Khandita
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"Broken" or invalidated — the technical status a Sadhana is checked against after an interruption; for example, a death occurring in a practitioner's hands while trying to save that person during Sadhana does not make the Sadhana Khandita.
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If someone dies in a practitioner's hands while being helped during sadhana, does that make the sadhana Khandita (broken)?
No — a death occurring while a practitioner is actively trying to save that person's life during sadhana does not make the sadhana Khandita; if the deceased is family, standard Sutaka/Pataka mourning rules apply before resuming, and if an outsider, a simple purificatory bath is enough to resume.
Should a panchmukhi rudraksha worshipped as Parvati be given visarjan?
When you are already doing the puja of the panchmukhi rudraksha in the swaroop of Bhagavati Parvati, then why do you wish to give them visarjan, he asks. If they are broken, then do the visarjan. If they are not broken, then let them remain in the pujan; why is visarjan to be done? Two years of effort, and you want to do visarjan of it.
Rudraksha are cleaned well after the abhishek and never left standing in water.
Although it does not break, the speaker says — he has been doing this for at least more than eight or ten years, and till today his has not been khandit. But they do not leave them in water: after the abhishek they clean them well, dry them, wipe them with a cotton cloth, and only then do the shringar.
Many obstacles came in the middle and sutak broke the sadhana on the third day.
A listener reports that last time he did the Sankat Nashan Ganesh sadhana, a great many obstacles came in the middle, and on the third day the sadhana became khandit because of sutak.
What is the remedy when Ganapati pujan keeps running into trouble?
If trouble is coming in the pujan of Ganpati ji, Lakhan Singh ji, then the very first thing is that you should reduce the pujan at home a little and do the pujan of Ganpati ji in a temple — at least for one paksha certainly. After that, begin it at home.
Does a mala breaking near the end of a sadhana mean the Devi is displeased?
It cannot be taken so. When you do a great deal of japa it sometimes happens that the thread has grown weak and breaks. Take it as a Deva-yoga and surrender it. It is not that Bhagavati is displeased. If the mala begins breaking again and again, that is a matter of difficulty.
Should a Narmadeshwar Shivling be brought if a sphatik Shivling is already there?
Absolutely not, the speaker says: if a sphatik Shivling is already there, then do the pujan of that one alone. Why bring a Narmadeshwar? So long as Bhagavan is seated in that form, so long as their grace is there, let their seva-puja alone take place. Only if — god forbid — they should ever be broken, or take upon themselves the effect of some particular graha or nakshatra, should you then bring some other Shivling.
Is the sadhana broken if the mala thread snaps midway?
No — do not keep the doubt in your mind, since you completed it. The proper method when a mala breaks midway is to restring it fully, perform its Pratishtha procedure again, and then do at least 51 mala of that same mantra separately, for the removal of the fault, before going on.
Vishnu was felled by the staff, and Shiva, enraged, severed Ganesh's head from the trunk
The son of Shakti struck Vishnu again with the staff; being Bhagavati's given power, Vishnu could not bear it and fell to the earth, rising at once to fight again. At that Shiva, exceedingly angered, appeared before him and severed Ganpati's head from the trunk.
What if brahmacharya is broken during a Datta Mala mantra sankalpa?
A questioner had taken the sankalpa of the Datta Mala mantra but brahmacharya was broken. If brahmacharya was broken, then all right, there is no difficulty, he answers; begin a new one again.
What did one saint's guru identify as the cause of his broken sadhana?
Reading the account of a saint with whom this state kept recurring, the speaker relates that the saint asked his guru: I never do any lustful contemplation, nor read wrong literature, nor watch such moving pictures, I have left everything and no such feeling comes into my mind, yet my sadhana keeps being broken again and again — how is this happening and what is the cause behind it? The guru asked him how and from where he eats his food. He said a certain person cooks it and he eats from that person's hands. The guru said: just change that, do not eat food from his hands.
Why are good sadhaks svapaki — cooking their own food?
This is the reason, the speaker says, that good sadhaks are svapaki and cook and eat food with their own hands. The grain that is being cooked — trouble will come from whose money that grain belongs to, from how that person earned it; that too will have its effect on the eater, for as the grain, so the mind. Secondly, what feeling was in the mind of the person cooking with his own hands at that time.
What is the effect of eating food cooked by an outsider?
When you eat food from the hands of an outside person, the speaker says — you eat from some such person, or there are other members in the house and you eat from their hands — if their thought was running in that way at the time, and they cooked the food in that state of thought, then that effect falls upon the body.
May one eat food from another household during a sadhana period?
Asked whether one may not take food from anyone's house during the sadhana period, the speaker says one ought not to. Regarding food, this much should hold: that the meal be cooked by oneself, or that it be from the hands of whoever keeps sattvik thoughts — that is more proper.
What should be done when a sadhana keeps breaking before completion?
Asked whether, if a sadhana breaks a few days before the end of a 30-day sadhana period, the effect and fruit will be obtained, the speaker says: if the sadhana is breaking before completion, then first of all, if this is happening again and again, do the seva and puja of Bhagavan Vighneshwara Vinayaka. And take the sankalpa in it — that for whatever cause this may be, be it pitr dosha, dev dosha, pret-pishach dosha, or a vichar, O Vinayaka, do the uprooting of that dosha, and have my sadhana completed.
Is the fruit lost if a sadhana breaks at the last moment?
This thing is not right, the speaker says — that the sadhana is about to be completed and at the very last moment it becomes broken for whatever reason. The obtaining of the fruit is a separate matter: the grace of the deva will indeed be received; it is not that it will not be received if you leave the sadhana. But materially this thing is not right.
When does an anushthan become khandit, and what saves it during travel?
If you leave it off when it is to be done, then the anushthan will be held to be khandit. But one more thing has been told for this: suppose you were doing eleven malas of japa daily and have gone on travel — then there, after bathing, sitting in some holy place, if possible one mala, and if not possible then at least five times, or eleven times, keep doing the japa of that same mantra properly. If this is possible daily through the whole period of travel until you return, then the anushthan is also not held to be khandit.
Should a broken marble shivling continue to be worshipped?
Asked whether a marble shivling that has broken should be worshipped or not, he says a shivling has not been held to be khandit — such proof from many scholars and from the shastras has been given. But if your mind is not settling there, then in his view, if it has broken you should install a new shivling, because he himself does not feel settled about it, so how can he say otherwise. The proof of shastra stands in its own place, but here your mind too must settle; if it has broken in such a state and the mind is not settling, then that is a different matter.
The Rameshwar Jyotirlinga, held to be the central point of the Vindhya kshetra, is broken and still worshipped.
Go to the Vindhyachal kshetra, he says, where the Jyotirlinga of Bhagwan Rameshwar is — the Rameshwar Jyotirlinga, held to be the central point of the Vindhya kshetra. The Giri pujaris do the pujan there, and that shivling is entirely broken; you can tell just by looking, quite clearly. But there is no shivling that large in the whole Vindhyachal kshetra. It is a divine shivling. From outside you will wonder what there could be there, but the moment you enter the temple, on seeing it your mind will go completely blank at what an astonishing place it is. So it depends.
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