Pradosha
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The twilight period within roughly half an hour after sunset — a specifically potent window for performing certain remedies, such as a Dooj offering to Lord Shiva.
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Daridra Dahan Shiv Stotra anushthan: purpose, starting day and times of recitation
The speaker says that when daridrata takes hold of a house, the family goes wanting not only for food, wealth and clothing but even for its smallest wishes, and the head of the house cannot meet daily needs; for burning this poverty he prescribes the sadhana and anushthan of Sadashiv's Daridra Dahan Shiv Stotra. It can be begun on any month's masik Shivratri or on a Pradosh, and it is best of all if Mahashivratri is available. The stotra does not need to be made siddh first — it only has to be recited continuously — though a certain vidhan done alongside makes it show effect sooner. It is recited mainly at two times: in the morning before 8 o'clock, or in the evening in godhuli bela, around pradosh kaal.
Combining the Vansh Vriddhi Durga Kavach with the Ghushmeshwar Mahadev abhishek vidhi
The speaker says the kavach anushthan is best done alongside the Ghushmeshwar Mahadev Shiva-abhishek vidhi taught on his channel. Then it starts on the same tithi as that puja — Mahashivratri, a monthly Shivratri or a Pradosha — and each day the kavach is recited before the abhishek. In severe trouble the two together bring quick relief; the kavach runs alongside for the month or the 11 days of that anushthan, as one is able. On the last day there is one havan: ahutis with the Ghushmeshwar Mahadev mantra first, then Durga's 108 names or the Jayanti Mangala mantra.
Dooj or amavasya milk offering to Shiva against abhichar: the procedure
The speaker gives a small but very strong remedy for a house or person under heavy Abhichara, done on Amavasya or on Dooj of either paksha, whatever the weekday, in Pradosha within half an hour after sunset. Take milk of a single-colour desi cow, one and a quarter litres if it is for many people or one paav if for oneself alone, fill it into a clay Kulhad, place it at your pujan sthan and pray to Mahadeva to protect the house and to remove and bind any negative shakti or abhichar that has entered. Then, at once and barefoot, go to a nearby temple, pour the milk over the Shivling, leave the kulhad there upside down, do pranam and return. Nothing else: nothing mixed into the milk, no dhoop or deep, only the milk. He says this is a starting point for people who do no puja beyond an ordinary dhoop-deep; a second, stronger remedy that needs pujan and some spending on materials he withholds for a separate video.
What is the chief item that follows the archan?
After this, the speaker says, comes the most prominent subject — deepdaan. Deepdaan is not to be abandoned. Always keep in memory, under any condition, that if any divine tithi comes in life then deepdaan must certainly be done, whether you do it in the pradosh kaal or in the nisha kaal. So on the night of Sharad Purnima too, let deepdaan certainly take place.
It is hung at the godhuli sandhya and should burn an hour or two, no more — not a lamp that goes on twelve hours.
Hang it then, at the time of sandhya. It should be set going by the godhuli time in the sandhya, and should burn at least an hour or two — not very much more. The lamp should not be so large that it goes on burning for twelve hours, he says. One to two hours is quite enough.
Which is more important, Shiva Trayodashi or Chaturdashi?
Asked which of Shiva Trayodashi and Chaturdashi has greater importance, he says the Chaturdashi vrat has been heard of, and that Trayodashi is Pradosh — Trayodashi and Chaturdashi are vrats related to Bhagwan Shiva. Whichever of them you have shraddha toward, becoming dedicated to them, you can keep the vrat of that tithi. There is also a calculation in it, which he says he would have to see and tell — how many ghati and pal should be reckoned when and how; the whole vidhi-vidhan should be known and only then should it be done.
At what hour does the Purnima begin, and when is Vaikuntha Chaturdashi observed?
Asked at what time the Purnima will begin, the speaker first objects that a situation is being created nowadays in which people finish everything a day early. Today itself Harihar Milan and Vaikuntha Chaturdashi were observed, because the Chaturdashi fell in the pradosh kaal today. But if you go by authenticity, since bathing in the morning has the greater importance, the Chaturdashi has indeed begun today at 4:15 pm — so tomorrow morning, after bathing, Harihar Janmotsav, Harihar Milan and whatever daan-punya is to be done for Vaikuntha Chaturdashi will be done.
The Purnima begins at 4:15 pm, so Dev Deepawali falls in that day's pradosh kaal
Tomorrow, after 4:15 pm, the Purnima begins, the speaker says. So this much can certainly be done: Dev Deepawali is to be celebrated tomorrow, because in the pradosh kaal Dev Deepawali will fall tomorrow itself. As for the Dev Deepawali celebrated in the city of Kashi Vishwanath, when they are celebrating it there will have to be seen from that side — whether they celebrate tomorrow or the day after.
Which tithi does the Diwali cycle begin with?
It begins from Dwadashi, and first of all the importance is of the Dosha vyapini Dwadashi. Of the five festivals of this Diwali, the principal pujan is otherwise reckoned by seeing sthir lagna and so on, but it is held that the fruit of the pujan is obtained properly only according to the tithi that stands at evening.
Is a sesame-oil lamp forbidden for any deity?
It can be used generally. In some places a description is found that a sesame-oil lamp should not be lit for Bhagavan Shiva — the speaker has heard from elders that on the Trayodashi tithi a sesame-oil lamp should not be lit before Shiva, and says he has no reason for it himself.
A Rudrabhishek yajna may be held on the Krishna Paksha Pradosh if the shivvas has been looked at and is proper
The speaker says that on 30 August there will be the Krishna Paksha Pradosh. If the shivvas is proper, then you may have it done — you may have it done on the day of shivvas, having looked at it. But if you are around a jyotirlinga kshetra, there is no need to look at the shivvas.
Tithi for the first forgiveness puja, by deity, and the month of daily japa that follows
The speaker says the first forgiveness puja at the temple is done on the deity's own Tithi: Purnima for Hanuman, Pradosh, Trayodashi or Panchami for Shiva, Shukla Paksha Ashtami for Baglamukhi, Ashtami or Navami for Durga, and likewise for other deities. From that day until the same tithi comes again next month — Amavasya to amavasya for Kali — one lights a lamp at home every day and recites the same kshama mantra 108 times.
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