Laghu Purashcharana
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A short mantra recitation — at least 27 or 100 rounds, or half an hour of silent chanting — performed after Darshan at a pilgrimage site; a pilgrimage is considered incomplete without staying at least one night and performing it.
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Why is a Laghu Purashcharana required to complete a pilgrimage?
A pilgrimage is considered incomplete without spending at least one night at the holy site and performing a Laghu Purashcharana — at least 27 or 100 rounds of chanting, or 30 minutes of silent japa — after Darshan.
How much time should be given at a tirtha, and what should be done in the water?
We always say, he says, that one should pass a night there. Do not go to a tirtha kshetra so that the train arrives at 8 in the morning, we bathe by 10 and catch the train at 12 and are gone. If you go only to bathe, that is a special circumstance and is a different matter; but go with enough time. At the least, having reached and bathed, according to the capacity of your body, sitting in the water or standing in it, do japa of the mantras of your aradhya to the utmost of your strength — half an hour, an hour, fifteen minutes, whatever is possible for you. Let one laghu purashcharan happen in it, because the fruit is held to be koti-guna: if you do a thousand japa, that japa has become equal to a crore.
What forms of rudra japa are done to remove disease?
For rudrabhishek it has been said that to remove rog, the japa or abhishek of the Laghu Rudra, Maharudra and Atirudra is performed.
How is an anushthan that could not be completed restarted?
Ravi ji, no matter that the anushthan could not happen, the speaker answers — begin from tomorrow now, or else from Guru Purnima.
What is to be done in a Bhairav anushthan?
Asked what has to be done in a Bhairav anushthan and for the vidhi of the anushthan of Batuk Bhairav ji, the speaker says that first, at the beginning, it is those very things that should be done.
What if I am doing no sadhana at all and am confused?
If you are doing no sadhana, are not capable of doing one, do not have that much capacity to sit, or are very confused right now — the confusion is more than needed and the wish simply does not arise — then he gives a very small task. Begin from the day of Dhanteras, or else from Kali Chaudas, and do it at least up to Bhai Dooj. If you want to do it for three days, then Chaudas, Amavasya and Pratipada — do that much.
On which day should the Hanuman Chalisa be perfected, and at what time should a five-day laghu anushthan be done?
Do it on the day of Chaturdashi, on the Saturday, he says. Asked at what time each day it would be proper to do a five-day laghu anushthan sadhana, he says there is no difficulty about the time, but evening is much better; for the rest, do it according to your work there, according to your office.
Any protective anushthan already performed should be repeated now — a three-day laghu form at minimum, with a havan on the last day if possible.
Whatever anushthans you have already performed before for your own protection should certainly be performed again. Suppose someone has already done the anushthan of the Vairi Nashan Kali Kavach — then in these times let him do at least a three-day laghu anushthan of that Vairi Nashan Kali Kavach, and a havan on the last day if it is possible.
What is done on Tara Navami, and what can a householder do?
On Tara Navami they have been performing a separate one-day anushthan — for about two years now, he thinks — and it will be held separately again. He asks listeners to do it at their own homes as well, and if possible to certainly perform the vidhan of havan that day.
What if illness interrupts the counts mid-month?
Suppose that much did not happen — health became bad, some difficulty arose; you were doing 2000 and your health failed. Then, brother, in place of 15 come down to 10, come to 5; even that much will happen and it is a great deal. Suppose you could not do the whole month and managed only 15 days: in 15 days it became half, so in place of 15 it became 7.5 lakh — that is not little. Reckoned in sava lakhs, at least four or five purashcharans of yours are done, and that is divine in itself.
At minimum, an anushthan of five lakh Panchakshari — a hundred malas make ten thousand japa
If you can do nothing else, he says, do at least an anushthan of five lakh of Panchakshari. If you do a hundred malas, then a hundred malas means ten thousand japa.
How is a one-day anushthan of the Shakambhari Kavach done at a Shakti Peeth?
The speaker says that once you have the practice of the Shakambhari Kavach, then when you go to a Shakti Peeth — say you have arrived today — today at your ease find the place, look around, wander the whole place and see where you will sit and do the japa. Then the next day, at first light in the early morning, the darshan is to be done; it should happen in the bhor itself, and before sunrise is most excellent. After that sit at your ease on your asana and do at least 108 path of the Shakambhari Kavach.
A minimum recitation is named for making the paath siddh, though the count the phrase intends is not clear
Ordinarily, for making it siddh, the speaker says one should do at least "एक स्वार्थ पाठ" — what could be less than that? The transcript carries the phrase in that form and the count it intends is not clear, so no number is supplied here.
How many repetitions make a mantra count, and how many for a stotra?
For a mantra, the speaker says, in the counting of it you should at the first time do at least five lakh of any mantra — complete five lakh within the year. For a stotra, complete up to 1100 within a navratri and the like; after that, do as much nitya paath of it as you can, and keep repeating its anushthan from time to time.
If a lakh and a quarter cannot be done continuously, what unit should be used?
Asked whether, if a lakh and a quarter of sadhana cannot be done continuously, small anushthans of 25,000 each may be done, the speaker says yes, certainly — it will count, but do it continuously. And rather than an anushthan of 25,000, he says, do one of 27,000: because with 27 and 27 it becomes 54, and 54 and 54 becomes 108, and in this way you keep increasing. Then when you do 27 again, your lakh and a quarter will be completed comfortably.
Which one-day anushthan can be done on Aghor Amavasya?
The anushthan of that very mantra of which you have done the most japa and whose effect you want should be done on that night before Bhagavati — let it be the mantra of any devata whatever. Along with it let there be the pujan of Bhagavati, and a request to her: O Jagadamba, make this mantra the most intense. This, he says, is what he is telling in relation to material matters; for spiritual benefit you may do as you wish, as per the vidhi.
Can a one-day anushthan be done on Aghor Amavasya for the siddhi of a chalisa?
Yes, certainly it can be done, he says. On Aghor Amavasya, in the vidhan told by the chakra vidhi, forty-one paath have to be done. The chakra vidhi that has been given — how any chalisa is to be made siddh by the chakra vidhi — that you may do on that night.
The guru mantra alone may be completed in those three days
Ajay ji, yes, certainly, he answers — you should complete the guru mantra itself; it will be very fine. And, he says, you have already told me: the mantra of the one whose swaroop this is is already obtained by you; they have done such grace upon you from time to time. So message once on Telegram, and we will see and have something special done for you. Do a small three-day anushthan related to them; you are also in so good a place, and every arrangement is already with you.
For how many days can such a seva be kept?
Take it as settled that you can do a seven-day or an eleven-day one, he says. If you wish to do it daily, then it is not possible; he has said this thing before as well.
What should be done when something always intervenes before a sadhana can start?
If you cannot manage it, then do not begin a big sadhana, the speaker says. Do a three-day sadhana; do a five-day one, a seven-day one; do not do a long sadhana. And if even that is not possible, then do a daily sadhana: on whatever day you are well and in order, complete a one-day anushthan of 11 malas of japa and one mala of havan. Do it like that, and do not take up a big sadhana.
Can Kala Kalua be stopped by the Hanuman Janjira?
Yes, absolutely, it can be stopped, the speaker answers. To Sunil Parasi ji, who writes that whenever he begins any puja or sadhana, after three or four days trouble comes and strife arises in the house, he says: do only a three-day sadhana. Do the three days and do not do the remaining days.
One-day Purnima form of the Shakambhari or Annapurna sadhana, and Paush Purnima as her avataran day
Apart from Navratri, the speaker says the Poornima of the month of Paush in particular has been called Bhagavati's avataran divas, the day Jagadamba took this swaroop, and on that day a one-day sadhana may be done in a special way. If short of time, the Annapurna or Shakambhari sadhana may also be done as a one-day sadhana on the Purnima tithi of any month: japa to one's capacity in that day, 5,000 japa with its dashansh Havan, Tarpana and Marjana, and a bhoj of one kanya, or one kanya's food, clothing and shringar articles, which may also be donated at a temple.
What should those entangled in court cases do on Holika night?
Those caught up in court, cases and lawsuits, or with old doshas of that kind that are not being cut, should all perform a special anushthan on this night; swift benefit occurs. And if you live in such a kshetra, you should do parikrama on whatever the parikrama path of that tirtha is.
Does an anushthan for a particular problem remove it completely?
Asked whether performing an anushthan for a specific problem uproots it completely or whether it must still be borne in future, he answers that if the prarabdha is left in a very light measure, or a small problem remains, or one that can be discharged up to a level, then the anushthan too will be of that same kind.
What are the three grades of anushthan?
The anushthan too is of three kinds. One is entirely ordinary. The second is of a high grade, and the third is of the ugra grade. Which one you are doing, and what your prarabdha is like, will decide the result.
What do the high and ordinary grades of anushthan give?
If you do the high grade, it may be that you have to bear a little, or else the circumstances become favourable to you and it is cut without your ever knowing. If you do the ordinary one, in that a solution of the problem is obtained up to a large extent, and some things, according to prarabdha, you also have to cut through yourself.
How many repetitions of the Pitambara Sitaram anushthan on Holika?
Asked in what number the anushthan of Pitambara Sitaram can be done on the day of Holika, he says do a minimum of 108, and as much beyond that as is possible.
If one is already in an anushthan, may another be taken up at Holika?
Asked in English whether, if one is already working on an anushthan, one may pick up an anushthan specially during Holika dahan, he says: since you are doing an anushthan, at Holika he would tell you to do that same anushthan again and, if you wish, in a maximal form. If you take up some second anushthan there is no benefit from it. Give more speed to the one anushthan you have been doing all along, and try to perfect that very one.
May a new anushthan be run in the morning alongside the old one at night?
No. Asked whether a new anushthan may be taken up in the morning while the earlier one is done at night, he says that in his view that thing is not proper, and that he will forbid it again and again — because his chief purpose is that the anushthan we are about to do should give its full fruit with intensity, and mixing two things together will not be proper.
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