Chandi Path
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The complete original recitation (Mool Path) of the Durga Saptashati's 13 chapters together with its six limbs (Shadanga) — Kavach, Argala, Keelak, the three Rahasyas, Ratri Suktam, Atharvashirsha, Saptashati Nyasa, and Navarna Vidhi — enclosed by the Navarna Mantra and taking roughly 3.5-4 hours; also called Durga Saptashati Path or Chandi Charitra.
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Chandi path: what a full Durga Saptashati recitation contains
Setting out the difference between Chandi path, Navchandi path and samput path heard of in Navratri, the speaker first describes the full mool path. The shastras say the thirteen main chapters of the Durga Saptashati are read with six angas (Shadanga): chiefly Kavach, Argala, Keelak and the three Rahasyas that follow. With them come the Ratri Suktam, the Atharvashirsha, the Saptashati Nyasa and the Navarna vidhi, and after the thirteenth chapter the Devi Suktam and the Rahasya paath. Before the first chapter the Navarna Mantra is chanted for one mala, eleven malas as per vidhi, or nine, and again after the thirteenth, so the whole paath is chiefly enclosed by the Navarna. This whole vidhi is what is called Chandi Charitra, Durga Saptashati path or Chandi Path, and it counts as one paath.
Navchandi: the Chandi path done over the nine days of Navratri
The speaker says that when the whole Chandi Path vidhi is carried on for nine days, from Pratipada to Navami, it is called Navachandika. That is the Navchandi Anusthan vidhi as done by a sadhak. It is the same full paath, repeated through the nine days of Navratri.
Samput path of the Saptashati: the standard mantra and how every verse is enclosed
The speaker says the most widely used Samput mantra for the Chandi Path is the 13th verse of the 12th chapter, "Sarva-badha-vinirmukto dhana-dhanya-sutanvitah, manushyo mat-prasadena bhavishyati na samshayah", in which Bhagavati says she will remove every trouble of whoever does her paath and puja and fill them with wealth and grain. This is the mantra used in most Navratri anushthans by the yajaman's chief brahmin, though any mantra can be used, and a kamya mantra is chosen for the wish in hand. The samput goes on every one of the 700 verses of the thirteen chapters. He shows it on the first verse: the samput mantra is read twice, then "Markandeya uvacha", then the samput mantra again; then the samput mantra, the next verse, the samput mantra, and so on to the end. This makes roughly 2,100 mantras, three times the mool path, and that is what is called samput path; its importance is greater. Where a mool path takes about three and a half to four hours, a samput path takes six or seven, or four to five for those with very good practice and pronunciation.
Durga Saptashati Mahavidya Krama Path as a remedy for vashikaran
The speaker says that once the sadhika knew the truth and had seen other girls being treated the same way, she searched for a counter (kaat) to Vashikaran and found this channel's viral video on reciting Shri Durga Saptashati in the Mahavidyas krama. Without contacting the channel, she began the path in that krama during Navratri to ease her guilt and sense of impurity, completed the whole vidhan, had a Havan done as far as she could, and did the remaining kriyas in a temple. Afterwards, by Bhagwati's grace, she felt boundless peace, meaning the effect of the tantra had been fully cut. He explains that the Chandi charitra holds such shaktis of Jagadamba that when one calls on Bhagwati with full surrender, her shaktis pull one out of any tantra whatever. As the video had said one may recite it from Ashtami to chaturdashi, she then began doing so every month, and her guilt slowly lessened.
If Bhagavati Parvati is the mool shakti, why did the Chandi Path become so widespread?
The speaker says he can see no basis or sense in this question. Its meaning would be that you are simply not able to understand Bhagavati Parvati and Chandi — for you, Chandi is someone else and Parvati is someone else. That is precisely why you are saying this; Chandi has become someone else for you. If even this is not clear to you, then the question can have no sense at all.
How should a 108-fold Chandi Path anushthan be arranged?
Asked whether an anushthan of 108 Chandi Paths should be done by the Mahavidya krama and from when to when, he says: if you wish to do the Chandi Path anushthan by the Samadhi krama you may; complete it from Ashtami to Chaturdashi. And whenever a hundred paaths are completed, or if you wish, if you are doing it only once in a month, do the process of bali on the last day, the Chaturdashi. If a tithi is kshaya, increase the paaths accordingly.
How long does the Navchandi Mahayagya run and how does it conclude?
That whole anushthan is running for two days, today and tomorrow, he says. Tomorrow the Chandi Yag will run the whole day long. Tomorrow, after the feeding of the brahmins and the sadhus and saints, the purnahuti is also to take place tomorrow itself.
This work describes the subject with references naming the tantra grantha behind each point.
He points to the Shri Durga Archan Paddhati written by Shri Shri Acharya Shivdatt Mishra Shastri and to many other works of his, in which this subject is described with references naming the tantra grantha each point is drawn from: that according to the day of the week, a Saptashati path of Bhagavati Shri Jagadamba, or any anushthan connected with her, carries a special importance.
Why is Saturday held to be the great day for Chandi path?
One general view, he says, is that in the sequence running from Sunday to Saturday, when we begin from the first day, the Chandi path on the Saturday is held to carry very much the greatest importance. But behind this too there is a special reason.
What should someone do whose Sanskrit pronunciation is not clear?
If Sanskrit does not come to you, he says, do it in Hindi. The video on how the path is to be done in Hindi has been shared again today; and there is the Mahavidya krama by which the Saptashati path is completed very easily in seven days.
What should an ordinary householder sadhak hold on to?
Stuti too is dear to her: do as much of the Shri Durga Saptashati and Shri Chandi path as you can — the Saptashati is Jagadamba's very heart, and the greatest matter of Mai's pleasure comes from it. Many great tantriks are found on YouTube saying that at first they used to do the Saptashati and later left it, then did this and that, attained tantric siddhi, then the shamshaan — that, he says, may be their own personal matter. Ordinary householder sadhaks should take hold of the Saptashati ji and go on, doing it in Hindi itself.
The claim that bhava alone pleases Devi, and who preaches it
The speaker examines the popular answer to whether wrong uccharan of the Durga Saptashati brings a dosha: that pure uccharan and correct vidhi count for nothing and only bhava and surrender bring Bhagavati's grace. His first objection is that nobody can even verify another person's bhava — only a mind-reader could. He then asks why all of Sanatan society insists "do not bother with clear uccharan or Sanskrit, recite any way you like with bhava", and why nobody tells a literate, educated person who knows Hindi letters that he can learn online and do it properly by vidhi. Whoever does say so gets so abused that they stop speaking, and 99% of self-styled saints and siddhas keep stressing that bhava is what matters.
Audit your own karma before claiming pure bhava before Devi
The speaker says it is a fine thing to have bhava for Bhagavati, but the same people abuse Jagadamba in their minds the moment a single wish fails, and tell everyone that puja-path achieves nothing and one should focus on karma instead. So he asks them to do an R&D of their karma too: do impure thoughts not arise, have you never cheated anyone, do you not fool people and take their money in your profession? Every profession, he says, does this from behind — so how pure are you, and how good are your thoughts? Yet when it comes to purity in worship before Bhavani, you say only bhava need be pure; in doing so, he says, you are fooling yourself, and Jagadamba sees everything.
The bhava leniency is for the unlettered, not the educated reciter
The speaker says the true meaning of "bhava" — that unclear uccharan will do, that not knowing the vidhi-vidhan will do — is that it applies to those who are not educated: people with no knowledge of varna, swara or vyanjana, who do not know how Sanskrit is recited, the rustic and illiterate. If such people have only feeling and offer even a simple stuti, Bhagavati shows herself more readily there. But when someone with an MBA, a PhD, an MSc or BSc and an income of crores says "Bhavani will be pleased by bhava", he is deceiving — he is not simple, he is only pretending to be simple, and that is hypocrisy.
Wrong uccharan done in the name of bhava falls on one's descendants
The speaker says people mispronounce and still expect all their wishes to be fulfilled, citing someone who recited with feeling and got results — but that person is making a mistake too, and as the elders have always said, what we do affects our entire line of descendants. It is exactly such people's children who later ask why ruin is coming to them when their parents did so much puja. Wrong uccharan, wrong vidhi, or never doing vidhan-based worship at all and never wishing to learn one, all in the name of bhava, are what carry people into the pit of destruction.
Two kinds of people who drag Sanatan down: open attackers and "crypto" Sanatanis
The speaker asks listeners to recognise themselves: two kinds of people take Sanatan into the pit. One kind attacks it directly and misleads people away from it. The other kind are "crypto" people — outwardly they call themselves Sanatani, but what they teach is "keep only the primacy of bhava, do not learn uccharan". Both bhava and uccharan, he insists, are necessary.
Half-knowledge and refusing to learn is what brings ruin on a house
The speaker says incomplete teaching, incomplete knowledge, then no wish to learn, and pushing away even those who want to learn — these are what cause the loss of Sanatan, and if ruin comes to your house it will come from these. He calls it double-dealing and betrayal to go before Bhagavati saying "Mother, be pleased by bhava" while having the capacity to cheat employees, juniors, seniors, patients and clients; everyone is baking his bread, yet blame is laid only on Brahmins, pandits, tantriks and sadhaks, and whoever says "learn it properly" gets abused. He says he loses nothing by this — it is the listener who loses — and he is alerting them so they open their eyes, learn these subjects and learn clear uccharan so their welfare happens properly: you are capable and educated, so why leave any lack in yourself?
Learn clear uccharan over months instead of fleeing the Saptashati
The speaker says that whenever this issue arises, the right response is: if we do not know clear uccharan, we learn it — taking time, two months, six months, a year, learning it well and doing it correctly. Not running away like cowards, saying "a Saptashati path done wrong brings harm and we cannot do it correctly, so we will not do it at all". That, he says, is first-rate cowardice and timidity — and it is exactly what such people want: either you do it wrong, or you do not do it at all.
The story of 45 years of wrong Devi Suktam uccharan, and why the speaker rejects it
The speaker says a very big mahatma, a Vaishnavacharya whom he will not name, told from a large platform the story of a mahatma who recited the Saptashati's Devi Suktam wrongly for 45 years and, when he later corrected the pronunciation, the Devi became angry. Such discourses, he says, apply only to rustic, unlettered, forest people with no knowledge of the Saptashati — if they worship with a pure feeling and mispronounce, Devi will do them good. But when you know how to read and still mispronounce in the name of bhava, Devi is not going to be pleased; that is a matter of being made a fool. Promoting such ideas, he says, spreads the notion that wrong uccharan, wrong vidhi and never learning the vidhis are all fine because Ma will be pleased by your bhava.
Where can the Sanskrit path of the Saptashati be learnt?
Asked where the Sanskrit path of the Saptashati may be learnt, he says it can be learnt: you can learn it online, and you can learn it seated with some worthy Brahmin.
What is the weekly schedule for a Chandi Path?
The speaker confirms a listener may do the daily paath of the Sarva Siddhi Mahavidya krama, and states the rule for those who wish to do Chandi Path: do it from Monday to Friday, and do a havan on Saturday. On Sunday, instead of resting, do the paath of the Devi Suktam and the like nine or eleven times — this, he says, should certainly be done and will make it better still.
Are samput and samputti paath the same thing?
Asked what samputti paath is and whether samput and samputti paath are the same, he says he thinks the questioner means samput paath, and is trying to write samputit paath. Samput and samputit paath, he says, are one and the same.
When Chandi moves, nothing is able to stand before her vega
When Chandi moves, he says, no one is then able to stand before her vega. Bring that; bring that velocity. Nothing will be accomplished by playing this theatrical game — those who wish to set up a darbar and do all that theatre should leave this channel; he will not speak to them.
How pleased is Bhagavati by the recitation of the eleventh adhyaya?
She becomes very pleased, brother, the speaker says. The Durga Saptashati is exceedingly dear to Mai. You are speaking of eleven adhyayas — eleven adhyayas, why, if you will read even one shloka, Mai will be pleased by it.
Is there a special vidhan for reciting the Shiv Puran, like the Saptashati?
The speaker says that if you have taken birth in the Sanatan sanskriti, in the Sanatan dharma, then you have taken birth only to go towards Sanatan; and the form of Sanatan itself is Shiva, so birth has been taken only to go towards Shiva. Asked whether there is a special vidhan for reciting the Shiv Puran like there is for the Saptashati, he says its vidhan has been given at the very beginning — read it once and see how it should be done. You will not be able to follow every rule in it, he says, but there is no complicated rule like the Saptashati's, because this is a purana.
How should the Durga Saptashati be recited?
Asked how the Durga Saptashati should be recited, the speaker says: recite the Durga Saptashati by the Mahavidya krama, which has been taught on this very channel — in which on some day one adhyaya, on some day two adhyayas, and on some day three adhyayas are to be recited. In it you will not even need to do shraap vimochan and the like. There is a live too on the paath of the Durga Saptashati; listen to it fully and every one of your doubts will be resolved in it.
Durga Saptashati with the wrong vidhi brings suffering, not grace
The speaker says that with the right vidhi-vidhan, a daily Durga Saptashati path brings such grace that no material wish stays unfulfilled — but when, driven by fate, the anushthan is done with the wrong vidhi and in the wrong way, many kinds of suffering enter one's life, the familiar matter of a deva or mantra Shraap. Worship with pure bhava is fine in its own place, but once one follows a Tantrokta vidhi one must do vidhi-bound karma only. The Saptashati recited wrongly, he says, can swallow the whole universe within itself: its 700 mantras are tantric, not ordinary.
Should the Durga Saptashati be recited in Sanskrit when one's pronunciation is faulty?
The speaker says he always tells people: if you have devotion to Bhagavati but cannot pronounce Sanskrit, have not practised, and have not learned the Saptashati, recite it in Hindi with bhava foremost, and Jagdamba will be pleased. This man recited 108 paths in Sanskrit with, by his own admission, many errors, consoled by a guru's story that unclear pronunciation causes no special harm; the speaker grants that up to a point, but with the uccharan wrong every time over 108 paths it is the single biggest blunder, and meaning turned into anartha became one cause of the ruin. Rather than the full Saptashati, he says, recite only the stutis — Ratri Suktam, Devi Suktam, the fourth-chapter stuti, Shakradi Stuti — and Ma will be pleased.
Bali required with a daily Sanskrit shadanga Saptashati path
The speaker says Bhavani herself states in the Saptashati that whoever, knowingly or unknowingly, offers her Bali in the annual pujan has all wishes fulfilled — Chandi is bali-priya, so where there is a path, bali will be offered; the man, never having read it in Hindi, did not know this and never offered any. His rule, stated not to frighten but because this is a tantric text: reciting the Saptashati daily in Sanskrit with its six angas (Shadanga), give at least one bali every day — a nimbu, or laung and kapoor; he will not ask for kushmand — and once a week or once a fortnight on Ashtami or Chaturdashi a good bali of nine, eighteen or twenty-seven nimbu. This keeps her yoginis satisfied, removes misfortunes, ill conjunctions and malefic grahas' wrath, brings her grace, and wins forgiveness for mistakes.
Mahavidya-krama Saptashati in Hindi when a daily full path is beyond one's strength
The speaker says the great lesson from this man's life, for everyone including himself, is: do not do it the wrong way, and do not take the Saptashati as a joke. If you do not have the strength (samarthya) for a daily path, why do it at all? Don't. Do it by the Mahavidyas krama, with bhava, in Hindi — that gives positive results, and its vidhi and the experiences from it he has taught separately. People are in too much of a hurry. Do not run away from Bhagavati; to come near her, walk the right path. If we cannot leap four steps at once, either become capable of it or climb one step at a time, calmly — that is where one's wisdom lies.
Another teacher told women they need go to nobody and could recite the Chandi Kavach 108 times daily for twenty-one days themselves
The speaker says a great many people give very strange prayogas, and if by mistake you put a question there they begin speaking very crookedly about others. One such very great man, who he says listens to this channel and has his own Facebook group, gave the prayoga that women need not go to anyone if they daily do 108 recitations of the Chandi Kavach described in the Shri Durga Saptashati for twenty-one days continuously.
Can the three Rahasyas be replaced by Kavach, Argala and Keelak?
Asked whether, since the three Rahasyas are read when the adhyayas of the Durga Saptashati finish, it is right to do Kavach, Argala and Keelak in their place, he answers that it is completely wrong. There are six angas — how will you then bring the later anga forward? The whole subject will become different. There are a great many kramas of the Saptashati, and then it will go into the reverse krama.
Can an unmarried person recite the Durga Saptashati?
On the subject, he says, the person who has his own intellect is himself seeing what is wrong and what is right; one should never make an assessment from one thing. People go along holding only one thing — this is the mistake they make. Told that whenever people speak of reading the Durga Saptashati at all three times, they refuse, saying your marriage has not happened, saying you will become a vairagi, he answers: do this — the last mantra of the Argala, patni manoramam dehi, first do its sadhana well. May you get such a fit wife as will sit with you and do the recitation of the Saptashati. Do this. After that go and tell guru ji: guru ji, now I have got such a one that we two sit together and recite the Saptashati day and night. Then he will tell you properly.
What if the pronunciation is not yet correct?
Observe the niyam of the yajnopavita, he says, and let the pronunciation be clear and pure. If you are doing it in Hindi that is a different matter, but if you are doing it in Sanskrit, then the pronunciation must not be wrong — that is all. If there is an error in the pronunciation, correct it; then do the three sandhyas. Until the pronunciation is not becoming clear, do not do all three sandhyas but do it in only one — but first make it fully clear. Doing a hundred paths, you will attain mastery, and after that do all three sandhyas comfortably; there is no problem.
How much time do three sandhyas take?
He adds one more thing to observe. He says he is telling this according to himself — that if it is to be done in the morning, at noon and in the evening — and that he will not say you should do likewise, but even so consult a learned person once, ask your own acharya ji, who is also walking on the path. If all three sandhyas are to be done, then it takes time: at the least two and a half to three hours will certainly be taken, even after practice has come, if it is done with a little regularity.
What food rule attaches to doing three sandhyas?
Now if you do it after eating ann, he says, there is a problem here — there will be a little difficulty. So if you people wish to do it daily even for a lifetime, he will not say to do such and such; but if it is of 108 days, of a year, of two years, then keep the ann rule a little reduced: that until the evening sandhya is done, take fruit or the juice of fruits; and even if you eat ann, let your ann be wholly pure and sacred, not endowed with salt or lavana. And eat in the night-time.
Can a Durga Saptashati anushthan be done in Krishna Paksha?
Yes, absolutely, it can be done, he answers.
Can the Durga Saptashati be read one chapter a day in Navratri?
The speaker says never. New reciters see that the Durga Saptashati has thirteen chapters, note that Navratri gives only eight or nine days, and read chapter one on day one, chapter two on day two, stopping at chapter eight or nine. He calls this an aparadh that must never be done, one from which a Devi Dosha forms. The Saptashati, he says, is recited only with its six angas.
Impure Sanskrit uchcharan in the Saptashati path
The speaker says someone who has never pronounced Sanskrit and is going straight to a Sanskrit path must first learn how it is recited — from a scholar or a knowledgeable person who does Saptashati or Chandi path, a sadhak, a brahmin, or a mother with Shakta diksha — sitting in their presence, learning the uchcharan purely and practising before them. Impure uchcharan causes trouble; saints relate cases where wrong pronunciation changed the fruit of the path. As one small example he gives the sixth shloka of the Durga Kavach, where भयार्ताः is read in a hurry as भरताः or भर्यताः, both wrong; many such mistakes happen in haste and the meaning turns into its opposite.
Every Saptashati shloka is a mantra: bhava does not excuse wrong Sanskrit
The speaker says do not keep repeating that Ma is pleased by bhava alone. The Sanskrit mantras are the Devi's direct form; every shloka of the Saptashati is an independent mantra with its own devata, its own keelak and its own shakti, so each is itself a deity's form. Read it wrongly and that form is distorted — like a single stone somewhere in your body causing pain. Nobody has the right to distort a deity's form; better to learn it, and if Sanskrit does not come, recite in Hindi with bhava, but do not recite wrongly.
Rushing through the Saptashati versus chanting it in chhanda
The speaker says there is a popular saying that the Saptashati should not be sung, but it should be understood correctly: it is chanted in chhanda, and reciting in chhanda is the prescribed vidhan, so that one may do. What people actually do wrong is read very fast — he mimics rushing through the Kavach opening — whereas it should be read calmly, in the manner laid down. If reciting in Sanskrit, know how the Anushtup chhanda in which it is set is voiced; if you do not know, learn it.
Swaying while reciting the Saptashati
The speaker says the next issue is reciting while rocking to and fro. Once people start singing they also start swaying, and in that state, he says, "a devi" half enters of her own accord — they rock the whole way through from "Markandeya uvacha" onward. That too must not be done: there is to be no swaying during the path. All of this is an aparadh from which dosha arises.
Talking or rising from the asana in the middle of a Saptashati path
The speaker says one must neither speak nor rise from the asana during the whole path. Stopping between shlokas of the Kavach to say "something important" and then resuming is wrong. If an emergency forces you to speak, either start that recitation again from the beginning or first complete the whole Kavach, then talk, then do achaman and kshama prarthana before continuing. If you cannot manage all thirteen chapters in one sitting — new, unpractised, legs aching — do samarpan of what you have read before getting up, and when you sit again do achaman and Bhagavati's dhyan afresh before going on; never simply leave it midway.
What are the six angas and two samputs of a Durga Saptashati path?
The speaker says reciting the thirteen chapters straight off — even in Hindi with bhava — is wrong: the Saptashati is recited only with its six angas. Generally these are Kavach, then Argala, then Keelak, then Navarna japa, then Ratri Sukta and the like, then the Saptashati nyasa, and only then chapters one to thirteen, followed by Navarna japa again. The thirteen chapters are enclosed in a samput of Navarna, then a samput of the Suktas — Ratri Sukta and Devi Sukta — and after that a samput of the three Rahasyas such as Murti Rahasya. Six angas plus two samputs give the full effect and complete the vidhi; where traditions differ, follow your guru.
Shatchandi without diksha or guru adesh
The speaker says that undertaking a Shatchandi vidhan — 100 Saptashati paths — while having received no diksha of any kind is not proper and will cause trouble. For it one needs the adhikar of the Navarna and upadesh for the Saptashati path; without these, trouble follows. So if you are going to do a Shatchandi, never do it without diksha and without guru adesh.
Devi Sukta as the uninitiated's substitute for a Shatchandi
The speaker says that someone without adhikar who wants to act on bhava should recite in Hindi, or recite the four independent maha-stutis, and follow chapter 13 of the Saptashati: there the king Suratha and the vaishya Samadhi, reciting the Devi Sukta alone, did tapasya on a riverbank for three years with a clay image, offering flowers, incense, havan and bali of their own blood, until Chandika appeared in person. Bhagavati manifested from the Devi Sukta alone. So take refuge in the Devi Sukta — 100, 500 or 1000 recitations are no problem — whereas transgressing the whole Saptashati in a Shatchandi without adhikar brings trouble.
Can the Durga Saptashati be recited independently for such trouble?
You can also become free of these troubles by reciting the Durga Saptashati independently, the speaker says. Of the Durga Saptashati path that we do, it is held that the madhyam charitra should be recited at minimum — the full path is to be done with the six angas.
May an individual chapter of the Saptashati be recited on its own?
Now when a particular trouble arises, the speaker says, such a description too is found, and such a prayoga is indeed done by the knowledgeable, and an ordinary person too can do it — but the cause must be exact. If you are truly in the right and difficulty is occurring, then you can do an independent path. For instance, the seventh adhyaya.
How many Saptashati paaths should precede a prayoga for a desired end?
At the least it is good if a Satchandi is completed, the speaker says. You may use it in work after a Navchandi as well; but if you have done 108 paaths plainly, without samput, for the sake of obtaining Bhagavati's grace and offered them to Bhagavati, then after that you are authorised and may use it in work. You must have the adhikara, though — there must be diksha, of the Navarna and the rest.
Can a woman perform one Chandi paath in a day?
She absolutely can, the speaker says. If the vidhi vidhan is known, if all the pronunciation is clear and there is the adesh of a guru, then why can she not do it? In Sanskrit, or in Hindi if she wishes — in Hindi too she may absolutely do it.
Can the Chandi paath be done without diksha?
If you are doing it in Sanskrit and have no diksha, the speaker says, then everything must be known thoroughly well, so that there is no error or fault in the pronunciation. One mala of the Navarna will pass without diksha. But for the Chandi paath one should at least, while practising, take upadesh from some Brahmin who performs Gayatri; or if there is an elder in the house who does sadhana and puja, take upadesh and permission from him. Doing it with permission taken will be best.
Can a daily Chandi paath be done without ghat sthapana?
Someone may do the Chandi paath every day in the Navratra without doing ghat sthapana, the speaker says. Panchopachar pujan, a sakshi lamp and a satvik bali — that is quite all right, and it can be done.
What does the Kilak say about the fruit of a nishkilan Saptashati path?
The speaker says that whatever punya you do, you will obtain many bodies to enjoy it — the body of a siddha, or of a devata, a yaksha, a gandharva. He points to the Kilak, in which it is said that one who does the path of the Durga Saptashati having performed nishkilan becomes verily a gandharva, and becomes endowed with the capacity to roam over the whole earth.
How may a Navchandi anushthan be arranged so it is not a burden?
The speaker says anyone can do the Navchandi, and to do it by the Mahavidya krama. He points to the Shri Durga Archan Paddhati published by Thakur Prasad, in which this subject too is stated: if you wish, a Navchandi anushthan by the Mahavidya krama will take nine weeks. You will begin on a Sunday and complete on a Saturday, one Chandi at a time, doing the anushthan nine times in this way. It will happen easily and will be no burden.
What is prescribed when a child is not being born?
When santan prapti does not happen, he says, the most fierce prayoga held for that purpose is that of Santan Gopal. Take that form as tantric, as pauranik, as shastrokta, as you wish; take its mantra with its vidhi vidhan and look at its full effect. Around Bhagavati Vindhyavasini and Ma Shashthi, he says, several good effects have been seen of a Chandi Path samputit with Santan Gopal.
What should a channel show publicly instead of kula parampara material?
It is for this reason it was said that vidya should not be taken by theft, he says. Do not show such things by which people may learn something wrong, or attempt theft, or run into difficulty. Show only that by which people are inspired: show the path of the Saptashati, so that they read it and read it again, so that their Sanskrit is purified, so that they learn to recite the Saptashati in Sanskrit, learn to recite it with force, learn to perform havan for 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.
Failing that, a Chandi path from Ashtami to Chaturdashi, or a seven-day anushthan under Krishna
Failing that, the speaker says, at the least have the Chandi path and the like done, or do it, in Bhadrapada from the Ashtami to the Chaturdashi — or from the Krishna Janmashtami that falls, up to the Chaturdashi. Or, taking the shelter of Krishna ji himself and taking the shelter of those whose shraddh it is, take a sankalp and do or have done a seven-day anushthan.
What is a Chandi anushthan, and what are Nav Chandi, Shatchandi and Sahasra Chandi?
The complete mantras of the Saptashati, seven hundred mantras together with the six angas, are the mool Chandi. When nine avrittis of that same take place over nine days, or when nine brahmans do it together in one day, it is Nav Chandi. When it becomes a hundred it is Shatchandi; and when it becomes 1008, or a thousand, it is held to be Sahasra Chandi.
Can a sadhak who is a Shudra perform the Chandi path?
The speaker says: leave the word brahman aside — people are troubled by the name of brahman these days. If a sadhak, even if he is a Shudra, is kaul-dikshit — and in kaul there is no varna description — and he recites Bhagavati Chandika very well, or if any sadhak at all is reciting, and you are there, then it is done.
How is a tantrokta nine-brahman anushthan different?
And in the tantrokta anushthan, the speaker says, where nine brahmans perform the anushthan together, those nine brahmans will not perform anybody else's anushthan; they do not stay within our anushthan. Where people have great anushthans done — that this thing of mine must happen — then the aim is that yes, there will be a Nav Chandi, there will be a havan of nine days, a very extensive pujan of nine days takes place. Those nine men will do no pujan-paath anywhere else; theirs is fixed, and one man is having it done. So his expense is of lakhs of rupees, and it has nothing to do with the fact that here they are doing it in 1100, that in 700 they all together are doing it well. If someone says to have a Shatchandi done in nine days with that vidhi vidhan, then the expense in that is lakhs upon lakhs.
It runs on the same vedi as the Chandi path, the havan and the daily bali
Whosever japa it is — for example if it is of the Nav Durga, then the whole Chandi path, the havan and the rest and the daily bali and so on are running — so it will all be installed there itself, upon the same vedi; there is no need to do it separately, and on an ordinary day that much cannot be done. Bhairav ji's is being done separately, so for those whose is being done, it is being done there.
How often should the Durga path be done?
To a listener who does the Durga path twice, he says to do it on every Ashtami and Chaturdashi.
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