Vanaspati Tantra
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Tantric practice that uses a specially obtained and consecrated plant or plant-part (root, leaf) as the working ritual item.
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The vine invited a day ahead with akshata and flowers, the root taken in Shravana nakshatra or on Guru Purnima
A betel-leaf-vine root is obtained (ideally in Shravana Nakshatra or on Guru Purnima) after inviting the plant a day prior with Akshata and flowers, extracted before sunrise the next morning, wrapped in red cloth with a washed silver coin, and carried daily to a Shiva temple.
Fully grown, with aerial roots hanging from the branches down to the ground — never a young sapling
It must be fully grown, with aerial roots hanging down from the branches to the ground — small or young saplings should not be used.
Why Sanatan prescribes classified seva of cow, dog, Tulsi and Peepal
The speaker says vanaspati and Aushadhi hold immense importance in Tantra, and quotes the saying that mantra, mani and aushadhi all three give fruit according to bhava. Sanatan culture, he says, places the highest value on seva of living beings, plants and nature, and tells us to serve all — yet it also prescribes a classified seva of the cow, the dog, Tulsi and the Peepal, and there is a reason for that. He criticises modern-minded people who call these hypocrisy and superstition even while posing as masters of the Veda, proving wrong the very acharyas they learned from; his video sets out to explain the reasons.
Do spirits live in cactus plants?
The speaker says it is 100% true: where pretas are present, cactus grows on its own and grows large. But a cactus flowering at home does not necessarily mean a Preta is sitting in your house. Guests, friends, relatives and neighbours keep coming, and among them some day someone will be affected. Of the 49 kinds of Marudgana, the winds of the vayu Tattva, one kind is related to pretas; if such a wind is blowing when a preta-afflicted or preta-maddened person enters your house and finds this plant, the entity is drawn to it in part — not living there 24 hours, but coming at certain times, because the plant attracts it.
An unflowering thorny plant at home: a shadow on it and why it attracts
The speaker says not every thorny plant is a problem — the rose is offered to Bhagavati. But if a rose planted at home never flowers despite many efforts, and neither dries nor blooms, it has come under some grip; immerse it. That shadow falls, he says, when the preta-related Marudgana wind is blowing and the preta influence is strong. It happens in the home because what stands in a house is nourished by the energy of your puja, your thoughts and your Aura, sattvic or tamasic, and so is alive in a different way — like gold in a jeweller's showroom against gold lying in garbage. A cactus flourishing in a well-kept home draws such entities more strongly than one growing in rubbish; when an affected person comes, the two attract each other and a dwelling is fixed there — an akarshan done unknowingly. Every thorny plant attracts such things somewhere, so remove a rose that does not flower.
Do spirits live in a Bel tree despite its thorns?
Asked whether pretas can dwell in the Bilva tree since it too has thorns, the speaker says no: the Bel is called the very tree of Shri, the direct form of Narayana, held to be Narayana's heart, and its flowers, fruits and leaves are always offered to Sadashiva and to Bhagavati. A tree that is bearing fruit cannot host them.
A half-dried Bel tree as a site for tamasic prayogas
The speaker says that when a Bilva tree begins to dry and is not removed while its thorns remain — an in-between state, neither fully dry nor alive, shedding — then all the preta-laden karmas of Akarshana and Vashikaran, all tamasic karmas, are done by seeking out such a tree. A Preta does not live or arrive there on its own; people seat it there, knowing the tamasic kriya will succeed there because the tree still holds a god-like shakti, and a deity turns no one away who comes for refuge. Look at such trees and you will see things tied and hung on them. Sometimes so much energy is absorbed through these karmas that a healthy green Bel in a deserted place starts to dry. He notes people do not speak openly about these things, as he found with his bamboo video.
Rose and Bel at home: keep them only while they flower and fruit
Among thorny plants, the speaker says, the rose and the Bilva may certainly be kept at home — they are pujya and worthy — but only as long as they are flourishing properly, with both flower and fruit coming. When they begin to dry and fall away, they should not be kept; remove them.
Why should cactus never be planted at home?
The speaker says the cactus is not for worship anywhere — it is offered to pretas. In preta karma, someone who has done Preta Siddhi must go every Amavasya to a deserted place under a Peepal tree and set out dal-bhaat and such foods, and liquor and the like; among what is placed there, the flowers that grow on a cactus are put. So it is in a way a centre of attraction for them, and that is why it should not be planted at home.
White Aak for home protection and the caution on latex plants
For protecting the house, the speaker says, it is known that a madar or Aak (Madar) (akwan) — the white Aak, Shwetark — should be planted near the home. Shwetark is not available everywhere, so can an ordinary Aak be planted? He answers that milky, latex-bearing plants are said to carry both kinds of things, so when you bring a Shwetark plant you must take care where you are bringing it from.
Four factors that decide what a sacred plant gives the household
The speaker says again and again that bamboo, Peepal, banyan, Aak (Madar) and the Navagraha trees are all sacred, but what fruit a plant gives you depends on where you bring it from, in which Nakshatra you bring it, where you will plant it, and what the condition of your house is. If you bring an Aak from a place where some Utara or preta kriya was done earlier, that comes along with it, without your knowing.
Procedure for bringing a plant home for vanaspati tantra
Before bringing a plant from anywhere — especially a tantrokta plant, one taken as Vanaspati Tantra prescribes — the speaker says there is a prior process: purify the ground you are taking it from, sprinkle yellow mustard consecrated by mantra vidhan there, ask the deities of that place to remove whatever is there, doing this through your Ishta Devata, light a lamp and then give the plant its invitation, and come back the next day to bring it. Even after all this there is no guarantee if you lack knowledge and cannot see or hear such things; so bring it from a place that is right, and in a right nakshatra — a deva Nakshatra, above all Pushya Nakshatra, whether Ravi Pushya or Guru Pushya.
Aparajita and Shami at home: what their flowering and drying signal
The speaker says Aparajita and Shami must be planted at home and served in the same way — blue, white or dark Aparajita, any will do. If the Aparajita starts to flower, take it that shubh shaktis have arisen in the house: Bhagavati's shaktis, the yoginis and their ang-shaktis come and go daily, and only then does it flourish properly; what effect that has on you depends on your own karma, but the coming and going of shaktis is real, since flowers come only where positivity is in the atmosphere. Tulsi, Aak (Madar), Aparajita and Shami all have such a sensitive aura and way of emitting energy that where tantra is being used or the place is not right, they start drying at once.
Pomegranate planting to cleanse preta-dosh land before building
The speaker says the pomegranate tree is called the direct form of Bhagavati. On land with Preta Dosha or a similar tantric dosh, pomegranate is planted before building the house — nine or twenty-seven trees, as needed — and left for one year; they must take fully and bear a full crop of fruit. Then they are uprooted and planted elsewhere, but not all: of twenty-seven, nine stay and eighteen go. Then bhumi shodhan, then the land pujan, and only then is the house built (Preta Dosha Tree Remedy).
Vanaspati tantra: its scope and the grihastha's duties of care
The speaker says Tantra has many kriyas performed through plants — Akarshana, Vashikaran, the Shatkarma, maran, processes for everything, and siddhi karmas. So a grihastha should keep in mind which plants to bring and when, when to plant them, and whether they are taking or not; only with all this in mind should Vanaspati Tantra be practised properly.
Tulsi, Shami, Aparajita and white hibiscus withering under tantra
The speaker says that when tantra is projected, ordinarily the Tulsi plant dries up first, a Shami will not take, and an Aparajita stops flowering and dries too; all the deva plants in the house wilt somewhere or other. He notes that Tulsi very often turns out to be an exception. A white hibiscus, he says, is very sensitive: if negative force or abhichara tantra is at work it will never take, and even one bearing plenty of flowers and fruit dries up within a day or so.
Gari — dried copra — cut and filled with ghrita and haridra churna serves where amla cannot be got.
Those who are not getting amla should do it with gari — dried copra. Cut it, make your lamp from it, fill it with ghrita, put haridra churna into it, then light it and then do the paath. This can be done.
What is the fiercest form of the white gunja mala prayoga?
Yesterday a prayoga was described, the speaker says — according to vanaspati tantra, the use of a mala, how one is to use a mala of white gunja for the destruction of certain thoughts. Asked how ugra its vidhan will be, he recalls that he had said to keep apamarg wood in the eight directions, in the hand itself; upon that apamarg wood you can afterwards do dhooni.
What did Sati do on the Jyeshtha Purnima?
On the day of the Jyeshtha Purnima she remained nirahar — without food — and at night performed the pujan of Shiva with bhatkaiya, vat and the like.
Inviting a banyan tree the day before taking its leaves
The speaker says the five Bargad leaves for the siddhi are to be plucked early on the morning of the eclipse day, but only after inviting the tree the day before: go to the banyan, tie a kaudi with a Mauli thread on it, place some Dakshina and rice beside it, and say that you will come tomorrow to take five leaves for a purpose, asking the tree to grant success in it and permission to take them — this is the nyota. Next morning, bathe, go and bring the five leaves.
How is the root of the black dhatura brought?
The root of the black dhatura, if it can be had, makes it excellent — but it has its own procedure for bringing. The procedure is that when the Pushya nakshatra falls, one day before the Pushya nakshatra you invite it; and in the nakshatra you are not to look at whether it is Guru Pushya or Ravi Pushya, only that it is one day before the Pushya nakshatra. The next day you go and dig up that root and bring it, and it is kept in this. Then, tied at the waist of the one having the difficulty, the speaker says there is a 99% possibility that the pregnancy will hold — the 1% being Devi's will and your own karmas.
What about old trees standing on the plot?
He says that if any old tree is present on that land — peepal, bargad, a Shami ji tree, some very large old gudhal plant, akvan, aak or madar, a pomegranate plant or tree, mahua, neem — people get it cut down, saying the tree will interfere with the whole design and must be removed.
Are there trees that may be cut without dosha?
He says trees such as sagwan do not stand for a very long time and are used precisely for timber, so there is no particular dosha in getting them cut — even so, they should not be worshipped ones.
What does he say about uprooting a peepal tree?
He says it is not possible that an old peepal tree, or even an ordinary peepal tree, has no shakti present on it. If you get a peepal tree uprooted or cut, take it as written a hundred per cent that a time will come in your life when you will be left nowhere.
What does a flowering gudhal plant on a plot indicate?
He says that if a gudhal plant there is much in bloom with red flowers, devi shakti will be present a hundred per cent — even if in a negative form, or in ugrata, or in any form at all — and it can be appeased, because these are flowers filled with devi tattvas.
What does a plot overrun with cactus mean?
He says that if cactus plants are present there in excess — you go and see cactus grown more than is needed on that land — never buy that land even by mistake: know that it has already become a pret bhoomi.
Should aak, akvan and madar be cut down?
He says such astrologers declare that there should be no akvan tree at all and tell people to cut it and throw it away. Aak, akvan and madar are milk-bearing trees; it is enough that they stay out of children's reach, and there is no difficulty in having them outside or around the house. You will never come to know which shakti is present in a madar tree, and if you have it uprooted or cut, your life too will be ruined thoroughly.
What if a tree on the plot was already being worshipped?
He says that if there is bargad or peepal or some dev vriksha there, or a tree already present at which someone was doing puja — dhoop-deep burning there, sindoor being offered, standing in a corner — then either do not take the place, or before taking it have it examined and ask what pujan was going on, have their visarjan vidhi performed if there is one, have the shuddhikaran of that place done, and decide knowingly whether you will worship them or not. Cutting it will not do under any circumstances.
Is a flowering gudhal plant at home a good sign?
Asked about a gudhal plant at home with many flowers blooming, he says it is a good sign. On the upaveet he says that if you are not a brahmin, if you do not fall in the fourth varna, then you can certainly wear the upaveet — or wear it if your work is not of that kind.
What is done with bel wood in a raksha prayoga?
He says that where an anushthan of tantra mantras is performed over the wood of the bel tree, over the samidha, then the mantras that are raksha-pradhan give greater effect. And a keel is then made from bel wood, and by means of it too the vidhi of rakshan is performed.
What should be done with suspect prasad brought to the house after an eclipse, before eating it?
Even if you have shraddha, he says, first feed a little to a cow and only then eat; or give a little somewhere to Dharti Mata, or place a little near Tulsi ji saying may Bhagavati accept it. The first bhog should not go into anyone's mouth in the house — it should first be given to the vanaspatis, to the deva trees, or to whatever animals and birds are deva-like, and only then eaten. If anything negative is in it, you will be spared.
What should the arghya water fall into?
For this, the speaker says, one should use such a vessel as one can fill with baalu — sand, as it is called — or fill with soil. Or plant something in it, especially the gudhal flower tree, which is called japa kusum. Give arghya into that itself in the name of Surya Narayan, while looking at him; that is proper.
Should the stalk of a Bilva leaf be broken off?
The stalk should be broken off. The one that has the knot on it — break that stalk off and then offer it.
How are siyar singhi and hattha jodi to be perfected and served?
If you obtain them, first check with the one giving them whether the right thing is reaching you, the speaker says. Since this is a living substance, a living thing, its seva-puja happens in a different manner, and he will make a separate video on it. One thing to keep particularly in mind: whenever sutak and the like attaches in the house, then just as sutak attaches to a living creature, in the same way sutak attaches to siyar singhi and hattha jodi too, so their pujan is done differently. Secondly, women should never touch them, because it is a thing that consumes sindoor, that consumes the saubhagya — sindoor is its food.
Which Aparajita flowers and leaves may be used for Shiva's shringar?
You may do his shringar with Aparajita flowers, with bilvapatra, and with the leaves of the Aparajita as well. Aparajita leaves, bel leaves, and the neel Aparajita in particular; the white Aparajita may also be used; if other colours are obtained — pink, red — those may also be used, but the neel Aparajita is the most excellent.
What is the standing of the Aparajita and Parijat plants in a home?
The flower of Aparajita is directly Bhagavati's flower — the Parijat and the Aparajita came from svarga. Where these are in a house, the matter is altogether different: the tattvas of Shiva and Shakti are always present there, and the sthan of the Yoginis forms itself there.
What is the dosha of uprooting such flowering plants?
These flowers, these creepers, these kinds of trees should never be uprooted and thrown away — green, flourishing trees should never be uprooted and discarded. A very great dosha attaches, he says: one is ruined, the lineage is ruined, complete ruin descends financially.
Which things must not be offered to Bhagwan Shiva?
To Bhagwan Shiva, he says, you cannot offer only the ketaki flower. Apart from that you can certainly offer durva, you can certainly offer bilva patra, you can offer fruit, flowers and sweets.
Which wood is best for a havan to Bhagwan Shiva?
For the havan of Bhagwan Shiva, bilva wood is the most excellent — dry bel wood.
Is abhishek compulsory even for those doing nothing else?
Only the abhishek of Bhagavan Shiva is compulsory, he says: do anything else or nothing, the abhishek of Bhagavan Shiva must certainly be done through the whole of Shravan, and at least one Bilva patra must certainly be offered to him, whether anything else happens or not. Everyone should do it at home or do it in a temple. And do not raise the question that there is no shivling and whether it can be done on a photo — abhishek does not take place on a photo; if there is no shivling at home, do it in a temple.
Is a bilva patra enough in place of a mukut?
Even keep a Bilva patra upon him, he says — but what is a bilva patra: it dried up, at some point it slipped off. For this reason always keep Bhagavan Shiva wearing a mukut. And along with this, along with the japa and the rest, if it is possible, on the tithis that have been stated — the Panchami, the Shivratri — certainly do the deepdaan, and on Panchami because nag pujan too has been spoken of in Nag Panchami.
What daily havan does he prescribe at home in Shravan?
The seva of the chaukhat will go on, he says; do the pujan of Bhagavan Shiva at home; and if possible, daily give at least 108 Ahutis of ghee and guggul upon bilva wood, upon Bilva samidha, with the Panchakshari of Bhagavan Shiva or with the Mahamrityunjay Ashtottara Shatanamavali. Do whatever japa you wish according to your own desire, but certainly give ahuti.
What is Shvet Arka, and what else may the Ganesh image be made of?
The white Aak, white Madar plant — said to be at least forty years old. From its root the Vigraha of Bhagavan Ganpati should be made, and there is a description involving Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya Nakshatra; it becomes a Tantrokta prescription. Or else the image is made of clay.
Should everyone keep siyar singi and hattha jodi?
He says again, as he has told before, that siyar singi does not suit everybody, and therefore it should not be kept by all and sundry. Hattha jodi and siyar singi have their rules — they are a living thing, living tantrokta objects.
What is the tree that grows upon a peepal tree used for?
A listener recalls the speaker saying that another tree grows upon the peepal tree and is used. You are speaking of the banda again, brother, the speaker says — that is the subject of vanaspati tantra. We will discuss it at length sometime, for vanaspati tantra.
Which wood should be used for havan if mango wood is unavailable?
Asked whether other available wood may be used for havan if mango wood is not obtainable, the speaker says the biggest point in this subject is that havan wood is easily available everywhere, which is why people use mango wood for havan. But if you go into the shastrokta vidhans, mango wood is entirely prohibited in havan. Mango wood should not be used in havan at all.
Which publication of the Shiv Puran should be used, and how are ashok leaves used?
Asked which publication's Shiv Puran should be taken for recitation, the speaker says you may take Thakur Prasad's, or Gita Press's, which comes in two full parts, Purvardh and Uttarardh, in which you may recite the complete Shiv Mahapuran; it will be very good, and avoid the abridged edition. Asked about ashok leaves, he says they are used for decoration in the house — at the very place where we put mango leaves for the bandhanwar on the main door, ashok leaves should be used too, and they should be used to decorate the home shrine as well.
What does Bhagavati Shakambhari give when she is pleased?
If Bhagavati Shakambhari becomes pleased then by her grace you will never lack dhan, dhaan, ann, fruit and flowers. If you are a farmer, the fertility in your fields will increase considerably. Besides that, in your kula and vansh there will never be a shortage of dhan-dhanya, never a shortage of grain, never a shortage of vanaspatis; no negative energy will ever enter the crop you are cultivating, and no kind of poison — the natural poisons — will ever have effect on it.
What comes of lighting a lamp daily at the Tulsi and the Shami plants?
Tulsi ji is worshipped in home after home, he says, and the Shami is a destroyer of enemies. One should not take them only as Shani Bhagavan's — that the Shami tree is worshipped only for Shani Bhagavan's pleasure. The swaroop of Narayan is connected with the Shami tree. Whenever there is any suffering connected with Shani and havan and so on is done, whether you offer black sesame as ahuti or do deep daan to Shani Bhagavan, if you put in and burn dried Shami wood, that gives a very great effect. So along with Tulsi ji at home one should plant the Shami tree, the Aparajita creeper, the kaner tree and the tree of the gudhal flower.
How can real siyar singhi and real hattha jodi be identified?
The speaker says hattha jodi and siyar singhi are in themselves a jagrit vastu. One should keep them in the house only after taking complete information about them. He asks the questioner to message him in the group and says he will separately make a full video on the rules of hattha jodi and siyar singhi — a five-minute video in which he will try to show them as well.
Which woods may be used for Mahalakshmi and the sixty-four Yoginis?
Besides cow-dung cakes and Bel wood: Peepal may be used, Bargad may be used, Palash, Madar and Khair may be used. Everything except mango.
Bhagavati is satisfied by bilvapatra, and even an ugra thing is pacified by it
The second matter, the thing said about offering bilvapatra — in this he sees no negative subject of any kind. The reason is that Bhagavati is satisfied and pleased by bilvapatra, and if the thing were negative, or if some ugra thing truly had occurred in that way, then that too would be pacified. So you may do this thing in the name of Bhagavati.
Which wood is best for a Saraswati havan?
If bel wood is available for the Saraswati havan, it will be excellent, the speaker says.
One who insists on doing as she pleases may as well offer the whole tree with its thorns.
The speaker says to tell them to cut the whole tree with the stalk and offer it — why are they plucking leaf after leaf and bringing them? Offer it to the Lord with the thorns as well; in that too there is full punya. If one is to do as one pleases, do exactly as one pleases; nobody is stopping you.
What is apamarg used for in the astra mantras?
Know this, he says: as many astra mantras as there are for the destruction of abhichar, whenever their havan is done — to destroy something, to destroy some abhichar — this is not normally done in a house, it has its own method; and in it the samidha of apamarg is an extremely necessary article. When he tells people about apamarg they think it is nothing much; they are not understanding the thing. But it is a very great thing: if there is any vanaspati most capable in the destruction of abhichar, it is the wood of apamarg.
Are apamarg and chirayata the same thing?
Take apamarg, he says, and admits the mistake: there was probably a confusion in his speaking, and he accepts the fault that in a great many videos he said chirayata. Chirayata is chiefly used as well, but with a difference — using the wood of chirayata only brings a reduction in the effect of the things; they do not go away, their effect is lessened. He and his people use both things.
What is chirayata used for?
Chirayata is chiefly used where a nazar dosha has been cast. There are people who have learned things of that kind and need only come and look — as when some girl's hair is very long and she is very lovely to look at, and they will remark on it, saying how long her hair is, like a cow's tail, touching the ground; they will merely say it, and the other person's health will be ruined. It is at this place that chirayata is chiefly used. Apamarg one is using for the destruction of tantra. So take the wood of apamarg — the one called chirchira, oonga and many other names.
May Ma Sheetla be worshipped at a neem tree?
Asked whether the puja of Ma Sheetla can be done at a neem tree, he says he will not tell anyone to start something new. If it has not been done before, then do it after asking the elders of the house.
What is the Guru Danda, and how is it made?
A piece of white Kaner wood at least one hand long, brought on Guru Purnima after the worship — the invitation given a day earlier. Perform a Panchopachara on it with a cow's-milk Abhishek, then wind yellow cotton thread over the whole length, top to bottom, while reciting the Guru mantra.
Can another wood be used in place of white Kaner?
No. In this, white Kaner alone is what is required.
What is the bel-bark prayoga with the shivling for?
He recalls a vidhi told earlier: from the stump of a bel tree — that is, the wood, the bark — if a very large piece of bark is obtained, the shivling is encircled with that bark and the abhishek is done inside it. There are many vidhans, of which this is one: for akarshan prayoga and the like, when the siddhi of some mantra is not happening, or when there is no attainment of wealth at all. Making it in that way and doing Shiva's abhishek with madhu, or with dahi and gud, or with ghee, its effect is obtained with the greatest speed. Such prayoga vidhis may also be done this time.
Where can a parthiva shivling be immersed if there is no river?
If there is no river, lake or pond for the visarjan of a parthiva shivling, do the visarjan at the root of a bel tree.
How is a kavach made, for those who cannot make one themselves?
The vidhi of making a kavach has been told on the channel, he says, for those who cannot make one themselves and do not know at all how the pen is to be made. A lekhani is made from the wood of the bel tree, for writing the yantra and the kavach. First an invitation is given to the tree at an auspicious muhurta, and it is brought the next day. After that, ashtagandha and the rest are prepared and it is written upon bhojpatra. After the writing, their pratishtha takes place.
What should the dhwaja be mounted on if there is no land to plant it?
If your land is not large enough to plant a flag, he says, then tie it somewhere — and certainly use bamboo. People fix it into a rod, into steel, into iron, into a chhad; use a rod if you must, but tie the bamboo to that rod. If bamboo can be had from the market or cut from anywhere, then however large the flag, the flag will be pure only on bamboo. Bamboo and mango pallav must certainly be there — the mango pallav tied above, bamboo below, the flag mounted on bamboo and put up there on bamboo itself.
What is the effect of offering water on bamboo?
Giving water on bamboo has a very divine effect, he says, which those in the field of tantra will know. If a cow's peg is of bamboo, if Hanuman ji's dhwaja is of bamboo — if the peg of the gauvansh, or of a buffalo, is of bamboo and they are tied to it — then there are many prayogas in tantra, especially among the rural bhagat practitioners, that are accomplished on these alone; and there are certain shaktis of the upadeva category, not deva but upadeva, who are pleased merely by water being offered on them.
What is prescribed for a problem of vansh vriddhi?
Those who have a problem of vansh vriddhi, whose line is not increasing, he says, should offer water at a worshipped bamboo tree — not by going to a new place associated with bhoot and pret, because a great many shaktis are seated at such places who do not sit anywhere else. If it is such a revered place, or if you have put up bamboo in Hanuman ji's dhwaja, then offering water there daily has a very positive effect; it also holds the capacity to destroy that curse, and it is a token of vansh vriddhi.
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