Deepdaan
Every question on the site tagged Deepdaan, each answered from a timestamped source rather than a summary written from memory.
The offering or lighting of a lamp before a deity — performed on specific occasions such as Ganga Dussehra worship of Kaal Bhairav or Batuk Bhairav, and even an involuntary act of trimming and brightening a temple lamp's wick, per the Shiva MahaPurana's story of Gunanidhi, is said to burn away sin when done before a Shivling on Mahashivratri night.
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Coconut deepdaan on every Purnima and parva kaal
Asked whether the coconut Deepdaan taught for Deepavali may be done on every special parva, the speaker says yes — he has said so. The 108-wick deepdaan in a coconut is overall in its effect: negative energy is destroyed, dhan is obtained, and both the Pitr and the devatas are satisfied. So do it every Purnima and on every parva kaal as it comes — Saraswati Puja and Magh Purnima had just gone; certainly on Mahashivratri as Shiv Navratri comes; then Falgun Amavasya; then Holika night. To "this is Holi, you're telling us a Diwali thing" he says do both, the fruit will be the better. He also mentions sadhikas who do a full Bhairav deepdaan every Krishna Paksha Ashtami — do it fully if you have the means, otherwise a little.
Asan, direction, time, image and the two chaumukh lamps for a Bhairav sadhana
The speaker says the asan may be yellow or red, a kushasan or a blanket asan; any direction except south; morning, evening or night, whenever one can sit. Two main things are needed: a picture, vigraha or photo of Bhairav ji, or a trishul — or, if nothing is available, a supari placed on a heap of rice and mentally taken as Bhairav. Before him a chaumukh lamp is lit: chameli oil is the rule, but it burns out fast, so light one chaumukh lamp of mustard oil and a second of chameli oil, and they must burn at least two to two and a half hours. Into the mustard-oil lamp only, put a supari, a copper coin, two cardamoms, two cloves and a little camphor; the chameli lamp carries only its four wicks.
Rin dosha of a vidhi learnt from someone else, and the lamp that clears it
The speaker makes a small request: whatever vidhan one performs after hearing it from someone — from him or from anyone else — attaches a Rina Dosha, a debt-fault. For release from it one must light a lamp before Bhagwati, and, if one gladly wishes, give some daan or Dakshina.
Deepdan and bali for Batuk Bhairav at home on Ganga Dashahra
On the day of Ganga Dussehra, the speaker says, Deepdaan must certainly be done in the name of Bhagwan Batuk Bhairava. For the method, he points to the deepdan vidhi he has described for Kaal Bhairava in another video, and says to do that same vidhi-vidhan at home. There is no need to go to a temple that day: do the deepdan and Bali vidhi and so on for Batuk Bhairav at home, and this pleases him greatly.
Daily lamps at the kshetrapal temple: why the regional guardian must be approached
The speaker's second task: path alone is not enough; one must go regularly to the temple of the area's Kshetrapal, Gram Devta or gram devi. His reason: those doing Abhichara cannot act without the kshetra rakshak — they always give worship to the gram devta, Dih Baba and kshetrapal — so approaching the same deity puts a block in place against the enemy. If the guardian is unknown, the oldest temple in the village or city is taken as that seat. There, every day, two medium atta-deepak lamps of mustard oil: one for the temple's guardian, one for the family's protecting shaktis (Kuldevi or Kuldevta, known or not), with a prayer for the home's protection.
Precaution: a deepak is never placed directly on bare ground
The speaker says a lamp should never be set down directly on the earth. It can rest on a palash leaf or on a flower; failing that, a small rangoli of any kind is made there with Roli, turmeric or rice flour and the lamp is placed on it. Never straight on the ground, he says — remember this.
Two evening lamps at the main door: kul rakshak Bhairav and kshetrapal Bhairav
The speaker's third task: in the evening, light two lamps at the Chaukhat by the main door — or on both sides of the door if there is no threshold. One is in the name of the kul rakshak, the family's guardian Bhairava; the other in the name of Kshetrapal Bhairav. Direction does not matter, but whichever side carries which name on the first day must carry the same name every day after. The purpose, he says, is that these shaktis begin to move over the home's threshold.
Bringing the anushthan home in stages after the temple and Siddha Peeth phases
The speaker says that once the door lamps and the teerth-kshetra phase have completed one level, the anushthan moves home — but not directly. Mornings: only ordinary bathing, incense and lamp to one's ishta; evenings: still at the temple, whether 15 minutes or an hour. After another 11 or 21 days, small anushthans begin at home, for example Batuk Bhairava's Ashtottara Shatanama Stotra — which he says has the power to destroy every kind of Abhichara, Batuk catching the negative shaktis in his kapal once that tattva is awake — at only 5 or 11 repetitions, no more. Over three to six months, with the outside anushthan repeated two or three times, confidence and capacity grow and one senses the shaktis awakening; only then does Deepdaan begin at home, with 108 or 8 lamps for Bhairava on Ashtami, increased slowly.
Should an old, blackened diya be replaced with a new one?
Puja articles should not be replaced until they break or are damaged. The older a diya is, the greater its samarthya, because the same object has had the deva-tattva invoked into it again and again; scrub it clean and light it rather than discarding it. The speaker also calls the jyoti itself the daughter of Bhagavati Parvati and Shankar ji, and the first medium of every deity.
Ghee lamps for Shiva so no rina-dosha remains toward the giver of the vidhan
The speaker says that whenever you do this anushthan, every day through it light at least one and at most five ghee lamps near Shiva, as your means allow, for freedom from rina-dosha (Rinanubandha). Pray that no debt-dosha remains between you and those from whom this whole vidhan was received, that no effect of debt falls on either, and that the mantra be fully awakened and successful.
Unintentionally lighting a Shiva temple lamp on Mahashivratri burned away a thief's sins and won him rebirth as Kubera
Gunanidhi, a disgraced Brahmin\'s son banished for theft and gambling, tried to steal Naivedya from a Shiva temple on Mahashivratri night — his sins were burned away by unintentionally lighting the temple lamp and eating Shiva\'s prasadam right before being killed, and he was later reborn as Kubera.
Dattatreya as smritagami: proven through a year of dream darshans
The speaker says the final event came on the day of Deepdaan, a year later, when the sadhak received a dream message that the sweets and prasad he had thrown away were wanted back. Across that year the presence had appeared in three or four forms, one being the white-clad child. The speaker says the Kavach itself calls Bhagwan Dattatreya Smritagami — he comes at mere remembrance, however one remembers — and this was proven: Datt had been with the sadhak from the second day, cutting his Prarabdha and giving darshan because he was a pure, sattvik and surrendered devotee. Fear, he adds, builds more confusion than is warranted; only after a year did the sadhak see that the grace had been there all along.
What is the simplified Mahanishita Kala puja for those who can't manage all four Prahars?
If unable to perform all four Prahars due to weakness or constraints, perform the Mahanishita Kala puja between 11:30 PM and 1:00 AM (about 1.5 hours) — consecrating and bathing the deity thoroughly and lighting at least 13 ghee lamps for the Trayodashi/Chaturdashi Shiva festival.
How is the 13-lamp Deepdan ritual performed, and what does Kubera's own origin story illustrate about it?
13 large ghee lamps with double, turmeric-tinted wicks are lit for at least 1.25 hours, positioned so the light directly illuminates the Shivlinga up to its crown — the Shiva Purana's Gunanidhi story illustrates the power of this act, since simply brightening a temple lamp wick led to his rebirth as a king and ultimately as Kubera, Lord of Wealth.
After Ekakshari: Datta Mala Mantra and Vajra Kavach, Thursday puja and purnima deepdaan
The speaker says that once the Ekakshari is done, the two things to practise next are the dattatreya-mala-mantra and the Vajra Kavacham. Whatever level of sadhak you are, completely new or already practising, the first sadhana is of Bhagavan Datta: special pujan on Thursday, Deepdaan for him on purnima and the like, and deepdaan in the time of a maha parva. The full tantrokta vidhi of deepdaan and the experiences of it keep coming on the channel. Done in a spirit of seva and puja, he says, this carries no crooked side-effect and your Tapobal grows. Only after this come the others, such as the Panchakshari Mantra.
Diwali-night deepdan for the Kuldevi and the major mahashaktis: when to do it and what it gives
The speaker says that in the holy month of Kartik, and especially in the Mahanisha Kaal of Diwali or else in the evening (Pradosha) time, one should offer a Deepdaan to the major devi-devatas together with one's own Kuldevi, kul devatas and Kul Shakti, in a coconut-shell lamp with a 108-strand wick. He says this earns great punya, destroys many misfortunes, protects from Akala Mrityu, and frees the household from its many troubles and from dukh-daridra (sorrow and poverty). He says the kul shaktis become nourished and satisfied by it and bring welfare in every way, and he asks that this vidhi be done every year on Diwali evening or night.
Setting up the karma-sakshi lamp and the coconut-shell lamp for the Diwali deepdan
The speaker says the first step is to light one lamp as the Karma Sakshi lamp, set on flowers. Then five leaves are arranged and decorated with flowers, and the coconut lamp is placed on them. For the lamp, a dried coconut kernel (gari) is cut through the middle with a good knife, carefully so the hand is not cut; he says it is best if a man of the house does the cutting, since a coconut cut by a man is considered better.
Making the 108-strand kalava wick for a coconut deepdan lamp
The speaker says the wick is made from Kalava (moli), which has three strands, so 36 lengths of it give 108 wicks. He winds the thread around 18 times, keeping it a little long, folds the bundle in the middle to make 36, and braids the whole thing into one long wick that counts as 108 wicks. Cutting that braid through the middle and evening the ends gives two 108-wick wicks, enough for two lamps; each wick is laid in its coconut lamp, and five such lamps are prepared.
Precaution: the deepdan wick thread must be cotton, never silk
The speaker says the Kalava (moli) thread bought for the wick must always be the cotton kind, and one must never buy silk thread. He says to buy the big bundle of cotton moli of good quality, since making five wicks for the Diwali deepdan uses a good amount of it.
Why a coconut shell is used as the lamp for the Diwali deepdan, and which oil to burn in it
The speaker says the coconut shell is used as the lamp because it is Diwali, and when a dry fruit burns together with some oil it sends a special kind of positive energy into the surroundings. He says using only the coconut shell as the lamp increases Shri Tattva, makes the household devi-devatas nourished and satisfied, and is able to stop many kinds of Abhichara tantra and negative forces. He has used Til (sesame) oil in the lamps and says pure ghee can be used instead.
Sankalp for the Diwali deepdan to the Kuldevi and kul devatas
The speaker says that after the lamps are ready, the next step is Sankalpa. Flowers and water are taken in the hand, and the sankalp is spoken in whichever vidhi one knows — Sanskrit if one knows Sanskrit, Hindi if one knows Hindi — stating that one is resolving to offer this Deepdaan for the pleasure of all the deities together with one's own kul devi-devatas.
The five deities of the Diwali deepdan lamps and the order of flower and dhoop offerings
The speaker says a flower is offered beside each lamp in the name of the deity it will be lit for: the first lamp for Lakshmi-Ganesh, the second for Lakshmi-Narayan, the third for the Kuldevi and the Kula Bhairava, the fourth for whichever Shakti Peeth is nearest to one's home, and the last for the Shiv parivar. He says Dhoop is then shown separately in the name of each of the five, in the same order.
Lighting the five Diwali deepdan lamps from the karma-sakshi lamp
The speaker says every lamp is lit from the Karma Sakshi lamp only. While lighting each one, he says, one may keep repeating that deity's name, or read a deep-prajwalan (lamp-lighting) mantra, or a sooktam — the Tantrokta Devisuktam — or sing any auspicious sukta or stuti of that devi-devata, and one should light the lamp while meditating on and remembering the deity it belongs to. All five are lit one by one in the same fixed order: Lakshmi-Ganesh, Lakshmi-Narayan, the kul devi-devata and kul bhairav, the nearest Shakti Peeth, and the Shiv parivar.
Pushpanjali and threefold water offering to each lit Diwali deepdan lamp
The speaker says that after all the lamps are lit, a Pushpanjali is given behind each lamp — a little flower is offered — and water is given three times with an achamani spoon. This is done for every lamp, taking each one's name-mantra, for example "kul devi namah, kul devataya namah, pushpanjali samarpayami, tadupurant achamaniyam jalam samarpayami"; or, he says, one may simply say it in plain Hindi and give everyone the flower and the three spoons of water.
Seven lemon lamps for Shani: how the deepdaan is made and offered
The speaker says that each day of the anushthan, four raw greenish lemons are halved, seven halves are hollowed out and filled with pure til oil (or mustard oil with a pinch of black til), and two wicks of torn black cotton are set in each — seven lamps, fourteen wicks. The path may be done in the morning but evening is best; do the path first, then the Deepdaan. In a 21-day run where lemons are not available daily, do it at least on Saturdays; in a 7-day run, every evening. The lamps are set at a Shami tree, or at the home puja place or by Hanuman's flag on a spot cleaned with cow dung; with Akshat, black til and a one-rupee coin in hand one takes a Sankalpa of seven lamps for Shani's full grace, good fruit and release from his cruel gaze, sets the rice on a plate and lights all seven. Done with the path, he says, this brings very fast benefit, for Shani acts slowly but his effect lasts long.
Confessing past wrongs and asking Shani for forgiveness at the deepdaan
The speaker says that along with the deepdaan one must do Prayashchitta for whatever wrongs one remembers having done — no one in the world may know of them, but you know your own mistake. With folded hands at the deepdaan, ask Shani to forgive the offence, and pray for inner strength so that you never make such a mistake again and your mind does not stray; ask him for that strength.
Two lamps and the first-day pujan in the Datta ekakshari anushthan
The speaker says a ghee lamp is best in this sadhana, and every person should light two: one in the name of Bhagavan Dattatreya and the second in the name of his mahashakti, Bhagavati Anagha Lakshmi. The pujan is done at the beginning, on the first day; for it he points to the general shodashopachar pujan vidhi given in his dev deeksha video, linked in the description. After that the japa begins.
What is the difference between chal and achal pratishtha?
In a house there is chal pratishtha; in a temple it is achal, he says. For the house you will get many options — that if you do it, well, and if you do not, that too will do. But if you have had achal pratishtha done, then brother, there the rule is that their aarti should take place morning and evening. As far as possible let the pujan be as much as it can, the rule being shodashopachara pujan; but at the least the aarti should certainly take place morning and evening.
Deepdaan in the Kartik month: where the lamps are lit
The speaker says Deepdaan in the Kartik month is offered not only to the deities but near every revered thing that matters in one's life: the grain store, the place where wealth is kept, the okhal-musal and silbatta, the water store, both sides of the main door, and beside a Tulsi, shami, bilva or mango tree. The oil may be sesame, mustard or ghee, whatever one can manage; what matters is that the lamp is lit.
Relating a dream instruction to one's own situation before carrying it out
The speaker says that knowing all this, the first and last thing is to decide very thoughtfully in such conditions. When going to follow a dream instruction — a mantra to chant, a lamp to offer, Bhog and Prasad to place somewhere — one must first judge one's own present situation, because the dream will not state the reason behind the order. His example: a court case is running and the dream says to light Dhoop and a lamp at a Hanuman temple for five Tuesdays; the sadhak must relate the two, mention the false case and ask for release while lighting the lamp, and if possible sit and do Hanuman Chalisa or Sundarkand paath as capacity allows, properly and not in a hurry. Then, by the deity's grace, the matter is accomplished.
How many lamps should be lit at the main door?
The second task: if the state of abhichar is present then do this without fail; if it is not, do it in an ordinary way for protection. Five lamps should be lit at the main door — at the least two, and if the condition is very advanced then five.
What lamp is best when nothing at all is known about the trouble?
The speaker says the best is for the case where we have never done anything, the state of abhichar is present, and we do not even know whether there are devi-devatas in the house, or bhoot-pret, or abhichar, or pitrs — who or what it is. In that state, dry cow dung beforehand, make a lamp out of it and let it dry, put mustard oil in it and five wicks, and light it on both sides of your main door.
Where cow dung cannot be had, soil of Bharat mixed with gomutra and Gangajal makes the lamp — kaccha, never pakka, and two of them lit.
If cow dung cannot be obtained because you are in such a place, or abroad, then make an arrangement for gomutra. And obtain some soil, online if need be, that is of the land of Bharat — sacred soil, from the Ganga region and the like — and mixing gomutra, Gangajal and so on into that soil, make the lamp from it. It should be a kaccha lamp, not a pakka one. Light two such lamps.
One lamp for the Kul Bhairav — Batuk Bhairav where the name is unknown — and one for Bhagavan Narsingh, deep enough to burn three or four hours, five thin wicks joined into a single flame.
One lamp is in the name of your Kul Bhairav — and if you do not know the name of your Kul Bhairav, there is no difficulty, then in the name of Batuk Bhairav ji — and the second in the name of Bhagavan Narsingh. The lamp should be so deep and so large that it can burn for at least three or four hours. Five thin wicks are joined together into a single flame; five separate flames are not to be lit.
When should the door lamps be lit and which way should they face?
Light them in the evening at the time of godhuli. If they keep burning until ten or eleven o'clock it is very good, and if they are still burning past midnight then that is the very best. Their mouth will be towards the outside of the house.
A south-facing house may turn the lamp's mouth outward through these five days; on other days they are placed facing each other, east and west.
If the house is south-facing — that is, as soon as we step out of the house the southern direction falls before us — then, asked whether the lamp's mouth should be turned that way or not, the speaker says do it. In these five days there is no difficulty; it can be turned outward. On the remaining days place them facing each other, which makes them east and west.
What do the dhooni and the lamp actually do against abhichar?
The speaker says this dhooni and this lamp create a state such that if someone is doing abhichar upon you, if a kritya prayoga or abhicharik prayoga has been done against you, if there is a coming and going of that energy there, then at that very moment these things begin to destroy it. They do not let it settle its seat there, and its effect cannot fall.
What breaks the thread of an abhichar already in place?
If the state of abhichar is already present, then when you perform yam deep daan there and make the nikari for the kshetrapal and others, whatever maya they have is broken by it; whatever path has been made for the purpose of the abhichar breaks, that thread breaks, and after that they keep growing weaker. After this, though, you should do your own anushthan.
What should a practising sadhak do for protection before his own sadhana?
For those who have been doing sadhana and anushthans, if no other subject is known, then first for the sake of protection light a lamp at the main door, putting mustard into it and clove, camphor and the like, and light it there. The lamp should be large and keep burning a long time — in the name of Narsingh Bhagavan and Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav ji. After that, do your own sadhanas.
Deep daan for the protective deities is increased and given in pairs — two lamps each for Hanuman, Narsingh, Bhairav and Bhagavati.
Whenever such a state arises, the quantity of deep daan for the deities who preside over protection should be increased, and the deep daan should be done in pairs. Whether you do it for Hanuman ji, there will be two lamps for him; for Narsingh Bhagavan, two for him also; for Bhairav ji, two for him also; for Bhagavati, two for her also.
Which act is foremost among all Diwali prayogas?
Deepdaan is the foremost — do as much deepdaan as you can; there is nothing beyond it. However much deepdaan there is in Diwali, whether you do the deepdaan of amla, of lemon or of coconut, that much is the most excellent fruit you are going to obtain.
When is the Yam deepdaan to be lit and for how many days?
Asked at what time the Yam deepdaan is to be lit, whether a coin or black sesame is to be put in the lamp, and for how many days it is to burn, the speaker answers that it depends on what the tradition is in the region where you live. In some places it is on the day of Dhanteras and in some on Chaturdashi — so do it when it is done in your area. In his own region it is mostly done once everyone in the family who is to eat their night meal has eaten; somewhere the rule is that it happens in the evening itself. Do it according to the vidhan of your side; after the evening you can do it at any time.
What is the vidhi of Bhairav pujan on the day of Diwali?
Asked to be told the vidhi of Bhairav pujan on the day of Diwali, the speaker says the whole vidhi of Bhairav pujan that is prevalent, the one that is generally given, is the same one; deep daan in it will be special.
Can the amla lamp be lit in the hand and then placed on a plate?
Asked whether the amla lamp can be taken in the hand, lit and then kept in a plate because the household may create a quarrel on seeing it in the hand, the speaker says he said this in the video he cut and posted today and said it yesterday as well: it can certainly happen that they will see the amla lamp in the hand and become frightened, wondering what tantra vidya is being done. If such a state arises, then you may set it down; there is no difficulty in this, and it is not the case that any trouble will arise if you put it down from the hand.
How many amla lamps are held in the hand?
Of the amla only one lamp will be lit in the hand. What is to be kept burning in the hand is only that one lamp; the rest is the vidhi of deep daan and the like. Once a deep daan has been done and is complete, there is no need to light that amla one again. The amla you keep in the hand should be large, and for it you have to sit with ghrita.
The count is kept low at first, a brihad deep daan of 108 not being held in the hand — and the lamp is not changed where one shakti is worshipped over a long period.
Keep the number of lamps low until it becomes possible, the speaker says, because if you do the brihad deep daan of 108 lamps, that one is not held in the hand. He adds the rule: the lamp is not changed where one and the same shakti is being worshipped over a long period.
Why can Navratri lamps be reused but Diwali deepdaan lamps cannot?
In Navratri, in the descending order done at arti, there is no need to light lamps afresh — because the shakti established on the day of Pratipada will in truth remain until Navami; her visarjan never takes place. But if you have to do something on Dashami, you cannot do it with those lamps. In deepdaan, by contrast, you are not holding them back — their visarjan takes place — so the same lamp cannot be used again. Only those whose visarjan will not happen are used again and again.
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.
Why is staring at someone's deepdaan the biggest failing of Hindus?
A listener reports that while doing deep daan at a gaushala, twenty-five or thirty people were watching, wondering what tantra was going on. The speaker calls this the biggest failing of Hindus; this is precisely the trouble with these people.
Is there any substitute for the amla in the lamp?
To a listener whose health is bad and who is getting much relief, the speaker says to listen once to yesterday's live, in which the brihad vidhan was described in full, and to do whatever he can manage of it. As for the amla, he says there is no substitute for the amla; there is no substitute for amrit.
A coconut cut like the Kalika Yogini khappar can carry the lamp instead, though whether it gives a result of this level cannot be said.
One alternative may be taken, the speaker says, but whether a result of this level will be obtained from it or not cannot be said. As with the khappar you fill in the Kalika Yogini practice, in the same way you can cut a coconut and light a lamp in that as well. That kind of deep daan is to be done in Diwali in any case, so you can light such a lamp and sit with it.
Gari — dried copra — cut and filled with ghrita and haridra churna serves where amla cannot be got.
Those who are not getting amla should do it with gari — dried copra. Cut it, make your lamp from it, fill it with ghrita, put haridra churna into it, then light it and then do the paath. This can be done.
In what order should the Dhanteras evening pujan be done?
Tomorrow do the morning pujan and make all the preparations. In the evening, first perform the pujan of Ganpati ji and Bhagavati Parvati ji, then the pujan of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairav ji, and after that certainly perform the pujan of Bhagavan Kuber ji. Begin the pujan of Bhagavati Lakshmi too in the evening period. And do 13 deep daan tomorrow without fail.
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.
How many lamps are lit on the Chaturdashi evening?
In the evening period, performing pujan by means of fourteen lamps, you will light those fourteen lamps at different places. Every day the deepdaan of amla will keep happening separately — whether you do 11, 14 or 27, or do it according to the tithi. Do it without fail; at the very least do two, and if you cannot do very many, keep doing the deepdaan of two amla continuously.
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.
Where is a lamp lit because it is Narak Chaturdashi?
And on that same day, since it is Narak Chaturdashi, a lamp should also be lit at the place where you throw the waste matter and rubbish of your house. But there an old lamp is always burned; a new lamp should not be lit there.
How is the gari lamp handled once it begins to burn the hand?
In the gari one, keep putting ghrita into it, and when it begins to burn in that way, set it down. It is not the case, the speaker says, that if the hand begins to burn one must keep holding it in the hand; that is not to be done.
Can saffron, sandal and cardamom be put into the amla lamp?
Asked whether saffron, sandal and cardamom can be put into the amla lamp, the speaker says there will be no room left in it. If you were to put saffron, sandal and cardamom in, then for that you would have to make it so deep that your hand would immediately begin to burn. Do not put so much into it — put only ghrita; that is quite enough.
Can a havan be done at home when a death in the family is less than a year old?
Asked by a listener whose grandfather-in-law has passed away less than a year ago whether no havan at all can be done at home, the speaker says that for a havan he too cannot say, because it is not known whether their varshiki has been done or not. But paath, deep, daan and the like can certainly be done.
Should deep daan be done on Batuk Bhairav Jayanti?
Deep daan should absolutely not be left out. On the day of Batuk Bhairav Jayanti the deep daan of Bhairav ji must certainly be done. The vidhi remains the same one — the sarva sankat haran deep daan vidhi of the day of Kaal Bhairav Ashtami. Even if there are a thousand problems in your house, do the deep daan at home itself; the deep daan video is available on the channel.
Who does the deep daan, and at what time of day?
According to that vidhi, at home together with the whole family, again do deep daan on this day of Batuk Bhairav Jayanti — everyone, in the evening or in the morning, whenever it suits you. It is not that it has to be done only in the evening; if you have time in the morning, do it then.
Why should deep daan not be done at a river ghat after dark?
Those going to Ganga ji's ghat should not turn up cleverly to do deep daan in the evening — he says he has already done that cleverness himself, and whenever such cleverness is done many bali fall, of insects and moths. It is the hot season and there are so many insects that ten of them come and die in each lamp you light. Better to do the deep daan at home. If it is to be done at the Ganga bank, do it before dusk, before darkness, when the insects are not there; and if going at night, do it at the edge where there is less mud.
Where may those in Kashi do the deep daan, and who eats the prasad?
Those of the Kashi region who wish and have the capacity may do deep daan at the place of Bhagavan Dattatreya, at the Dattatreya Paduka Mandir where the diksha vidhan took place; or at the temple of Batuk Bhairav or Kaal Bhairav; or anywhere at Ganga ji's ghat; or, if they wish, at home. As for the prasad of the deep daan: of Batuk Bhairav ji all the people of the house will eat it. But if you are doing the deep daan at Kaal Bhairav ji's temple and offering naivedya there, then men will eat it and women will not. This must be kept in mind.
What is the chief item that follows the archan?
After this, the speaker says, comes the most prominent subject — deepdaan. Deepdaan is not to be abandoned. Always keep in memory, under any condition, that if any divine tithi comes in life then deepdaan must certainly be done, whether you do it in the pradosh kaal or in the nisha kaal. So on the night of Sharad Purnima too, let deepdaan certainly take place.
How many lamps should be offered, and of what?
As for how much deepdaan is to be done — the number sixteen is exceedingly dear to Bhagavati, the speaker says: the shodashopachar is hers, and the sixteen kalas are exceedingly dear to Bhagavati. So at the time of tomorrow, on the night of Purnima, light at least sixteen lamps of cow ghee; and if cow ghee is not possible, then a lamp of til oil — of what is called meetha tel, of black sesame. Light them certainly at your pujan place, in the name of Bhagavati Lakshmi ji, and offer them to her.
What sankalp is made during the deepdaan?
In the deepdaan, make the sankalp: "O Bhagavati, being always pleased, may you dwell in my kula", the speaker says. If it is possible, light sixteen lamps and then do her sahitya archan at the night hour — that is exceedingly divine.
One or two hours of puja is said to carry Lakshmi's grace through the whole year, repeated at Diwali
This will be a one or two hour puja, the speaker says, but the grace of Bhagavati Lakshmi will go on being obtained by you for the whole year. He prescribes it for the greatest of debts, where no way out is being found. And if you perform this same prayoga again during the five-day Diwali festival, running from Dhanteras up to the Dwitiya tithi, then it is exceedingly excellent.
What does the completed programme for the night consist of?
So the naivedya is done, the sixteen lamps are done, her sahasra archan is done, the paath of the Mahalakshmi Ashtak is done, the speaker says — and if more is to be done, then do the Mahalakshmi mala mantra, not much, just five times. If you do this much, then take the whole time as well: do it from evening up to night.
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.
Is it five lamps or sixteen for the deepdaan?
Asked about panchdeep daan, the speaker says sixteen deep daan is to be done. You can do it at the time of evening as well; if you do it at night it is most excellent. Do it after eight o'clock.
What makes a guru's knowledge and a disciple's learning meaningful?
Capability should have been produced within the disciple, the speaker says. He says he is proud that what his guruji taught, he is today giving to society. If we learned to do deepdaan, and if we perform it and show it on the channel, and seeing it a hundred people do it, then both our guruji's knowledge and ours are becoming meaningful — and somewhere our mother and father's giving us birth is meaningful.
Why should more deepdaan be done?
The more deepdaan there is, the more pleased the shaktis will be and the more grace they will bestow, the speaker says. If today he is saying about Sharad Purnima that this should be done on Sharad Purnima, then what do you think — he will sit and do a live tomorrow? When you do it, he will do it too at that time. The deva shaktis should come to know that yes, an anushthan is taking place, japa of mantras is running, and new people are joining in it.
Can mauli thread be used as a wick?
Asked whether the yellow part of the mauli thread is the wick, the speaker says: absolutely, you can use it; and why only the yellow — you can use the entire mauli thread, red and yellow, the whole of it. There is no problem.
What may be done with the clay diyas used in Navratri?
Asked whether the clay diyas that were used in the Navratris may be put into the soil and paan plants grown, the speaker answers: absolutely, you can plant them.
Which oil may be used for deepdaan to the devatas?
Deepdaan of groundnut oil can be done to the devatas. Deepdaan of other oils can be done as well.
Thursdays given to Bhagavan Datta for family protection: kavach or mala mantra path, puja, deepdan, and his temple instead of a mazar or dargah
The speaker asks everyone, for the protection of their family, to do at least this every Thursday: a path of the Dattatreya Vajra Panjar Kavach, or of his mala mantra, or his ordinary puja, or — if the problem is bigger — the deepdan vidhi, Thursday after Thursday. On Thursdays never go to any mulla, mazar, dargah or the place of any peer-fakir; go to a Datta temple, and if there is none, do his puja at home, remember him and invoke him. Reading the kavach in Hindi, he says, shows how fast Datta comes on mere remembrance; give one day of the week to this Mahaguru of the guru tradition and it brings welfare to you and your family, never harm.
The anushthan opens by kindling the karma sakshi deepak with 'Deep aur Jyotir Namastute'.
The whole anushthan is begun by kindling the karma sakshi deepak, with "Deep aur Jyotir Namastute". Do it by the ordinary simple vidhan, the speaker says; those who know the full vidhi vidhan may do it according to that.
Three heaps of flowers are laid — Bhagavati Anusuya, Dattatreya in the middle, and Maharshi Atri — each marked with kumkum and given a lamp.
Now the pujan of the chief Mahamuni, Maharshi, Mahashakti Bhagwan Dattatreya is done. Before his place three heaps of flowers are made: the first heap in the name of Bhagavati Anusuya, who is Bhagwan Dattatreya's mother; the middle one in the name of Bhagwan Dattatreya; and the one beside it in the name of Mahamuni Atri, Atri Rishi. Kumkum is then put on all three heaps of flowers, and a lamp is given a place upon each.
A ghee lamp with a long wick; a khadi batti, the standing wick, is not to be used in this pujan.
The speaker says it should be a ghee lamp with a long wick, and that you should not use a khadi batti, a standing wick, in this pujan. The three lamps are then decorated and made ready in the name of the three devatas, the three mahashaktis, and are kindled one by one.
Anusuya's lamp is kindled first, then Dattatreya's, then Maharshi Atri's, with the Shubham Karotu Kalyanam verse if it is known.
First the lamp of Bhagavati Anusuya will be kindled, then Bhagwan Dattatreya, and then Bhagwan Datta's father, Maharshi Atri. Mantra paath may be done if it is known: Shubham karotu kalyanam arogyam sukh sampadam shatru buddhi vinasham cha deep pur jyoti namastute, deepo jyoti param brahma deepo jyoti janardana deepo haratu me papam sandhya deepam namastute ya deepam jyoti namastute.
Where the mantra is not known the lamp may be kindled with remembrance alone, water then sprinkled on all of them from a flower.
Whatever mantra you know you may recite, the speaker says, or else kindle the lamp while remembering Bhagwan. Water should certainly be sprinkled here on all the lamps, taking the water on a flower, and they should be set down in this way. All the lamps have been well decorated so that they look divine and attractive, so that when Bhagwan is present he may be pleased.
One ghee lamp is asked to be kindled in the speaker's own name for the duration, so no rinanubandha forms between them.
For the sake of rin dosh, the speaker says, whenever you perform this vidhan of Bhagwan Datta, for as long as you do the sadhana, certainly kindle one ghee lamp in his name — so that there may not be a rinanubandha between the two of them, and so that Bhagwan Dattatreya may bestow grace upon him too. He closes hoping that Sanatanis will certainly take benefit from this.
What does offering lamps to Shiva give?
If a lamp of ghee or of til oil is offered in the name of Shiv ji, one becomes free of all kinds of papa and all kamanas are fulfilled.
The appeal for deep daan through the month of Kartik stands again this year, made late because of the pressure of anushthan work.
He says a special request for deep daan in the month of Kartik was placed before listeners last year and stands again this year. He apologises for raising it late — there is not much time left, and he should have said it earlier but could not because of the pressure of anushthan work.
Deep daan begins at Sharad Purnima and runs every day, not on Diwali alone, with at least five lamps lit in the house each evening.
From Pratipada, he says — though he would say from Sharad Purnima itself — deep daan is to be begun. It is to be done every single day, not only on Diwali. At least five lamps should certainly be lit in the house in the evening.
What is an akash deep and what is it said to do?
He says an akash deep does not mean a flying lantern. It means a bamboo of at least ten to twelve feet, or a tree, in the courtyard of the house, with a lantern burning on top of it. He says the sadgati of the pitrs comes about through it and their very special kripa is obtained, and that its mahatmya in Kartik is divine.
Where should an akash deep be obtained from?
He says many akash deeps are available on Amazon and some links will be shared in the group, but if bamboo workers live nearby they can make one and it will be far cheaper — it will be made within ₹100, or 100 to 200. Ordering online is very expensive, he had just been checking and it is written as 2000 or 3000, and what the quality will be is not known.
The session takes the ordinary akash deep process anyone can do, and how dhoop and deep are used so that the attraction of the devas also occurs.
He says there are two or three processes for kindling the akash deep, and the discussion will be on the ordinary one that anyone can do. As the day's video also indicates, the subject is in what manner we are to use dhoop and deep such that the attraction of the devas also occurs.
The same charged substance goes into both the dhoop and the deep — two akash deeps being lit, one of them the ordinary lamp for the pitrs.
The same substance is then to be used in both the dhoop and the deep. Among the lamps, if you are lighting an akash deep, two akash deeps are to be lit when the prayoga is being done: one will be the ordinary one that everyone lights, which is to be done for the pitrs.
What kind of bamboo should the akash deep be made of?
Order the akash deep in bamboo, and order it somewhat large, he says, so that it does not happen that when the wick burns at the last the flame becomes very high and burns the thing away. The bamboo should be kaccha — slightly green; do not on any account keep dried bamboo. At least let it be a little green.
A lying soi wick is used, not the standing khadi batti that every ready-made lamp now carries.
Let there be a small flower garland and a lamp, whether of brass or of clay. Apply a lying wick, he says — soi batti — and avoid applying a standing wick. He remarks that any standard lamp one gets nowadays, and whatever the guruji people on YouTube and Instagram are telling one, uses the khadi batti in everything.
Ghee may be used, but mustard oil is held best for this time and this prayoga; the pitrs' lamp takes mustard oil.
Mustard oil may be used in it, and ghee may be used too. In his own view, he says, mustard oil is the very best for this time and for this prayoga. So one lamp is done: the one for the pitrs, with mustard oil. The second lamp can also be kindled — or order two lanterns if you wish, so there are two akash deeps.
The second lamp also takes mustard oil, with the charged material applied to the wick itself, and burns that way.
The second lamp, whether kindled in clay or in brass, will also take mustard oil, and into it will go the material you have prepared and charged. That is, the whole of this material is applied to the vartika, to the wick, and it burns.
It is hung at the godhuli sandhya and should burn an hour or two, no more — not a lamp that goes on twelve hours.
Hang it then, at the time of sandhya. It should be set going by the godhuli time in the sandhya, and should burn at least an hour or two — not very much more. The lamp should not be so large that it goes on burning for twelve hours, he says. One to two hours is quite enough.
Where a presence keeps someone from sleeping — a throttled neck, waking in fear — both dhoop and deep may be burned beside their bed.
Suppose such a presence arises in the house that nobody can sleep at night, that some shakti is giving direct trouble to someone — throttling the neck, or someone waking in fear. In such a case, he says, both dhoop and deep may be burned near their sleeping bed.
One use is the lamp, the material applied to the wick and lit with no further mantra; the other is the dhuni over apamarg and khair kindled with camphor.
After charging it, one use was the lamp one: in the lamp you have only to apply it to the vartika, the wick, and light it — no mantra and no further prayoga is required. The second use has the samidha of apamarg and khair wood: kindle it with camphor, and when it begins to burn, make the dhuni of this material over it.
Nine coins and nine cowries in each bali lamp were laid down by nobody: the bali deepak stays plain, a chaumukh deepak kept normal.
In the four, nine or thirteen lamps that they have people set, he says, these teachers are having nine coins and nine cowries put in each. For whom, he asks, was that laid down? Since when did such things come to be put into the bali lamp? People add extra things because they want to show that they know more. The bali deepak stays plain; in it a chaumukh deepak was prescribed, and it is to be kept normal.
In an actual tantrokta Chamunda bali the lamp is raw clay and burns only as long as the bali takes; the eleven or thirteen are the bali lamps.
In an actual tantrokta bali of Chamunda, he says, the lamp that is made is of raw clay, and that lamp is burnt for so short a time that it burns only while the bali is being completed and is then finished. The chief karma sakshi and the single svaat deep daan to be made — those are the bali lamps, the eleven or thirteen that burn. But there it has been told for ordinary people, for everyone, so up to a limit it seems to you as though it was said off-hand.
A large supari is kept established in the deity's name for the duration, symbolically even without pran pratishtha.
Whether you are doing the Kartik deep daan or the dhoop-and-deep prayoga — the dhoop, the dhuna and the deep — then in the name of whichever deity you are doing it, at the very least keep established a supari, a large one; the big supari that is available in a puja shop. Keep it in their name; even if you do not perform pran pratishtha in it, keep it symbolically in their name.
At least two cloves and one cardamom go into the lamp for a 64 Yogini prayoga, the rest of the material unchanged.
For their prayoga, keep all the material that has been discussed from the beginning until now exactly as it is. One thing more has to be mixed in: whenever you perform the vidhan of the prayoga of the 64 Yoginis, of the Matrikas, then in the lamp you kindle you should certainly put at least two cloves and one cardamom.
Why do protective prayogas belong alongside a wealth sadhana?
Whenever we make a prayoga connected with Lakshmi, or any other prayoga in which we are increasing paushtikta, then because of that paushtikta the influence — the attraction — of negative shaktis also increases. These prayogas are all for the destruction of that attraction; and along with that, the dhuna you give and the akash deep you kindle cause the attraction of auspicious shaktis, and negative shaktis are swiftly destroyed by their effect.
Can khas-root deepdaan be done daily for Ganpati?
Yes, absolutely, the speaker says. To do it in a special manner, do it from Chaturthi to Chaturdashi in any paksha, which is most excellent; and you may also do it daily if you wish, which is very good. The deepdaan done in the month of Bhadrapada is the most excellent of all, and at that time khas-root deepdaan should certainly be done to Bhagavan Ganpati.
Can aluminium foil be used on the ground for deepdaan?
No, says the speaker — aluminium foil should not be used. If there are 108 lamps, buy a mala and spread its petals over the whole ground; or buy a packet of haldi of 100 to 200 grams and spread it fully; spread roli fully; draw a figure on it if you wish, square or like an eight-petalled lotus, scatter flowers on it, and then place the 108 lamps on top.
Can a detachable-stand lamp be used without a banana leaf or rice asana?
No, brother, the speaker says. Whatever kind the lamp may be, an asana does have to be given to it.
Seva of the peepal, bilva and amla trees and of Tulsi ji, with deepdaan at the devalayas, comes next in the remedial order.
And serving the vriksha devas: let it be the peepal tree, let it be the bilva tree, let it be the amla tree — serving these, and serving Tulsi ji. And doing deepdaan at the devalayas, as with the Deepawali and Dev Deepawali now coming.
Do Shaligram bathing-water and Bhairav pujan speed up the remedial effect?
If the seva of Shaligram ji is also going on and the water in which Shaligram ji has been bathed is being sprinkled too, then it is most excellent. And alongside, if some other things can be done — the pujan and deepdaan of Bhairav ji — then depth will come faster.
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 chief thing to do on Vaikuntha Chaturdashi and Kartik Purnima?
The foremost thing is deepdaan, the speaker says. Deepdaan must certainly be done at the temples of Bhagavan Shiva, Bhagavati Durga and Bhagavan Shri Hari Narayan. Do not light fewer than eleven lamps — certainly light eleven lamps in the temple, on both days, tomorrow and the day after, at the time of sandhya.
What should be done at a gaushala on Vaikuntha Chaturdashi and Kartik Purnima?
But do the deepdaan at home without fail, the speaker says. And if there is a gaushala near you, then if you kindle even one lamp at the gaushala, in the place where gau mata is kept, it will be most excellent.
What is the evening programme for Vaikuntha Chaturdashi and Kartik Purnima?
At the time of sandhya: deepdaan at home; dhuna and deepdaan at the gaushala; and at the temple of Bhagavan Shiva, the temple of Durga ji, the temple of Bhagavan Narayan and whatever other temples are nearby, at least eleven deepdaan. These, the speaker says, become the compulsory items.
What does one gain by lighting lamps at temples on Dev Deepawali?
If you kindle lamps at the temples of the devatas on the day of Dev Deepawali, then somewhere or other you too attain devatva; you become a participant there in their Diwali, like the devatas, and Bhagavan Shiva certainly shows kripa upon you.
Which oil may be used in the lamps?
You may keep a lamp of ghee, you may also keep one of til oil, and you may keep one of mustard oil too — whatever your capacity is, you may keep that.
Why does trouble start as soon as a japa against negativity begins?
A listener doing Aghor Bagla Sabar japa for three days reports she made rotis for two days, then fell ill and could not make them, and felt dizzy while doing japa. He says that as soon as any negative energy is present and you perform a prayoga to remove these things, it at once begins to give its effect. In such a state, do the deepan vidhi in the name of whichever mahashakti you are employing, the pujan of Tulsi ji, and if possible the pujan of Shiva ji in a temple at once, so that so much energy and force is generated that its effect does not fall on your body.
The deepdaan vidhi above all, especially on Bhairav Ashtami
He says there are two or three anushthans he says again and again should be continued, especially the deepdaan vidhi: the deepdaan vidhi on the day of Bhairav Ashtami, either at Bhairu ji's temple or at home, wherever one does it. So much energy is generated by it that however great a vichar there may be, it shakes it thoroughly. The vidhi of 108 deepdaan, he says, has been explained on the channel.
What does deepdaan on every Krishna Paksha Ashtami do?
He says that if on every Ashtami tithi — even if only the Ashtami of Krishna Paksha — you do that deepdaan in the name of Bhairu ji, then it cannot be that a vichar karma has been done and it is not cut and broken. It will finish it off. In Bhairav tantra there is such a deepdaan vidhi, explained as simply and easily as possible; do it and see, he says, a great deal of energy is generated.
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 does Bhairav deepdaan do to a person's aura and to the house?
He says that as their capacity increases, by Bhairav deepdaan your aura will become sharp and the energy of your house will increase very well. The place will be entirely emptied of the heap of negative energies that lies gathered there.
In whose name is the panch deepdaan in a coconut offered?
The panch deepdaan that is to be done in a coconut, he says, is in the name of your own kuldevi and kuldevata, in the name of the griha shaktis, in the name of the Shakti Peeth, and in the name of whoever's parva kaal it is. A hundred per cent, so much energy is formed from it, so much energy is generated, that if at that time you sit there and do any mantra japa after it, it will give you great benefit.
What should a house with constant quarrelling do?
For the protection of a house where kalah and klesh keep breaking out very much — quarrels among each other again and again, a quarrel whatever we do, a quarrel even when going to light a lamp — he says the Bhairav deepdaan vidhi should certainly be done wherever these things are happening.
On which days besides Ashtami should Bhairav deepdaan be done?
He says: do the Bhairav deepdaan vidhi on every Ashtami, and whenever a parva kaal comes — let it be a Purnima, let it be an Amavasya, let Ganga Dashehra come, or the Chaturdashi that is now falling, the Narsingh Chaturdashi. On that day too you can do Bhairav deepdaan, because Bhagwan Narsingh is also in a Bhairav form; deepdaan can be done on Chaturdashi as well. And if a continuous tantra vichar is being done upon you, do Bhairav deepdaan.
What is the actual procedure of this deepdaan?
He says that in all these there is no question of any special mantra at all. There is a lamp; it is to be decorated at ease, oil is to be poured, a yantra is to be made — the whole thing was shown by making a video; decorate it beautifully; the vidhi of sankalp and the like has been explained; offer bhog and then light the lamp. And after that, if possible, do mantra japa for five or ten minutes, or for as long as the lamp burns. It will give a very particular effect.
Confusion is the means by which negative shaktis keep feeding
When nothing else is understood, he says, then do all this; and if some doubt comes into your mind — that if we do this mantra such a thing will happen — nothing of the kind. There are ways of confusing you, so that you fall into delusion and cannot read the Hanuman Chalisa, cannot do the paath of Bhairav ji. Only if you are confused will those negative shaktis go on eating their food and enjoying their bhog through you. And as soon as you do the Bhairav deepdaan, the narikel deep vidhi, their effect begins to decrease. So it should always be kept up.
Chaumukh lamp on black sesame, bhog and dhoop for Bhairav
The speaker says the lamp is lit first of all: a Chaumukh Deepak lamp on a heap of black sesame, with two cloves, one cardamom and camphor put into it, kindled in Bhairava ji's name. Then offer Bhog of imarti, jalebi, or dahi bada made with one's own hand, papad, or any sweet one wishes; then flowers, itra, and fragrant Dhoop or the Guggul cup sambhrani sold nowadays, burnt well.
The Purnima begins at 4:15 pm, so Dev Deepawali falls in that day's pradosh kaal
Tomorrow, after 4:15 pm, the Purnima begins, the speaker says. So this much can certainly be done: Dev Deepawali is to be celebrated tomorrow, because in the pradosh kaal Dev Deepawali will fall tomorrow itself. As for the Dev Deepawali celebrated in the city of Kashi Vishwanath, when they are celebrating it there will have to be seen from that side — whether they celebrate tomorrow or the day after.
When should deep daan be done in relation to the eclipse?
Asked whether deep daan should be done after the grahan, the speaker says yes. The deep daan of this Purnima, the Kartik Purnima — since the Purnima is beginning tomorrow, you may do it tomorrow evening if you wish; or, if you wish, the day after, once the grahan has ended: after bathing, after the moksha, having done darshan of Chandra Dev, having bathed and cleansed, and having purified the place of worship, that is, sprinkling Gangajal and the rest over all the devatas, then do the deep daan.
Should dhoop and a lamp be lit during the eclipse?
No, the speaker says: dhoop and a deepak are never to be lit in a grahan. Only japa, without dhoop and deep.
What if another family member comes to do puja after the lamps are lit?
Asked whether, if two lamps have been kindled for doing puja and afterwards some other member of the house comes to do puja, that person should do a separate chiragi, or whether the earlier chiragi should be done again if it has finished: if it has finished, it can be washed and lit again.
Ganga Dashahara and the Batuk Bhairav Jayanti fall on the same day, and everyone should do the sadhana then
On the day Ganga Dashahara falls, on the 30th of May, on that same day falls the Jayanti of Batuk Bhairav ji. Ganga Dashahara and the Batuk Bhairav Jayanti fall on the same day; this time it falls on the 30th of May. On that day everyone should do the sadhana, puja and deepdaan of Bhairav ji; he says they will also put up a separate video. Remember it on the 30th of May.
The principal sadhana stays yours, and the Diwali pujan runs complete alongside it
Those who have been doing Mahabhairav will do the principal sadhana of Mahabhairav itself, but along with it there will be the complete pujan of Diwali — Dhanteras, and on the Diwali night Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati, Lakshmi-Ganesh, Kuber and Yam deep daan will all happen. Only the principal sadhana stays theirs.
What is the prayoga of the twelve lamps on Govatsa Dwadashi?
On the day when Dwadashi stands at evening, in the godhuli vela at evening time, at least twelve lamps made of ghee should certainly be lit in the goshala.
What is done with the khunta to which the cow is tied?
Where a bamboo khunta is present, its puja should certainly be done that day — bathing it with Gangajal, coating it entirely with haldi, then a tilak with roli, and before it, on a pan leaf, a bhog offered, with one ghee lamp standing there; the remaining eleven lamps you arrange at different places in the goshala. He says he always tells people whose homes have cows that there should be a bamboo khunta, not the iron ones being made nowadays.
What if there is no goshala or cow anywhere near me?
Then at home itself you will do this pujan mentally, in the name of Kamadhenu Mata, in the name of Nandini Mata, in the name of all gau vansh; kindle the lamps and arrange them at different places in the house. But do it — certainly do it.
When should the yam deep daan be done — evening or after the meal?
He says plainly: do it in the same way as your parents or the elders of your family have been doing. Still, you should do the yam deep daan continuously at the evening time from Dhanteras up to the Dwitiya tithi — you should do it on all five days.
What was Kuber ji's previous birth?
Kuber ji's old name was Gunanidhi. As discussed in the Shiv Mahapuran, he tore his own gamchha, made a wick of it for a lamp and increased its light in a Shiv temple so that he could steal — but by the very prataap of that, in the next birth he became a king, and in the birth after that he attained the very post of Kuber.
What did Kuber ji Maharaj do as a king, in the birth before he became Kuber?
When Kuber ji Maharaj had received the birth of a king, he had it proclaimed throughout the city that whoever would not do deep daan — in Shiva ji's temple especially — his head would be severed from his trunk. He was doing that much for the welfare of the people, the speaker says; he had made rules. And by the grace of that, Bhagavan seated him on the post of Kuber.
What is the first task on Dhanteras?
On the day of Dhanteras the first task is to light thirteen lamps in your puja place at evening, when we do pujan, for the sake of Yaksharaj Kuber ji Maharaj. Thirteen — thirteen lamps. Thirteen lamps are also to be lit in the Shiv temple. If you have the means for ghee, use a ghee wick.
Does a mustard oil lamp attract prets?
Do not bring this doubt into your mind, he says — that when we light a mustard oil lamp, pret-pishach are drawn by it. These are fabricated things that are running nowadays. For protection it is always mustard that is used, mustard oil that is used.
Should I buy cheap ghee for the lamps if I cannot afford good ghee?
If you do not have the means, do not light a lamp of ghee costing two hundred or three hundred rupees a kilo — that will attach a dosha, he says. That stays oil drawn out of chirbi, and it stays "ghee". Do not make that mistake. You are not to fall into these doubts; light the thirteen lamps with complete freedom from anxiety.
Where are the thirteen lamps placed?
Those thirteen lamps are kept at different places in the house. Keep one in the puja place; where there is a than of the kula devi-devata, keep one there; on the chaukhat one must certainly be kept. Wherever in the house there is a place for keeping drinking water, one is to be kept for the sake of the pitr. One is to be kept near Tulsi ji, and near whichever dev vriksha there is — Tulsi ji, Aparajita. And if you have made a place for the pitr somewhere, or keep their photo, there too you will give a place and keep a lamp.
What is done at the chaukhat itself?
The chaukhat is to be kept in particular attention. Where earlier the chaukhat, the dahleez of the house, was not considered anything at all, now people decorate the chaukhat: a beautiful rangoli is made and lamps are lit on both sides in the name of the kuldevi, in the name of the kula Bhairav, or only in the name of Bhairav ji.
Why does everything happen at the chaukhat?
The whole play is of the chaukhat, he says; everything happens by the very crossing of the chaukhat. Look anywhere: chaukhat langhan takes place, and from the transgression of the chaukhat tantra runs, tantra is cut, a good thing happens, a bad thing happens. So everyone should do deep daan on the chaukhat.
How is the Yamraj lamp made?
For the deep daan for Yamraj there should be a four-mouthed lamp. Use mustard oil or til oil, either of the two — in his view mustard oil should be used, it is the most excellent for Yamraj. After that, a grain such as wheat or a whole grain; on the leaf-plate of palash leaves used at weddings for serving, keep a heap of grain, and upon it the four-mouthed lamp in the name of Yamraj.
What is kept alongside the Yamraj lamp?
Or only give a tilak with ashtagandha, and there keep a little dakshina for that lamp — much as we do the kshetrapal nikari; it is roughly the counterpart of that. There you will keep a little mithai. After that, take that lamp in your hand.
What prayer is made while holding the Yama lamp?
Taking it in the hand you will offer prayer for the sake of Yamraj: O Dharmaraj, O Yamraj, be gracious upon us all; let there be no apamrityu of anyone in this house and family; let us walk upon the path of dharma, earn wealth by dharma, and serving all living beings and walking on the path of dharma, in the end attain the higher lok.
Which grains may be used, and where is the lamp finally placed?
In the grain you may keep wheat, whole urad, black til and white til as well. Keep all these together in the thali, place the lamp on top, and then circulate it through the whole house; offer pranam for the sake of Yamraj, and then carry it out of the house and place it toward the south direction. Where there is no south direction nearby — houses in a line — place it a little to one side in front of the house.
What is the coconut deep daan and how many days should it be done?
The deep daan connected with the coconut — the gadi coconut cut and a hundred and eight wicks put into it, for the sake of the kuldev, kuldevi, kul devata and kul Bhairav, and for Lakshmi ji — that vidhi you should do especially for the five days. If you are not financially able, he says a gadi comes for about fifty rupees, so a day would cost about two hundred fifty rupees.
On which days is the coconut deep daan compulsory, and what is yam tarpan?
On Chaudas and on Amavasya — these two days at least — do the deep daan well, of five gadis each; that is two and a half coconuts each, so five coconuts will cover the two days. These two days it must certainly be done; deep daan must certainly, certainly happen. Then there is also the vidhi of yam tarpan, in which the tarpan of Yamraj is done.
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.
What is done at home on the evening of Chaturdashi?
After the temple, at the evening time do the pujan of Hanuman ji at home; if you wish to do havan and the like, keep an upvas and do the havan in the evening, and you may eat after the havan. There is no full necessity of keeping such an upvas — if you have not been keeping one, do not keep it for the first time this year, because an upvas will have to be kept for the Diwali pujan the next day. Before Hanuman ji at home, five lamps of ghee must certainly be given as deep daan, separately for him; and on the day of Chaturdashi fourteen lamps should be lit together and arranged at different places in the house.
What is done on the night of Chaturdashi?
After that comes the deep daan of Yamraj — again you will do the deep daan of Yamraj. And on the night of Chaturdashi, whatever anushthan you are already doing or beginning: supposing you do the pujan of Kali ji, that you are doing the sadhana and anushthan of Kali ji, then on the night of Chaturdashi certainly do her japa. It is Kali Chaudas, so on that day her japa will certainly happen.
What is the practice itself on Kali Chaudas night?
What is to be done in it is the path of the Kali Chalisa. He says the whole brihad vidhi, the complete vidhi vidhan, is a separate matter — the pujan of Kali ji together with her Nityas — but sixteen lamps have to be lit, for the sake of Bhagavati Kali. Kali ji's sixteen Nityas, and besides the sixteen there are other Nityas as well which come among the Mahanityas; rather than do that much, you have only to do this.
What is done at the temple?
First of all do deep daan there — at least two lamps are to be lit in the temple. Then hand it to whichever pujari is there for Bhagavati Kali, telling him your name and gotra, that you do Bhagavati's pujan from my name and gotra and offer this akshat at Bhagavati's shri charan. He will put the mala on Bhagavati, offer the akshat, offer the bhog. Whatever prasad, and flowers kept with it, the pujari ji returns — flowers, bel patra, whatever is obtained from Bhagavati's shri charan — you are to bring back and keep at your puja place.
How are the sixteen lamps arranged at night?
At night sixteen lamps are to be lit. Take roli — a two hundred fifty gram or two hundred gram packet, since you will need roli in good quantity for all three days — and make sixteen heaps of roli below at the puja place, and on each heap arrange one lamp. Clay lamps may be used, and if clay, take a fresh lamp each day; buy up to five dozen at one time, since you will need them in Diwali anyway. In each put a wick of cotton, a double wick in all of them, mustard oil in all, and five black peppercorns in each — certainly. No laung or elaichi is to be put in, only black pepper.
What else is placed with the lamps, and how is the Chalisa read?
Behind those sixteen lamps — the mouths being toward Bhagavati — one flower each should be kept; if red flowers can be had, that is best. Offer bhog at one place, any mithai or kishmish. If there is a shri vigraha or photo of Bhagavati, adorn her with flowers. Sit on a red asana wearing red clothes, and do the path of the Kali Chalisa sixteen times, counting on cloves: take one clove in the hand, do one reading of the Kali Chalisa, offer it before Bhagavati. He says the PDF of the Kali Chalisa is available on the channel and people have already posted their experience of it.
The sixteen lamps are lit in the name of Bhagavati Kalika and her sixteen Nityas
The discussion that had been running from the start was this: that when you do pujan, the pujan of shaktis of this kind also takes place, and Bhagavati herself gave the blessing that this pujan will happen. So when we light sixteen lamps on the night of the Chaturdashi of Diwali, it is in the name of Bhagavati Kalika, in the name of her sixteen Nityas. And if you do not even know the names of the Nityas, then light them in the ordinary way, and do the Kali Chalisa sixteen times, one reading on one clove, offering them to her.
Can Kalika Yogini sadhaks and those who know avaran pujan do more?
The rest of the people who are doing the Kalika Yogini sadhana or other sadhanas connected with Kali ji may also, if they wish, do deep daan; there is no dosha in it. And those who have learned the avaran pujan — by now some have learned three or four of Bhagavati Kalika — who are doing it, the old sadhaks, who have knowledge of the Nityas, of the Ashta Matrikas and the Ashta Tantrik Matrikas: they may do deep daan in their names if they wish, since their sadhana is already running.
How is the tilak of the chaukhat done?
In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar this is called chaukhat ko tikna; the tilak of the chaukhat is done. When the pujan happens on the evening of Diwali, at that same time orange sindoor, narangi sindoor, is kept in a bowl, and ghee and the like is mixed into it — after the pujan, or the ghee taken out from the five ghee lamps that burn in the names of the chief devi-devatas and the kula devi-devatas is mixed into it. With this, a tilak is done five times on the chief chaukhat, and then the tilak of every chaukhat and every door in the house is done.
What happens if the chaukhat tilak is not done?
Very often you will find this too, he says: from not doing the tilak and the rest, injury to the foot begins on that day; people do get hurt. Take it as a kidvanti even so, but it should be done. If you will believe, then it is belief; otherwise consider it superstition, a kidvanti, whatever, and go wherever you wish, Europe or America, no problem. But it should be done. Everyone should certainly do the pujan of the dahleez, of your own chaukhat, on the night of Amavasya, as the Dehli Vinayak pujan. And if unfortunately there is no woman in the house, then one should do this pujan oneself.
What should Bhairav sadhaks do on Amavasya night?
Those who have dedicated their life so far for the sake of Bhairav ji, who do the anushthan of Bhairav ji again and again, should certainly do the deep daan of one hundred and eight on the night of Amavasya — that is, on Sunday this time, at night, on 12 November. You can do it that day after the pujan and the rest, in the mahanisha kaal; it is to be done at home itself, there is no need to go outside to do it.
What is the totka the gamblers do with lamps?
A question had come, so he says he will discuss it. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar villages, on Chhoti Diwali, the day of Chaturdashi especially, a lamp is kindled in the place where rubbish is thrown; people call it the ghoora-par ka Diwali. When a person takes out a lamp and keeps it in front of the house or anywhere, people who gamble steal the lamp that belongs to a rich man's house — and it is also so that rich people sit and guard their lamps so that no one steals them, because it is said that if that lamp is stolen, the Lakshmi of their house is stolen. Afterwards, if people take that lamp and gamble, they will be victorious.
Where should Kuber's lamp be lit in a Shiv temple?
Light it toward the north direction, he says. Asked whether one may do any deep daan for Maa Kali, for Maa Bhavani, he answers: absolutely, you can. He notes that he has already spoken about the Yam lamp, and answers Subhash Chandra ji, whose Shri Kaal Bhairav Ashtak anushthan was completed on 7 November 2023, that it is no matter and there will be a conversation soon.
Should I borrow money to do deep daan?
One is not to do deep daan by taking a loan, he says. Do as much deep daan as you have the capacity for; help me become Kuber. Not the Kuber of here — we have to become the Kuber of above. On this same pretext you people will do it, and your welfare will happen, and along with it my own welfare will be complete too.
Should the yam deep be kept in the safe afterwards?
Asked about the practice, reported with a pramana from a Laddu Gopal sevak, of keeping the lamp in the house safe after the yam deep has gone out, he says: that the yam deep is made of atta, that we accept — in the chitrapal too we do it this way; the methods of both are almost the same, this much he agrees to. But keeping that lamp in the house safe after it has gone quiet, this he is hearing for the first time. In all the regions he has lived in, all the sadhaks he has met, nowhere has anyone discussed it, told it, or has he heard it. In his own view this is not at all fitting.
Why is the Yama offering never brought back into the house?
If on the night of Chaturdashi pakodi is made at home, or in some places chawal-kadhi, then all this is arranged in a thali; and if none of that has been made, if puri and the like has been made, then that; and if that too is not there, then the lamp is kept upon grain and mithai and the rest is arranged, and then the nikari takes place, together with bhog. It is not brought back. You tell me — to Yamraj we say that whatever misfortunes of ours there are, akala mrityu and so on, we are giving you these for the removal of the dosha. Now that is the lamp of kaal — and to keep it in the safe. If this totka is taking some form somewhere, it is not fitting; he has never heard of it, and in his view it is not right. For the rest, the decision is your own.
Should a one-mouthed lamp be lit for Dharmaraj on Dhanteras?
Told, with a pramana from a Laddu Gopal sevak, that on Dhanteras a one-mouthed deep daan should be done for Dharmaraj and on Chaudas a four-mouthed one for Yamraj, he says: see, on all five days we have been doing and have seen only the four-mouthed one. For the rest, if there is a pramana and you want to do it accordingly, and you are seeing it directly, then you can do it; we will never forbid you on that. But up to today, living in so many regions, in the five days we take out only the four-mouthed one on all five days; we do not take out a one-mouthed one. Yes — if you are speaking for the sake of Dharmaraj, of the Dharmaraj form, then we can accept it; but the mouth we take out only in the Yamraj form, calling it Yam deep daan.
Should the family celebrate Diwali when there has been a death?
Told of a death of a maternal uncle's son, on account of which the family is not keeping Diwali and not keeping the festival, he says: then leave it, do not take part in the anushthan this time. In such a way pujan too is happening for the maternal uncle's son, so do not stop the pujan of the devatas in Diwali; do not keep the festival. At least do the deepotsav in an ordinary way — kindle lamps at the chief places for the sake of the devatas. Do not burst crackers, do not decorate the house if it is very much a festival matter for you; but the pujan should not be abandoned, the pujan of Diwali too. Do the pujan of Diwali. The anushthan you may do in your own house. His own view is that this time you people should just leave it, if you are observing the rule to that extent.
May two cloves be offered daily to Ma Kali?
You may absolutely offer it; there is no difficulty. The question comes from a claim that a daily clove-and-camphor offering to Kali ji falls in the category of Tamasic worship — a claim he rejects sharply.
Is a sesame-oil lamp forbidden for any deity?
It can be used generally. In some places a description is found that a sesame-oil lamp should not be lit for Bhagavan Shiva — the speaker has heard from elders that on the Trayodashi tithi a sesame-oil lamp should not be lit before Shiva, and says he has no reason for it himself.
Ashtami-Navami sandhi kaal: Chamunda's worship, and at minimum a coconut and three lemons in bali
The speaker says the final twenty minutes of Ashtami and the first twenty minutes of Navami are called the Sandhi Kaal. In it appeared Bhagavati's foremost form, Jagadamba's Chamunda swarup — her greatest Tantrokta form — so that form is to be worshipped at that time; its full vidhan is separate from the two-Durga japa of Ashtami night. How to do Deepdaan and to whom Bali is and is not given is in a separate video; do it if possible. If one cannot do that large a vidhi, give at the very least the bali of one coconut and three lemons, and burn camphor and cloves.
Does burning a til oil lamp for a long time make you ill?
Asked whether it is true that burning a til oil lamp for a long time makes you fall ill, the speaker says he has neither heard nor read such a thing anywhere so far, and knows of no shastric basis for it. If it is so, it is not in his knowledge and he would have to find out; but it ought not to be so. Why would one fall ill from til oil? Only if there were impurity could one fall ill.
Similar marketing claims are made about mustard oil and lal bat oil, with no source behind them.
The speaker says a comment had come some days earlier that burning a mustard oil lamp makes the body ache, and that god knows where all this is coming from. Some days before that, people were saying, in order to advertise lal bat oil, that one should burn nothing else — while people may not even know when and where lal bat oil is needed. For marketing, he says, they will say anything.
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.
Should the lamp be burning when bhog is offered?
Absolutely, the speaker says. When you first enter the pujan place and have washed it and set everything right and are to begin the pujan, first wash the lamp, do chandan-tilak upon it, apply roli and kumkum, offer a flower, and then kindle the lamp — perform the panchopachar pujan and then kindle it. Only after the lamp is kindled should you bathe the dev vigreh, do their shringar, and light a lamp for them.
Why must a lamp be the witness of every act of worship?
The speaker says the jyoti that burns is called the daughter of Bhagavati Parvati and Bhagavan Shiva. So in the form of the jyoti it is she alone who has obtained the adhikar and the blessing of being the witness there — that she will be witness of every karma, that every act done before her will be acceptable to Shiva and to the arahdya, and that it will remain in their knowledge: yes, you did this work before my daughter.
What is the minimum observance for someone who can afford almost nothing?
Five betel leaves, five supari, ten cloves, ten cardamom, and any sweet you can make at home. Light the Karma Sakshi lamp and five small ghee lamps, offer everything on the betel leaves, and perform camphor Aarti at least nine times.
Bhairav deepdan of 108 lamps on the day a maran prayog strikes
The speaker says the fifth vidhi is the Bhairav Deepdaan taught on the channel: make a yantra of 108 lamps and give Bhog at eight places in the name of the ashta-bhairav, at home in the evening (or morning) of the day the prayog struck, on the first day only. Bhairava ji's energy comes with great force, the negative energy present there begins to be completely destroyed, and however great the bali vidhan behind the prayog, it cannot succeed in its intent.
Should one go to a Shiva temple for deepdaan if there is a Narmadeshwar at home?
The question put to him is whether, having Narmadeshwar ji at home, one should go to a Shiva temple to perform deepdaan, and whether the same fruit obtained from the temple shivling is obtained from the shivling at home. He notes first that having a Narmadeshwar shivling and a shaligram shila at home is a good thing, and that everyone should have them at home.
What kind of bowl and wick should be used for the deepdaan lamp?
Asked whether a plastic bowl will do if a clay bowl is not found, he says yes, it will do. Asked whether the lamp being small matters and whether someone else may take it down from the head, he says yes — it should be another person who takes it down from the head; and that the lamp being small does not matter. Keep the wick of the lamp thick, he says, so that its oil is finished quickly and the lamp is completed quickly.
What should be done at 84 Khambha on Somvati Amavasya?
A listener says she is to go to 84 Khambha on Somvati Amavasya and perform deepdaan, and that the last time she went her health became very bad after returning. He asks why the health should become bad after going to 84 Khambha, and tells her to take makhan with her this time and have the bhog of makhan offered to Bhagavan Krishna there.
Residence in a dham such as Vrindavan is obtained by great punya, so prayer there must reach beyond one's own suffering.
Living in Vrindavan, he tells her, it will not do merely to think about all these things. Residence in a dham is obtained by great punya. If even because of some suffering a man begins to live in a dham, and in such a dham as Vrindavan, then what is there to think about. Go to 84 Khambha and perform deepdaan there, and pray to God — not for your own suffering only. If his gracious glance falls, the suffering is wiped out at once.
May a clay lamp used for deepdaan be used again?
Whenever deepdaan is done with a clay lamp, he says, that lamp is not used a second time.
Does a clove bursting while it burns mean something?
No. It is an entirely ordinary thing and no auspicious or inauspicious sign should be read into it. The one exception the speaker allows: if there is a particular illness or bodily distress at the time, the clove that flew out may be eaten, taking it as grace.
What should be done when years of practice have borne no fruit?
Analyse yourself. Ask how many days of sadhana you actually did to your own liking rather than to the rule. And the speaker's own counsel to those in regular contact is not to change the practice — do the same thing, with a Deepdaan or a pilgrimage added alongside.
Keep the practice secret — but from whom exactly?
Keep your own sadhana and Upasana secret, but certainly spread awareness among people. Not by force — among those dear to you, those who regard you, those in need or in distress. People go so secret, he says, that they will not even tell the members of their own family who need it.
What should be done on Margashirsha Purnima, and how should children be brought in?
Deepdaan on Margashirsha Purnima is called extremely necessary. And tie a knot for Thursdays: on that day recite Bhagavan Dattatreya's Mala Mantra at home, twenty-seven times if you can. There is no question of entitlement in it. Introduce the children to Datta as the Guru form from childhood.
May a brass lamp and plate be used for Deepdaan, and a coconut cut across?
Yes to all three. A brass lamp may be used in place of the clay one, a brass plate in place of the Dona, and a coconut that comes already cut across the middle will serve. The speaker notes his own were cut somewhat smaller for Kula Bhairav and for Bhagavan Datta, and suggests trying for a clean cut.
Can Deepdaan be performed without a picture or an image of Dattatreya?
Yes — do it, there is no difficulty in having neither picture nor image. And do not bring one now. When your regard toward him has formed through proper sadhana, then give him a place. For the present, only perform the Deepdaan. Do not be in a hurry.
Twenty-four lamps plus one karma sakshi lamp, ghee best of the three oils — and the Viniyoga is never changed midway.
Twenty-four, plus one Karma Sakshi lamp. Any of ghee, mustard or sesame may be used — ghee is the best of them, and sesame will also serve. And in the Viniyoga: it should be said after everything is accomplished; do not change the Viniyoga at the time of accomplishing.
The chaukhat: a threshold once worshipped alongside Tulsi, now gone from homes
The speaker says the Chaukhat, the threshold or dehri, has vanished from homes although it has very special importance. In earlier times it was worshipped alongside the puja of Tulsi, and there was a vidhi of Deepdaan at it. He says the channel already has three or four videos on the chaukhat and he will make another on why it was worshipped; he also asks what boundary is broken by installing one and worshipping it.
Morning belongs to the devas, evening sandhya to the pitrs
The speaker says the time of the devas is the morning and the evening Sandhya is held to be for the Pitrs; the sandhya upasana, puja and Deepdaan done at these two junctures satisfy and please both devas and pitrs. Yet people are absent at both: up at four for a shift but sleeping till nine otherwise, ready for morning walks, jogging and the gym, but not for a bath, sandhya and arghya to Suryanarayan that would keep the pitrs satisfied. The evening sandhya hour goes to tea, coffee and strolling.
Can dried tulsi be used for deepdaan and havan?
Asked by a close associate whether the method many people give for deepdaan using dried tulsi is proper, that same gentleman answered flatly that it is a foolish act and should not be done. The speaker replies that those who made videos on using dried tulsi as havan samidha or for deepdaan gave their reference from the Skanda Purana and the like, and that the reference could at least be looked at.
What should you do at home while an anushthan is being done for you elsewhere?
Wherever you are having an anushthan performed — with him or anywhere else — he always says that at home you should at least light a deep and baati before that devi or devata and pray to them to show their grace upon you. No great personal individual anushthan is being done for you there; there are only ten or fifteen ahutis in it.
Can eight separate lamps be lit for the Ashtamatrikas?
If you wish, you may also kindle eight separate lamps, he says, but your budget will increase — the whole thing has to be done for thirty days. Do this at the temple.
Can Bhimseni camphor be put into the deepak?
Asked whether Bhimseni camphor may be put into the deepak, he answers: absolutely, it may be put in.
Can the 64 Yogini clove and camphor offering be made at any Devi temple?
Asked whether the offering of cloves and camphor for the 64 Yoginis can be made at any Devi temple, the speaker answers: absolutely, it can be done.
What if there is nobody at home to do the puja of the vigrahas?
It is true that if there is nobody at home to do puja then there is worry about the vigrahas, the speaker says — but do not worry about the vigrahas. It should be only this much: that at the very least dhoop and deep are burning.
What falls on the same day in South India?
The speaker says that in South India the month of Kartik is running at present, so the tithi of Kartik Purnima will fall — so the deepdaan of Kartik Purnima is taking place there. A brother from South India wrote to him about Bhagavan Shiva as described in the Shiv Mahapuran: as they perform pujan there in Ardra, and as Bhagavan manifested in the form of the jyoti stambha in the month of Margashirsha in the Ardra nakshatra, after which his sakal form was established as Arunachaleshwar Mahadev.
The special pujan and deepdaan of Arunachaleshwar Mahadev takes place on this same Margashirsha Purnima on a very large scale.
The special pujan of Arunachaleshwar Mahadev and his deepdaan also takes place on this very Margashirsha Purnima on a very large scale, the speaker relates, and the listener asked him to tell people to certainly perform deepdaan on this day — whether in the name of Bhagavan Shiva, or of Panchanan Mahadev, or of Bhagavan Datta, but deepdaan must be done. However much deepdaan is done that day, that much is the mahima.
Why is deepdaan on this Purnima described as obligatory?
The mahima of Kartik was already such, the speaker says, and the mahima of Margashirsha deepdaan is also infinite. Since on that day it is Brihaspativar, and along with it there is the jayanti of three Mahashaktis, and a chief form of Bhagavan Shiva is present there that day too, we must certainly do deepdaan on that day. Keep it as the very first duty, he says: on that day let deepdaan take place by everyone.
Where is the vidhi for the tantrokta deepdaan?
The whole vidhi of the tantrokta deepdaan is present on the channel in an extensive form, the speaker says, and the links have been fully shared and put in the group. Do this, he says.
On the Purnima the foundational shaktis are to be worshipped, with the deepdaan of Bhagavan Datta and the puja of the guru swaroop.
On the day of the Purnima, perform the pujan of your foundational shaktis, the speaker says. On that day certainly do the deepdaan and so on of Bhagavan Datta. Whichever dev shakti you may worship, certainly do puja of the guru swaroop on that day — certainly do puja of Bhagavan Datta, because the arch shakti of the guru, the root shakti, is Bhagavan Datta.
The deepdaan vidhi, the dev diksha vidhan and the mahima of the twelve names of Bhagavan Datta have all been given already.
Sit down yourself, the speaker says: you know the whole vidhi of doing the deepdaan of Bhagavan Datta. You know the dev diksha vidhan of Bhagavan Datta. You know what the mahima of his twelve names is, in what manner his japa is done, how his prashan is done.
Does deepdaan of any kind pacify the grahas?
Asked whether the shanti of grahas happens from deepdaan of any kind, the speaker says the shanti of grahas certainly happens. A deep, a deepdaan of any devata, is such a thing that — as is said in the Kartik Mahatmya and the like, which he asks listeners to read — if a person is not capable of doing a yajna and so on, then merely by doing deepdaan, by doing only that much, he obtains the fruit that is obtained for a yajna. Deepdaan is certainly capable of pacifying all the grahas.
May a metal lamp be used for daily deepdaan at home?
Yes, absolutely, the speaker says: you should rinse them and use those same lamps again and again. A metal lamp should not even be changed until it breaks. Wash it daily and polish it; if it is brass, rub it and shine it so much that it looks like gold, and do deepdaan in it — the more your lamp shines, the more your fortune will be polished and shine.
Why does spreading the practice of deepdaan earn punya?
Certainly do deepdaan and have others do deepdaan too, the speaker says. Understand this subject: the more you spread the name of Bhagavan and spread the practice of his deepdaan, the more punya will come to you without cause. To do deepdaan alone and tell no one, to go quietly to the Manikarnika ghat and vanish after doing deepdaan, to give our puja to Bhagavan by stealth and tell no one — that has become a matter of tantra. But if punya is to be earned, that is a sadhanatmak matter: in punya we will tell everyone, yes, you do it too.
Should a pujan or a bali be shown live?
Display should not happen, the speaker says. He recalls commenting to one Chandan ji, who had put out an entire live video of his bali on Facebook, telling him not to do it live: post something afterwards, the next day. How many seconds is the video you people put out — two seconds, three seconds, ten or fifteen at the most, a small clip. If you have to post something to show somewhere, post that much, and post it after it is over. Do not post the immediate thing, that a puja is going on right now and we are showing you live that we are doing deepdaan. Do not make this display. If you want to encourage people, encourage them with your old videos.
Can deepdaan be given in the name of a kuldevi Masani or of Masan?
Asked whether, in the deepdaan of Bhagavan Datta, deepdaan may also be done in the name of the kuldevi Masani and of the nirakshak devata Masan, the speaker answers that if the devatas of your kul are Masan and Masani — and then which Masan and Masani it is — then if you do deepdaan for them within the deepdaan of Bhagavan Datta, there will be no problem, provided they are worshipped in the kul. For a worshipped devata there is no issue here; you can do it. If even bhoot pret are worshipped as the devi devatas of the kul and have attained devatva, then there is no problem.
Deepdaan is to be done at home on Margashirsha Purnima, the jayanti of Datta, Tripur Bhairavi and Annapurna, and the pending dev diksha vidhan completed.
The day after tomorrow is Margashirsha Purnima, the jayanti of Bhagavan Datta, Bhagavati Tripur Bhairavi and Bhagavati Annapurna, the speaker says in closing. All of you should certainly do deepdaan in your homes. Those whose dev diksha vidhan remains pending should complete it. And those who have to give their details for the sake of sadhana and the like — the whole subject has been written extensively and put on Telegram, and also placed in the description of this video, so read it, and give your details on the website; the anushthan and so on will be completed, and afterwards the material will reach you.
How many lamps should be kept in the daily puja?
Asked how many lamps should be kept in the nitya puja, the speaker says: brother, keep at least two lamps.
Is fasting with one Kali Chalisa path enough on Amavasya, and what lamp is lit under the peepal?
Asked whether fasting for Ma Kali on Amavasya and doing one path of the Kali Chalisa will be all right and whether Ma will be pleased, he answers: she certainly will. Along with it, do not do only the Kali Chalisa but also do the path of her stotra and satnam, and do the path of the 108 names. Asked whether, on every Amavasya, one should light a lamp of flour or of clay under the peepal tree for the pitrs, he answers that a flour lamp will be very good — light a lamp of grain and it will be good.
A Batuk Bhairav deepdaan and a Shani mala mantra anushthan brought one listener relief and unpublicised results in a court case.
A listener writes that he did a Batuk Bhairav deepdaan and a Shani mala mantra anushthan, from which he got great relief and, moreover, obtained unpublicised results in a court case. The speaker thanks him and tells the others to be motivated by such people and to do it themselves — if you do these things, fruit will certainly be obtained.
What is the third practice for Shravan after abhishek and japa?
The next most prominent thing to do in Shravan, he says, is Deepdaan. So far there is the abhishek of Shiva ji; second, the japa of Panchakshari; third, the japa of the Shiv Mala Mantra, or of the Mahamrityunjay Stotra, or of the Mahamrityunjay Stotra Satnamavali. That is one subject; deepdaan is the next.
By which vidhi is the Shravan deepdaan to be performed?
The third thing is the deepdaan of the Panchanana svarupa of Bhagavan Shiva — the tantric deepdaan vidhi in which, together with the kula devata and kula shakti and together with the Kshetrapal and the rest, deepdaan is made to the five tantric forms of Bhagavan Shiva: Sadyojata, Vamadeva, Tatpurusha, Aghora and Ishana. That vidhi is published on this same channel, he says, and he will put its link and share it again.
On which days of Shravan must deepdaan be done?
On the Mondays of Shravan — there are four Mondays this time — certainly do deepdaan on all four. Certainly do deepdaan on the Panchami, on both Panchamis, in the Krishna Paksha as well as the Shukla Paksha. After that, certainly do it on the masik Shivratri that will come, on the Trayodashi day. Certainly do it on the Amavasya day, and certainly do it on the Poornima day. These are the special tithis on which you should do it without fail.
Can deepdaan be done on every day of Shravan?
If it is possible — if there is financial capability, if there is no laziness or negligence in the body, and there is the wish to do the seva of Bhagavan Shiva — then if possible do deepdaan at a Shiva temple in the evening every day of Shravan, for the full 30 days, and then see its divine effect. Japa and tapa morning and evening, and the whole vidhi vidhan, is very good.
Is a bilva patra enough in place of a mukut?
Even keep a Bilva patra upon him, he says — but what is a bilva patra: it dried up, at some point it slipped off. For this reason always keep Bhagavan Shiva wearing a mukut. And along with this, along with the japa and the rest, if it is possible, on the tithis that have been stated — the Panchami, the Shivratri — certainly do the deepdaan, and on Panchami because nag pujan too has been spoken of in Nag Panchami.
May steel deepaks be used for a Bhairav deepdaan?
Asked whether one may take 108 steel deepaks for a Bhairav Deepdaan, he answers: absolutely, you can take them — if it is to be done at home daily or again and again.
How is the Vigraha covered?
After removing them, cover the Mother's whole body well with a new red cloth — of whatever form her Vigraha is, even Baglamukhi's — right up to the neck. Then seat her in her place, keep the ornaments together somewhere good, and light a lamp a little distance in front of her.
How should the Nikari lamp be kept from going out?
Keep the Nikari lamp such that it does not go out at all — keep the wick thick, light it with camphor applied, and if there is wind while you are carrying it out, carry it inside the big kind of biscuit carton so the wind cannot get in.
Can the Kamakhya Deepdaan procedure be given?
The speaker declines. The Tantrokta methods for Kamakhya Devi he will not be able to speak of, and would have to ask about them, since these things come into the most fierce category. An ordinary Deepdaan will do — do a Swarth Deepdaan as you see fit — but the proper one is a different matter.
Daily ghee lamp at Tulsi so no rin dosha remains toward the giver of a vidhan
For freedom from rin dosha, the speaker asks that every day one ghee Deepak be lit beside Bhagwati Tulsi, so that no rin dosha remains between the listener and those from whom this vidhi-vidhan has been taken. Do only this much, he says, so that no rin dosha remains and the effect of the sadhana is obtained beyond doubt.
What are the three tasks prescribed for the Vaishakh Shukla fortnight?
First, hold one sadhana and do a purashcharan in it — the speaker suggests repeating the sadhana done through the whole month of Magh at the Mahakumbh, or doing a purashcharan of the Kamakhya Kavach. Second, deepdaan. Third, the arrangement of water.
How should a hundred malas of japa be distributed through the day?
However you like — fifty in the morning, fifty in the evening, or all at one sitting. Practice will come, the speaker says, and more than a hundred will be done in an hour. The second thing is the water arrangement, and the third is deepdaan every day at night or at sandhya.
Which special deepdaan is recommended in the Vaishakh Shukla Paksha?
The speaker says deepdaan is done at home in any case, but for one who wishes a special one in this paksha, do Bhagavan Dattatreya's deepdaan at the time of sandhya — for whatever pitr-related problem there may be, however much loss is occurring, whatever kind of dosha. If a brihad deepdaan is not wanted, do the laghu form; the tantrokta vidhi of Bhagavan Shiva's Panchanan deepdaan has been given on the channel.
What is the minimum deepdaan that must never be dropped?
If you want to do nothing else and only an ordinary deepdaan, the speaker says never leave out the deepdaan of the chaukhat — daily pujan of the threshold, daily shringar, and a lamp on both sides of it, certainly at both times, morning and evening.
What is the tulsi deepdaan for Bhagavan Narasimha?
The second thing is an arrangement for deepdaan with tulsi in Bhagavan Narasimha's name at the time of sandhya. Citing the Padma Purana, the speaker says two things especially may be done with the wood of a tulsi plant that has dried up completely: the making of harichandan, and this lamp.
How is the tulsi-wood lamp for Narasimha actually made?
Take the whole dried wood of tulsi ji and wrap it together with the cotton wick of the lamp, pour ghee, and light it while reciting Bhagavan Narasimha's mantra or remembering him — if nothing else, saying "नरसिंहाय नमः". The speaker says anyone at all, man or woman, may do this, and there is no need even to add pranava.
Who should not perform the Narasimha tulsi deepdaan?
The speaker directs it to those who recite the Mahavidya paath, those initiated in Bhagavan Narasimha's or other mantras, and to mothers and sisters who live by rule rather than by their own will. Those who go about with a puppy in hand, he says, have no need to do this work — do not do it, or four more entanglements will fall around your neck.
Which mantra may be recited during the tulsi-wood deepdaan for Narasimha?
The speaker says those who walk a little by niti and niyam may all do this, and if they wish, may perform the deepdaan while reciting the Ugra Viram mala mantra — given in the transcript as "उग्र वीरम महाविष्णु जलंतम सर्वतो मुखम नरसिंहम".
Where must a lamp never be placed?
A lamp must never be set on bare earth, the speaker says: a very great dosha attaches, there is loss of wealth, and Lakshmi is displeased. Always place something under it — flowers, a separate plate, unbroken akshat, a rangoli, a little abir gulal, roli or haldi. Then set it near the chaukhat in Bhagavan Narasimha's name.
How may the Narasimha deepdaan be made more special?
Light two lamps, in the names of Lakshmi and Narasimha — of Bhagavan Shri Lakshmi Narasimha. To make it more particular still, light the lamp in this way daily from Pratipada up to the Chaturdashi or the Purnima, and after that do japa of the Narasimha mala mantra, which the speaker says has long been given on the channel.
What may anyone do on a jayanti without any authorisation?
On whichever day a form's jayanti falls, the speaker says, do her shringar puja and satarchan — this much should be done. If not that, then simply offer dhoop, deep and naivedya in her name; no dosha will attach from that. Trouble arises, he says, only when you do what is forbidden, what you are not authorised for.
Where should Bhagavan Sharabh be worshipped, and where not?
The speaker says that if you worship Bhagavan Sharabh at home, then Bhagavan Narasimha should not have a place there. Sarveshwar Bhairav should be worshipped especially in a Shiva temple itself. On the Chaturdashi, therefore, do the Panchanan Mahadev deepdaan in a Shiva temple, for the sake of Bhagavan Sarveshwar.
Can a whole family perform deepdaan together?
Yes — the speaker says all doing it together is most excellent. If there are five or ten members in the family, let them all hold lamps together and, sitting together, do japa of Bhagavati's thirty-two namavali in an ugra, vira bhava — one chakra vidhi, that is thirty-three times, by the chakra vidhi. Then, he says, no one has the standing to raise an eye at that family.
Will pitrs cause harm if water and a lamp are kept for them at home?
Not at all, the speaker answers. Understand the importance of the sthan, he says: two have a right over a source of water — first the yakshas, second the pitrs. Two devatas are angered most by harming water: first the yaksha and second the pitr.
How should the rudraksha be strung and worshipped?
If one wishes to wear them, the speaker says it is best to have all the rudraksha on a single thread, or to have a silver chain made. If they are to be kept for puja, then in the place of puja their abhishek is to be done, along with dhoop and deep.
A guru does no separate shodhan when daily practice has already made the aura bright
If it is not necessary he will not have it done — because you are already doing japa: doing panchakshari japa daily, Shiva ji's abhishek, Ganapati ji's tarpan, the seva of Bhagwan Dattatreya, deepdaan, teerth yatra, panchabali. Then the energies present in the sukshma sharir outside your body, your aura, will have become so bright that your capable guru will not do a separate and special shodhan; he will accept you through the ordinary sankalpa.
What is the Sandhi Puja and when does it fall?
The most principal time of all for a Devi devotee — the moment at which Bhagavati Chamunda manifests. This time it is on Tuesday the 30th of September, from 5:42 in the evening to 6:30. In it we are to do the Deepdaan of 108 for Bhagavati, the bali, her special Stuti, and the japa. This span is never to be let go.
Can the Yogini Archan be done in a house that keeps no Kalash?
Absolutely do the Archan of the sixty-four Yoginis and the Nama-japa. But you cannot eat food with garlic and onion. Where a Navratri custom is kept in the house, all the more should the custom be kept properly.
Where does the lamp on the Chaukhat go?
A lamp may certainly be kept on the Chaukhat — you will perform worship there too, with the lamps kept, flowers offered, Gandha and fragrance and everything. Which side depends on which deity it is for; but ordinarily, standing inside and looking out, keep it on your right.
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.
The vessel goes in the Ishan kona, with an evening ghee lamp on kusha beside it
Keep the vessel of water in the Ishan kona, he says, or leave the corner aside if you wish — people begin discussing kona and vastu and at once grow weary of how many rules there are. If you keep a good vessel which you wash daily and fill with water, and in the evening light a ghee lamp on kusha at that place, you will be saved from diseases a great deal.
Keeping the chaukhat strong means keeping it pure, never trodden on, with dhoop and deep burning
That is, the seva of the chaukhat must keep being done, he says. Always keep it pure and holy; never place your foot upon it; let dhoop and deep keep burning there. Then more than half of the things possessed of samarthya will remain present there for your protection.
One who has truly worshipped remains tript and could never say that nothing came of it
Whoever says that we worshipped so many years and nothing happened to us — know in truth, he says, that that person never worshipped at all. One who has performed puja will remain tript. He can never say that we did seva-puja for five years or ten years and obtained nothing. There is a satisfaction beyond material wealth in what you are doing now: in the deep daan you do, in the havan you do.
Where puja and deep daan have truly been done, wrong intentions cannot arise in the mind at all
If you have truly performed puja and seva, and if you have done Deepdaan, he says, then ill-will simply will not come into your mind. Wrong thoughts will not be able to arise at all — that is the very first thing that will happen here. But the money for deep daan has to go somewhere else, so the deep daan will not be done.
What does it mean if oil seeps from the Bhairav lamp or water from the pitr kalash?
The speaker says you should simply change them properly and not read anything into it. He cannot say that seeping oil means inauspiciousness or that seeping water is good or bad. A jointed lamp can leak, whereas ghee is hard and sets below so it does not; and a pot leaks a little by its fine pores, which is exactly why the water in it stays cool — for it not to seep at all is not possible.
May a silver lamp be lit at home?
A listener who lights a brass lamp asks whether she may light a silver lamp in her house. Absolutely you may light it, the speaker says.
After the japa comes havan, or a lamp or the coconut khappar vidhi if havan cannot be done, and then kanya pujan
After that make the arrangement for havan; if possible and you have learnt it yourself, do it yourself, and if they do not let you do it yourself then do it with someone's help, and if they will not let you do it even with help, then kindle a lamp and the rest, or do the coconut khappar vidhi that has been given. Somewhere or other the vidhan of kindling will happen — that is, japa and havan. And after that, kanya pujan: if it is a Shakti Peeth then the pujan of even one kanya there is most excellent, and if a proper kanya pujan cannot be done, then at the very least give sweets and the like to some kanya there, gladly, along with dakshina.
What should be done if a sadhana sankalp is not completed?
Asked what to do by way of kshama prarthana if a sankalp of sadhana is taken and not completed, the speaker says: make kshama prarthana and the rest to whichever devata it was of, do their pujan as far as possible, and do deepdaan.
Which lamps are lit at the threshold, and can a chaumukha lamp be used?
A chaumukha lamp you can indeed put on the chaukhat, the speaker says, but rather than kindling a great many lamps, two lamps are enough. Whether it is a ghee lamp or an oil lamp will depend on whose lamps you are kindling at the threshold — because there the lamp of Bhagavan Narsingh will also be kindled; there it is kindled for the pitr as well, for the kul pitr; there it is done for the kul Bhairav ji too, and for the kuldevi too. So it will depend on whose lamp you are kindling.
May the lamp be refilled with the left hand during japa, and which wick is used?
Keep a large lamp in the first place, brother, the speaker says: if you have to do japa for two or three hours, keep the lamp on that reckoning so that oil does not have to be added again and again. Buy one big lamp. If you want to pour the oil with the reverse hand, since the mala is in one hand, you may pour it — there is no matter in it. The wick of the karma sakshi will be a soi batti. The khadi batti is used in prayoga: when we are doing the prayoga of a mantra, then the khadi batti will be used.
Can a silver lamp be used in the home temple?
Asked whether a silver lamp may be lit in the mandir of the house, the speaker says yes, it may be lit.
Why did a toothache go away after deepdaan?
A listener writes that he had done the Dattatreya deepdaan on the day of the Jayanti, that his tooth was hurting very much at the time, and that by the next morning it had come down of itself. Yes — you did so much deepdaan, so it will have come down from the heat of the deepdaan, the speaker says; behind this there is science, this is science. In this our shraddha has little part; neither we nor you have any shraddha in it. This is bheem science.
What paath and remedies counter the ill effects of Shani?
Asked about paath and independent remedies for the ill effects of Shani, the speaker says you may recite the paath connected with Shani, Shanishwar Mahagraha: the Dashrath krit Shani stotra. At the shami tree that stands in a temple you may make a donation of lamps. How is the lamp to be lit? Whenever Shanishchar or Amavasya falls, on that day thirteen lamps should be lit for the sake of Bhagavan Shani — a lamp of mustard oil, with black sesame put into the mustard oil.
Which tithi governs a night observance when Purnima falls across two days?
For sadhana you must look at the Purnima or Amavasya that actually spans the night. Where Purnima holds through the night of the 30th, the Deep Daan and every Tantrokta Anushthan belong to that night — on the following night there is no Purnima at all, so nothing done then has benefit.
Can the karma sakshi lamp be used to show the deity the light?
Asked about panchopachar and dashopachar, the speaker says that if you wish to show the light with the karma sakshi lamp itself, you may do so. But it will be better, he says, to keep the lamp separately and show the deity a separate lamp afterwards.
What is the positive side of tantric bandhan?
So far they have looked at the negative side of tantric bandhan, the speaker says; the positive bandhan is the bandhan of suraksha. Your house should be bound. The chaukhat should be protected by positive shaktis: morning and evening seva of it, deepdaan there for Narasimha Bhagavan, deepdaan for Kul Bhairav and the kul shakti. There is also the process of giving bali at the chaukhat — keep it strong with the bali of lemon and coconut, keep it strong with the bali of jaiphal. So that if someone does do a tantra prayoga on you and you reverse it through Mahabhairav, Vamati Kali or the Janjira, and the other person is sitting ready — come, you reverse it, we will reverse it too — no ill effect of his reversal falls on you.
How much of the Bhairav mahamantra should be done on an ordinary day?
On an ordinary day do at least one mala of the Bhairav mahamantra, he says. There is no need for a chaumukh lamp on other days: the chaumukh lamp is for when a special sadhana is done; otherwise an ordinary lamp.
What clears the rin dosha for a sadhana taken from someone?
Whenever and from wherever you do any sadhana, not only from this channel, the speaker says, then in the name of the person from whom you took the sadhana light at least five ghee lamps in a Shiva temple on the first day and the last day of the sadhana, so that rin dosha does not occur. The second thing: in that person's name feed at least sava kilo of grain, or anything at all to eat and drink, to living beings — feed a dog, a cat, a cow; feed a sheep or a goat; feed a human being. That much should be done, and by it rin dosha will never fall upon that person or upon you.
How is deepdaan done for Bhagavan Datta?
Asked to tell the vidhi of Deepdaan for Bhagavan Datta, the speaker says time is very short, but according to the information obtained so far, deepdaan of 16 lamps should be done for Bhagavan Datta. He says he learnt this through a very good sadhak who does Bhagavan Datta's sadhana himself and on whose kula parampara Bhagavan Dattatreya's grace is very particular.
Should Batuk Bhairav be given a copper or a brass lamp?
Asked whether a copper or brass lamp may be lit for Batuk Bhairava, since a clay lamp is not always obtainable, and what real chameli oil is, the speaker says you may certainly light a brass lamp. Lighting a copper one will give a little trouble; do not light copper, light a brass lamp. And if chameli oil is not obtainable, then use mustard oil.
To whom may deepdaan be made with a copper lamp?
Asked to whom Deepdaan may be made with a copper lamp, the speaker says the use of a copper lamp is itself different. Lighting a copper lamp is not auspicious for everyone. In a copper lamp you may always burn mustard oil; never burn til oil or ghee in it in the ordinary daily way.
For which deities may a copper lamp be lit?
It may be lit for the ugra devas and for Bhairav ji, the speaker says. It may be lit for Hanuman ji as well — in Hanuman ji's name, for him too.
Can chameli oil be made by mixing it into til oil?
Asked whether chameli oil may be made by mixing chameli oil into til oil, given that top-quality til oil and chameli oil are available, the speaker says yes, mix it, there is no difficulty. Keeping only chameli, he adds, it burns away very fast.
How should children be started on Saraswati sadhana?
Have them do the Bhagavati Saraswati practice that is on the channel. For the Beejakshar: once children reach about eight or nine years, Bhagavati's Beejakshar should at least be taught to them and japa of it done daily.
May Kaal Bhairav be worshipped at home?
Only in the Kashi and Ujjain Panchakroshi and the Ashta Bhairav territories — where residents are obliged to it — or where he is the Kula deity or a right exists. Elsewhere, do not worship Kaal Bhairav at home; worship Batuk Bhairav ji in his place. Deepdaan for Kaal Bhairav is a separate matter and remains permitted.
Can one clay lamp be kept permanently for camphor Aarti and bali?
If it is a clay lamp, it will have to be changed every day. Take a brass one and you can use it for these purposes.
Is there a Deepdaan procedure for Sitaram?
The Amla prescription was described before Sitaram ji himself — use a lamp in place of the Amla and do it that way. And doing it for Mata Kaushalya and Dashrath ji is good too: kindled in the names of the Lord's parents, the Lord will be still more pleased.
Materials for the kul havan: kund, wheat flour, gud, ghee, chaumukh lamps, oils and sindoor
The speaker lists what is needed. A large earthen pot to do the Havan in, or a Havan kund of copper, never aluminium or iron, of medium size, because a vedi cannot be built here. Wheat flour, either wheat one has brought, washed and had ground oneself, or flour from a place that sells pure wheat for puja, two and a half to three kilos; good Gud from a puja shop where salt is not sold so it carries no dosha; and ghee. Two Chaumukh Deepak lamps each day, new ones daily, so about thirty for Purnima to Amavasya or twenty for Navratri, with mustard oil and sesame oil and wicks made of Kalava. And genuine orange Mahabiri sindoor, which he says is also called bakhra sindoor.
The threshold rite of the kul havan: kush and mango leaf, five tilaks and the two lamps at the main door
The speaker says the house is cleaned a day before and the prayog begun with a firm Sankalpa, at the main door of the house, or in a rented house at the door where one's own boundary begins. The door is wiped with a cloth soaked in Gangajal. A mango leaf with its tip cut off is bound at the back with at least three Kusha, dipped in Gangajal and hung exactly at the middle of the door; it is marked with Mahabiri Sindoor mixed with ghee, and five tilaks are made on the Chaukhat in the Kuldevi's name. Facing out of the house, a Chaumukh Deepak lamp of mustard oil is lit on the right for the kula's protector Bhairava and one of sesame oil on the left for the kuldevi, each set on a little Akshat or flowers, never on bare ground.
Closing the kul havan: a silver lamp lit from the last fire and taken to the puja sthan
The speaker says that when the final Ahuti of the whole prayog is given, one should if possible buy a small silver lamp, make its wick from red Mauli thread, fill it with ghee, light it from that same havan fire after the last ahuti, and carry it to one's puja sthan and place it there in the Kuldevi's name. Until that last day, he says, one simply keeps doing the daily rite continuously.
What is the minimum for someone in very great distress on these nights?
Especially for those in whose lives there are very special kinds of calamity, very great distress, where the situation feels altogether unbearable — in these two or three days, taking it as Trayodashi, Chaturdashi and Amavasya, if they can do nothing else, then after nine at night, remembering the names of both Bhagavati Tara and Akshobhya Shiva, lighting one or two lamps, a joint lamp, of mustard oil with a red-coloured wick, and remembering Bhagavati, they should simply do the paath of the Durga Sahasranama.
Sattvik food by day, then a lamp each for Tara and Akshobhya Shiva at night
On that day, in the daytime, eat and drink whatever is to be eaten — but ordinary sattvik food only. At night, after bathing, light one lamp each for Bhagavati Tara and for their Bhairav who is Akshobhya Shiva, sit before them, and do the chalisa paath by the chakra vidhi.
How many lamps should be offered in the guru's name and how many in one's own?
A listener who offers five lamps in the speaker's name and two in his own is told he is doing too many for the speaker. Keep more for yourself and less for me, the speaker says. If you light only two, or are keeping it small, then do five on the last day at most; otherwise in the daily practice keep just one lamp. He says he had spoken of lighting more in a one-day observance, or on the final day; in the nitya practice even one lamp is enough.
What should be done with the cloves added each day at the aarti?
The cloves you put in for the aarti — once the aarti is done and the fire in the lamp has gone quiet and cooled, go on collecting those cloves in one place, the speaker says. Make a powder of them, mix in kesar and the rest, and apply it as tilak every day after the Navratra. Whatever has burnt in the lamps has to be emptied out in any case.
Where should the Kartik deepdaan be done, and how often?
Deepdaan must certainly happen at both times, morning and evening; the evening deepdaan is absolutely obligatory. It should be, roughly, a small daily form of what is done at Diwali — near Hanuman ji's dhwaja and near Tulsi ji. One who protects and serves Tulsi ji in the month of Kartik is held to be the equal of Vishnu ji himself, and every man and woman should certainly do Tulsi seva in this month.
Should the lamp be lit for Tulsi on a Sunday in Kartik?
The speaker says that whether it is Sunday or any other tithi, in the month of Kartik light the lamp not right up close to Tulsi ji but, for instance, near Hanuman ji's dhwaja if Tulsi ji stands beside it. On that day do not light one separately for Tulsi ji if such a scruple is in your mind, and light it on the remaining days.
Where in the house should the Kartik lamp be lit?
If your house is large, or two or three storeys with a first and second floor, arrange for the lighting of a lamp at the topmost place — at the peak of the house — which is most excellent. For those with no roof access there is the tradition, throughout Kartik maas, of arranging a deep malika upon a bamboo, or lighting a lantern raised a little high, which is called an akash deep.
What path is prescribed in Kartik for pitrs who are stuck?
In the month of Kartik, taking a sankalp for them, do path of the eleventh adhyaya of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, or path of the Shri Parvati Gita if you are especially a Bhagwati bhakta; or do the gita and the sahasranama of whoever you are a bhakta of, or the Shri Vishnu Sahasranama, with the sankalp that their gati be accomplished — along with the akash deep.
Does an ongoing anushthan continue through Kartik?
Along with the month's devata, the speaker says, keep continuing your own ishta aradhya of whom you do japa and tapa — the anushthan will run for them. And Tulsi ji's puja, deepdaan and the rest are all necessary to do; go on doing all of it.
What does a person spread once his own worship bears fruit?
The speaker argues that if one person does deepdaan by the correct, tantrokta vidhan and everything goes well in his house, he will tell ten others and do only good — he will harm no one. Whoever is worshipping something is spreading what he gains from it: the one whose job comes by worshipping a certain baba spreads that; and those who are worshipping pishach shaktis under the name of Masani and such, giving them grand names, are spreading that.
Is one person's effort enough to change another household?
Much will not happen by your doing it alone, the speaker says; they have their own prarabdha and karma too. So do that much, and along with it let them also do something — at the least let them do deepdaan at Diwali, let them bathe every morning, let them do path of the shastra names, let them do Tulsi ji's seva and path of the Tulsi Stotra and stuti. If there is a Lakshmi-related problem, let them do stuti path of Lakshmi ji and Kuber ji; then the money-related problem will gradually be removed.
Is an invitation given again in the Kalka Yogini sadhana?
The speaker says that in the Kalka Yogini sadhana an invitation is not to be given a second time — the invitation is given at the first time only, and from the next time you will do it at home. Asked separately about lamps, he says that lighting a lamp of mustard oil is also excellent; it is not necessary that only a ghee lamp be lit.
How many lamps are offered in the deepdaan for Mahalakshmi?
The speaker says that for Mahalakshmi the deepdaan should be of sixteen lamps. Answering another question, he says the pan leaf and the madira patra and all such things will go to visarjan — satvik madira.
Is it inauspicious if the coconut burns in a deepdaan?
A listener says a coconut-shell deepdaan was done yesterday and the coconut burned, and asks whether it is inauspicious. The speaker answers that there is nothing inauspicious — the coconut will certainly burn, in the deepdaan and in the khappar both, it is bound to burn. The more the coconut burns, the more auspicious it is. In the khappar vidhi the khappar coconut is sometimes reduced wholly to ash and sometimes remains partly burnt; in the deepdaan too it sometimes burns a little and sometimes fully. Whatever has burned has burned; give visarjan to what remains.
What is done for rin mukti, and how does one take sankalp with a doubtful gotra?
For rin mukti, the speaker says, light one separate lamp. Asked how those with an irregularity in their gotra may take part in an anushthan, he says you will take and give the sankalp according to whichever gotra is your father's.
Is the amla deepdaan done in Kartik?
The speaker says it may absolutely be done for the sake of dharma-raksha, and that deepdaan should be done as much as possible. If the amla deepdaan is done now, it is most excellent — every day, at evening, do a deepdaan of five amlas each time. He says this too is arranged every year and videos are put out, and they will all be sent again.
The nightly path is done in red vastra on a red asana, with two lamps and three preliminary paths.
First remember the guru. It is most excellent if done wearing red vastra and a red asana. Two lamps will be lit, with red wicks in them: one will be of mustard oil in the name of Batuk Bhairav ji, and the second a ghee lamp in the name of Bhagwati. Sit facing east or north, wearing red cloth. First do guru smaran, then path of the Sankat Nashan Ganapati, then path of the 108 names of Bhairav ji — let these three paths happen at the beginning.
What did the father formerly do before looking at his child?
In earlier times, until the nakshatra pujan had been done according to the nakshatra, and in some cases the daan such as chhaya daan or oil daan, the father would look at his own face first by seeing it in the oil, complete all that daan, and only after that look at the face of his own offspring. In the present time, the speaker says, all these things have thoroughly ended.
What must never be said or asked about the kula Bhairav?
The pujan of the kula must certainly be done, and it becomes the most necessary — and about it one should never tell anyone. About the kula Bhairav you are neither to ask nor to tell in place after place. If you have the information, do it; if not, ask the people of your own house, ask the elders — rather than going on posting and commenting everywhere. And even if you do know, never tell anyone that these are my kula's deities, this is my kula's Bhairav, they are so powerful.
How should a lamp be lit?
Asked how to light a diya, the speaker refers to at least five to seven videos made at the very beginning of the channel, in which it is told which way the mouth of the deepak is to be kept, what the wick should be like — a standing wick or a sleeping wick — what kind of lamp is lit for the pitrs, when a standing-wick lamp should be lit if you light one at all, and on which side of the deity the lamps will stand.
Each person of the family lights his own lamp and recites the mantra 21 or 27 times, Pratipada to Dashami
If there are five people, each should go himself and light a lamp each — light them of mustard oil, light them of sesame, light them of ghee, light whichever one wishes — and recite that mantra 21 times or 27 times. At the least this should be done from the 30th of June to the 10th of July, from Pratipada to the Dashami tithi. This much everyone should do.
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?
Til oil should be bought pressed before your own eyes, especially around Navratri
That til oil should be used with thought, because around Navratri many brands of it appear with excellent outer packing and a thing inside that is not right; burn that til oil and it will only give you harm. If you can get oil pressed before your own eyes, take it; otherwise pure mustard oil, which nowadays is pressed by machines set up in many places. It will cost fifty or a hundred rupees more, but it is pure, and the deities will be nourished by it.
Which lamp should be given to Hanuman in the temple and at home?
In the temple, lighting a one-mukhi lamp for Hanuman is the best; if you light a lamp of ghee it is most excellent of all. At home you may do the seva-puja of a one-mukhi or a Panchmukhi Hanuman, whichever — there is no difficulty in it.
Is cold-pressed til oil all right for the lamp?
He answers frankly that he does not know what cold-pressed is, so how can he tell. What he knows is that there is a machine for pressing oil and it is got pressed in front of you and taken out; his sadhak friends send him pressed oil when he asks for it. What cold-pressed and hot-pressed are he does not know — he is not so lettered. He asks the listener to tell him the process once so that he may look at it; only there should be no use of any chemical.
Why do women in the South make lamps out of lemon juice at the Chamundeshwari temple?
Yes, this thing is done, he says, and he too will soon have it done — as the amla one and the coconut one are done, so he will tell the lemon one to be done too. The reason behind doing it is that lemon is extremely capable of driving negative energy far off; it works the most swiftly of all. As the wood of apamarg, the samidha of apamarg, smashes negative energy — striking like a shula, striking like a vajra — in that same way the lemon too casts a most swift effect. Laung and kapur too are very sharp.
Will a chameli oil lamp do for Hanuman at home?
Asked whether a lamp of chameli oil will do for Hanuman at home, he answers: it will do entirely.
Which lamp and wick should be used at home and in a temple?
It should be done with the long batti; the long batti should be lit. The khadi batti should be lit at the time of prayoga. At the time of aarti you may use the khadi batti, the long round one, the long one.
What is used in the aarti at the Vindhyavasini temple?
In the Vindhyavasini temple there is aarti of four pahars, he says; and the decoration and shringar of all four aartis is made using entirely natural, pure articles. The rua too is made by the pandits there themselves — you may see them sitting and preparing it behind the temple, at the Mata's khazana. Ghee is dipped into pure ghee, hardened, kapur and so forth mixed in; it is not a candle, it is a rua. It is hardened so that it will burn slowly, slowly. And it is used not only at the Vindhyavasini temple but at other temples too.
What is the "flower" that forms in a lamp wick?
It is carbon, he says. In a round batti the wick is a little smaller towards the top and the oil fills up; from burning again and again a soot is bound to form in it — there is a 99% likelihood that it forms. When the oil is not reaching the upper part of the wick properly, that is when the carbon begins to gather there, and that is when you say a flower has formed in the wick. There is nothing special in it. In Navratri everybody's forms, the maximum of people's forms; for those who do not clean it a big flower forms, and for those who cover it with a lid a bigger one still. Take a big lamp, keep the wick a little thin and fill it with oil, and through the whole day flowers of one kind after another will keep forming in that wick.
The lamp-wick flower is soot and rubbish, and the Navratri vrat vidhi says to remove it
It is only a thing that gives satisfaction to one's own mind, he says, and one video went viral and thousands of people have made and posted the same video. The flower has not formed there — you are becoming the fool; do not become a fool. If a flower is forming in the wick, it means there is impurity in the food you are eating; the flower is impurity. Read, in the Pauranik matter of the Navratra vrat, the vidhi of how the lamp and the wick are to be set right, when the soot that gathers is to be removed and what mantra is to be said. Had that thing been auspicious, it would have been said instead: a flower is forming, it is very good, let it form. But it is soot gathering; it is rubbish.
What ordinary observance is owed to the gram devata?
One should go for the ordinary pujan: one should go at the time of Holi, one should go at the time of Diwali and place a lamp there, and when a wedding or other auspicious mangalik work takes place in the house, an invitation should certainly be given there. The mistake people make here is not giving it. What will happen if we do not give it? Difficulty arises there, and afterwards there is much trouble; so this mistake you should not make. Bhairav ji has some form — his seva and puja should never be abandoned.
Is a Kalash installation needed on Guru Purnima?
Not at all obligatory, if you are not performing the Dev Deeksha Vidhan that day. Keep it ordinary; do not make it too intricate, since intricacy makes people run. But the lighting of the lamps is to be done beforehand — at least two, one for all the deities and one of ghee for the Guru Mandal.
A ghee lamp with a double wick is excellent for the Datta Mala Mantra
If you are doing Bhagavan Datta's Mala Mantra, a ghee lamp would be excellent. The lamp's wick should be double.
What oil may replace mustard oil?
The speaker will not tell anyone to use groundnut oil. Rice-bran oil, groundnut oil — if mustard is unavailable, use ghee.
How many Rudrashtakam paths and lamps go with the Rahu remedy?
Along with the abhishek, do the paath of the Rudrashtakam, at least eight daily. Light two ghee lamps in a Shiva temple. Then a most special kripa will be obtained by you and the shanti of Rahu will happen with the greatest speed. Along with it, if possible, also do the japa by the Panchakshari japa vidhi he has described.
The Chaturdashi falls on a Friday night, when the deep daan vidhi of Bhairav ji should be done at a Shiva temple or at home
This time the Chaturdashi falls on a Friday, he says. On that Friday, everyone listening should perform the deep daan vidhi of Bhairav ji — whether at a Shiva temple or at home, certainly do it. The Chaturdashi is on Friday night. It will be best if you do it in the night; if you do it at midnight it is extremely divine; otherwise certainly do it in the evening.
What if a person cannot afford the full deep daan?
People say there is no money for jalebi, none for bada, that they cannot make bada, that they cannot manage so many lamps, that there is an expense of a thousand or two thousand. If a thousand rupees is not possible, he says, there is no difficulty. Do it in whatever is the least you can manage — even if you have only five lamps, five lamps will do. But do it; certainly do it, because it is a written matter.
What is the order of what should be done on the Chaturdashi?
Do the deep daan first — that is the very first thing for Bhagavan Bhairav ji, he says. Those who have Bhairav ji's shri vigraha, a temple and so on, and all those who keep a vigraha of Bhagavan Batuk Bhairav ji at home, should do his snan, shringar, pujan, deep daan, arti and havan. Make the whole day Bhairavmaya.
What should be given in daan for Bhairav's grace, and how is deep daan done?
The live video will come by the evening of the next day, the speaker says. How deep daan is to be done for Bhairav ji, and how bhog is to be offered to him in a temple or at home, will be shown by actually performing it the next morning.
Should a lamp kept before a grandfather in the morning be stopped?
To a listener who says that in the morning they light a lamp before their grandfather, the speaker answers: if this thing is in the parampara and it is burning, then let it burn — why will you stop it? He adds earlier that on Kaal Ratri in Navratri it can absolutely be done.
Should a lamp be lit before an ancestor's photograph?
If there is no rule about it from before, the speaker asks, then why are you burning so much of a lamp — if you burn a lamp their atma will never be able to go. Lighting a lamp before ancestors is not found anywhere: it is only when the das gatra and the rest take place, of ten days, that it happened — and a photograph, a chhaya chitra, did not even exist in that manner before. Only that it burned, that yes, for eleven days the state of the atma is there; and after the das gatra was done, his own journey began. For Vaikuntha, or for what we call the bhavsagar, the Vaitarani and the rest, his journey would begin, and it was a journey of a full year.
What does lighting a lamp for a departed person actually do?
Now tell me, the speaker says: he has to make the year's journey of the Vaitarani and go to Yampuri, the pitru lok and the rest, or he has to go to Vaikuntha and the rest — and you go on lighting a lamp for him. What happens by lighting a lamp is that the shakti becomes fixed. The shakti toward whom you take a sankalp, targeting whom you kindle the lamp, becomes established in devatva in the form of a vahan. So the one who is in pret-tattva — he too will then remain right there. It is a different matter, he adds, if you have given him a place. Do not keep a photograph and light a lamp before it.
Where may a lamp for the pitrs be lit daily?
Yes, if it is done only on Amavasya the matter is different: on Amavasya a lamp can be given, for one day. Light one morning and evening before the deities. For the sake of the pitrs too you may, if you wish, do a nitya deep-daan, where in the kitchen the place of the drinking water is — there you can light it. The lamp that is kindled at evening, at the sandhya hour, beside Tulsi ji is also for the sake of the pitrs: Tulsi Maharani accepts it, and the pitrs too, being situated in her root, her trunk and her leaves, obtain their share. But if you do it targeting only one pitr, then in this there is difficulty.
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