Digbandhana
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A directional or boundary-binding ritual using Sabar mantras, restricting subtle energies from specific directions — prohibited on Mahashivratri specifically, since all cosmic dimensional doors are considered open that night and restricting directions would impede divine energies from entering.
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Why is Digbandhana prohibited during Mahashivratri?
During Mahashivratri, restrictive boundary-binding rituals using Sabar mantras (Digbandhana) should not be performed, since all cosmic dimensional doors and subtle channels are considered open that night — restricting directions would impede divine cosmic energies from entering.
Can the Durga kavach be used for dig bandhan and asan bandhan?
Yes. Within the one kavach, whatever shaktis have been named for the protection of the directions — you can do the dig bandhan with just that many mantras. Those who say they wish to do asan bandhan and dig bandhan before sitting in sadhana will find it happening automatically in the kavach paath.
Why are no bandhans used in this kind of sadhana?
The reason, the speaker says, is that in this period, in whatever sadhana you do, you will not use any bandhan. If you do it using a bandhan then that darshan will not occur to you at all — know this too. If you are doing Rudragana sadhana seated with a disha bandhan, seated with an asana bandhan so that no negative shakti may come, you are in your own place correct, not wrong — but then nothing will be seen, and the matter of experience is removed.
Which shaktis should be established in the eight directions at the foundation?
He says that afterwards, with the whole diagram or naksha of the house in hand — these are my corners — eight shaktis should certainly be established in the eight corners, at the neev itself. Whichever knowledgeable person you go to, let them employ for the ashta digbandhan whichever shaktis they use: ashta Bhairav, ashta matrika, digpala-related shaktis, or whichever mantras they have made siddh from their own shraddha.
What is the first survey to make before a griha bandhan?
For griha bandhan, he says, you should first see how many rooms the house has. Each room — or, if you do not go by rooms, then at least how many corners the house has in the eight directions, the four directions and the four corners, and what place is in each.
What happens if you insult the sadhak who did your bandhan?
He gives the example of having a digbandhan done by a very great Gayatri sadhak who has done a purashcharan of twenty-four lakh, with samput by ashta Gayatri and ashta matrika, so the bandhan was done very well. If later your paps rise, an exchange of words occurs and you say something wrong to him and it feels bad in his heart, then the pran urja he awakened there by his own tapobal will break somewhere. Its effect will grow slight — not that it will end, but it will slowly diminish.
How long does the ark digbandhan last?
He says that when we perform digbandhan with it, this digbandhan is not for a long time, but take it that its effect is in great intensity for at least a sawa mahina. The effect stays maintained for a sawa mahina; after the forty-five days of a sawa mahina the effect slowly diminishes; it works for three paksha. It is used especially when some particular work is going on and the effect of the bandhan keeps falling away again and again.
Is a protective circle needed in a temple during the eclipse?
No, the speaker says: there is no need to place a suraksha ghera in a temple in the grahan kaal.
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.
Should a karma-sakshi lamp be lit for japa by a river on a hill?
Yes, certainly — if you light it, it will be good, he says. And if you are doing this in such a deserted place, then bhumi shodhan and bhumi bandhan, asana bandhan and sharir bandhan should all be done, and only then should the kavach siddhi happen; the body should be secure, only then. If you are in a tirtha kshetra there is no problem at all. There, light one lamp without fail, wherever the place for lighting lamps is — it is not necessary to light it in front of you. Wherever the place for lighting the lamp is in that mandir, in that sthaan, light the lamp right there.
Why is Ganpati worshipped first in every Avaran, and what does that block?
Connect it to Tantra, the speaker says: wherever Ganpati's worship has been done — and whenever the Avarans of Bhagavati are worshipped, Ganpati is worshipped first — then even if some disruptive power is present at that place, once his worship is done its entry becomes forbidden and it cannot come.
What does the guru do before the shakti is made to appear?
When the guru, of his own wish, has given you divya drishti and the rest — what is called opening the eyes — saying that in this manner you will be able to see that shakti; when he has seated you in a raksha ghera and the like; and a forty-one day sadhana, or a three-to-four month sadhana, or a year-long sadhana has taken place — then, when such a shakti became manifest to you, you were told to take three vachans.
What is the effect of the water that goes into the earth during shivabhishek?
It has been taken as a measure, the speaker says, that whatever water goes into the earth through shivabhishek, to that measure the inner portion of the earth remains fluid, by which the power of that pind — of the Shivling, in a manner of speaking — remains considerably increased.
How does a dosha attach to a person during mantra japa?
He gives the case in brief. Suppose you are doing sadhana of some sabar mantra without the information. Whenever such mantras are told on the Shri Sabari Vidya channel, he says, it is always stated that before doing japa of that mantra you must certainly perform asan bandhan, dish bandhan and the rest, and the sadhana of Guru Gorakhnath, at least one day of each, and only after that take it up. If asan bandhan and the rest were not established for you, or some mistake has already been made, some negative shakti comes near you.
What comes between the nyasa and the path of the Datta Vajra Kavach?
A small mantra has been given for digvandan, the speaker says, and that should be done. Then there is the dhyana mantra. And after the dhyana mantra the path of the kavach begins.
No separate asan, disha or sharir bandhan is needed with the Datt mala mantra
The speaker says that when a sadhak does the dattatreya-mala-mantra sadhana, there is no separate need to do asan Bandhan, disha bandhan and the like, or sharir bandhan; by the effect of this mantra everything gets done. This, he says, is its biggest point.
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