[Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru] Bagalmukhi Upasana Query

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thank u anna for ur wonderful postings.i really appreciate your answer.priyanandhaGroup Owner <para_anuloma wrote: Dear Thavaraja Priyanananda Tambi, I will answer your 11

questions( 11 tasks of Hercules) one per week. Your first question: what day is auspicious for bagalamughi upasana?when is her special night (ratri upasana)? Bagala or Bagalamukhi is the eighth Mahavidya in the famous series of the 10 Mahavidyas Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari,Chinnamasta, Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Bagala, Matangi and Kamala. She is identified with the second night of courage(Veera Ratri).Day auspicious for her upasana is Fridays and saturdays. Bagalamukhi means "The Crane-Headed One". This bird is thought of as the essence of deceit. As can be seen from the hymn, she rules magic for the suppression of an enemy's gossip. These enemies also have an inner meaning, and the peg she puts through the tongue may be construed as a peg or paralysis of our own prattling talk. She rules deceit which is at the heart of most speech. She can in this sense be considered as a terrible or Bhairavi form of Matrika Devi, the mother of all speech. Alan Danielou in his book "Hindu Polytheism" defines Bagala thus: She is the goddess of black magic, of poisons. She rules over the subtle perception which make us feel at a distance the death or misery of those we know. She incites men to torture one another. She revels in suffering. However, I would disagree with such Western views of Indologists who came mainly from Germany(including Max Mueller whom we Indians praise so much1) to actually distort and provide enough support for the christian propoganda. (Bagalamukhi yantra is the

main tool in Bagal sadhana). The name 'Bagala' is a distortion of the original Sanskrit root 'ValgA'.(Va and Ba being synomously used in pali,bengali and oriya languages) She has a golden complexion and her cloth is yellow. She sits in a golden throne in the midst of an ocean of nectar full of yellow lotuses. A crescent moon adorns her head. The Deity is of the highest Yogic order and normally Gruhasthas are to avoid worhsip this deity as they can become sanyaasis and lose interest in life with just a few weeks of practice, very rarely does the deity make any exceptions.Bagalamukhi Devi smashes the devotee's misconceptions and delusions by her cudgel. There are two kinds of Bagala, Priyananda and they are Dw-bhuja and Chaturbhuja. The Dwi-BhujA depiction is the more common, and is described as the 'Soumya' or milder form. She holds a club in her right hand with which she beats the demon, while pulling his tongue out with her left hand. This image is sometimes interpreted as an exhibition of stambhana, the power to stun or paralyze one’s enemy into silence. This is one of the boons for which Bagalamukhi’s devotees worship her. Other Mahavidya goddesses are also said to represent similar powers useful for defeating enemies, to be invoked by their worshippers through various rituals. The legend behind the origin of goddess Bagalamukhi is as follows: Once upon a time, a Huge storm erupted over the earth. As it threatened to destroy whole of the creation, all the gods assembled in the Saurashtra region. Goddess Bagalamukhi emerged from the 'Haridra Sarovara', and appeased by the prayers of the gods, calmed down the storm. A demon named Madan undertook austerities and won the boon of vak siddhi, according to which anything he said came about. He abused this boon by harassing innocent people. Enraged by his mischief, the

gods worshipped Bagalamukhi. She stopped the demon's rampage by taking hold of his tongue and stilling his speech. Before she could kill him, however, he asked to be worshipped with her, and she relented, That is why he is depicted with her. Bagalamukhi maha mantram meaning is as below: Oh Goddess, paralyze the speech and feet of all evil people. Pull their tongue, destroy their intellect.(I would not venture to give the original sanskrit mantra for fear of misuse). Major temples to the goddess are situated in the Himachal Pradesh in the north, and at Nalkheda at Shajapur and Datia in Madhyapradesh. Nepal, where the worship of tantric goddesses had Royal patronage, also has a large temple devoted to Bagalamukhi in the

Newar city of Patan. The territory of Bagalamukhi temple in Patan also has a couple other temples in there. Ganesha temple, Shiva temple, Saraswoti temple, Guheswari temple, Bhairabha temple and many other gods and goddesses. In Hinduism there are 330 million separate gods and goddesses. And it is the main difference between any other temple and bagalamukhi temple that if someone worships all the gods in this temple, they would actually worship all 330 million gods and goddesses at one place. Baglamukhi Devi Temple is situated at Guma in Mandi in state of Himachal Pradesh in North India,Large number of Hindu Divotees offers prayers here to fulfill their wishes. Bagla Mukhi Pooja is performed by experienced Pandit as any mistake in the ritual may result in bad effects. (Balabhagavathy Ammai swamy doing a Bagala Kriya: Courtesy:Thatwamssi.org) Bagla Mukhi Devi is one of the ten Hindu Goddess of Power. Bagla Mukhi Puja is performed as per vedic ritual,to defeat enemies,it not only decrease the power of the enemy but also create an atmosphere where he or she becomes helpless. Energise or Abhimantrit Bagla Mukhi Yantra is also used for the same purpose.It protects the person from enemies and evils. The upasana has to be done carefully under a Guru. One should never venture to do Bagalamukhi upasana based on texts else serious repurcussions follow almost immidieately to the doer. Below I give a transcript of Bagalamukhi Stotram(which I will later upload in our group files section), It is a gif file taken from sanskrit documents site and is in Devanagiri script(sanskrit). Hope the above posting more than answers your first query. First task of Hercules over! Yours yogically, Shreeram Balijepalli Purity, Powers, Parabrahmam... Click to join Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru

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