Navchandi
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A ritual recitation cycle of the Durga Saptashati performed nine-fold, carrying profound significance when performed exactly according to scriptural injunction.
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Navchandi: the Chandi path done over the nine days of Navratri
The speaker says that when the whole Chandi Path vidhi is carried on for nine days, from Pratipada to Navami, it is called Navachandika. That is the Navchandi Anusthan vidhi as done by a sadhak. It is the same full paath, repeated through the nine days of Navratri.
Which mantra and vidhan are given if a child's trouble persists?
Even if nothing at all is found and it still seems that some subject is present here, then, he says, in the twelfth adhyaya of the Shri Durga Saptashati, in the mahatmya spoken by Bhagavati, there is this mantra — Bal grahabhibhutanam balanam rakshanakaram param, the mantra Rakshobhoot pishachanam. Making a samput of this mantra, one should have at least nine paaths of Saptashati ji done, which becomes a navchandi, at some temple of Durga ji; along with the paath of Bhairav ji, of Batuk Bhairav ji. That is, there will be a samput of the ashtottara satnam of Batuk Bhairav ji, and the whole vidhan of the Saptashati; the Saptashati will be samput with the Bal grahabhi mantra.
The vidhan answers graha-caused, material and mental conditions arising with the child
Have it done by this, he says, and then whatever is happening with the child — if some graha-caused subject, some material subject, some mental subject is arising — benefit will certainly be obtained in it.
Must the pitru karma be repeated, and how far does one's duty extend?
Once Narayan Bali has been done and Tripindi has been done, if anyone in life says to have it done again there is an uproar — our father had it done ten years ago, our father had Navchandi done ten years ago. You ate food ten years ago too, he retorts; are you still running on that? Understand everything and act: whose share is whose, give it. Your responsibility as a human being is over the whole of nature — over trees and plants, over creatures, over devatas and rishi-munis, over your family, your parents, your husband or wife, your children, your gurujans, even your friends.
Vindhyachal remedy for the doshas of an improperly done Navarna japa
The speaker says that after four or five years of consulting different people without benefit, the sadhika met, at a friend's Navchandi anushthan in Kolkata, some priests from Vindhyachal. On hearing the whole matter they told her the ill effects were due to the mantras she had done — the mantra's energy was misfiring and producing many kinds of dosha — and directed her to come to Vindhya kshetra, make kshama yachana before Mai, take darshan everywhere as far as possible, have a Saptashati path done once, do further kshama prarthana, and do japa of the kshama mantra, since Ma is very compassionate and will forgive.
What anushthan should be got done when there is trouble at home?
Asked by a listener whose home has trouble whether some special anushthan should be got done by a pandit ji, he says by all means have it done — right now have the Saptashati done. Have a Navchandi done; nine days, and the very best is with a samput.
What exactly does he prescribe for the bhoomi pujan?
He says that whenever you go to have a house built, have the bhoomi pujan done before the neev pujan. For it, first have the cleaning done, purify the whole place well, if possible have gaumutra and panchagavya sprinkled, and then whatever you can manage — either a twenty-four-hour akhand kirtan or akhand Ramayan at that place; and if that is not possible, a Sundarkand paath with samput, putting in mantras of the kind where Hanuman ji comes; or if possible have a Navchandi performed there first.
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.
How long does the Navchandi Mahayagya run and how does it conclude?
That whole anushthan is running for two days, today and tomorrow, he says. Tomorrow the Chandi Yag will run the whole day long. Tomorrow, after the feeding of the brahmins and the sadhus and saints, the purnahuti is also to take place tomorrow itself.
Jagadamba willed the Navchandi at Govardhan, and its fruit is surrendered to her
Whatever we are doing now, the speaker says — as we have come live, as today, on account of all of you and through our medium, the Navchandi is happening at Govardhan Parvat — we should not say that we are having it done, that we did it. That should not be. If that happens, then there is difficulty. This should be the bhava in the mind and we say it too: there is no capability within us; it was Jagadamba's wish, she had it done, and to her that fruit is surrendered, to her that work is surrendered.
Can a divine shakti attach herself to a sadhak during a great anushthan?
The speaker says that when a human performs a very large anushthan — as they had just performed a Nauchandi anushthan on Govardhan Parvat, amid the cows, at the place of Shri Krishna — a divine shakti of that region may become pleased and wish to accompany that sadhak, to be worshipped by him and to do the work of jan-kalyan with him.
A Sat Chandi path is being held in the Vindhyachal trikon for the first time.
Many Saptashati-related sadhanas are broadcast on the channel that you may do independently, and the experiences connected with them are there too, he says. Give further momentum to your surrender towards your aradhya — and this year, this Chaitra Navratri, for the first time a Sab Chandi path of Bhagavati is being organised in the Vindhyachal trikon.
Darshan of the golden pataka and simha dhwaj on the summit gives the complete fruit of Bhagavati's darshan.
If darshan is done of the golden flag, the golden pataka set upon the summit, the simha dhwaj that is fixed there, then the complete fruit of Bhagavati's darshan is obtained. And in such a time, in the middle region of this trikon, at a special place, at a tantra peeth — the place is not a hundred percent decided yet, it will be decided by tomorrow or the day after — at one of those places of Vindhyachal the Samput Sat Chandi of Shri Bhagavati is being held for the first time.
Durga Saptashati samput anushthan or Navchandi with rudrabhishek for a heavy maran prayog
If the Abhichara is very heavy and the danger has clearly not passed after the six vidhans, the speaker says the seventh step is to have suitable sadhaks perform a Durga Saptashati Samput anushthan — one paath or nine, one day or five or seven — or a Navchandi Anusthan, as one's capacity allows, together with a Rudrabhishek, ideally of a Parthiva Shivling, all at home, if one has the means.
The Rashtra Sant Maharaj of the Datia Baglamukhi Shakti Peeth performed a Shatchandi with the Baglamukhi mool mantra as samput at the time of the Chinese attack.
That display of siddhi, he says, was done by the Rashtra Sant Maharaj ji of the Datia Baglamukhi Shakti Peeth. You read and hear and see its description everywhere: that with the mool mantra of Bhagavati Baglamukhi as samput — though the description comes as being with the Saptakshari mantra as samput — he had a Satchandi performed when China attacked India, and they had to fall back. He had the capacity, he says; and one who has the capacity of a person will show only that much. Whatever brahma tej Jagadamba has given, whatever a man's prarabdha is, in that manner he does the work.
The navchandi anushthans of this parva are performed at Kashi and in the Vindhya kshetra.
After all this has been given, the speaker says, if you have the wish, the capacity and the financial means, and you want something done for you in the tirtha kshetras too, then try to join the anushthans and give your details. The navchandi will be at two places, at one a navchandi and at one only five paths. In Kashi perhaps only five, not nine, because the sadhak Brahmins will also be in the anushthan of Bhagavan Datta, so that much will not be possible; it is a single day anushthan. But in the Vindhya kshetra the navchandi will be done there with samput mantras for the sake of Bhagavati Tripur Bhairavi and Bhagavati Annapurna.
Kathas are commissioned as spectacle, with postures and gestures that have nothing to do with anushthan
Perhaps it is not Bhagavati's wish, the speaker says, and she gives no one such good sense. Those who commission things commission kathas — different sorts of postures and gestures, women seated on the vyaspeeth, nothing to do with anything, just enjoyment; the Bhagavat katha runs and nothing happens. Resistance to the atrocities, he repeats, is entirely possible; the one commissioning it and the one performing it both have to be of the right kind.
How many Saptashati paaths should precede a prayoga for a desired end?
At the least it is good if a Satchandi is completed, the speaker says. You may use it in work after a Navchandi as well; but if you have done 108 paaths plainly, without samput, for the sake of obtaining Bhagavati's grace and offered them to Bhagavati, then after that you are authorised and may use it in work. You must have the adhikara, though — there must be diksha, of the Navarna and the rest.
How may a Navchandi anushthan be arranged so it is not a burden?
The speaker says anyone can do the Navchandi, and to do it by the Mahavidya krama. He points to the Shri Durga Archan Paddhati published by Thakur Prasad, in which this subject too is stated: if you wish, a Navchandi anushthan by the Mahavidya krama will take nine weeks. You will begin on a Sunday and complete on a Saturday, one Chandi at a time, doing the anushthan nine times in this way. It will happen easily and will be no burden.
A dispute broke out at a Navchandi over offering the ahuti of vach with sakal, and the granths settle it.
The speaker recounts that at a Navchandi or perhaps Shatchandi anushthan a discussion broke out over the ahuti of vach — that one should not offer the ahuti of vach taking it with sakal — and someone asked where it is said so. He says that one who asks where it is said has never looked into the Durga Archan Paddhati or the granths relating to the yaga of Bhagwati Durga, nor into the Durga Kalpadruma or Sharada Tilak and the places where haviṣya and the like are discussed, or else his guru ji never told him. The reason why it should not be given is clearly stated there.
Navchandi anushthan on Vindhyavasini Shashthi with the Saptashati's Nand Gop Grihe Jata verse as samput
The speaker says the Navchandi anushthan held at Atas on Vindhyavasini Shashthi, for the welfare of all, was done by brahmans with the samput of the Saptashati's eleventh-chapter mantra "नंदगोपगृहे जाता यशोदागर्भसंभवा। ततस्तौ नाशयिष्यामि विंध्याचलनिवासिनी।" — the Devi's own declaration — so that Ma Vindhyavasini be supremely pleased; the full vidhi with sankalp was followed. In the recorded path the brahmans chant this mantra before and after each verse of the Narayani stuti, and in the havan the same mantra is offered again and again with "स्वाहा", later prefixed with "ओम". He calls it a rare fortune: the Devi's principal tithi, her principal vigraha, and her own mantra as the samput.
A path for the Devi's own pleasure or the welfare of all pleases her more than a kamya prayog
The speaker says that in a kamya prayog we ask Bhagavati's grace to be freed of every obstacle, yet somewhere in it there is our own wish — that we obtain this, that this trouble of ours be removed. But if on Vindhyavasini Shashthi the path is done for her pleasure, for her sake, or is held for the welfare of all, then Ma is pleased by it even more. He hopes Bhagavati will keep calling them to her seva in the time to come, and asks that whoever goes to that region take darshan and do puja of this form of Vrindavaneshwari Ma Bhagavati Vindhyavasini.
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.
What is a Chandi anushthan, and what are Nav Chandi, Shatchandi and Sahasra Chandi?
The complete mantras of the Saptashati, seven hundred mantras together with the six angas, are the mool Chandi. When nine avrittis of that same take place over nine days, or when nine brahmans do it together in one day, it is Nav Chandi. When it becomes a hundred it is Shatchandi; and when it becomes 1008, or a thousand, it is held to be Sahasra Chandi.
How is a tantrokta nine-brahman anushthan different?
And in the tantrokta anushthan, the speaker says, where nine brahmans perform the anushthan together, those nine brahmans will not perform anybody else's anushthan; they do not stay within our anushthan. Where people have great anushthans done — that this thing of mine must happen — then the aim is that yes, there will be a Nav Chandi, there will be a havan of nine days, a very extensive pujan of nine days takes place. Those nine men will do no pujan-paath anywhere else; theirs is fixed, and one man is having it done. So his expense is of lakhs of rupees, and it has nothing to do with the fact that here they are doing it in 1100, that in 700 they all together are doing it well. If someone says to have a Shatchandi done in nine days with that vidhi vidhan, then the expense in that is lakhs upon lakhs.
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