Dwarapala
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The threshold guardian deity of a household, alongside the Kuladevata, Pitrus, and Kshetrapala — one of the shared household energies an occult attacker within the same home may attempt to bind or turn against a resident.
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Under one roof the Kuladevata, Pitrus, Dwarapala and Kshetrapala are shared, and the attacker binds or turns them
When both parties reside in the same dwelling, the household deities, ancestral spirits, threshold guardian, and territorial guardian are all shared — through specific occult procedures, the attacker often binds or turns these subtle household energies against the victim.
Where is each of the four worshipped?
Bhagavan Ganpati's pujan at your main door, and at the pujan place near the kalash; Bhagavan Shri Batuk Bhairav ji's pujan also near the door, and near Bhagavati; Hanuman ji's pujan near Hanuman ji's dhwaja and near the kalash; and Bhagavan Narsingh's puja on the threshold of the main door of the house, on the dehli, on the chaukhat — and near Bhagavati.
Why is the threshold the place for all four?
If you want to do the samyak pujan of all of them in a very particular way, then the pujan of all four will happen on the dehli — because once the kalash sthapana has happened, Bhagavati will be seated within your house, and the mool sthan of these four will at that time remain at the door alone. Having a dehri, having a chaukhat, is extremely necessary; and if you are doing the chaukhat pujan daily in Navratri, then you are satisfying very many shaktis.
What is the rule about the chaukhat in general?
Do not keep them standing there for long — call them inside, saying come in and sit, or step outside and talk. On the chaukhat, he says, never keep anyone standing at all: neither sit there yourself nor seat anybody, nor stand. Either come inside the main door or go outside the main door — one of the two.
What determines where a projected prayoga lands?
Now in this, when we do the prakshepan — that is, when people perform the maran process — it stands determined, according to their devata and according to the ten doors that are in our body, in which region the effect will fall upon the enemy opposite. Maran karma does not happen from one region alone.
Who stands as Bhairav at the Kolhapur Mahalakshmi temple?
The speaker says that if you go by the tantra granthas, you will be astonished to find that there Ganapati is present in the form of Bhairav, as the dwarapala; and if you go by swarup-bheda, then Narayan turns out to be her Bhairav. According to the Puranas Ganesh ji is a swarup of Narayan himself, so a slight difference arises. He adds that he obtained this from the priests of the Mahalakshmi temple when the listener had asked before.
Who is worshipped at the door in a mandap pujan?
The speaker says that in the mandap pujan of anyone at all, of any devi, both Ganapati and Bhairav are worshipped there. At the Mahalakshmi temple the pujan of two Ganapatis takes place on both sides; he cannot give the two names, but Ganapati is what is established there in the form of Bhairav.
Does scripture support Ganapati standing in Bhairav's place?
The speaker says that whenever you read a description of the devi's loka in any grantha or Purana, this thing is seen there too: Bhagavati has innumerable swarups and innumerable lokas, and in whichever loka's description you read, very often you see Ganapati seated at the gate in place of Bhairav. This, he says, confirms what he said earlier — that it is not necessary that Bhairav ji alone be in Bhairav's form; it may be Hanuman ji, it may be Ganapati.
Should a vigrah of Panchmukhi Hanuman be fixed on the main door?
Asked whether the vigrah of Panchmukhi Hanuman should be fixed at the main door, he asks in return why a vigrah would be fixed there. Do not fix a vigrah; you may fix a pratik chinh, a swastika and the like. A vigrah should be kept in the puja sthan and worshipped. They stand at the door of Ram ji, he says — not at your door and mine.
What is done before entering the Shiva temple?
First bathe and complete the pujan of the house. Then go to the Shiva temple and light the karma sakshi deepak first of all, wherever deepdaan is done there. Then remember Kirtimukh ji and Ganapati ji, and the shaktis seated at the door — Mahakal, Kirtimukh, Nandi ji, Bhringi ji, all these dwarapalas together with Bhairav ji — and only then enter the Shiva temple.
What is the bali at the threshold when a bride enters the house?
Know that the vidhan is this: when a marriage has taken place and the bride steps down at the house, a bali is offered first and she crosses over that bali, over that blood, at the chaukhat. He says he can give proof from tantra granthas of exactly which shaktis dwell at the chaukhat — that so many shaktis are present near the threshold at the time of dwar pujan, always and daily.
Shiva entered while Parvati bathed, scolding Nandi at the door — the incident that fixed her resolve to make a doorkeeper of her own
Shiva entered the house while Bhagavati was bathing — scolding Nandi, who was seated at the door, and going in. She felt this was not proper, and resolved that there should be a servant who was excellent and fit, and who would not be moved from his place without her order.
In the Devi Mahapurana Mahabhagavata, Vinayak guards the Devi's inner door and Bhairav the outer gate — as in a temple
In the Devi Mahapurana Mahabhagavata — not the Shrimad Devi Bhagavata — the Devi's realm is described with Ganapati seated at every door. At her principal gate Bhagavan Vinayak stands in her service; and at the outermost gate the place belongs to Bhairav.
How was Ganesh made, and what was he told?
From the Ubtan, the film on her own body, she formed a figure complete in every auspicious mark and by her Sankalpa-shakti gave it life. He asked what her work was; she said — you are my son, become my doorkeeper today, and let none enter my house without my order, not even by force.
Shiva came to the door for the sake of Lila, was barred, and was struck twice with the staff
Ganesh would not let him in — the mother is bathing, without her order you cannot go inside, go away from here. Told "I am Shiva and no other", he struck him with the staff; told again that this is my own house, he grew angry and struck a second time.
Bound by his mother's order and facing a settled resolve to kill him, Ganesh was greatly grieved
Because he is bound by Bhagavati's order, and these people are growing angry and saying that they will now kill him. He was greatly grieved on hearing the Shiva Ganas speak with such settled resolve.
Ganesh replied that both sides serve their own master, and that today let Parvati and Shankar each see their own strength
That he, alone and a boy, would still carry out his mother's order; that today let Devi Parvati see her son's strength and Shankar see his Ganas'; that if they are stationed at Shiva's door then he too is certainly stationed here — and that they should obey Shiva there, while here he obeys Parvati.
How many paths lead up Nilachal, and who guards the eastern one?
The ascent of the Nilachal parvat has begun by the eastern path. There are eight paths, by which the journey is made from all eight corners, and in the eight paths there are different dwarapalas. The dwarapalas of this eastern path are Ganpati ji, Manohar Agni Baital ji, Ghantakarna ji, Hanuman ji and Nandi ji. So the first darshan in the order of ascending the Nilachal parvat is that of Bhagavan Ganpati ji.
The first pujan on the eastern path is of the dwarapalas Ganpati and Manohar Agni Baital, before going further
The speaker says one should ascend on foot, and that when you come for the darshan of Bhagavati Kamakhya you should first stay in the city of Guwahati and take darshan of all — Urvashi Kund and the rest. Here it is Bhagavan Ganpati ji whose darshan and pujan is to be done first, and thereafter at this same place one must offer dhoop, deep and naivedya in the name of Manohar Agni Baital. The first pujan should certainly be of the dwarapala; only after that are we to go ahead.
Stay in Guwahati first and take adesh at Urvashi Kund, the Brahmaputra, Umananda Bhairav, Brahma Kund and Pandunath before the ascent on foot
Make the journey on foot; whenever you come, first stay in the city of Guwahati itself, and from there first take darshan of Urvashi Kund, the Brahmaputra Nad and Umananda Bhairav ji. Thereafter you must obtain the command at every one of those three places — ask for the command at Urvashi Kund too, that we be given the command and the capability; and at the Brahmaputra Nad, at Umananda Bhairav ji, at Brahma Kund and from Pandunath ji as well. Leave akshat and pushpa in all their names in the Brahmaputra Nad or beside Umananda Bhairav ji and take the command.
Whose place is the threshold of a house or temple?
Whose place, he asks, is the dehri, the dehli, the chaukhat — whether it be the temple of any deity or the house of anyone? The deva who sits on the chaukhat will be one and the same, the greatest deity: there the authority of one deity alone is greatest, Bhagavan Narasimha's. It is not there that Bal Gopal sits eating makhan-mishri; there Narasimha sits tearing open the hearts of such vidharmi shaktis, wearing a garland of entrails and drinking blood.
What is a permanent solution for a south-facing house?
Asked for a permanent solution for vastu dosha in a south-facing house, the speaker says that merely being south-facing does not allow one to say this: along with the south facing, all the other subjects have to be looked at, and he asks the listener to send a simple drawing by Telegram message. As a very small general remedy for south facing, he says the bandhanwar that is used to decorate the main door of the house should be made of yellow cloth, or decorated using yellow as much as possible.
How are Ganpati and Batuk Bhairav placed around Bhagavati there?
There, in the swaroop of Bhagavati that is there, the Batuk Bhairav who is there and the Ganpati who is there are both in their bala swaroop, and in bala swaroop they are established as the protection of Bhagavati's east, at different doors. So on one side of a door Ganpati, on the other side Bhairav; then on another side a second Ganpati, a second Bhairav — many gana Ganpatis and many Bhairavs are established there, or that place has been given to them.
May a Ganpati murti be placed at the main door of a house?
The speaker says a murti of Ganpati ji is never to be fixed at the main door and the like; a pratik chinh, a symbolic mark, is what is placed. You may place such symbols before your house — a swastika, or Bhairav ji's trishul. But do not seat an adorned Ganpati ji at the main door. If you do seat Ganpati ji there, then arrange his daily seva puja there. In his own view the pratik chinh is best.
What if you live in a city and know of no veer?
If you have no information about anyone, if you live in a city and cannot find out at all which veer is worshipped there, then you should go and give puja at that Hanuman ji temple which stands at the boundary of your town; or at a Bhairav ji temple which is on the boundary of the town or near it, giving the puja of the first and last day there, according to what is offered to them at that place.
What if the boundary of your town is not fixed?
Look, the boundary of a town does remain fixed, the speaker says. By town it is not necessary that you take the whole entire city — you may take the boundary of your own mohalla as well. A boundary does remain; there will not be such a thing as one without a boundary. Look at the map; see the boundary in it. And if you cannot see even that, then look at the police map — a kotwali does have a boundary; wherever your kotwali's boundary is, from there you may do it.
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