, do it with purity; if you are not to do it, then do not do all this and invite ruin.
Bathe, bring purity into the body, change the janeu if you wear one, and only then enter the mouth of the devatas.
Purify the body, bathe, bring purity into the body; if you wear the janeu, change the janeu; be pure, and then enter into the mouth of the devatas. Tantra is not a joke, he says. You do not go to see what your enemy's tantric sits and does, but you forget merely to be pure before giving the ahuti — and then you say you will offer it with bhava.
Is it correct to do achman with the mantras given in the Saptashati?
The speaker reads out the question — a listener who for a year has done achman with the mantras given in the Saptashati asks whether that is right or needs correction — and asks back which mantras exactly, whether the four given for tattva shodhan or some others.
What should be done before buying a piece of land?
He says that whenever you buy land, you should have the shodhan of that land done before buying it. In whatever city or region you live there will certainly be sadhaks who can tell who is present there by looking at the soil, or by going there, or nowadays even by seeing the place over a video call — they ask your address and send their own siddh items.
What is the first mistake never to make when taking a house or plot?
He repeats that this first mistake should never be made: if you are taking a house or land for a new house, do the shodhan of that land first of all, so that whenever you go there no trouble of any kind arises for you at that place.
What does Ganpati sadhana do to the body's impurities?
Therefore first of all Ganpati, who should control the Muladhara and set it right. However many impurities there are in your body, from that very place they will begin to be removed. Do the path once, do it eight times, do it 21 times, do it 27 times.
Why can the upsanhar vidhi not always be done?
Because to perform the vidhi of upsanhar your whole body should be entirely ready and should be shuddha. Suppose somebody is travelling in a train — he did the abhichar yesterday, today he has set off without a care, and the person opposite has reversed it within 24 hours. He is now going away from his tantra kshetra, is on a train, or somewhere where he cannot maintain purity fully.
What is Shukracharya's curse on madira, and what is shodhan?
In the same way, when Bhagwan Narayan took the Mohini swaroop and made the asuras drink madira so that they were deprived of the amrit, a curse was given by the daitya guru Shukracharya as well. For this reason there is a process of shodhan, the speaker says: when karan is offered to any deva shakti, before offering it, it is freed from the curse of Krishna and of Shukra — and only then is it offered, and only then is it drunk.
The first thing in diksha is the shodhan of the sadhak
He says he is speaking of ordinary diksha and not yet of abhisheka, and warns listeners not to carry his words off as an attack on anyone — he is giving general information for everyone. The first thing in it is the shodhan of the sadhak.
How long does a suraksha mantra protect?
Asked for how much time a suraksha mantra gives protection, he answers: so long as your body is pure, until then.
What is the pavitrikaran mantra and what does it mean?
He asks what we say when we read the pavitrikaran mantra, and gives it: अपवित्रः पवित्रो वा सर्वावस्थां गतोऽपि वा। यः स्मरेत् पुण्डरीकाक्षं स बाह्याभ्यन्तरः शुचिः॥ So, he says, we are remembering Bhagavan Pundarikaksha: that in whatever state we may be, purify us outside and inside. That is, by remembering Bhagavan Pundarikaksha we become pure in every way. Hold this bhavana in that mantra.
Should one feel impure after taking medicine?
Understand the meaning of that mantra, he says, and hold that bhavana in it. Even if you take medicine and it seems that the body has now become impure, do not bring that bhav. The body is the annamaya kosha, and to run it, brother, medicine has to be taken — we are not endowed with the capacity, so take the medicine.
The bhavana is held on the asana after snan, remembering Narayana's form
But when, after becoming pure, after snan and the rest, you sit upon your asana and read the pavitrikaran mantra, then always keep that bhavana in remembrance: meditating on that form of Narayana, that we have remembered you, we have read your mantra, now we are pure. Give attention to this bhav.
How is achaman to be done on Nirjala Ekadashi?
Relaying what was told by the present Shankaracharya Maharaj of the Jyotish Peeth, he says that when achaman is performed on Nirjala Ekadashi, the water of the achaman should be so little that it remains only in the mouth and does not go into the throat. Because in the chief vidhi of achaman, when we drink the water it should go as far as the throat — only then, in a manner of speaking, is it counted as achaman. And there should be no sound while drinking, no slurping sound.
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