Childlessness remedies

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Dear Friends,

 

There are often a few queries on this and other lists regarding

childlessness, and I thought I would share what little I know. These

are not really "Jyotish Remedies", since they do not depend on any

particular configuration of planets, but people on this list may

still find these useful. Please understand that none of these

are "instant" remedies, and that all of these require faith and

effort.

 

Subrahmanyeswara is considered the God of fertility, and is

worshipped either in his human-like form, or in the form of a snake.

Pooja vidhaan, Japa mantras etc can be learned from any standard

texts or from a priest. One of the important forms of worship of this

delightful Lord is by offerring milk. The milk can be offerred in a

Subrahmanyeswara temple, a Shiva temple, at an altar at home or at a

snake pit. By the way, performing abhisheka for the Shivalingam is a

great remedy for many problems. Naaga Panchami is a good day to start

offerring milk to the snakes. Milk may be offerred daily or on

Mondays or Tuesdays. Problems with Rahu are often credited for

childlessness, so worship of Subrahmanya as the Naaga Devatha is also

an astrological remedy.

 

Santana Gopala mantram is often recommended for obtaining a child.

The mantra is

Devakisutam Govindam Vaasudevam Jagatpatim

Dehime Tanayam Krishna Twamaham Sharanagataha

 

This has to be chanted one lakh times within 51 days.

 

Pundit Rath Ji has recommended that Sree Krishna and Arjuna should be

visualized while chanting this mantra, bringing a baby. The tradition

that I know of, visualizes Baala Krishna instead. Krishna in his baby

form, in a cradle, is said to bring happiness and children to the

home, and a statue or a picture is very beneficial too. The other

visualization is of the smiling baby Krishna lying on a banyan leaf

in the middle of a Maha Pralaya, sucking his own big toe -

Vatapatrasaayi Roopam. This is a highly mystical form of the Divine,

indicating the Chidaananda swaroopa, calm amidst the storm. Recall

that the Lord left his bodily form when an arrow pierced his big toe.

The divine Child with his toe in his mouth makes a full circle, where

the distinctions between destruction and creation begin to blur, as

the world arises from Him and merges into Him constantly. The same

idea is echoed throughout the scriptures. Purusha Suktam talks of the

Purusha bringing forth all creation by being Himself the aahuti in

the Yagna. The Devi is depicted drinking Her own blood from her

severed head, as Chinna Masta. Krishna states clearly in the Bhagavat

Geeta in multiple verses that the world comes from Him, IS Him and

merges into Him, and also by his Viswa Roopam as the Mahaa Kaala

Swaroopa. The form of Vatapatrasaayi is a joyous depiction of the

same eternal truth that everything that delights us or terrifies us,

is but the play of this adorable little Child - He is All.

 

Now that I've gone off on a tangent :-), let me send this out, and

bask in the sweetness of Vatapatrasaayi...

-Sreelatha