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LAGHAYA NAVVARAA PJ
versions, as most of laghu navvaraa pj-s do not involve viea arghya. But this laghaya
navvaraa pj involves viea arghya, which is the most important aspect of navvaraa
pj. Some mla mantras included in this version are Mahgaapati, Dakimrt,
Nrasiha and Par-prsda mantra.
1. A wooden plank to keep ri Cakra and this plank is known as maala. Another wooden
plank or mat for seating. This is called sana.
2. camana ptra with uttarai (spoon like). This vessel should be filled with water from 5
below. camana procedure is explained under serial number 2.
2. A few containers/bowls for keeping flowers.
3. Mix white rice with turmeric powder and add a drop of water and mix thoroughly. This is
akata.
4. All preparations for naivedya should be done with pure and devoted mind. For the purpose
of naivedya, dry fruits would be ideal. If fresh fruits are available, they can also be used.
4. At the end navvaraa pj, dhpa, dpa, naivedya and nrjana should be offered.
Necessary materials for performing dhpa, dpa and nrjana are to be kept ready. At least
one lamp should be burning continuously throughout the pj.
5. A bigger vessel containing pure potable water is to be kept. Only from this, water for
vardhan kalaa, smanya arghya and viea arghya is to be taken. Iron and plastic containers
are to be totally avoided. It would be ideal to purify this water by reciting Gtatr mantra
twenty four times.
Following is the list of vessels required.
i) A big vessel which can hold sufficient water.
ii). A medium sized vessel to prepare viea arghya. This vessel is known as kraa kalaa.
iii). Vessels for vardhan kalaa, smanya arghya and viea arghya. For vardhan kalaa, a
uttarai (this is like a small spoon, but with more depth to hold water and is always placed
inside pacaptra). For smanya arghya, a conch with a base (ideally in the form of a tortoise)
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is required. For viea arghya another pacaptra, preferably in silver or copper is required. A
tweezer is also required and this tweezer should be either made of silver or copper. This is
meant to perform tarpaa. Instead of a tweezer, a thin silver rod is used with spikes on one
side and a very small uttarai like structure on the other side can also be used.
8. Three or more very small silver or copper cups for Guru ptra, and tma ptra. It is also
advised that a separate ptra can be kept for the spouse of the worshipper and this is generally
known as patni ptra, provided, spouse is also initiated into either Pacada or oa.
(Spouse means either husband or wife pati or patn)
9. Sandal paste and kumkum for decorating these vessels, lamps, etc.
10. Powdered condiments like cardamom, cloves, saffron, edible camphor, etc. Though they
can be mixed with water straight away, it is better to get them powdered so that they can mix
well with water. Apart from these, dough (rice or wheat) to make ten lamps, which are
discussed in magalartrikam and kula dp and wick and ghee to light these lamps.
11. A small quantity of milk for preparing viea arghya.
12. A few pieces of peeled ginger.
13. Ingredients to prepare viea arghya for which the following ingredients are required.
Milk (not boiled), honey, saffron, edible camphor, very small quantity of powdered sugar,
and powder as discussed in 10 above. All the condiments are to be nicely powdered and
mixed with milk, and honey. Consistency of this mixture should be thicker than milk. This is
going to be viea arghya.
13. A copper plate to for bali. This is also known bali ptra.
It is also advisable to keep pure water in a separate container to wash hands as and when
needed. Dry towels may be required to dry hands. If mantras are not memorised, provision
should be made to keep printed copies in a comfortable position.
1. Prayers to Guru maala:
While reciting Guru mantras, one should use mg mudra, which is shown here. Mg means
doe (female deer).
1) svtmrmapacara vilnatejase rparamehi gurave nama
2) svacchapraka vimarahetave r paramagurave nama
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2. Tatvcamanam
camana is a procedure where water is taken in an uttarai from pacaptra in the right palm,
which is sipped after reciting mantras. After finishing camana, right palm should be washed
with a few drops of water from pacaptra. Sdhaka should always have a clean white towel
by his /her to dry his hands.
1. tmatatva odhaymi svh
2. vidytattva odhaymi svh
3. ivatattva odhaymi svh
4. sarvatattva odhaymi svh
3. Gaapati dhynam :
This is Gaapati mla mantra. Mentall recite this mantra and pray to Gaapati that he should
remove any possible obstacles during this navvaraa pj
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5. sanapj
Offer flowers on the sana by recting the following manra.
dhraakti kamalsanya nama
6. Deha rak
By reciting this mantra, run both the palms from head to toe of the body. First, do this from
head to toe and after this, cross forearms and run the palms from shoulders to finger tips.
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1. Lalitmbiks idol.
2. ri Cakra/ Meru
3. Two lamps on either side. Lamps to the left of sdhaka should be lit with ghee (clarified
butter) and lamps to the right of sdhaka should be lit with sesame oil. Totally there will be
four lamps. All the four lamps should be placed on bases as shown in part I of this series. One
small additional lamp can be kept separately to light dhpa, dpa and nrjana. There is no
need of a base for this lamp.
4. This is the sana. Sitting posture is very important. One should take the most comfortable
sitting posture. As far as possible, sdhaka should not change his sitting posture too
frequently. Ardhapadmsana is the best sitting posture for performing navvaraa pj.
5. Viea arghya ptra should be consecrated here on the prescribed base.
6. Smanya arghya (conch) should be established here on the prescribed base.
7. Vardhan kalaa should be established here.
8. camana ptra can be kept here (this vessel can be moved from this place).
9. Flower bowl can be kept here.
10. Other pj accessories such as bell, dhpa, dpa, nrjana etc can be kept here.
11. Naivedya when needed can be kept here.
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If idols of Ganea, Sun, Viu and iva are available, they can be kept in the places marked
A, B, C and D in the diagram. This will be useful while performing caturyatana pj later.
All other materials can be kept in places that are most convenient to sdhaka. Someone who
is conversant with mantras can read out the mantras and sdhaka can perform the pj. ri
Cakra should be placed in front of the idol. Navvaraa pj can be done even without an
idol. But ri Cakra or Meru is must. Viea arghya ptra and Smanya arghya should not be
moved after consecrating them. This is one of the very important aspects of navvaraa pj.
9. Laghu prapratih:
Prapratih means infusing vital energy (pra) into the yantra. Take flowers, keep this on
anhata chakra (centre of the chest), recite the following mantra and at the end of recitiation,
keep the flowers on ri Cakra.
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12. Bhtauddhi
Inhale through left nostril by reciting mla mantra and exhale through right nostril and
similarly inhale through right nostril by reciting mla mantra and exhale through left nostril.
13. Nys-s
Please perform japa nys-s here.
14, tma prapratih
Avidya or spiritual ignorance is impurity causing duality. Such impurities have already been
removed through bhtauddhi. In such a purified body and soul, Brahman and His Power are
being established. This is the concept of tma prapratih.
Keep the right palm on the heart and recite the following mantra three times and after that
recite mla mantra three times.
om ai hr r soha
15. Ptra sdana
i) Procedure for establishing vardhan kalaa:
Sprinkle some water by reciting and place a base and on this place vardhan kalaa. Take
water from kalaa ptra and pour into vardhan kalaa. Add powdered condiments.
Place the right palm on the vardhan kalaa and recite mla mantra eight times.
Now take water from the vardhan kalaa and sprinkle on all pj articles by reciting mla
mantra.
ii) Procedure for establishing smnya arghya:
Sprinkle water from vardhan kalaa and place the base of the conch. Again sprinkle water
from vardhan kalaa on the base and place the conch and sprinkle water vardhan kalaa on
the conch. Do this procedure by reciting mla mantra.
Now pour vardhan kalaa water into the conch by reciting mla mantra.
Offer flowers and akata for the smnya arghya.
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Now show avakuhana mudra on the place where the base of viea arghya is going to be
kept.
Now place the dhra (base) and offer flowers by reciting the following mantras.
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avakuhana mudra I
ptrya nama ||
ii)
hr ai mahlakmvari paramasvmini rdhvanyapravhini somasrygni bhakii
paramka bhsure gaccha gaccha via via ptra pratigha h phat svh ||
iii)
hamalavaray sryamaalya nama ||
Now take a piece of peeled ginger and hold in the left hand with tattva mudra (joining thumb
and ring finger of the left hand is tattva mudra). Now take kraa kalaa in the right hand and
pour amta (viea arghya) slowly through into the viea arghya ptra by reciting mla
mantra.
Now by reciting the following mantra offer some akata on the viea arghya.
pyyasva samedu te vivata somaviyam | bhavvjasya sagate || s s s sai
i)
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nama ||
ii)
akulasthmtkre uddhajnakare pare | amtatva nidhehyasmin vastuni klinnarpii ||
nama ||
iii)
tadrpiyaikarasyatva ktv hyetatsvarpii | bhtv parmtkr mayi citsphuranana
kuru || nama ||
iv)
4 ai bl jhrau ju sa amte amtodbhave amtevari amavarii amta srvaya
srvaya svh || nama ||
v)
ai vada vada vgvdini ai | kl klinne kledini kledaya mahkoma kuru kuru kl |
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Now using an uttarai, transfer one uttarai of viea arghya to Guru ptra after reciting each
of the following mantas. Thus there will be three transfers from viea arghya ptra to Guru
ptra.
1) svtmrmapacara vilnatejase rparamehi gurave nama
2) svacchapraka vimarahetave r paramagurave nama
sadivasamrambh akarcryamadhyam |
asmadcryaparyanta vande guru parapar ||
Now transfer this viea arghya from Guru ptra to tma ptra (it is assumed that
Guru is not present in person) and patn ptra (if present). Now wash Guru ptra and keep this
in its place (next to viea arghya) or this can be washed kept safely by moving this from the
pj maala. Take this tma ptra in right hand and hold the bottom of the ptra (a small
cup) using thumb, middle and ring fingers.
Recite the following mantras now.
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ita
prva pra-buddhi-deha-dharmdhikrata
jgrat-svapna-suuptyavasthsu
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rdra
jvalati
jyotirahamasmi
jyotirjvalati
brahmhamasmi
yo'hamasmi
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r hr gl sl ml pl nl hr r
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iii)
mla
(mlamantra)
akhilakoi
brahmanyaki
r
rjarjevar
lalitmahtripurasundar parbhaarik mahdevy prka vimara mahmy svarpini r
pduk pjaymi tarpaymi nama ||
19. aagrcanam:
This is to be done at the bindu.
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To begin with, Mahnitydev is to be worshiped in the bindu and pjana and tarpaa
should be made three times.
This should be followed by pjana and tarpaa for three times for the nitydev presiding
over the particular day in which navvaraa pj is performed. Let us take an example of
fifth lunar day of uklapaka (waxing moon), which is known as pacam tithi and uklapaka
pacam tithi is presided over by Vahnivsin nitydev. She is posited in the above image in
the pace marked as 5. The same nitydev viz. Vahnivsin nitydev is worshiped in the
same place during kapaka (waning moon) pacam tithi; the only difference is that she is
worshiped as the fifth nitydev during uklapaka pacam and as the eleventh nitydev
during kapaka pacam. All the nitydev-s continue to exist in the same place with the
same bjkara-s. This also signifies the expansion of kal-s during uklapaka and
contraction of kal-s during kapaka.
4 -
4 - mla | a r lalitmahnity r pduk pjaymi tarpaymi nama ||
Bjkara-s and the names of thiti nitydev-s are given here. While performing pjana and
tarpaa, 4 is to be prefixed and nity and r pduk pjaymi tarpmi nama is to be
suffixed. Following is the example.
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3. i - Nityaklinn -
4. - Bherun -
5. u - Vahnivsini -
6. - Mahvajrevar -
7. - ivadt -
8. - Tvarit -
9. lu - Kulasundar -
10. - Nity -
11. e - Nlapatk -
12. ai - Vijay -
13. o - Sarvamagal -
14. au - Jvlmlin -
15. a - Citr
21. Gurumaalrcanam ||
{How to do r pduk pjaymi tarpaymi nama (subsequently mentioned as spptn).
Take flowers in the left palm using only thumb, middle and ring fingers. In the right hand,
using the same fingers take a tweezer or a copper/silver rod/stick with ginger attached at one
end. Whire reciting spptn, place the flowers and dip the tweezer with ginger in viea arghya
and pour a drop of viea arghya on the place where worship is done. Offering flowers and
viea arghya should be done simultaneously.}
Mahpdukk mantra:
Mahkmevara (Paramaiva) is worshipped in the bindu with this mantra:
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sadivasamrambh akarcryamadhyam |
asmadcryaparyanta vande guru parapar ||
(Beginning from Lord Sadiva, through akarcrya and up to my Guru, I pay my
obeisance to all the Gurus)
22. Prathamvaraam - First varaa
Add om before each of these names and suffix r pduk pjaymi tarpaymi nama
(spptn). This should be done in the places marked with the respective numerical.
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Add om before each of these names and suffix r pduk pjaymi tarpaymi nama
(spptn). To be done in anticlockwise manner.
1. Kmkari nityakaldev spptn spptn
(nityakaldev is to be suffixed to all the devi-s mentioned hereafter).
2. Buddhyakari spptn spptn 3. Ahakrkari spptn spptn
4. abdkari spptn spptn 5. Sparkari spptn spptn
6. Rpkari spptn spptn 7. Raskari spptn spptn
8. Gandhkari spptn spptn 9. Cittkari spptn spptn
10. Dhairykari spptn spptn 11. Smtykari spptn spptn
12. Nmkari spptn spptn 13. Bjkari spptn spptn
14. tmkari spptn spptn 15. Amtkari spptn
spptn
16. arrkari nityakaldev spptn spptn
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spptn ||
spptn ||
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33. dpa:
ekahrat dpa:
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34. mahnaivedyam:
We have to keep viea arghya in a separate vessel for offering as naivedya apart from
regular naivedya. Sprinkle smanya arghya on all naivedya items by reciting mla mantra.
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pgphalasamyukta
pratighyatm ||
ngavalldalairyutam
karpracrasayukta
tbla
36. kuladpa:
Nine lamps were used there and the balance one lamp is to be used here. Place that lamp in a
copper or silver plate and offer diprdhana three times with this lamp by reciting this
mantra.
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