How to perform a purushacharan Sadhana - Basics part 2

Today, I will continue from where I left on my article on How to perform a purushcharan Sadhana.
The way our body is meaningless without its soul in it, similarly a mantra is meaningless without the siddhi on it.

I will now start ahead on this series of how to perform a siddhi sadhana:

1. Qualities of a sadhak -
A person, who desires to become great in the field of sadhanas must  avoid being - Lazy, sinful, cruel in acts, cunning, miser or pinchpenny, oppressed, undisciplined in life, yantra dveshi(envious of the things created by god), a fault-finder, foolish, envious of tirth places, dirty in clothes and dressing, cruddy, excessively wet, hypocrite, show-off, acting needy in front of others, povert, diseased, upset, affectionate, greedy, jealous, always sarcastic or cruel speaking, earning wealth by unfair means, obsessed with someone else's wife, envious of the knowledgeable, a backbiter, doing lowly and extremely shameful acts, excessive eater, excessively hungry all the time, having cruel intentions, and having faced humiliation from others.

The sadhak who desires to get success in sadhana world must give up on these qualities or remove these qualities from their lives.


2. Schools of Sanatana Dharma -

Our religion has more than 33 crore devtas, crores and crores of Chamunda, Shakti, das mahavidyas, Sri Vidya, Brahma ,Vishnu, Rudra, Maheshwara, Sadashiva,  Saraswati, Lakshmi, Gauri, Durga, kali,etc. and the list is endless.

Our religion has various schools. here the word school means sampradaya.
They are as follows and each sampradaya is greater than the previous one in ascending order:
A)Vedic Sampradaya - Thi is a class of Santana Dharmi who beleive in Vedic paddhati and follow all vedic rules and regulations. The only chant vedic mantras and sukt. They primarily worship Lord Agni,Vayu,Aakash, Prithvi, Varuna,Indra and Gayatri Maa. Their worship rituals are purely satvik.
B) Vaishnava - Vedic mantras and rituals even though long but are unbelievably powerful. But even greater than Vedachar or vedic sampradaya is Vaishnavaachar. The vaishnavas only worship Lord Vishnu or his dashavataras. The mantras are usually rajasic though many consider their mantras to be satvik. By worshipping Lord Vishnu, a person goes to vaikunth.
C) Shaiv Sampradaya - Even greater than Vashanvachar is Shaivachar. This is a class of Sanatana Dharmi who believe in Lord Shiva. They believe that Lord Shiva is the supreme and they only and only worship Lord Shiva and chant only Lord Shiv's mantra.
D) Sauraachar - This class of people worship Lord Surya. The only chant surya mantras and worship Lord Surya alone. This school is on par with Shiavachar even though Surya dev in a form of Narayan.

E) Gaanapatya Samradaya - This school worships Lord Ganapati alone and chant only Lord Ganesh's mantras. This achar/school is as great as Shaivachar.

F) Smarta - This is the school of people who worship multiple Gods at once. However, Ganesh, Shiv, Narayan, Durga, Surya are their main deities. This achar is as great as Vaishanaachar.

G) Shaakt Sampradaya - Even greater than Shaivachar is Shaaktaachar. This school worships the shaktis or the female goddesses.

H) Dakshinachar - This is tantrik school whose worship and mantra sadhanas are tantrik in nature. The involve more of puja or tantra than mantras. It is greater than Shaivachar. However, it is a school of Shiv bhakts only. The difference between Shaiv and Dakshinachar is that Shaivachar is only and only of worshipping Lord Shiv. No one else. Kundalini also comes under Dakshinachar.

I) Vaamachar - Greater than dakshinachar is Vamachar, which is another school of Lord Shiva. Vamachar is almost all about tantra and tantrik prayogas. Hardly does it involve use of mantras or stotras. It may seem very cruel for those who are still at the materialistic level of spirituality. However, this is not true. Vamachar is very powerful. It is very secretive and and only revealed in front of the deserving ones.
We all know how many people at large condemn vamachar without knowing anything about it. This has only happened because of ignorance the effects of kali yuga. The significance of Vamachar  is meaningless for such people who make stupid opinions about Vamachaar and saying it is bad.
In no tantra, in no puran, in no veda, in no granth, in no saar and in no samhita, has it been mentioned in even a single sentence, that vamachar is bad.
But the people today, who haven't read even a single page of a puran, people who do not even understand the science of mantras, people whose maximum amount of efforts ever taken in the name of bhakti is attending bhajan mandali that too just for the sake of the free food, and once that bhajan mandali is over, they are gone back into their worldly life for unpredictable amount of months forgetting it completely if god even existed, are seen, saying, that Vamachaar is bad and the people who follow it are cruel.
Such pseudo dharmis, who follow dharma just to garner attention, such people, who do not have even 1% care about the poor, the needy and those who are being oppressed in today's world, such people who  make foul mouths on seeing the poor ones who are crying and suffering, just because they poor ones are not as rich as they are, such people whose spirituality is still stuck on materialistic level, for whom bhog is everything.
The world has become such, that if you apply vibhuti  and make a tripundra on your head, you are considered as a tantrik, and if you apply chandan and make a tilak which is symbol of Narayan, you are considered as deen.

If you go for moksha, you are considered as if you are the enemy of the world and you get humiliated. But if go behind money and wealth, you are considered as hardworking.
Majority of the people who condemn Vamachar or Shaivachar are usually people who either follow Vedachar or Vaishanavachar. Such people do not understand that every sampradaya has its own way of worshipping god. It is only a selected few who understand about non-duality.
There are multiple ways to reach the top of the mountain. Every path is different from the other. But if you spend your life trying to stop other people saying that their path is wrong, you will forever be left on the ground.


J) Siddhantaachaar - This achar is also of Lord Shiva. This achar focuses on yogas, mudras, yogaasan and kundalini jagran. It is the third greatest school.

K) Shri Vidya - For a grihasth, vaishanvachar is very beneficial. Shaivachar is 1000 times more beneficial than Vaishanavachaar. But the Shri Vidya upasana or sampradaya is 1 crore times more beneficial than Shaivaachar. Only those who goddess Lalita herself wants, can worship her, no one else.

L) Kaulachar - The greatest and the most secretive  aachaar in the entire brahmand. The school of Lord Shiva that is unknown even to Lord Shiva's own son Ganesha. Then what can be said about Brahma and Vishnu?
This aachar focuses on worshipping the kul devta and kuleshwari. Other than this, the school involves worship of Kundalini, Mahavidyas, Shiv-Shakti,etc.



3. Bhaav - 
There are 3 types of bhaav or emotional state under which we perform a mantra sadhana -
A) Daas bhaav(subordinate bhaav) - In this bhaav, we worship gods as being under his servants. The vedachar and vaishnavachaar is followed under daas bhaav only.
This bhaav teaches us, the significance of love and affection. As a vedachari and a vaishnav, we learn that love, affection and care has the ability to make even stone turn into honey. It is teaches us that we spread love and treat everyone and everything around us as an embodiment of god. This bhaav teaches us bhakti.

B) Veer Bhaav - Being extremely disciplined in life and allowing even cruelty on yourself for the sake of dharma is what veer bhaav teaches us. Being cruel for the protection of dharma, being powerful and extremely courageous, but being extremely generous at the same time are the qualities of a veer purush. Such a person never fears anything in life, for he knows that god is always there and there is nothing that can stop him for achieving the impossible. Such a person is the dear one of Lord Rudra. All the sampradaya except Vaishanavachar and Vedachaar promote Veer bhaav.
This bhaav is mainly for people whose life is all about dharma-karma. This bhaav is not meant for a grihasth ashram.

C) Pashu bhava - The word pashu means "emotional". Pashu bhaav means people who are excessively emotional and attached in life. Such people always experience some or the other kind of sorrow in life due to their emotional nature. The best example of being emotional nature is of a dog. If you observe a dog, you will find that a dog always has some or the other kind of emotional state going on. That is why, in sanatana dharma, getting moksha is most difficult for a dog.
The person who maintains such a bhaav remains a failure not only in spirituality sector but also in the worldly life sector. By chanting the name of Shri Rama, a sadhak can get rid of pashu bhaav.


4. Aasan -
Kush Aasan is the best aasan and works in all situations for all gods and goddesses. Even in sadhanas that involve shav aasan. By performing sadhana on kush aasan, the sadhak gets mantra siddhi, no matter how difficult the sadhana may be.
The second best asan is red velvet aasan. Red velvet aasan is the best aasan for fulfilling all desired wishes.
Mesh(Ram), Vyaaghra(Tiger), Elephant, Ushtra(Camel), snake - their aasan must only be used in shat karma sadhanas.


5. Location of performing purashcharan - 
 Purashcharan can be performed in various places. Not just one's home.
a] the sadhak must do japa in some punya kshetra, banks of a river, cave, peak of a mountain, teerth, samudra sangam, tapovan, uninhabited jungle, roots of bilva tree, lowland, tulsi grove, gaushala which has zero heat or humidity, Shivalay which has zero heat or humidity, roots of peepal tree, roots of amla or Indian Gooseberry tree,in river, devaalay/mandir, or one's own house - the sadhak can do purashcharan in any of these places.

b] The japa done in house gives  normal benefits, gaushala gives 10 times (some say that gives 100 times or 1 lac times benefits), jungle gives 100 times more benefits than doing purushcharan at home, lake, tirth gives 1000 times more benefits, mountain lowland, banks of river gives 1 lac times more benefits, the peak of the mountain and especially a 4 peaked mountain, devaalay gives 1 crore times more benefits; shivalay, tulsi van and in front of guru - this locations give infinite times more benefits.
The sadhana that is performed at hills, banks of river or sea, tapovan,shivaalay, devaalay, tirth - all these places do not need for one to refer to kurma chakra. I will share in the future article on how to refer to kurma chakra.


6. Food rules -
During the sadhana days, sadhak cannot eat normal food. He must eat havishya ann. Raw cow milk, curd, cow's ghee, sugar obtained from jaggery, til, moong, kand, nariyal, bananas,mangoes, aamla, iodised salt, jeera,foods that do not contain oil - all these are havishya ann. They can be eaten.



Foods that contain salt, oils, carrots, laal masoor, arhara, chana, vegetables,honey are not allowed.
Sour foods, spicy foods, oily foods, foods that are not made in cow's ghee -  all these are strictly forbidden.
Eating taambul,Eating in brass or bronze articles,eating stale foods, eating foods that may have hair in it- all these are also forbidden.

Eating coconut based foods is forbidden in shakti sadhanas.

The person who stays on the diet of just raw cow milk during the sadhana days without any doubt gets siddhi at the end of the 1 lac japa.
The person who eats one time a day will get siddhi at 3 lac chants.

The food must be eaten in brahma patra(banana leaf) only.
The sadhak must keep food on the east and west side of the leaf and not anywhere else.

The quantity of food is also specified for the sadhaks.
A grihasth must eat 8 morsels of food. Each morsel must of the size of an ostrich egg.

A van prasth must eat 4 morsels.
A brahmachari can eat as much as he wants.

The sadhak must first offer the food as a naivedya to his isht devta or the panch devta.
Then, the sadhak must separate 2 morsels and offer them to a brahmin and touch his feet.
Then, he must offer the next 2 morsels to a cow.
Then, he must offer 2 morsels to the aitithi or the guest. If you don't have a guest, feed it to a crow or a dog or leave it under a peepal tree.
The last 2 morsels must be eaten by the sadhak along with his son. if you don't have a son, you can eat it yourself.

Mantra, teerth,Brahman, Devta, Jyotish, Medicine and Guru - The kind of faith and the amount of faith you have in them, that kind of result a sadhak will get.


This is all for the 2nd part. In the next part, I will share some more information and then I will begin with the main procedure of performing a mantra sadhana.

Jay Shri Rama