Mahamari
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Pestilence or epidemic recognized in texts like the Devi Mahatmya as a severe manifestation of the Goddess, whose retinue forces execute karmic retribution during such periods.
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What is Mahamari, and how does sacrificial ritual relate to it?
Mahamari — pestilence and epidemic — is recognized in texts like the Devi Mahatmya as a severe manifestation of the Goddess; during such periods Her retinue forces execute karmic retribution, and sacrificial rituals are prescribed to pacify these intense energies.
Who is forbidden even the touch of Tulsi?
Take the wearing of Tulsi: someone initiated into the kula of Bhagavati Tara, he says — if someone is initiated in that parampara, then for them what is Ekadashi and what is Tulsi ji. As for Tulsi ji, if someone is initiated in the Vamachara vidhi, then for them even the touch of Tulsi ji is forbidden; they are not to touch the wood of Tulsi, especially if they wear a Mahamari mala and the like. There the niyam becomes different.
A Navchandi Mahayagya has begun at Govardhan Parvat against the lumpy mahamari in cows
He says that the Navchandi Mahayagya of Bhagavati Nav Durga has begun that day at Govardhan Parvat, for the destruction of the mahamari named lumpy that has spread among cows — so that the mahamari is destroyed and Gau Mata is properly protected and saved. So many deaths have occurred, he says, that pure ghee of Gau Mata is not to be had around you. It has been made possible only with the cooperation of the listeners.
Why is Vindhyavasini worshipped rather than Dhumavati in a mahamari?
Asked why he does not petition Maa Dhumavati in a mahamari, the speaker answers that we will petition the form in which we have faith. Our faith is entirely in Vindhyavasini. The ten Mahavidyas are situated within her form; she is the Mool Prakriti. We will petition her alone. Your faith is in Dhumavati, so you do it for her. For us, she herself will assume the form of Dhumavati, if she has faith in our bhakti, in our shraddha, in our surrender.
The worship of Corona Mata was superstition spread by making a new deity out of the epidemic.
Although these things happened earlier, now they have become very few, he says. Speak of the present time: as Corona came, you will have seen the videos — the worship of Corona Mata had begun in between. A whole photograph of Corona Mata was made, victory to Corona Mata, a Chalisa of Corona Mata came out. In this manner superstition was spread.
What is called the prakop of Sheetla Maa is the devi leaving the body and Visphotak entering it.
The reality, he says, is that in tirtha regions too, when the prakop of Sheetla Maa Bhagavati occurs, people say it is the wrath of the devi. Wrath there is — but what is it? Whatever is Visphotak, or whether you call it chhoti mata or badi mata, does not enter someone's body; rather she has left the body and gone. When the devi will leave the body — however sinful you may be, however meritorious — but when a dosha attaches, when a dev dosha attaches, when she leaves the body, then Visphotak enters into the body. Visphotak was a daitya. When a man commits some insult of the devi, then it is held to be so: he enters into the body, she leaves the body, the sharir tattva goes, the devi tattva is removed.
How did high shaktis come to be installed against epidemics?
Speaking of what spreads in the form of a mahamari in different places, he says that for their shanti the sadhaks of that time laboured very hard — whether Kaul sadhaks, or sadhaks of the Nath sampraday, or upasaks of Bhagwan Datta. So in place after place such shaktis were established, which were shaktis of a high order, and in the course of time they became worshipped by society. Those who came to be worshipped were then accepted in the form of Bhavani; the name of Bhavani was given to them, the word Bhavani was attached before their name, and they became worshipped.
Calamity such as Corona comes without any prophecy, and the Mahamrityunjaya kavach anushthan is the protection kept against it
Calamity is not such a thing that it happens only because somebody said so — it can come at any time, the speaker says. Was there any particular prophecy about Corona? People say there was not; whether there was or was not, the calamity came and there was trouble in it. If those who have long been urging the anushthan of the Mahamrityunjaya kavach and the like had kept doing it, then at least some more lives would have been saved.
What do the names Preta Bhakshani and Nara Bhojika mean?
Among the chief sixty-four Yoginis, one name is Preta Bhakshani and one name is Nara Bhojika. People will run away merely on hearing the names, saying how dangerous a name it is. But nowhere, he says, does it mean that Nara Bhojika is now eating men. Bhagavati certainly devours those who are wicked — but bhakshan does not mean she will pick them up and eat them. All these are forms; one is not to be alarmed by them or run from them.
Those to whom Bhagavati has given the capacity to arrange a mahayajna are not being given the sadbuddhi to do so.
Why can it not be arranged, the speaker retorts — those to whom Bhagavati has given the capacity to arrange it are not receiving the sadbuddhi to do so. Those who have been given the means have not been given the good sense. He contrasts this with what was done with the means he was given: on the 6th and 7th of November a two-day Navchandi yajna for gau raksha, on account of the epidemic named Lumpy spreading among the cows, with Navchandi yag and havan by eleven Brahmans, savamani feeding of the gau mata, and feeding of Brahmans and sadhus as far as was possible.
Will those who died of Corona obtain mukti?
He says he answered this in a previous live too. Because it has been designated in the form of a mahamari, and a death that takes place in a mahamari is always an untimely death, the full vidhan that exists should be performed for their mukti as well.
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