Energy Density
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About 12 hours in paper, 11 years in brass, 25 in silver and 100 in gold
Energy retention scales with the material: about 12 hours in a paper photograph, roughly 11 years in a mobile-consecrated brass idol, about 25 years in silver, and about 100 years in gold — with regular daily worship continually extending it.
The energy mechanism of sacrifice: the creature's energy bound to the wish by sankalpa
The speaker says the chief shaktis through whom devotees are helped, in dharma or adharma, are shaktis, and the matter of energy is separate: energy is collected, preserved, projected toward the wish, and then the fruit is obtained. In Bali, he says, the energy of the Jivatma is bound to the energy of the offerer's wishes through the Sankalpa mantra; after the Bali the chief working shakti of that peetha, who accepts and fulfils the wish, receives that energy and it is projected, and the wish is completed, whether it concerns Shatkarma, Paushtik Karma or any other desire. He says a Mannat made beforehand, to offer Bali once the work succeeds, works in exactly the same way.
What is special about the five nights of Diwali even for someone who has done nothing?
Assuming you have done no anushthan for protection, no kavach, nothing at all, and that abhichar is already present — even then, in these five nights of Diwali the shakti, the energy, whether negative or positive, remains present at its highest level. It is for this reason that it is said that siddhi is obtained quickly in this period.
Why is Bhairav pujan compulsory in any Bhagavati anushthan?
The speaker says that under this vidhan, whichever shakti and whichever swarup of Bhagavati a person takes up, Bhairav ji's pujan happens compulsorily. Without doing Bhairav ji's pujan and anushthan, a Bhagavati-related mantra either does not give full fruit, or its energy becomes so intense and so great that the body has no power within it to hold that energy.
How is the difference in quality of samagri known?
The difference you will come to know when you take it in your hand, the speaker says. The difference you will come to know when you do japa and the like — you will see then how the divinity in it increases or decreases, and then you will understand. Looking at your own kalash, you will come to understand it yourself.
Why does sutak make touching a vigraha forbidden, rather than the devata itself becoming untouchable?
Consider, he says, that nine or ten hours before an eclipse falls, sutak sets in — and in the time of sutak the touching of Shri vigrahas stays forbidden. In the time of sutak the devatas do not become untouchable; the sutak attaches in our body. We do not remain fit; this body of excrement and urine does not remain fit that we should touch a deva vigraha. It is for the sake of our own welfare, because that is a maha-urja endowed with countless tattvas, and if we touch in such a state, we will have the difficulty.
Why does the sutak reasoning extend to a rajaswala sadhika, and what balances her flow?
In exactly the same manner, he says, after the deva vigraha, women come before men. In the rajaswala state the quantity of countless tattvas within them is the greatest of all; the flow of their energy at that time is entirely unbalanced; and it is only and only Bhagavati Kamakhya who balances it. Women have a connection with the highest shakti of creation.
What does the smoke of the dhoop do beside the lamps?
The speaker says the smoke that emerges from the dhoop will be absorbed by the eleven deepaks burning together — they draw that thing towards themselves, and a vacuum is created there in which all the surrounding smoke is pulled in. When you are doing a havan, that same condition arises on a large scale, and all the negative energy has to move away from its effect.
What is the shiv kshetra around a temple, and why does it matter?
The speaker refers listeners back to his previous live, in which he discussed the five tantric vigrahas and the shiv kshetra — the field that lies within a radius of a hundred dhanush from a shivling or a Shiva temple. Knowing it, he says, one understands at each step which field one is entering, whose gaze falls there and which swaroop is adhipati there.
May the Ambubachi cloth be filled into a kavach and worn?
If she does obtain it, then yes, she may certainly fill it into a kavach and wear it, the speaker says: the effect of Bhagavati will be very great. But he adds that before wearing any divine thing on the body, before holding a divine thing of that kind upon the body, one should think a hundred times over whether our body is capable of bearing energy of that kind or not.
In what form did Bhagavati Tara appear to Bamakhepa?
When you read the life story of Bamakhepa ji, the speaker says, Bhagavati Tara was direct to him — but never in the form described in her dhyana mantra, with four hands, scissors in the hand, the mundmala, upon the shavasan. He asked to have her darshan in that manner; she said that if we manifest in that form you will not be able to bear that energy. He did not accept it, and when Maa began to assume that form his condition worsened and he began to lose consciousness; Maa came again in the mother form and protected him, set him right.
Why is a daily path of the Tantrokta Devi Suktam recommended above all else?
He says he tells people again and again that if in life you do anything or nothing, do one path of the Tantrokta Devi Suktam. Through it, the whole matter of pratishtha, the energy, the prana urja, is present there in the greatest density — the greatest quantity of energy, if one may put it so, comes from the Devi Sukta. Therefore always do it.
Why does destruction take more energy than protection?
Because, he says, at whatever level of consciousness the one who creates and protects lives, the samarthya of the one who destroys is many times greater — samarthya meaning that it moves together with buddhi. At whatever level you can think for protection, he thinks many times more for destruction. The energy required for the destruction of a thing is many times that required for its protection. The destroyer projects his things without thinking that only so much damage will be done when we act; whereas the protector has to think that my samarthya is only this much, we will only be able to do this much — how shall we do more?
Do shaktis really come in bodily form in this age?
They absolutely come in bodily form in this age, the speaker answers, but the form is very often not according to the Vedic description, because none of us in this age has the capacity to bear the tej of the Vedic form. He tells how Vama Khepa insisted with Bhagavati Tara that she show him the form imagined in the Vedic dhyan mantra if that was her real form.
In what form, then, will the shaktis appear to an ordinary sadhak?
The speaker says they will come in bodily form and will certainly come rightly, and many people have the experience — but you will not come to know of it; or even if you do come to know, they will give darshan in an ordinary human form only, whose tej we are able to bear.
Years of mantra japa and stotra reading create energy, anger and heat in the head — how is that controlled?
We take the name of one thing again and again, he says — we always tell it. Whichever devi or devata you are doing seva-puja-paath of, only doing mantra japa, only doing japa of a stotra or a kavach again and again and awakening it by an anushthan, is not sufficient.
What happens if tarpan and marjan are not done?
If you are not doing tarpan and marjan daily, or are doing only very much japa, then the energy in your body will increase and will then not remain controlled there; it will remain unbalanced. It is so that a state of imbalance may not arise that it has been said that from time to time one should do tarpan with the sahasranama of whichever devi or devata you are worshipping, upon the yantra and the like, and should do marjan on one's own body with that same tarpan water.
How awake is a temple where narbali once took place and goat bali still does?
It will be very jagrit, the speaker says. Such temples have great capacity; but people do not use that capacity well, do not employ it, forget it and abandon it. Then it comes to an end — the chetana of that kshetra which stays awake gradually passes into a state of sleep.
Why is a pregnant woman forbidden the pujan sthan?
Going to the pujan sthan is forbidden because the level of energy there is never balanced or of one kind, the speaker says, and the growth of the child in the womb needs stability. He compares it to a doctor forbidding repeated ultrasounds because of the effect of radiation on the child's brain: in your pujan sthan there is the dwelling of devis and devatas and shaktis and their coming and going, so it too is a field of energy. Because of the presence of the devatas' energy, the jeevatma that has come into the body and is about to assume its form will face difficulty. And the second, shastrokta view is that from the third or fourth month, since it is a woman's body with a child in the belly, some fluid or other keeps issuing from the body, so the possibility of the body being impure remains; if in such a state a touch occurs to some object or to the deities in the pujan sthan, that too will incur a dosha.
Pratyangira's energy strikes the sadhak and the household first, and must be digestible
The speaker says bhav and kriya are two different things: bhakti done from bhav is one path, but in tantra bhav comes later and kriya comes first. When one recites the Mahapratyangira svarup of Bhagavati Bagla, the tattva of the eight shaktis named in Pratyangira falls first on the sadhak's own body, Aura and Sukshma Sharir, and everything depends on whether the sadhak and the family members of the house have the capacity to digest that energy. If no Rudrabhishek of Sadashiva was ever done in that home, no Shivling ever kept, no Shiva pujan, no Shivratri vrat, no kalash sthapana or special puja in Navratri, not even an aarti, and one went straight to Pratyangira upasana out of over-enthusiasm, then the energy that forms will do what it does.
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