Cultural aspects: Earth, which we consider as Bhudevi, is also known to menstruate. This festival is celebrated for three days. People of Odisha have a great faith in the belief that Bhudevi is the wife of Lord Vishnu and she menstruates on three days of the month of Ashadha. This time is celebrated with great pomp and show as “Raja” or “Rajo” festival by stopping all agricultural work in the state for these three days. Broadly speaking this festival starts from Mithun Sankra

There was no place for mere sentimentality in Sanatan Dharma, animal sacrifice, Vrishotsarga on the twelfth day of the deceased and use of meat in Pitru Shraddha were mandatory, but then Buddha came and filled unnecessary sentimentality among the people, then Adishankar (disguised Buddhist) came, he then refined Buddha's sentimentalism and propagated among the Hindus, after Shankar, Vaishnavs took the lead, who exaggerated this inert sentimentality and propagated it among the

श्री कृत्यानन्दनाथ विरचित बग़लामुखी ध्यान: तप्त चामिकर स्वर्णाभाम् पीतवर्णां शुभाननाम् l चतुर्भुजां पीतवस्त्रां स्वर्णसिंहासनस्थिताम् ll वरदाभय हस्तांग्रौ गदा मुद्गर पाणये l असाध्य साधिनीं देविं ध्यायेत त्वं परामम्बिकाम् ll बगले परवैष्णवीं माया सुधाब्दि मध्य निवासिनीं l सर्व बाधा प्रशमनिम सर्व शत्रु निशुदिनिम् ॥ सर्व विघ्न स्तम्भनकरीम्, ऊर्ध्व गति दायिनीम् l ध्यात्वा बगला कल्पतरुम् सर्वमंगलकारिणीम् ॥ इति श्री कृत्यानन्दनाथ विरचित् बग़लामुखी ध्यानं सम्पुर्णम् l śrī kṛtyānandan

There are 108 upasana murtis of lord Narasimha deeply hidden across the Veda samhitas, puranas and agamas. Out of which 74 are accessible with sadhana and thorough reaserch. Remaining 34 are only obtained through lord Narasiṁha's blessings or anugraha only. The 74 upasana murtis we are revealing here today. They all have their mantras and tantra patal or kalpas. Some have complete panchang upasana paddhati (kavach, sahasranama , stavan, hruday, stotra/Gita) but for others gen

Hello friends, We are glad to announce that guruji will be giving the rarest of rare " Divya Mahayoga tantra paksha Jagaran diksha" on every shivratri of the month. This is jewel of a diksha. If one receives it then no one can stop him/ her from becoming an accomplished tantrik/ mantrik/ sadhaka. With this diksha gurudev will open one's higher annals of consciousness so that your jivatma can connect with Shiva or paramatma. In this special shaktipat diksha one's kundalini wil

Vindhya vasini is none other than the yogamaya of lord Vishnu. When he manifested in the form of Krishna his yogamaya manifested as his sister named Ekanamsha. She got released into her energy form as soon as her child form was hurled at a stone by Kansa with an intent of killing her. She was the one who warned Kansa about the lord taking avatar as Devaki & Vasudev's 8th child and fulfilment of the prophecy regarding his death. She was given a place at Vindhyachal. The Lord p

निशुम्भ शुम्भ गर्जनी, प्रचण्ड मुण्ड खण्डिनी। बनेरणे प्रकाशिनी, भजामि विन्ध्यवासिनी॥ त्रिशूल मुण्ड धारिणी, धरा विघात हारिणी। गृहे-गृहे निवासिनी, भजामि विन्ध्यवासिनी॥ दरिद्र दुःख हारिणी, सदा विभूति कारिणी। वियोग शोक हारिणी, भजामि विन्ध्यवासिनी॥ लसत्सुलोल लोचनं, लतासनं वरप्रदं। कपाल-शूल धारिणी, भजामि विन्ध्यवासिनी॥ कराब्जदानदाधरां, शिवाशिवां प्रदायिनी। वरा-वराननां शुभां भजामि विन्ध्यवासिनी॥ कपीन्द्न जामिनीप्रदां, त्रिधा स्वरूप धारिणी। जले-थले निवासिनी, भजामि विन्ध्यवासिनी॥ विशिष

He was one of the most revered gods in the vedic culture and was the mightiest Asura! Born to Kashyapa and Aditi, being the elder brother of Indra and Vishnu, hence he is also known as an Aditya. In the Rig-Veda he is addressed as Samraj- the lord of all! He and Soma are the first rulers or prajapatis who had successfully done rajasuya and ashwamedha yadnyas. Varuna was worshiped also in Iran as Ahura Mazda which is from the sanskrit word Asura Mahat-almighty Asura. Its evide

Indra was the one of the greatest gods in vedic culture. He was the god of rain, thunder, war, wealth, protection and destruction...in fact it was for this reason that he was known as the all powerful king of gods!! When the world was in peril and dominated by rakshasas.. and everyone had given up.. One day Indra was born, and his mother Aditi, fed him the divine soma juice before even feeding him with the her breast-milk.. and in that day it-self Indra determined to fight th

यदा तु मानवा भूमौ स्त्रीजिता: कामकिंकरा: । द्रुह्यन्ति गूरूमित्रादीस्तदैव प्रबल: कलि: ।। Shiva tells Parvati: when the man will be lost in his sexual desires letting go off his masculinity and will start tailing his wife like a dog whose noose is in it's mistress's hand and start behaving against the gurus, friends, parents and society, then surely ghora Kaliyuga is about to arrive. महादेव पार्वति से कहते है :- जब मनुष्य कामविह्वल व स्त्रैण होकर (पत्नी से मिलकर) भाई-बन्धुओ क

He's known by many names such as Murugan, Arumukham, Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha, Guha, Devasenapati, Kumara and Mahasena. According to Vana Parva of Mahabharata, Skanda was born to Agni and Swaha.. for the purpose of destroying the growing army of demons and their leader Taraka,and to mary the beautiful cousin of Indra, Devasena .. Swaha was in love with Agni and she approached him under the guise of Shiva (the wife of Angirasa,not to be confused with Shiv who is Rudra/Sa

Hiranyakashipu (golden-haired one) after his brother Hiranyaksha (golden-eyed one) was killed by Vishnu, he vowed revenge on the Gods. Hiranyakashipu performed penance for thousands of years to attain supernatural powers meditating on the self-created Brahma! He asked for the boon of immortality but Brahma refused saying "there can be no creature of a form which can be immortal, I myself am not, so ask for any other boon!" Hiranyakashipu then asked Brahma that he would never

Original utsava mūrti of Jagannātha was the small wooden pillar that is known as Sudarśana in present times. It is still used as the utsava mūrti for specific occasions. In two ways this contributes to the original identity of the deity as Narasiṁha. 1. All Sudarśana mūrtis have Narasiṁha embedded in the back indicating aikya of Sudarśana and Narasiṁha. 2. In the Purī temple for most occasions a Narasiṁha idol is used as the utsava mūrti of dāru sudarśana, implying by extensi

We pacify the six headed being, of fiery birth, who is lost in the embrace of the beautiful daughter of devendra. May His lethal darts not harm us and instead strike our foes. 🙏 Namo Skandaaya 🙏 🙏 Namo Narasimha 🙏

The lore of Kapīśa Bhairava and Rakta-cāmuṇḍā are found in Brahma Yāmala as per the Śaiva tradition. The six Srotas of that is of Narasiṁha Tantra-s. Another like that is recorded by Abhinava Gupta and Jayaratha stating that srotas were that of Hāṭakeśvara. The homology of Hāṭakeśvara with Narasiṁha was expounded by the now lost Ānandādhikāra Tantra. Further evidence for this is suggested by the Eka-pañcāshana narasiṁha nāmas of the Kāli-kula. jvālāmālī karālaśca bhīmaś caiva

ॐ नमो ब्रह्मादिभ्यो ब्रह्मविद्यासम्प्रदाय कर्तृभ्यो वंशऋषिभ्यो महद्भ्यो नमो गुरुभ्यः। सर्वोपप्लवरहित: प्रज्ञानघन: प्रत्यगर्थो ब्रह्मैवाह्मस्मि।। oṃ namo brahmādibhyo brahmavidyāsampradāya kartṛbhyo vaṃśṛṣibhyo mahadbhyo namo gurubhyaḥ | sarvopaplavarahita: prajñānaghana: pratyagartho brahmaivāhmasmi || I start this article by bowing down and offering obeisances to our Kula pravartaka bramharishis Angirasa (Brihaspati), Baarhaspatya(Bharadwaj), Bhaaradwaaj, who are the very de

देवाद्या ऊचुः ॥ शरणातुलमातुलगाधिपते करुणाकर कामद कामहन्तः । शरकाननसम्भवचारुरुचे परिपालय तारकमारक नः ॥1 हरसारसमुद्भवहैमवतीकर पल्लवलालित कम्रतनो । पुरवैरिमुकुन्दहृदम्बुनिधे परिपालय तारकमारक नः ॥2|| शरदिन्दुसमानषडाननापार सरसीरुहलोचनया विलोचनया । निरुपाधिक निजबालतया परिपालय तारकमारक नः ॥3|| गिरिजासुत सायकभिन्नगिरे सुरसिन्धुतनूज सुवर्णरुचे । शिखिजात शिखावलवाहगते परिपालय तारकमारक नः ॥4|| जय विप्रजनप्रिय वीरमनोजय भक्तपरायण भद्र नमो । जय शाखविशाखकुमार नमो परिपालय तारकमारक नः ॥5|| पुर

Prayogoas for destroying one ̍s enemies play a central role in invocation of Skanda. Indeed that is one of the prime purposes the devatā of war Skanda is invoked in ancient times before his original identity got some what obscured amongst the Saiddhantic traditions in Southern India. It is said by authorities that there were many śatru saṁhāra prayogas in Kaumāra Tantras, out of which most are lost nowadays but fortunately some have survived to this day. However these paddhat

This is the outline of puja paddhati which if followed by anyone in any Kamya prayogas or anushthans, will result in complete achievement of the desired goal. Here only steps are being given. The mantras and the details should be known by the doer as this is on a slightly advanced level so we are not writting everything in detail. Procedure: 1) Trivaara pranavoccharana 2) Pavitrikaran 3) Vaidka achamana, puranokta achamana, Narasimha beejokta tattvachamana 4) Saamanyarghya or

There cannot be salvation without enjoyment (no moksha without bhoga). If the one to whom God has given all the means for enjoyment, indulges in the worship of God while enjoying and gives up the illusion of enjoyment, then the salvation is certain. If one who has scrumptious food available, fasts on Ekadashi, then the individual will certainly get the material and spiritual benefits mentioned in the shastras, but the one who is deprived of food and doesn't have anything to e