Secret Tantra of Ganesha- Purana, Worship Ritual, Sacred Weapons & Mudras | Body to Beiing | Shlloka

Secret Tantra of Ganesha- Purana, Worship Ritual, Sacred Weapons & Mudras | Body to Beiing | Shlloka

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ఇది వీడియోలో చెప్పిన ముఖ్యమైన విషయాలను సింపుల్‌గా తెలుగులో “takeaways”గా ఇస్తున్నాను:

### 🕉️ గణేశుడి అసలు స్వరూపం

- గణేశుడు కేవలం శివ–పార్వతి కుమారుడు మాత్రమే కాదు; ఆయన **ప్రణవ స్వరూపం (ఓం)**.

- సృష్టికి ముందే “శబ్దం (వైబ్రేషన్)” వచ్చింది; ఆ మొదటి శబ్దమే గణేశుడిగా భావిస్తారు.

- ఆయన **కాలం, సృష్టి, దేవతలకంటే కూడా అతీతమైన శక్తి**.

### 📜 పురాణాల గురించి నిజం

- వేర్వేరు పురాణాల్లో గణేశుడి జననం వేర్వేరు విధంగా చెప్పబడింది.

- ఇవి నిజ సంఘటనలు కాదు, **తత్త్వాన్ని అర్థం చేసుకోవడానికి రూపకాలు (metaphors)**.

- గణేశుడు అనేక యుగాల్లో, అనేక రూపాల్లో అవతరించాడని భావన.

### 🔱 గణేశుడి రూపాలు & తంత్రం

- గణేశుడికి **32 ప్రధాన రూపాలు** ఉన్నాయి.

- ప్రతి రూపం ఒక ప్రత్యేక సమస్యను పరిష్కరించడానికి ఉపయోగపడుతుంది.

- ఆయన “విఘ్నహర్త” మాత్రమే కాదు, **విఘ్నాలను ఇచ్చేవాడు కూడా** (పాఠం నేర్పడానికి).

### 🧘‍♂️ తంత్రం vs సాధారణ పూజ

- తంత్రంలో **నియమాలు కంటే మనస్సు (mindset)** ముఖ్యమైనది.

- కొంతమంది తంత్ర మార్గాల్లో నియమాలు బ్రేక్ చేయడం కూడా భాగం (అందరికీ కాదు).

- తంత్ర సాధన ఎంచుకోవాలి అంటే:

  - మీ జీవితం

  - మీ మనస్తత్వం

  - మీ లక్ష్యం

  ఇవి చూసుకుని చేయాలి.

### 🌅 రోజువారీ గణేశ సాధన (బేసిక్)

- ఉదయం సూర్యోదయం సమయంలో:

  - గణేశ గాయత్రీ జపం

  - సూర్యునికి నీళ్లు అర్పించడం (గణేశుడిగా భావిస్తూ)

- ఇంట్లో:

  - గణేశ విగ్రహం లేదా ఫోటో పూజ

  - స్తోత్రాలు చదవడం

- గణేశుడికి ముఖ్యమైనది:

  - **తర్పణం (నీటి అర్పణం)**

### 💧 తర్పణం ద్వారా ఫలితాలు

వివిధ కోరికలకు వివిధ పదార్థాలు:

- 🍯 తేనె → దాంపత్య సుఖం, సంబంధాలు మెరుగుపరచడం

- 🥛 పాలు → సంపద, ఆర్థిక వృద్ధి

- 🧴 పెరుగు → ఆరోగ్యం

- 🌊 పవిత్ర నది నీరు → ఆధ్యాత్మిక అభివృద్ధి

### 📿 మంత్రాలు & సహస్రనామం

- సహస్రనామం అంటే కేవలం భక్తి గీతం కాదు; అది **ఒక టెక్నాలజీ లాంటిది**.

- ప్రతి పేరు ఒక “టూల్”:

  - ఉదాహరణ:

    - **వక్రతుండ** → అలవాట్లు, వ్యసనాలు తొలగించడానికి

    - **ఏకదంత** → ఫోకస్ & కన్‌సెంట్రేషన్

    - **ఋణ విమోచన** → అప్పులు/కర్మబంధాలు తొలగించడానికి

### 🔄 జప విధానం

- రోజూ 1 మాల (108 సార్లు) జపం చేయాలి.

- సమస్యకు తగిన గణేశ నామం ఎంచుకోవాలి.

- కనీసం కొన్ని వారాలు/మండలం (41 రోజులు) చేయాలి.

### 🧠 మానసిక సమస్యలపై

- మెంటల్ హెల్త్ సమస్యకు ఒకే మంత్రం కాకుండా:

  - అసలు కారణాన్ని గుర్తించి

  - దానికి తగిన నామం జపించాలి

- సాధారణ స్ట్రెస్ కోసం:

  - “పుష్టి” సంబంధిత నామాలు ఉపయోగించవచ్చు

  - క్వార్ట్జ్ మాల ఉపయోగించడం మంచిది

### ⚠️ తంత్రంపై ముఖ్యమైన హెచ్చరిక

- అన్ని తంత్ర పద్ధతులు అందరికీ కాదు.

- తప్పుగా చేస్తే:

  - మానసిక సమస్యలు రావచ్చు

- కాబట్టి:

  - మీ స్థాయి, జీవన విధానం ప్రకారం మాత్రమే చేయాలి.

***

ఒక లైన్‌లో చెప్పాలంటే:

👉 గణేశ తంత్రం అంటే “సమస్యకు సరైన రూపం + సరైన మంత్రం + సరైన విధానం” ద్వారా జీవితం మార్చుకోవడం.

Transcript:
(00:00) Ganesha is pran solupa he is beyond creation he's beyond time he's even beyond the dwatas he is not the son of shiva and paravi there is vinaya purana where he's born to a rishikashapa and adittita is other puranas where he's born to nagaraja and nagarani in bala if you want to have him being wealthgiving you place him in the north and you adorn him with red bastras a lady had taken her hanumana mantra and started chanting it without understanding the mantra.
(00:32) She got possessed by a banana, a monkey and she would start attacking people and biting people and climbing trees and all kinds of things that happened. When we say Ganesha is omarasupa, we believe sound came first. We do not believe light came first. When we buy a home, we do not know what kind of dshas is present.
(00:51) So he neutralizes all these heavy kmas and dshas >> by keeping in the southwest. >> How many lakh times a mantra has to be chanted for it to gain? They do not recommend doing 11 to four. Heavy sadas >> can you take us through the mantra like the way it should be chanted >> three times and you offer water to surya but thinking of surya as none other than some people keep shabatila it's a red stone comes from a specific river that is worshiped as the manifested form of Ganesa it is thought to be ready with shakara shriar gi is an experienced mantra
(01:25) sadhaka and teacher popularly known for making gapati sadhana simple and accessible to all. Before teaching publicly, he served as an oracle in the Chetraala lineage for Sanangili Karupan Swami, a fierce guardian deity and many recognize this tradition through the Canara films. A longtime practitioner of Gapati Mantra Sadhana, he has guided thousands in practices such as Sankashti Chhatria and core Ganapati worship.
(01:50) Help us understand what to offer, what is the significance of each of these offerings and how to offer. The husband and wife have certain conflicts in their marriage to rebuild that chemistry to offer honey as tarpana. If you want to get rid of long-standing sickness, take cur and do the same process.
(02:06) Let's say there's an invasion and all the temples get destroyed. Worship methods get destroyed by the use of the sastra nama. Everything else can be regenerated. Iisha who had very bad alcohol addiction. I gave him this name from the sasra nama vakratunda. Asked him to chant every day. Within a 3 4 month period his addiction went away.
(02:25) a female shisha and she had extremely bad dreams all the time of a black smokeoky figure. I gave her the nama from there called dur swapna nakaya. After 2 to 3 weeks she saw a majestic white elephant using its trunk and grasping that figure and throwing it out her window. After that recurring dreams stopped. >> If I am having financial blocks, what is that mantra that you can recommend? Even in yogic traditions there are states higher than samadi.
(02:54) >> Can you give us one generic nama that everyone can do? >> Recently in Kerala that river tradition celebration happened. They invoked Ganesha and asked him to use his tusk to gaw and destroy any buddhas pisachas any negative entities in that area. >> You can tell me what kind of tarpan I can offer to Lord Ganesha.
(03:15) Money problems. The sapa mudras can be used externally. If you do not know how to invoke him before you do a puja, you just use the mudras which is when you take vata your negative papa karmmas get burnt rapid. When you fast even medical conditions that are coming from your parents even mental illness like schizophrenia gets cured.
(03:36) His understanding draws from diverse traditions like ganipatya lineages of Maharashtra, Kerala temple practices, but Rayana Vinayaka forms with Tibetan llamas and monestic streams from Thailand. His teachings help seekers bring sacred practice into their daily life and it is with great honor and excitement that we welcome Achara Gi to the body tobeing podcast.
(03:58) Did you know that Ganapati may not have had the head of an elephant but the head of a Ghana or that the modak is actually related to tantra just like the trunk of Gapati is related to the sushima nari. We all know Ganesha as the vignaha which is the remover of obstacles. But did you know that Ganesha is also vigarta which is the giver of obstacles? Because just like Shiva has so many different forms, Ganesha has innumerable forms out of which there are 32 distinct forms.
(04:26) And each of these forms can be used to cure a specific problem in your life. All of this we're going to be discussing in today's master class which was truly phenomenal and mind-blowing. Here you're going to be learning a lot of things about Ganesh Sadhana. What you should be doing morning to night, how you should do it, when you should do it, what are the kind of foods that you can offer to Ganesha that can help you get rid of certain problems in your life? What are the kind of Ganesh mantras that you should use to find a solution in your
(04:54) life? What is the correct way to keep a how should you correctly do the Ganesh puja? All of this and a lot more with an individual who I believe through the course of this conversation is one of the most authentic voices on Ganesh Tantra that we have today. In fact, through the course of the conversation, I couldn't help but keep wondering of how closely he resembled Ganesha.
(05:15) So, please do watch the video till the end. If you haven't already, do consider subscribing. And for a better and more enhanced audio experience, you can follow us on Spotify by typing body to being. So, Guruji according to Gapati Atarvashisha, Ganapati is known as the Puna Swarupa, right? Right.
(05:38) The pranavaswarupa which means he's literally the physical manifestation of the sound om or arm. So before there was physical creation there was a vibration and that vibration people say was a or ganesh tantra says that that is Ganesha. Explain this to us please. >> So when we say Ganesha is omarasupa >> in sanadana dharma we believe sound came first.
(06:06) We do not believe light came first. The primordial sound came first. First first there was abyss emptiness shuna the spanda the vibration. So from that vibration came the first primordial sound and that sound expressed itself as the matricas the sanskrit axaras all over creation. So me you this world the dvatas are all part of the axaras the sanskit axaras that emanated from the primordial sound. Mhm.
(06:34) >> So when we say Ganesha is pranupa, he is beyond creation. He's beyond time. He is even beyond the devatas that we normally speak about. So he is the primordial nature of reality that emanates all of reality. It is not true that he is the son of Shiva and Parvati and the >> he's not the son of Shivan Parvati.
(06:56) >> He's not the son of Shiva and Parvati. Or if we speak in a much more nuanced way, he's not just the son of Shiva and Parvari. Even the puranas which are metaphorical in nature of what the real uh philosophy of Hinduism is. We will see in many stories where Shiva and Parvati gets married.
(07:16) Ganesha is already there. He's part of the wedding. When Shival gets married to Mini, Ganesha is the one actually arranging the marriage. So that is a metaphorical way of saying that he predates them. Oh, so that whole incident about uh Parvati creating you know um Ganesha to watch her door that very moment he was conceived right in popular mythology that's not true.
(07:39) >> Yeah. So the issue is different puranas get popular in different regions in bat right so people just read one puran and they believe that is the entire truth firstly they have to understand the puranas are metaphorical in nature vias himself has said it in the puranas that when kaluga comes people's intelligence becomes lower so they cannot understand the deep vic thought so he crafted the puranas to ensure that the deep philosophies are transmitted to the general population.
(08:12) So when we say he was created by Davyi that is actually one purana right there is puranas like the vinaya purana where he's born to a rishi and a rishi rishi kashapa and aditi he's also been >> born to a human manusha to king vahinia and he gives a sermon of the ganesh gita which is very similar to the bhagavat gita which is one of the main texts of the ganesha tradition.
(08:40) So he has been born to different beings throughout the history of creation. So when we say he is the son of Shiva and Parvati, we have to understand that why people say that he has actually taken avatars descents to Shiva and Parvati in multiple yugas, right? Our time is cyclical in nature, right? And Shivan Parodi has appeared in this cycle multiple times and Ganesha has descended as they are putra in a limited form multiple times of times actually.
(09:10) >> So how is that possible and how does this happen? Because for a great shi to descend in this world, it needs a body that is able to sustain such a great shy. And Shiva and Parodi are one of the few people who can give the body to such a great shi to descend. >> So in a sense, it's almost like he's a universal son, right? >> He's a universal son.
(09:33) So >> he has descended multiple times to multiple different beings in multiple locas. in multiple locas. In multiple loc is one, Patal loca is another. >> Who was he born to in Pataloca? >> Nagaraja and Nagarani. In fact, he has even been born to the Assuras before. There is a avatar of Ganesha called Mahut Karagani where Diti the mother of the Rashasan and Assuras felt she was being bullied by the Devatas and she worshiped Ganesha and Ganesha was born as a Assura form himself. from himself.
(10:09) >> Yes. So there's Ganesha that is actually a assura form. So he doesn't discriminate. He takes multiple words in multiple lower class. >> Okay. Okay. Uh coming to the masterclass side of Ganesh Tantra Guruj um take me through some of the most important and some of the most unique forms that people may not know of.
(10:30) So for example guruji one thing that I came across was theisha gapati which has been approached in a very forbidden manner you know like you're offering him leftovers and things of that nature and tell me about more such forms which people perhaps don't know of all that well >> soisha in current times is quite infamous but the full knowledge is not shared with everyone right soisha is one of the complete forms of kania so you have to remember that Each tantric form of Ganesha.
(11:03) Which one you follow depends on your propensities. Right? So Ganabadi was a complete set of Ganesha tantra. Now he comes from the previous creation. What was left of the previous creation and when the new creation came about? He's a very ancient being. So Utchishta comes from that leftover. We see leftover as just a food but also this leftover >> form of Ganesha.
(11:28) Why is this leftover form of Ganesha? >> It is to teach knowledge that is not present in this current world or not accepted in this current world view. Right? So I'll give you an example. Uh we all know Vashishta great Braharishi right? So his path was vantic in nature. In the tantra path he wanted to worship Dvi but Dvi rejected him because she said you cannot understand me from that vic lens and then he had to go and learn the proper tantric path.
(12:03) They call it China which is from the places like Tibet and all that where the Kawa Mara used to be very prevalent and only by worshiing her in that form he was able to get Siddhi of Dvi even though he was a braharishi. What is brahmadishi? >> Someone who is born enlightened. >> He's a manasutra of Brahma. So he's already born enlightened.
(12:27) He has all the knowledge of vanta. He has all the knowledge of adwita. He has realized that within himself. He has no karma. Even for such a great being like him, he has to go and learn the proper way to worship Davi. And he manages to actually learn that finally in Tarapiti. So tarpit is actually linked to bashish rishi.
(12:52) So in the same way is that form that is from previous creation which is not uh aligned with many people today because it's neither good or bad. You go beyond dualities. Nothing is pollution for you. Nothing is wrong. No rules are there. In fact if you break all the rules your sadhana becomes better. But it's not meant for everyone.
(13:15) Let's say you are born in a very traditional background. Example, someone who's in yoga. Uh a female who is in yoga will not really care about their monthly cycle. Right? It doesn't there's no effect. >> Correct? >> Right. But someone who's in a very let's say traditional Kerala sambra daya where they look too much into these things, they will not be able to do a sadena like that without causing psychological damage to themselves because it is so ingrained into their way of living.
(13:41) But it's nothing to do with the sadena itself. with just their own >> psychological makeup. >> Yes. Exactly. So for Utishta Ganabadi, I have great saddakas who are upas almost 90% of them are bisexual in nature. >> Aa >> because they are uh constitution they are made in a way where they do not see differences like that.
(14:05) The opas >> the opas they already born in that way or their belief is in such a way where they do not see a difference between a man and a woman and if you look atishabadi as a sraaya previously back in the day they did not believe in marriage they did not believe in a single partner right they did not believe in this kind of social conditions so for someone who has that disposition if you do sad you progress very fast spiritually right in normal mantra sadana I'll give you an example you need to do uh cleansing Cleansing of
(14:34) your mouth, cleansing of your mind, cleansing of your heart, right? You do uh all men of uh things like nyas you have to do to make your body divine to align yourself with the devatas mantra. In uchista sadhana, you can do it while lying on the bed. You can do it while chewing food which would normally be considered uh disrespectful in other forms of sad but you must have that mentality for it.
(15:02) So that is one form of Ganesha in the tantra padati. >> You know you said that you break rules in this path and your process will be catalyzed. You will go further like for example having multiple partners. This is a very popular perception of tantra also right that uh they say through sex you reach a higher state of evolution. Correct.
(15:17) This is something that I have heard of. Uh so if you have let's say multiple partners I'm assuming there would be eating non-vegetarian food right? drinking alcohol also maybe all of this would be acceptable to someone who's on the gapati sadhana path correct >> guru don't you think the chances so essentially this also means that we become very compulsive in nature don't you think this can also sort of get us entrapped and we may not be able to come out of it >> yeah so okay for example first regarding non-vegetarian and vegetarian is a tantra doesn't have any rules on that
(15:47) >> even normal Ganesh tantra that you practice >> yes so example if you go to kathmandu you will see even Their offerings to any of the Ganesha temples, they offer non-vegetarian to Ganesha there because most of the temples there are tantric ganesha temples. They even offer bali to Ganesha down there.
(16:04) So shock people who are not used to seeing these practices, right? So what you eat, consume, these things do not matter in tantra, right? Because you are making yourself divine. The divine doesn't have rules for itself like that. But there are certain uh levels you have to understand. Like let's say even in yoga sadhana the Buddhist monks used to go and have certain practices in the cemetery there will be a practice where you have to sit and watch a corpse that of someone who died from drowning so that the corpse will be like you know if you put your
(16:37) hand you it will go through right it'll be all soft and mushy you have to look at a corpse that died of fire so different kinds of corpses you have to look and meditate this is a part of the Tibetan monks that used to do these practices. But what was the reason? To quickly break any mental formulations that you have about your life being permanent or you know anything material being permanent.
(17:03) But if someone who's just a normal grapha who has to take care of his children, who has to have a job, who's looking for promotion in his job, who wants to balance both his uh worldly duties and his spiritual duties, if you ask him to go directly and do that, that would cause a lot of psychological damage to him. So the sadena you do in tantra should be aligned to what you actually want in life and what your station in life is.
(17:24) >> Okay. >> Right. So that goes the same for the forms of Ganesha in Tantra. It doesn't mean everyone should go into Ganabari or Harid Ganabari or Mahabari. What do you actually want to so when we say Haridra Ganabi Harid Ganabari is a form that is yellow in color. So the colors of the Ganesha in tantra matters a lot. Okay.
(17:45) So chishta is red rajasik in nature. Mahari is red rajasik in nature. A lot of attraction based effects are there in the red forms of ganesha. The yellow forms of ganesha are based on immobilization. Stambara we have balamogi you know. >> So balamogi is known to do stambara. >> What is this word meaning? >> So stumba means uh immobilize.
(18:09) I'll give you multiple levels of what this means. So a lot of advocates and lawyers do sadhana of mahavitya bhaglamogi because when they go to a courtroom they can immobilize the opposite advocate >> from speaking because the form of bhagalamogi is she holding the tongue of that assura from speaking >> right so stamba in the most uh general sense is that there are higher levels of stumbana you have certain negative qualities and traits right when you apply that sad on yourself it does immobilization of these negative qualities within you. So stamina can be
(18:43) applied outwards. Stamina can also be applied inwards. Even popular celebrities for example a controversy breaks out and now everyone starts talking about them. They would go to a tantric to do stumbana so that suddenly another controversy breaks out and the general public forgets about what they were talking about about this person at this point of time.
(19:03) >> They do that. >> Yes. So >> has anyone come to you? They have asked some politicians have asked >> asked for >> for these kind of things stana and and stop a certain controversy from breaking out >> or have a win over their opponents. >> Yes. >> So all of this is possible through the Bhaglamoki sadhana. >> Balamuki sadhana and the related Ganesha sadana which is Haritra Gandhi.
(19:24) >> Okay. >> Who is also in stamba. >> So they have to do the sadhana or the tantric does the sadha from. So let's say if someone is a real tantric who is in that sadena and you approach him let's say you are shisha and you are facing this problem and your guru has siddhi of this mantra when we say siddhi means he has done so many counts of the sadhana crows of mantra where the essence of the dvat chaitana is already living within him and he's able to express that out you can't just learn the technique you need to build that
(19:54) shaky to be able to do that so you can do that or you actually want to have more than just one incident in your life. You want to have that shy of stumbana. You want to stop things from happening outwards and you also want to stop certain characteristics that you feel that is not helping you in life. Isn't that ego and nonacceptability >> of >> of life? It's duality.
(20:17) You know for example when we say nim karohi baba you know there are so many yogis who for example vanand you know they died of cancer. Now the kind of siddhis that they have they could have easily cured themselves but they didn't because there's a certain sense of acceptability that why fight fate. This is also there what is wrong in this? There's nothing wrong with sickness.
(20:34) Sickness is also being in one with the sickness right acceptance. So as a buglamukhi sadhaka or someone else if I'm trying to change or alter some part of my interiority or the outside situation isn't that me exercising duality because now I'm selecting including something and I'm excluding something. So in tantra the philosophy is very different from the philosophy of yoga right.
(20:59) So in tantra we are embodying the dvata within us and the devata has control over things does not come from a place of ego. I'll give you an example. Uh most people who see TV serals they will see that Dvi gets angry when an assura does something and out of anger she kills that assura. If you see classical bananatium performances, you will see that Dvi doesn't get angry.
(21:25) The croa doesn't come from uh stimulus she is in shanta rupa and she evokes that uh croa from a place of shanta. >> Correct. >> Right. It's not a human stimulus. Correct. People who we watch like TV series will not understand. It's a totally different thing. She's just using that uh aspect to get something done. Right.
(21:47) So in tantra we believe that every man and woman essentially Shiva and Shaki it is a leela of creation that Shiva and Shaki gets bought and to experience the infinite level of experiences of every human being they hide themselves in all these innumerable forms to experience pain pleasure achievement ambition and everything.
(22:12) So the aim of tantra sadena for a woman is to understand essentially that she is none other than Dvi and for men that is none other than Rutra. So when you first start off in sadena you come from a lower space you want to fulfill these things you want to fulfill that but that is an essential part of sadena.
(22:30) You can't pretend you don't have desires. So what happens when you pretend you have you don't have desires you suppress it. it will come back in a mutated way to bite you. Like you see you know church fathers and all that they do not marry and then they get caught up in all kinds of scandals because they have suppressed their desire and it always mutates.
(22:48) In Tantra we always use the story of uh Ganesha who started this entire thing. This boy Ganesha is walking around. He sees this mound of ash. He makes it into a figure. He goes to Shiva and asks Shiva to give life to that figure. And Shiva being all powerful gives life to that figure. The figure grows up and tries to destroy Shiva.
(23:12) That mount of ash was the calm Dave that Shiva had burnt previously. Right? So metaphorically speaking, of course, this is a leela. Shiva is beyond all of this. But the leela is to explain that Shiva tried to destroy his desire and it mutated into another form to come and destroy him. So when you suppress desire it inevitably leaks out somewhere in a mutated and in a very unnatural form and it will try and finish you off.
(23:39) But if you have healthy avenues healthy desires in tantra your desires will start coming through. But that is the beginning stage. >> Okay. >> After a point of time you do not do the sadena for desire anymore. The desires naturally fall off and you start doing sadena for sadena sake itself. Hm guru morning to night please take us through the stepbystep Ganesh sadha that a beginner can undertake with as much nuances as you can give through an online medium.
(24:07) >> So there is a process of woriing ganesha in the tantric form. We have the general gyatri mantra for someone who's in the vantic or vic path and we have specific forms of gaitatri mantra that is meant for someone who follows the kanesha path. So someone who doesn't follow the kanishes path they will do the gaitri mantra if they have their opayam done and things like that.
(24:34) Ifam is the the hol the holy thread which gives you the adikar to do vic mantras for ganesha. If you are a worshipper of Ganesha, you wake up in the morning at sunrise and you instead of reciting the mantra of the main gay, you do the Ganesha Gayatri and you offer tarpanam to Surya Bhagawan.
(24:58) Because if you are Dupasaka or Shiva or Ganesha, you see the sun as none other than the rupa of your >> Okay. >> Right. So when a Ganesha saddaka or bakta sees the sun, he sees it as the heart of his devata. So they would do offerings of water or you know and all that saying the mantra of Ganesha then you will offer three times water. >> Can you take us through the mantra like the way it should be chanted? Three times.
(25:37) >> Yes. Three times. And you offer water to surya. But thinking of surya as none other than right. And then you go to your puja space. If you have a morti, you can worship your morti. If you have a portrait of kana, you can worship kanesha in the portrait. Some people keep uh shwanila. It's a red stone that comes from a specific river uh that is worshiped as the manifested form of Ganesha.
(26:06) So if you have that shwanabadrail there is no you don't have to charge it like you would charge a morti right. So certain mortis you will require to give pranaishta like in certain Shiva lingas right you need to do pranadishta but if you get that shiva linga from narada naradeshwar lingum doesn't require pranapishta it's believed that it already comes with that shi in the same way for ganesha worshippers if you have a morti you might need to do pranishta but if you worship the shanabatra shila it is thought to be ready with shi so any puja
(26:37) you want to do you can do to that shila and you can bring it wherever you are traveling to it doesn't require too many rules and then you offer stotras in the morning to Ganesha any stotras can be done right stora you have stotras from both the tantras and the puranas that can be done ganesha is known as tarpan so we have the avatas who let's say shiva is called abhisha priyan he who likes abisha so that's why >> rdra is very important when you worship vishnu is considered alangaran so usually this vishnu temples that alangar
(27:12) that they do for Vishnu is yeah very beautiful string >> yeah stringar is very very beautiful >> so Ganesha is known as tarpy so he who loves water offerings so >> in the normal vic path we offer tarpam to pitrus we offer tarpam to rishies but in the tantric path you offer tarpam to ganesha and he said that he loves uh water offerings and you are supposed to do the water offerings in the mode let's say you are playing with a little baby elephant >> right >> what would The mode be it not be like big devata and you are like a servant or
(27:45) a slave. No, you're like playing with a little child, right? So in that mode of very a mother to a child kind of love >> or if you have a pet like how would you so that kind of bhava you're supposed to do the tarpon I mean Ganesha loves that >> of only water >> of water. >> Okay.
(28:00) I want to get into a little bit of detail when it comes to offering. So you know uh liquid is considered to be like a medium of energy exchange. >> Yes. I want you to help us understand the concept of offerings in detail. What to offer? What is the significance of each of these offerings and how to offer? So as a grahasta, everyone has desires right.
(28:22) So there are different kinds of offerings that you use to fulfill different desires especially when it comes to Ganesha and Tarpana. So let's say you have that stone of Ganesha as a shaabatra shila and the tantric text have mentioned which material which medium fulfills which desire. So let's say it's a husband and wife they have certain conflicts in their marriage.
(28:46) They want to smoon up their marriage or example one of them has lost that uh chemistry that they once had. So to rebuild that chemistry to rebuild that once conducive relationship they would offer honey as tarpan. So you would take a drop of honey place it in your hand say and offer it onto the shaabatila.
(29:09) Right? So someone is having sickness k becomes a very good draa to offer to ganesha. >> Okay. So if you want to get rid of long-standing sickness, you would take cur and do the same process and offer it a set number of times. Let's say 108 times daily for a certain 44 days, 48 days, 41 days, you do this practice.
(29:35) If someone uh wants to have wealth, they would offer cow's milk. >> Cow milk. >> And if someone only wants spiritual benefits, they would get Ganga water or narada water. any of the holy rivers water and you offer the tarpan to Ganesha like that and within um mandela you would see the results. >> Okay. Okay. >> So for stotras for Ganesha especially sasraamas stotras these are very powerful that you can use to worship Ganesha.
(30:05) We have two kinds of sasra namas. When it comes to most statas including Ganesha, we have the goha sastra namas that require initiation and the normal sastra namas that does not require initiation. So you have to first understand that sahra namas are not devotional hymns by any means. Even though some people use it as a devotional hymn that is not the main use of the sassama.
(30:33) When it comes to sasha namas, it's basically a technology given by the rishies that has compressed the entire worship of the specific form of the tvata. It's tidis, its philosophy, uh the draas that you use, the names of the dvatas, everything has been compressed into this so-cal stotra. Now this is a very important technology because let's say we all had invasions, we all had uh uh burnings of libraries.
(31:04) Nalanda University got burnt. What happened when all the books in the university was burnt? Whatever was memorized was what it was used to bring back everything. >> Correct. The oral tradition. >> Yes. The oral tradition. So tomorrow if let's say there's an invasion and all the temples get destroyed and all the worship methods get destroyed by the use of the sastra nama everything else can be regenerated the entire samraaya can still be reformulated back so it is like a entire oak tree contained within a seed
(31:34) >> okay >> so this >> how can it be revived back which is chanting >> it can be chanted firstly uh if you have a living guru a living tradition These things will be planted back. I'll give you an example. In Ganesha, it tells you how many lakh times a mantra has to be chanted for it to gain Siddhi. >> How many times? >> How many times? Four lakh times.
(31:57) >> Oh, every day >> total. If you're taking an four lakh times you have to chant to get Siddhi of the mantra. It tells you when you have to chant the mantra, when you have to start the mantra, what dyas you should use. Every aspect of the deity is compressed within the sastra. It's like a toolkit, right? But you do not use it just as a hymn.
(32:20) You do not use it as a song, right? So it's a toolkit. You take what tool is inside that is relevant for you, right? What aspect of Ganesha that you want to invoke in your own personal life. So when they say sashama, you say thousand names, right? Which name is relevant for you? Which name is a tool? I'll give you an example.
(32:41) In Ganesha Salsama, one name is called Bakraunda. >> Now the layman's term is curved trunk. >> Okay. >> But the real meaning is bakraas that you have, any addictions that you have, compulsions, impulses that you have. Ganesha straightens those impulses of his baa. Straightening the bakta. So example, I have a shisha who had very bad alcohol addiction. He tried therapy.
(33:09) He would go to alcoholics anonymous to those meetings. He would bring a bottle of water but it's actually alcoholic inside. Even in therapy he's bringing that alcohol. So that was kind of that was how bad his addiction was. >> So I gave him this name from the vakrat. >> Okay. >> And I asked him to chant every day to get rid of that addiction.
(33:33) And within a 3 4 month period >> oh >> his addiction went away. >> Okay. So that name is a tool. What medicine do you need? Right. You go to the >> uh doctor, you take a specific medication. >> You don't take that entire depository. >> Correct. >> Right. So that was solved. In another issue, someone had moved to a new home, a female shisha, and she had extremely bad dreams was happening all the time of a black smoky figure that would strangle her in her dreams.
(34:07) It kept happening recurringly. So I gave her the nama from there called turna nakaya. So which is one of the names in the sashra nama. After 2 to 3 weeks she had that dream again of this smoky black figure attacking her. In the same dream she saw a majestic white elephant using its trunk and grasping that figure and throwing it out her window.
(34:33) And after that that recurring dreams stopped. Even in a my own personal life, there was someone close to me. We were planning a certain uh family uh >> get together >> get no a family let's say a ritual a very important uh celebration and all the astrologers were saying it's a bad time right so all the ones who say that the nimitas are not right numasa means omens so people look at signs and omens and these kind of things and everyone said the omens are bad you should postpone this situation but it was not possible so there was This name called
(35:13) which is from the he who removes bad omens or he who makes bad omens into good omens and that event went on and it became very big event and no obstacles was encountered despite all the woman saying that it was bad. So like this there are multiple tools inside the sasra nama. >> Can you give us some tools uh uh guru g that generically can help people with some common problems? Let's say you have vignas you can use vign or >> any vnner >> any vnner a vna that is specific to you.
(35:48) >> So let's say I am not advancing in my career or I have marital problems this mantra will work. >> So example politician or someone who wants to get a career improvement. So there is a name to he who gives lofty positions. So >> how many times should this be chanted? You can chant one mala of that mantra every single day using a raachandan mala. Raachandan is red chandan.
(36:15) So red sandalwood mala you use it and chant 108 times. Raachandan mala is very dear to Ganesa. >> Okay. >> So every day you take a salpa that this is the issue you're facing with. You take a salpa. You find a name in the sarama that suits your situation. Take that name. Light a diya for him every single day.
(36:37) Chant the mantra depending on how bad the situation is. Minimum one mahala >> for all of these any problem. >> Any problem. >> Okay. Okay. Can I throw some problems at you? >> Yes. >> Some common problems. Um problem with focus, concentration, not being able to study. What is that one thing that you can suggest in ter it's a mantra? Right.
(36:53) This would be called a mantra. >> Every name is a mantra in the right. So the single tusked one that gives you singleointed focus. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. So you say this that one mala. >> Yes. One mala you do for your situation which is to have better concentration and focus. >> Okay.
(37:17) Marital relationships is a problem specifically >> for marital relationships you can use if it's a very important situation that needs resolution quickly. So we have uh names like uh so he who is seated together with his shi. So wavati is the form of gapati where di is seated on his lap and it's a union of gapati and his wife. So that union form is for marital bliss.
(37:49) So if someone is having issues with the marriage they will chant for this issue. >> Okay. Okay. And should you also keep a morti which is symbolic of that like this one that you just mentioned Ganesha and >> you can keep a symbolic form of Ganesha painting a muti >> uh or you can visualize him inside your chakra. >> Okay like here right half an inch below the rib cage. Okay.
(38:16) If I am having financial blocks I want to advance or I want to seek better financial opportunities or just have a better financial corpus. What is that mantra that you can recommend? >> So for financial issues we can worship. >> Okay. It's a it's or R and E. >> Okay. >> He gets split of your depths. Now this can be used if you have real depths or like you know monetary deps.
(38:50) It can also be used if you have depths to your pitus, karmic depths. This can be malleable for both of it. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Like essentially only I'm assuming it's coming. Okay. I want to get to do health issues. Number one. And number two is I have normal health but I want to better my health. >> He who protects the weak.
(39:10) He who helps those with a weak disposition. >> Okay. >> So this is the form of Ganisha where he sits on a lion and he has five heads. >> Okay. Again the same thing one mala >> yes >> one mala has to be chanted. Okay. >> Um mental health issue is a huge thing these days whether it is stress, depression or anxiety.
(39:28) If those are recurrent or people just want to have a better mental health. What is that one mantra? >> For mental health you can use any Ganesa mantra but instead of raachand you should use only the quat mala. The quartz is meant for mental health. >> Aa and what is the mantra you said again? So for mental health there are you have to find out what specific mental health issue you have right so it's not a generic mental health issue sometimes it's due to issues with your family sometimes it's due to depression sometimes it's due to uh not having a
(40:04) proper career so you have to find the underlying issue behind the mental health because the mental health issue could be just be a symptom >> correct >> right what is the underlying issue and then you find a name that is related to that issue. >> Okay. But what if it's general stress and anxiety because we're living in a very fast-paced society, right? Your people are working, they're managing homes, they're managing children.
(40:28) Um we've risen survival has gone to the rooftops. You know, like often I say that just having a car is not enough. You have to have a BMW to show people that you have a certain status in society. So there's so much stress and there's so much anxiety amongst the population. So what is that one thing that you could recommend mantra wise? >> Okay.
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(41:10) Pre-orders are now open. To order just call or WhatsApp on plus 918493863427. You know uh when I got to know about Ganesh Tantra the usual perception is that he's like this benign, friendly, congenial, cuddly, happy, soft um dvata but the tantric side is I am assuming it's a more fierce one. It's a more disciplined one.
(41:36) Why should one choose Ganesh tantra and what is the novelty of Ganesh tantra? viz say some other tantra or some other deity. >> Okay, this is a very nuanced topic and I will explain uh step by step. Firstly, the kification of dvatas has happened uh during the bi movement. So there was this movement in India where a lot of the devatas became like kids >> okay >> to easily relate to them but that is not their full uh essence and if you actually understand everything you know about Ganesha even from the sastras perspective >> you'll understand that being that cuddly
(42:12) Ganu baby form is got nothing to do with Ganesa I will explain so you were mentioning about that popular story where Davy Ma creates him and puts him uh as a guard as she goes to her inner chambers. Right? So when that happens, he ends up fighting with the Shiva Ghanas, the Devaganas, the Rishias, the three morti. He fights all of them.
(42:35) And Narayana mentions in this battle that he has fought nagas, auras, raasas, all manner of beings he has fought in all the avatars he has taken. But he has not seen someone fight with that ferocity that this boy has fought with. >> So this is Narayana himself who has fought all men of Assuras and >> and beings giving the testimonial that he has never seen someone fight with that kind of ferocity that Ganesha fights with.
(43:02) >> Right? >> He hasn't seen anyone. >> He's never seen anyone before who has fought with this level of ferocity. So that immediately tells you he's not a kid or you know soft benign. Right now in tantra uh we mentioned the great protectors of tantra the sa mahapalakas uh in the rut tantra it says ganesho scandoam these are the seven great protectors the divine beings that can protect you from all manner of things and he's mentioning the first devata is Ganesha.
(43:46) Then it is Batugara. >> Batra would be a version of the Shiva. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Then you have Scand who's Muruga. >> Murugan. >> Murugan. Scand. The commander of the divine army. Then you have Nitanja version of Shiva. The one who defeats death. Who gives Marandanda Dishi immortal life. Right? Then you have Kartavya Junea which means Kartya Arjuna who is a avatar of Vishnu's sudashana chakra.
(44:15) And then you have Suga the king of the Vanaras. And lastly you have Hanuman. So these seven beings are considered extremely fierce in their nature. So people think that Ganesha is this cute curly little uh you know those baby elephants that play in the water and all that. But you have to understand there's also that mad elephant that goes on rampage and destroys everything.
(44:34) A bull elephant in heat. You know what it is capable of. >> So that is it nature. A very aggressive fierce being. But due to certain philosophies getting ahead in the past, we forgot about these aspects of Ganesha. >> But we've maintained that for Shiva, we have the RDR version etc. Why is it for Ganesha, it was forgotten.
(44:56) >> So what happened was uh there was a time where we were under invasions, right? >> Mhm. >> Uh we lost a lot of the knowledge of Ganesha which sadly was transported to everywhere else in this world but we ourselves lost that knowledge. So if we see the east of India di worship is prevalent >> right the kamak and all >> yes kamaka and all that in Tamil Nadu and all that muran worships kanda subramanya his worship is prevalent maharashtra was that place where Ganesha's worship was prevalent >> correct >> but most of the temples were destroyed
(45:30) in invasions we talk about the ashtayakayak temples that we have now those are recent temples that were built again by Chhatrai Shivaji and his generals later on we are less than a couple of 100 years old. The original knowledge was all transferred to places like Tibet, China, Japan, Thailand. That's where the knowledge of Ganesha as this powerful being still exists and the sad still exist.
(45:56) >> Okay. Okay. Understood. Tell me about uh the supernatural, the paranormal parts of Ganesh Tantra. So something that has been lost to us for a long time because of the kification of the dwatas and the you know emotional sentimentality of dvatas being masqueraded as bacti >> is you don't understand the nature of the dvatas which is not true in tantra.
(46:21) So when you look at history how Ganesha and sadena was utilized it was to remove bada >> and bada means entities. >> Oh bada means entities >> mean tantra bada it means these specific kinds of entities. So there is this text called idea mala which is all the experiences of great saddakas great kings who are also upasakas and they are worshiped and their use of tantra in the kerala tradition.
(46:54) So in one of that tradition it mentions how a lady had taken her hanuman mantra and started chanting it without understanding the mantra and she had a bad where she got possessed by a van a monkey and she would start attacking people and biting people and climbing trees and all kinds of things that happened and they would bring all kinds of saints and all that to cure her they couldn't cure her so one day they call a tantric Uh and this girl starts chasing the tantric around the temple.
(47:27) After the fifth time, the tantric stops running and he turns back and the lady looks at him and says, "Uh, don't ask your com to destroy me. I will leave mean the single tasked one." While the tantric was being chased, he was invoking Ganesha within himself. And once that ritual was done, Ganesha was invoked. He turned back.
(47:52) So that was how he removed that bada on that lady. So there is one very important story and even recently in Kerala that river tradition celebration happened the mahubam they called all various traditions various samarayas even the tribal samarayas and a beautiful ritual was done by this samra that is rarely seen these days where they invoke Ganesha and ask him to use his tusk to gaw and destroy any buddhas pisachas raas as kichatans and any negative entities in that area and this specific sambra were mantas sadakas related to the practice
(48:34) of kerala martial arts. So there are a lot of traditional >> coloring. Yes. So there are a lot of traditions where ganesha was used specifically to remove negative energies in spaces. >> Okay. So you know as I see it Ganesha can be used to remove evil forces. By the way I would like to know one mantra from you which if people feel like they have negative forces around them.
(49:01) What is the one mantra that they can use to seek relief? For if someone feels unsafe in a space, they can worship Ganesha and invoke him as Omaha, the strong one and visualize Ganesha or at least visualize an elephant, a white bull elephant with strong tusks with big ears and you visualize that form within your chakra and you close your eyes and keep chanting it and visualize that energy of that mahabala Ganesha expanding into that immediate environment and that will protect you.
(49:43) >> Okay. Why is visualization such an important part in Ganesha mantra? >> In any tantra sadhana visualization is a very important aspect because everything is created in the mental realm before it's created in the physical realm. So in tantra what we are trying to do is when we chant mantra in tantra it says this is the male this is the female the continuous chanting of the mantra is like the conjoining of the men and the woman giving birth to the mantric deity in the sa chakra.
(50:20) So then you need to visualize because you can't always only rely on mortis and uh anything external. So every mantra has a specific dhana rupa. So you start visualizing that form of the dvata. Wherever you go, you can just close your eyes and that form is in your mind. >> What is that one form that can guru gi be in everyone's mind generic? >> That depends on how strong your visualization is.
(50:44) >> If my visualization is really strong, I can manifest it 100%. If your visual visualization is strong, it means it aids in doing the mantra sadena because before you do the japa, right? You close your eyes and you can visualize that entire form of that specific mantra devata and then you are basically creating your own divine being within you >> just through visualization >> and the mantra.
(51:04) The mantra is the one that powers that visualization. >> Okay. Can you give us one visualization technique? >> You have uh the basic sabda mudras to invoke Ganesha in any ritual. If you are worshiping Ganesha externally, you use sa mudras. So I can show you the sa mudras right now. So the sa mudras can be used externally.
(51:26) If you're doing a puja for a morti or an image or ganesha, if you do not know how to invoke him before you do a puja, you just use the mudras danta, parasha, angusha, vna, parishu, laduka, bijapura If you're invoking him in a puja then you finish by saying mudram. So once you have invoked him in a image or morti you can do whatever you want to offer water incense and all that.
(52:10) This is mudras are much more powerful in invocation. >> So so how do you use I understood these mudras but how do I put them to use? >> If you want to do a puja for Ganesha you can use this mudras to invoke him >> externally. >> So in front of him his morty I just do these mudras. >> Yes. You don't have to actually even verbally utter.
(52:25) >> Okay. Right. >> It's the mudra, the hand formation that invokes that divine energy. >> Oh, super. So, just seven times. Seven. Seven. >> So, yes. Dant, parasha. So, tanta, parasha, anguisha, rkna, parishu, laduka, pijah, pura. So, this seven uh symbolic of kan. So you can offer it in front of him when you do a puja.
(52:53) A lot of kerala tantrics they offer into the homa when they invoke him into the homa also. So anything he can be invoked and you can do that mudras and then invoke him within you. So what is danta para what is ankusha? So you invoke the qualities. So and then you go into meditation mode and you invoke Ganesha within your chakra which doesn't require anything external and then you reflect on what these seven things mean.
(53:24) >> Reflect >> reflect and meditate on them. So you imbue the qualities of Ganesha within you. See the aim of tantra is to become the divine >> not just be doing rituals becoming the dvata himself or herself. >> Yeah. So in tantra they say only a rudra can worship a rutra. Only a vishnu can worship a vishnu. >> You become that.
(53:46) >> Yes. Only by becoming that you are even allowed to worship. >> Okay. Okay. >> So entire process of tantra all that rituals and all the nasas everything is to physiologically make you understand that you are nothing but the divine. >> We talked about uh the mantra and he talked about this and he spoke about some mantras for different problems.
(54:06) We talked about tit mantra of that you can offer to surv. >> Yeah. >> And then we talked about the sastra namas which you can pick and choose whichever your situation is >> and do a small anushana. Anushtana is 44 days >> okay >> of unbroken practice. >> Why 44 days of unbroken practice? >> Remember I said 44 >> that that number four is very important for him because it works on the >> muladar muladada.
(54:30) >> Okay. >> So what happens is Ganesha is a showoff. when your situation is solved it will happen on a chuti you can ask all my shishas even in my own situations let's say I applied for a certain thing with the government and I'm not getting the uh let's say a visa or some something I'm applying and then I just did this thing why is not happening on chhati I'll get that email saying oh it has just been approved so he's a devata who doesn't want any other devata forms to take uh uh you know responsibility he wants to I was the one who did it or
(55:02) some image of an elephant or something will come related to him. When your situation gets solved, he likes to show that it's him and no one else >> only if you've done the Ganesh sadhana. >> Yeah, if you do the Ganesha >> not like every problem comes on a chhat. Okay. >> So he will be very explicit that it's me who's the one who is solving this issue.
(55:18) Nobody else you might be doing multiple but it's me I just have to show you that it's me only. >> So he's very prominent in that. >> Then there was some mantras that we spoke about. After that what is a >> you sama? >> Huh? That's the nama we can't uh >> the one name you can do okay you want to do it as a devotional practice you can also say the sasama because there's no uh restrictions to it so you can do it as a devotional practice also basically sadhana has to be daily lifestyle not just I go do my kria yog for an hour or
(55:51) I go and clear my mind for an hour and says Ganesha's nama and then immediately I'm on my phone you know badmouthing my relative or schooling these people when I'm off to a restaurant to eat. It is a manner of being. So that thing has to be brought throughout the day. I will tell people you start the day when you wake up you tell the devat's name.
(56:17) When you sleep at the end of the day you tell the devat's name because when you sleep you do not know when you're going to wake up the next day, >> right? when you wake up in the morning, you do not know if you'll have time for sad or some personal issue will get in the way and life happens to everyone right so I do not want to waste that day by not taking Bhagawan's name at least once so you start and end the day with Bhagawan right and then whatever practices you can do like I said do the worship of the sun do the nama of
(56:49) Ganesha whichever nama that is suited for your situation right >> that the anamas that you took us through right >> any namas of Ganesha within the Sasama you can take. >> Okay. Can you give us one generic nama that everyone can do? >> Omra shipra. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Quick. How many? >> So he who bless who? He who blesses quickly.
(57:08) >> How many times? >> 108 444. >> Okay. >> This can be done every day >> without the malana or with the >> mala is better. Okay. All right. Take after that. >> Then throughout the day now you're sitting for japa 44. doing right proper sad with the mala but you can still take the name wherever you're going manasika throughout the day you are driving your car you can still say the mantra >> the same mantra >> same mantra right so it gets infused within you right nama jaba has no rules you can take it at any time while you're
(57:39) being >> anytime anywhere >> anytime anywhere you can take >> there no proh prohibition scheme you shouldn't do it when >> for nama jaba there's no restrictions bija mantras have restrictions >> okay okay no one has the authority to say you can't take the name of Bhagawan anywhere.
(57:55) I've had people in Singapore uh when I used to work where they took Dave's name when they were in the washroom and then they had started experiencing stroke symptoms right when they were in the middle of you know their daily symptoms and all that. So >> uh there's no you cannot uh make the name of Bhagawan dirty in any way like any time of the day you can take Bhagwan's na see back in the day when >> why did they experience stroke? So someone has a had had a health issue right? >> Okay.
(58:21) >> So while they were in the washroom and they experienced they took bhagan's nama and that saved them. >> Okay. Save them from outside. >> Yes. So it doesn't mean that I can only do the mantra. I can only do the mantra there. In Ganesha sadena it's important to learn the advas which is a vantic hymn because it tells you the palesi of the ganesha says that chanting it removes the sins of the day.
(58:47) sense of the day. >> Whatever sins you have done, any papa that you have done throughout the day, it clears it before you sleep uh in the evening, take time to recite. So, it takes about a couple of minutes only recite it. So, it clears whatever does certain karmmas in a day. As long as you're engaged with the world, there's no not engaging in karma.
(59:13) So, this stops from accumulation of these things. So that hymn you should chant at the end of the day. >> How long is that hymn? >> Takes about 2 to 3 minutes. >> Aa would you mind letting us know what that is? >> So that is from the Ganesha upanisha. >> Okay. >> That stotra is used in Ganesha chetras to do Abhisha of Ganesha right you know the basic mantra of Ganesha that is first mentioned in that.
(59:41) So it is a two to three page hymn. I don't have it memorized but you can just read it and take a salpa that please remove any papa I have committed knowingly or unknowingly throughout the day. >> Okay. >> So there are otheras for differentatas for di there's also dviasa. So you chanted to end your day >> at night before you go to bed.
(1:00:03) >> Yes. At night before he go to bed. >> Okay. Okay. So you know symbolically Ganesha is sitting a certain way to symbolize key sitting on the moolahara. Is that what the representation is? >> See, there's many uh images of Ganesa >> most most famous is the one that he suggested. >> So there's a lot of there's versions of him.
(1:00:20) Mayor sits on a peacock, right? Her number sits on a lion. So there many forms of Ganesha. We are talking about the generic form. >> Yeah. >> So where he has four hands, he has a he's holding a single tusk. Yeah. There are symbolic reasons. He sits on the muladara. Most of the motives of Ganesha, you see sim he's sitting on a lotus.
(1:00:38) He's not sitting on a normal place. He's sitting on a lotus that symbolizes the muladara. >> Okay. >> That's why that number chadi is the fourth tidi >> right when we do uh tarpanam 444 is recommended >> right everything is linked to four because the mulara chakra has four petals. >> Okay. Okay. >> So it works on that four petals in the muladhara and giving you that very strong stability.
(1:01:03) So that's important and with that you can do any other sadas. It will actually improve any other sadas that you're doing. >> Aa so it doesn't come into the energy two energy processes don't come into conflict with each other. >> So example in Kerala tantra we have this rule that if you go to the grabagara of the inner sanctum of any devata let's say a DI is uh inner sanctum and you chant any other mantra the chaitana of the devata decreases.
(1:01:29) >> Yeah >> right. You you go to a Shiva's shrine and you chant Davis mantra it decreases but if you chant Mahagarvi's mantra the chaitana increases because it never conflicts with any other >> okay >> it only improves it so that's only relevant for Mahagarvi and Ganesha mantras >> aa okay so I could be doing any sadhana from any school of thought >> yes >> and I can do the uh the >> it only helps so >> uh when I've had shishas who come from various Samayas they are from kria yoga they are from uh yogic parts they are
(1:02:04) having that you know people worship Krishna and they put all kinds of sweets and correct they have these two three hours puja that they do every day for Krishna some asha bakta they do shiva when you first come into gana sadhana they like oh am I like you know deviating from my path >> or you know am I this is my so am I not being loyal >> and then after they do sad they realize whatever they thought they had was bias was not bias was just some basic emotional sentimentalism.
(1:02:32) They they thought it was bi right bi is something that is not just external correct >> right bhi is now I'm talking to you but apart my mind is always thinking of myisha all the time right if I'm talking to my wife that it runs that jaba of my devat keeps running 24/7 that is bi not just the external ritual right so he gets you closer to any sadena that you are doing it is not an exclusive path so when you actually do sadena you suddenly find your own sadhana that you're doing shoots up.
(1:03:03) >> Aa >> and because he also has this function of being that obstacle remover. >> He's the obstacle giver. >> Obstacle giver and obstacle remover. >> Why is he the obstacle giver? I don't understand this. >> So every dvata teaches in a specific manner. The form of teaching is different.
(1:03:20) If you go to Braawa, he will make you stronger as a person. He'll make you bang your head in the wall and break through that wall eventually. Like he doesn't like weakness >> or the easy path. The easy path is not for Ganesha. Two things are there. Firstly, he finds shortcuts for you. You as a person think this is my aim. See, this is the only part for me to achieve it because my mind is limited.
(1:03:46) I only can look at this point of view. But he sees from a higher vantage point. He's like, why are you banging your head in this way where there's this open path here? This is when you are going about the wrong way to achieve your goal. Now people know him as Vikna Hara and Vikna karta both he who removes obstacles but he who also gives obstacles.
(1:04:08) Now if the path you are going is going to cause you lifetimes of issues he will place an obstacle there so that you do not ruin yourself. His obstacle is him teaching you about yourself. So his path of connecting to the saddaka is through obstacles. Before we started worshiping Ganesha in this cuddly manner as the removal of obstacles originally if you look if you go through the text originally uh in the old Vic traditions and even before that he was worshiped as vinayaka >> not as a person who removes obstacles he
(1:04:47) was the one who gives obstacles >> okay >> if you do not do certain rituals let's say you're having a wedding and you do give him his due he would possess people the vinayakas >> in real life >> this was written in the vic text >> okay >> so they would possess people and cause obstructions until placated so there's two streams of thought one stream of thought that nefarious uh vinayaka being >> we transmuted that energy to the more benign >> uhhuh >> that is the scholarly stream of thought the saddaka stream of thought is there
(1:05:25) was these beings called Vinayakas who would cause these obstacles and when we worshiped the divine pranavasupa to come and solve this issue Ganesha came down and became the lord of all these vinayakas now he becomes the lord of these >> are they ghas vinayaka ghas >> now they're considered ghas but they called they called vinayakas >> original term was vinayaka if you go to the old vajayina X they don't refer to Ganesha they refer to Vinayaka okay >> the obstacle causes >> so this whole perception because a popular perception is that Gapati was
(1:06:02) basically an elephant head but he actually was not an elephant head he was a head of a Ghana or a Vayaka am I right >> that is one point of view and neither of it is wrong so I'm giving you the perspective of the Ganesha tradition what how the people let's say you want to learn about Shiva you look at the Shiva text you look at the sha samatraaya and the practices you want to ask the vishna people how or what they think of Shiva right so in the same way if you want to ask how Ganesha the head is looked at you have to check from the
(1:06:31) Ganesha perspective the gapata perspective >> okay >> so Ganesha is many rupas where he has lost his head >> right so there's popular story of him losing his head and an elephant's head is being one popular story there's another popular story in mudkala puran where Indra's uh vahana ayabata the divine white elephant They take his head and place it on Ganesha.
(1:06:58) There is another story where Assura called Dajamuka Assura >> is killed by Shiva and his head is placed on Ganesha. Every story you see that Ganesha first loses his head and something external is placed on him. And if you see there is a meaning to it. The top is an animal, the bottom is the divine. >> Correct? >> Right.
(1:07:21) So Ganesha sits where in the muladara in between the higher chakras and the lower chakras. In traditional chakra system we think of only the higher chakras but if you go deeper there are lower chakras atala patala and all these chakras lower than the muladhara >> lower than muladhara. >> Tell me about this. >> Right.
(1:07:38) So palala is not only seen as the place of the nagas. Patala is also one of the >> people think is a loca. It's like an existence plane of existence. You're telling me it's it's a chakra also. >> It's also a chakra. Below muladara there are multiple chakras. We are talking only the six primary or seven primary chakras but they are much lower chakras.
(1:07:52) The reason being Ganesha sits between both of them so that he doesn't allow this negativity to bring you down. Whether you are doing yogic sadena or mantra sadena these things will start triggering you. You know when people start doing sadena when you're not doing sad you're very you know nothing triggers.
(1:08:11) When you start doing sadena these latent tendencies will try and drag you down. But Ganesha is like that stop there. He doesn't allow those things to appear. So you can progress up. So a lot of the asuric tendencies are located below. So if you go to much more deeper like Tibetan practices and all that, they do mention and map where these chakras are.
(1:08:34) >> What are the name of these chakras? They said pal chakra. >> Patala. Patala. Sutala. >> Oh, there even chakras above the sasha. S star. >> Aa >> yeah. So chakras uh expand all the way up to like you know this height above your sasara in specific traditions. >> I'm going to throw at you some common concerns and you can tell me what kind of tarpan I can offer to Lord Ganesha.
(1:09:02) Um money problems. >> Money problems. You offer milk? >> I offer milk. >> Milk. >> Okay. Um health issues. Sesame oil. >> Okay. Any any amount >> we offering tarpanam 108 444 that always remains the same whatever offering you do whether it's chapa or tanam. So we are doing tarpanam like this. No one 2. >> What is the correct way of doing the tarp? >> So basically you have a container of the liquid that is relevant to your problem.
(1:09:34) Then you have your right hand like this. You take one drop place it here the center. Then you say Ganesha Ganesha. So Ganesha Ganesha at the word tarpayami then you make that offering. So this can be offered if you have a morti you can offer it on top of the morti. If you have a shaabatila you can offer it on the shaila.
(1:10:00) It's a red stone that represents ganesa just like narada. So we have different dravyas that you use for different problems that you have. Sesame oil, curd, milk, uh holy water. >> Holy water for >> liberation, >> spiritual benefits. >> Okay. >> Right. To end your cycle of births. >> When you say holy water, it would be Ganga. >> Ganga gal, nada water, any holy water is fine.
(1:10:27) >> Okay. >> So this entire tarpana ritual is extracted from a type of ritual that comes from tantra. And it was given by parasuram. So in initiated mantras sadena we have something called chhaturi tarpan where 444 tarpanas are offered to mahagapati to his shaki to his aana devatas to his inayakas to his ghas and all of that comes up to 444.
(1:11:00) So it's a very elaborate process for a initiated saddaka. >> This would be over a period of how many days? >> 444 daily. So for initiated saddakas uh even in shriya samataya this is a nity karma >> every day >> every day before they even start their dupasana they go to the holy river they take a dip and then while wearing the wet clothes they do the tarpam at the shore and then they come back home and then they start dias >> okay is a nity karma for >> but people who are not initiated how many times can they do >> so people who are not initiated they are
(1:11:36) not calling the vinayakas and the aana because you need to call them because they are ghas they are not fully divine. So if you are calling them in what authority you're calling them you need that initiation >> but without initiation you do the ton just for gap alone. So that 444 still works. >> Okay. Okay. Okay.
(1:11:55) >> You're just not involving the other processes. >> Okay. Guruji as per Mayamatam it's the ancient manual for building basically. And according to that it is said that Ganesha acts as a pranic filter when it is kept at the door. I want to understand the connection between Ganesha and vastu because almost every home whether they're into active sadhana Ganesh sadha tantra or otherwise or not they will have a ganesha at least in a symbolic form.
(1:12:22) So I think this is going to be the most relatable topic for people because I think almost every Indian sanatan Hindu home will have a Ganesha. Tell us the correct uh method of keeping the Ganesha. the correct way of keeping the Ganesha Morty size because I think Morty size is also very important uh material of the Morty and the direction.
(1:12:43) So uh directions of where to keep Ganesha depends on the philosophy that you are following in Tantra philosophy. What happens is I mentioned that someone goes outside and does kanisha rituals and come back comes back home right then they worship kanisha at the front at the top and they worship and then they worship and then they enter their ritual space in that aspect he becomes the shetra part of that space.
(1:13:21) So a common place where people keep Ganesha is at the front of their house. So there is that panic element but there is also the element where anyone who has durishi bad eyes right they do not mean well for you. He neutralizes that durishi from entering your house >> by just being there symbolically >> by placing him and doing puja for him at the front.
(1:13:46) >> You have to do puja for him right? You can't just keep a idol and just >> Yes. I mean you can place him there. You don't have to do actively puja right whenever you're doing puja you can you can just worship him as see whenever there's an image there you place him in we are going to enter the house and we are going to see him and mentally >> some part of our mental shi goes towards recognizing him and that shi is also a form of worship right because it unconsciously it is being taken from you only everything takes attention from you
(1:14:16) even if you're not doing puja that attention is a form of puja only Okay. >> Right. So there they keep Ganesha in a form where he's a protector where he stops this uh they call it Nazer right >> from entering your home. In Kerala they place him in another corner of the house.
(1:14:39) They call it the ni location or kim. So Kerala temples most of them are constructed using tantra rules. >> Aa >> right. Tamil Nadada temples most of them are constructed using agama rules. >> Okay. >> So the rules are different the energy system is different. So in Kerala temples what happens is the niti location southwest location is known as where the heaviest uh negativity manifest in a place.
(1:15:08) So in Shabriala which is a very uh you know heavy yatra for people to undertake lots of obstacles they have to go through. He's placed at kimu. So he neutralizes all these negative karmmas within that space. It is not meant for worshiing in a puja space. It's in where that location is in your home. You can place the morty of him and just offer flowers there.
(1:15:30) >> Just by manner of him being there, he will neutralize any heavy kmas, any dshas in your house that happens. So when we buy a home, we do not know what kind of dshas is present or we buy a secondhand home, we do not know the suffering that the previous family had. So he neutralizes all these heavy karmmas and dshas >> by keeping in the southwest >> southwest area.
(1:15:51) So he it's a heavy neutralizing effect it has. And the second place is the shetraal corner. Now if you want to have him being wealthgiving you place him in the north and you adorn him with red pastas. If you are getting an image of him, him him in red uh ornaments and you offer red flowers to him and that helps in the wealth and influence of you to the world.
(1:16:26) So these three are the main locations that people keep Ganesha in. So any forms are possible but these are the three main locations. >> Southwest, north and >> yes >> okay what about if there are health issues where can I place Ganesha? When you have health issues, NI is still the location. Southwest is the location because that's where the heavy karmmas, any health issue is basically concentrated kmas.
(1:16:50) >> Aa >> right concentrated heavy kmas manifest as health issues. >> All of them >> most of them. So when when a child has an issue that is born with it is inherited from the previous life where that heavy karmmas have solidified and now they expressing the nature of that heavy karmmas >> or they're getting rid of those karmmas.
(1:17:08) overcoming these kas right in this >> depending on how strong that body is whether they can overcome it or they have to experience it and only the next life they can have a proper life it depends on the karma >> okay for peace and harmony at home if you know there are families these days a lot of them where there's a lot of um tussle every day you know temper temper issues so what should be done >> so you should have uh ganesha uh mahagapati basically if you use mahagapati as an image it entails all of these things in one. So the form of
(1:17:40) Mahagabati represents the five devat mortis the five divine couples and he has Dvi seated on his lap. So in this tradition Mahagabati his spouse or his shi is Mahalakshmi. It is not the Vayishnava point of view where Mahalakshmi is the spouse of Mahav Vishnu. >> Right. Right. In the Ganesha tradition we call the spouse of Mahav Vishnu as Shri Dvi.
(1:18:10) So that's why we say Mahalakmi Samita Mahalmi or Mahalakmi Samita Mahakmi. So Mahakmi Mahagridi are together. So what happens is Mahagarbati has babysitted on his lap. We call her as Mahalakshmi. We call her as Siddha Lakmi. She we call her as uh Walaba. She is conjoined or she's hugging Ganesha and all of Ganesha's 10 hands are visible.
(1:18:39) So he has or the top hands he has the conch shell and the chakra of Vishnu. He has the thricul and parasha of Shiva and Dvi. He has the sugar cane and the blue lily of manmata and rati. He has the gada and the harvest shoots of vaha morti as well as bhu dvi. And then he has the pomegranate fruit and the broken tusk of pushipati form of Ganesha and goddess Pushi.
(1:19:08) So 10 different devatas five divine couples are all concentrated into this one form and they are in embrace of each other. So in Sha systems people will say they have marital issues and all that they will worship um Maheshwara of Maheshwara heals these things. So in Ganesha or Mahagarati they are the same Ganesha worshiing him keeping him in your space heals this issues within a family.
(1:19:38) >> Understood. Okay. What should the size and the material of the Ganesha idol be and what position even? So generally we have this rule that if you're not an initiated saddaka don't get a morti that is uh longer than your height of your thumb. So this is the tradition from the very south Indian traditions where they follow this kind of beliefs.
(1:20:04) Uh because when you keep a big morti it requires more prana. >> Ah >> right. So the bigger the morti the bigger the prana requirements are because that becomes like a >> life >> life. Right. You wouldn't keep your pet at home and then go for a long holiday or something like that. >> Okay? >> An image doesn't require these things.
(1:20:22) >> So, so if it's bigger than this thumb, it becomes a life form. >> If you are worshiping, regularly worshiing. >> So, >> but let's say I have many gods in a puja >> in a pujasthan you will have many gods. Typical Indian homes, right? Ganesha would be one of them. Then also is it >> if you are regularly worshiing, there is a natural pranisha that happens. A sure.
(1:20:42) >> So when you call a pandita who is experienced let's say let's say a sivary uh and you say you want to officially worship this devata please do pranapishta they will ask you has this morti already been worshiped or is this a new morti. Oh, >> because the mantra will differ for the prana prahishta because if there's already been worship no matter how we are worshiping it if prana is being expanded it goes to the morti >> mantra praishta you mean >> anything it can be mantra it could be physical offerings it could just be you
(1:21:14) sitting silently and just looking at the morti >> all of this is >> everything is attention everything is giving something to that image you know >> okay >> right so people have a very small idea of what is actually Quran right example uh very typical in Indian families uh where they said I'm taking va of uh this shiv huh I'm taking va of shiva I'm taking for for vishnu and you see you see what how are they doing the va they're on the phone talking bad mouthing their neighbor right and then they're watching their TV serial where
(1:21:47) the daughter-in-law is getting abused by the by the mother-in-law and then they're emoting with that uh victim mindset and then they have their own family issues and then do they do Any form of sadena? No, no form of sadana is done. And where is all the attention being generated >> in everything else? When we say vera, it means restriction of consumption.
(1:22:07) And the consumption is not just food. It's all your senses. Every sense consumption is supposed to be reduced. And then focusing that attention on the dvata. That's when you actually have the benefit of the bata for whichever dwata form you're doing. If you are saying bata even the data doesn't know about it because you're not doing anything, >> right? It's just a ego I'm doing it for this.
(1:22:28) >> So what you know how should you conduct yourself through the day and when is Ganesha G? So Sanka Chadi >> the fourth uh phase of the waning moon >> okay >> uh is very conducive for him there he's known as sanka kanesha and the chadi is known as sankahara chadoti removal of sankatas what bata should be done has been mentioned in the sastras but it is not applicable for everyone >> okay >> so some people take niral No no no water consumption.
(1:23:05) >> If you tell a diabetic person to do that is going to cause a lot of >> damage >> damage to them. >> So what vidra has mentioned vidra in vidraanidi mahabarada has mentioned what you can consume that will not break a vata. >> Okay. >> Right. Fruits, ghee, milk, roots, >> tubers. >> Yes. >> Radish, carrot, >> sweet potatoes, right? They can be taken and it doesn't break the take for medication and whatever has been instructed by the guru.
(1:23:45) These things do not break avata is the rule given in the sastras for aa to work. M so people who take sabuish >> so you you can't take like I'm taking coffee in the morning because I need my coffee it doesn't work it's not part of the thing >> right and you must also know let's say they say medicine you can take one simple meal in a day if you have diabetes and all that it doesn't mean you consume a huge meal or if I say roots can be you take one whole thing you add lots of condiments into it and all that right doesn't work that way the
(1:24:15) intention also matters so what happens when you do va so this issue people I do a lot of this karmakanda and all that I go to these temples I'm doing these big and nothing's happening >> you are you are getting a lot of pun you are making lots of uh pun karma but you have so much papa karma stack it's not showing >> it's like you know in uh fitness they will say you can work on your on your abs all you want and make them stronger but if you have a lot of fat your abs are not going to show no >> right so you can do like hundreds of
(1:24:48) sit-ups a day you're going to do it's not it's not going to work. So you're building all your puna but there's so much papa covered on it. How is that puna going to manifest? >> So what happens is when you take va your kmas get burnt rapidly. Your negative papa karmas get burnt rapidly. Even modern epigenetics tells you the power of fasting.
(1:25:12) There are studies nowadays that say that when you fast right even uh medical conditions that are coming from your parents and all that >> from the genes are able to be cured and recent studies are showing even mental illness like schizophrenia and things like that that come through the bloodline gets cured gets manageable. So how do you get this hereditary things karma? So even modern studies are showing that by taking vata kmas are being burned.
(1:25:43) >> So when you apply vata as a tool to burn your kmas while at the same time doing sadhana the results of your sadhana manifest much faster. >> So if I have to take a ganesh vata tell me the method. Basically you wake up at sunrise before sunrise and then you worship kanesha in whichever way that suits you because the worship is not important in day >> okay >> secondly uh in when you're in va you will not have energy to do too much sadena either then you take a sul saying I this is my name this is where I'm living if you know your gora you tell
(1:26:19) your gora if you do not know you take I'm shivotra because everyone can be shivotra I'm taking this va for this purpose. So you're just like you know logging it in >> that you are doing this and then you go about your day reducing consumption of anything external means no doom scrolling no uh unnecessary talks to people no gossip right you reduce these the faculty of speech right you reduce watching unnecessary things you blast your senses with things to do with theata let's say you're traveling to work you can nowadays there are YouTube
(1:27:00) uh regional language of every every purana is that Ganesha purana is there in Hindi in Tamil >> right >> it's all uploaded on YouTube so instead of doing slowing you listen to the Ganesha purana while you're on your way to work >> or listen to this podcast >> yes anything >> that uh keeps that thought of him it keeps blasting in your mind >> right so you are basically imbuing him in all forms it doesn't only have to be japa or sadana or anything So throughout the day your your focus is narrowed to just him and then you wait until
(1:27:32) moonrise timing. In moonrise you take milk, you look at the moon and you offer tarpam to the moon because sankaruti is related to manas and the moon. So you offer it to the moon and then you can break your fast >> and eat a full meal. >> You can eat a meal >> with with onion, garlic, chili. After you have offered the tarpan to chandra >> doesn't matter >> non veg also I can eat.
(1:27:58) >> Of course don't go don't be following like certain other traditions where they say they're fasting and then they give full meals. Don't do that. It defeats the purpose of a fast. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Mr. Guru Shikumar it has been such a pleasure. Thank you so much. There are very few podcasts with which come from a place of authenticity.
(1:28:14) You know in the name of gurus we have a lot of showbiz everywhere. But uh true guan true knowledge is something which is very very seldom that we get to hear and I'm so glad today we've had this conversation and you've given us this super wealth of information which is so nuanced and I think people who are watching them may have to watch this conversation multiple times to actually get the depth of what you have said.
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