Kar Mala
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Counting Japa or Ahuti recitations on the fingers instead of a physical rosary — a practical alternative for smaller counts, such as offering one raisin (from a set of 11) after every 10 counts during a Havan.
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What are the rules for the Mahabhairava mantra rosary and Havan hand technique during extensive offerings?
The rosary from the first Mahabhairava mantra Anushthan is worn around the neck for protection, with subsequent Anushthans requiring a separate dedicated mala; for extensive Havan offerings, the mala is held in the left hand (covered) while offerings are made with the right, and smaller counts can use Kar-mala or 11 raisins.
How much japa is done in the Guru Purnima diksha vidhi?
After that, as strength allows, he did japa of twenty-seven malas or 108 malas of Bhagwan Shiva's Panchakshari mantra. If there is no mala, do it with the karmala; if that too is not to be done, then sit for a quarter past an hour, or at least even fifteen minutes, and do the japa of the Panchakshari.
Is counting japa on the fingers a valid method?
Asked for the vidhi of counting japa by hand, the speaker says: ah, you are speaking of the kar mala — very well, this is also correct.
What mala should be used, and what if one has none?
There is a full rule for japa in the PDF. For the Mala, you may take one of Rudraksha; by now, he says, anyone who has been listening to the videos for this long will surely have a mala. If there is no mala there is no difficulty — you can do the japa with the Kar-mala as well.
Can the ekakshari or the mala mantra be done as a one-day vidhan?
Titu ji asks whether one may do japa of Bhagavan Dattatreya's single-syllable beej mantra, or japa of the Datta mala mantra, and make a one-day vidhan of it, and whether Kar-mala japa may be done. You certainly can, the speaker says, and you can do a one-day one too. But after doing the one-day vidhan, from the next day do at least one mala of japa each — do one mala of japa of the single syllable, and certainly recite the mala mantra at least five times.
How much japa may be done on the Kar-mala?
You cannot do very much japa on the Kar-mala — keep the count limited there, to 108 only. Do the larger japa on a mala, and perform the Nyasa process within that.
Which mala should be used for this japa?
Whoever has any rudraksha or other mala given by their forebears — parents, grandparents, maternal grandparents — or any old mala, should do japa on that this time. If there is a mala received from a guru, do japa on that. Those of the sadhak parivar who have received a tantrokta rudraksha mala through him, who have been connected three or four years, are doing it on that. Whichever mala you have been doing japa on already, do it on that. If there is no mala, use the kar mala; if you do not know the kar mala either, sit for half an hour and do it.
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