Tripindi
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The rite performed after Narayana Bali to complete the liberation of a soul bound by an unnatural death or negative influence.
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If a soul is already in the ghost realm, can another negative energy attach to it, and how is it liberated?
Yes — a soul in Preta Yoni can absolutely have other negative energies attach to it. If Narayana Bali alone isn't enough (because the soul is bound by black magic or a Tantric rite), the liberation sequence is Chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita with a Sankalpa, then Bhairav worship, then Narayana Bali, then Tripindi.
What remedies address repeated untimely deaths or severe ancestral blockage (Preta Dosha) in a house?
Perform Narayana Bali and Tripindi Shradh at recognized sacred sites, conduct systematic Rudrabhisheka of Shiva with buttermilk on Panchami Tithis, and seek refuge in Mahavidya Sadhana and Lord Bhairava under proper guidance.
What remedies pacify ancestral or lineage deity wrath (Kuladevata and Pitru Dosha)?
Recite one chapter of the complete Devi Bhagavata Mahapurana daily before a ghee lamp with a Sankalpa seeking forgiveness for ancestral and personal errors — if financially able, also arrange Narayana Bali (for unnatural deaths), Tripindi Shraddha, and a Shrimad Bhagavata Parayana.
The kul pitrs are brought into favour first — hard for those who never do Tripindi, the Gita or panchbali, but to be done especially in these five days.
First of all, for the sake of the kul pitrs — the kul pitrs should be brought into your favour. For those who never do Tripindi, never read the Bhagavad Gita, never do panchbali, never do anything, it is a little difficult; but in these five days especially this should be done for the kul pitrs.
Can Bhairav give gati to pitr who will not move on?
He says these forms also have a very great contribution in stopping such entries and in bringing about their gati and mukti. Many times the discussion arises that Narayan Bali has been done, Tripindi has been done, and still the pitr are not taking gati; these kaad pitr are causing great upheaval. Such beings are a yoni too — a vayavya yoni, a vayu-pradhan body — and their attachment may be to food or to a body.
Those who mock pitru karma while alive will find their own children giving them no pind
If you do not wake up now, he says, people like him who speak openly on such subjects have to hear abuse. Your children will not give you pind. While you are alive you cause uproar and say nothing happens after death; but open your eyes and see how pret and pishaach cause upheaval in a house. Only when the water goes over the head do you start acting — let us do Bhairav ji's puja, let us do something for the pitrs. And even then you show the pitrs so much favour that the whole anushthan goes in vain, saying ten times over that we left work and came, that Narayan Bali will have to be done all our lives, that Tripindi is a sham for looting.
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.
What is the permanent solution for a troubling pitr?
Whether the pitr troubles a daughter or a son, the solution is one — that they should be satisfied and contented. Temporary remedies, giving water, doing jeev seva, will stay temporary. If you want it permanently, then either, if you know which pitr it is and know their name, let Narayan Bali be done for them and let their gati happen; or else the Tripindi fourfold, four times, four samvatsaras, and a daily Gita path in the house. Only then will it happen, if you want a permanent solution.
Why does Tripindi Shraddha sometimes produce no benefit?
Two reasons. If the ancestor is already bound by abhichara, they must first be freed — the rite cannot be forced on a bound spirit. And if the ancestor's own desires and defects have not ended, their progress will not occur however many rites are performed.
The trigunatmak shaktis satisfied in a Tripindi shraadh coalesce directly in Bhagwan Datta, so the pitrs are satisfied by the worship of this one form.
He says the pitrs are satisfied at once. In Tripindi, where the trigunatmak deities are satisfied — in the Tripindi shraadh, for the removal of the pretatva of three kinds of prets — the coalescence of those trigunatmak shaktis occurs directly in Bhagwan Datta, by the worship of this one form alone. That is why, he says, Bhagwan Datta is present in the guru mandala in one form or another, in every parampara.
Up to how many generations of ancestors should be worshipped?
Three generations, or as many as you know. The scriptural limit is seven, because the birth of the eighth generation liberates the seventh — Gaya seats seven, while Tripindi Shraddha covers three: father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
When should Gaya Shraddha be arranged, and is Pitru Paksha the recommended time?
Tripindi Shraddha can be done at any time with no difficulty. Gaya Shraadh is a vast undertaking: it requires the cooperation of every household descended from your grandfather's brothers, because seven generations are seated. Arrange it only when that much family is willing.
What should be done about an old human skull buried in the land?
First have a Tripindi Shraddha performed at that place so it obtains its Gati, or a Gita recitation with Sankalpa — try for its release first. If it does not accept, or is causing trouble, then go into the Tantrokta operations: a Varah or Varahi havan there, or a seven, nine or eleven day Mahavidya havan.
What is done at a teerth kshetra to liberate a bound pishaach or upadev being who has agreed to it?
The speaker says that if they do agree, then take them to a teerth kshetra — Gaya, or Trimbakeshwar, or whichever teerth kshetra they name — and there, on their behalf, have Gayatri jap, the shraadh sequence, tripindi, Narayan bali and nag bali done as required, and liberate them. Afterwards the house should be made completely pure again by having a path of the Sundarkand or an Akhand Ramayan and the like performed there.
How long do pitrs remain if their sadgati has not taken place?
If one is not capable, or if for some other cause such as abhichaar dosha their sadgati is not taking place, then in such a condition they have to remain a minimum of three generations. Reckon three generations from their birth and death; their presence will remain until then, and after that their sadgati takes place, if Narayan Nagbali is performed in the third generation. For pitrs, seven generations has been held. Worship, he adds, is a separate matter: the Mahakali vidhan he has given, done at a Kali temple where there is a peepal tree, is done outside and works indirectly through Bhagavati.
Why is the varshiki done one year after a death?
The speaker says that when someone in the family dies an Akala Mrityu, no Narayana Bali, no Tripindi Shraddha and no Varshiki is done, because nobody waits a year. Yet for the Jivatma the fifteen days of Krishna Paksha are day for the pitrs and Shukla Paksha is their night, so one of our months is a single day for them; the twelve-day journey to Yamlok takes twelve of our months, and that is why the varshiki is done after one year. Now people do the varshiki on the thirteenth day itself or forget it, nobody does the monthly rites, nobody goes to a tirtha for narayana bali after an akal mrityu, has a Srimad Bhagavat done, goes to Gaya or gives daan; the dead are gone, and who watches whether they come for the water?
What should be done if quarrels increase during a sadhana on account of the kula pitrs?
If the matter is of such a kind for the sake of the pitrs of your kula that it recurs again and again — and especially if this quarrelling increases at the time of a sadhana, puja or anushthan — then have the Tripindi and the rest performed in the name of the pitrs of your kula.
What should be done for the Pitrs and Kula deities at Kamarupa?
Worship there for your own Aradhya, your deity, your Kula's powers and your Kula's Pitrs, all of them. Give Daan for the Pitrs; if you can have Pind done in the Brahmaputra, do the Tripindi. If not, sit there and scatter grain for the fish, or give a Daan, or perform a Tarpan as capacity allows.
Does the chaukhat prayog remove pitr dosha permanently?
No — the speaker stresses that this is temporary, not a permanent remedy. Even if the pitr's affliction is pressing on you at full force, they will at once become calm, their wrath will subside and they will stop troubling you in dreams or in daily life. But the complete solution, he says, is that once they are fully appeased, one should get Narayana Bali, Tripindi and the like, and a Bhagwat, done for their gati so they are fully sent onward — they are not to be kept held back. When Narayana Bali is done, he says, will be covered separately.
The vachan's largest clause is five or twelve years of service against a promised tripindi and moksha
After the perfecting is done, the same vachan is taken from them, and the single biggest term and condition in it is this: I will take service from you for so many years. You will serve me for five years, and after that I will have a tripindi done for your moksha, I will have this done — whatever it may be, he will say that in the vachan there, in the region of the shamshaan and the like. Or he will say: I will take service from you for twelve years, and after twelve years I am bound to give you moksha. In this manner he will take the vachan.
Narayana bali, Tripindi and pindikaran are performed for one who died an untimely death
In tantra, he says, it is those who die who become bhoot and pret. For this person who has attained death, on account of the untimely death you had Narayana Bali done, had Tripindi Shraddha done, had japa and pindikaran and the rest done — so that he should go into the pitr kula according to his prarabdha; and wherever you went, to whatever tirtha dham, when you have that process performed there, he comes and stands in the pitr kula, though he will not go into the deva kula.
Deaths in a family at fixed intervals: Narayan Bali, Tripindi and Bhagwat, and what they really cost
The speaker says that when a family loses a member at a fixed interval — every fifth or tenth year — it is usually put down to Pitru Dosha, and the remedy for such repeated Akala Mrityu is to get Narayana Bali done for all the untimely deaths so far together, then Tripindi Shraddha, then a Bhagwat. Society has made such a bogey of these that people are told it costs lakhs — a lakh each — but that is only for a big event with a pandal and a seven-day katha; done simply, the whole 11–12 day sequence can come to about 50–60 thousand. Even so, he says, families that borrow to pay hospital bills have been filled with such hostility towards this puja-path that they call it useless, and it is niyati itself that keeps such people wandering and bound so they never move forward on it.
Resolution of a family abhichar case and the speaker's test of a real result
The speaker says that as the family kept at it all together, the devatas' Kripa came, the disturbed intellect calmed and the Uchchatan was gradually cut. After a year the way opened for Tripindi Shraddha, Narayana Bali and a Bhagwat, and the whole matter cleared — about two years in all. His lesson: keep faith, do not let go, keep hold and walk on; self-confidence will form, deva-kripa will begin, and that same power will then handle your whole matter. But the final blow on the enemies is the main thing: he only shares an experience once the enemy has been struck, because the one raising the havoc must be punished. Here Bhagavati Pitambara and the kul's own pitrs turned every trouble onto the perpetrators — who were members of the same family — and a death and a partition followed in their house.
What should be done for an akal mrityu of twenty-five years ago whose kriya was never done?
Asked what to do for the mukti of someone in the house who died an akal mrityu twenty or twenty-five years ago and for whom no kriya-karm was done, and how to be saved from the dosha of it, the speaker says: for that, have the Narayan bali, Tripindi and Nagbali performed, and have a saptah yagya of the Shrimad Bhagavat performed, have the mool paath performed. And yourself too, if you can, do the paath of the Shrimad Bhagavat and the rest, or that of the ishta whom you worship. And do the paath of the third adhyaya of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita again and again — a hundred percent their gati will take place, if it was an akal mrityu. But continue it for some time, and with the whole heart surrendered.
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