Pasha
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The noose — both a literal weapon (as when Indrajit bound Lord Indra with it) and the technical term for binding mantras used to neutralize or create an energetic barrier between a household and its deity.
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Can a tantrik really bind a deity?
The speaker says that in the Ramayana era Indrajit bound the panch devas — Agni, Varuna, Yamraj and the others — with his powers, and got his name because he bound Bhagwan Indra himself with a Pasha and carried him off; so such powers certainly existed then. Asked whether anyone today can bind a deity, he answers that binding of deities is possible and people do it, but what gets bound are lok shaktis, the partial (anshatmak) attendant powers — never Mahadev or Mahakali in person, because nobody today has the capacity even to hold such a power. He adds that Bhagwan Shankaracharya, whom he calls Shankar himself, did Utkilana of fierce shaktis at many places so that people of Kali kaal could not misuse them; anyone that capable today would neither do such a thing nor ever appear openly. Binding happens in this limited way, he says, and its cutting happens the same way.
How an enemy binds a household's ishta or kul devata with bandhan and pasha mantras
The speaker says the ishta or aradhya deva a family has worshipped for generations — or for one, five or ten years — is present in the household in a partial (anshatmak) form; with regular morning and evening puja the ang devi-devatas come and take seva, and the house prospers. When an enemy projects tantra at that house, he first gauges what can stop its sattvik shakti, its deities and its Pitrs — how satisfied the pitrs are, how much punya has been done for them, how much they can do. Then a prayog runs with a Sankalpa and Bandhan and Pasha mantras that make that energy dull or inactive so it cannot act for you, or place an obstruction between you so it cannot reach you. Removing that obstruction is your own work, he says — someone has to do it, and because people do not know this, it stays and the deities can do nothing for them.
What is bhujang, and what is bhujang vidya?
The speaker says the serpent is called bhujang; and if you are asking about bhujang vidya, then pasha vidya is called bhujang vidya. As you will hear from kathakars here and there, when Shiva ji became displeased with someone, with some deva or for some reason, and put them into a bandhan, he bound them with Vasuki, bound them with a bhujang — so Vasuki is also his pasha. Bhujang, he says, is a synonym for serpent.
How is such a being actually liberated?
The speaker recalls the example he has given before from the Shiv Mahapuran: for liberating the pishaach named Bindu, an ordinary attempt was first made, and afterwards, having bound him — with the capacity to do so — Tumburu the Gandharva recited the whole Shiv Mahapuran by singing it to him. In the same way, either those whose gati is to be caused must themselves agree that yes, have my gati done; or, if they do not agree, some sadhak strong enough must bind them by his own shakti with pasha vidya and the rest and make them agree; or, if they still do not agree, then they should be given to some Brahm sthan, some separate place. A place should never be given to them in the house.
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