1.
Bathe
गंगा च यमुने चैव गोदावरी सरस्वती
नममदा ससंधु कावेरी जलेस्स्मन सस्ननधधम कुरू
2. Put on fresh clothes. (Yellow – 2 pieces)
3. Enter the sanctum sanctorum
Om Hrim Astraya Phat.
4. Purify surroundings. Om Apavitrah Pavitrova..
5. A- Self-purification (Achamana)
B- Wash your hands (Hasta prakshalanam)
6. Lighting the lamp (and incense which is optional)
ॐ अस्नन ज्योततर ज्योततर अस्नन: स्वाहा
सूयो ज्योतत ज्योततर सूय:म स्वाहा
अस्ननवमचो ज्योततवमच:म स्वाहा
सूयो वचो ज्योततवमच:म स्वाहा
ज्योतत सूय:म सूयो ज्योतत: स्वाहा
7. Invoking Ganesha
ॐ गणेशाय नम:
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सय
ू क
म ोटि समप्रभ,
तनर्वमघ्नं कुरु मे दे व सवमकायेषु सवमदा॥
सुमुखश्च - एकदं तश्च कर्िलो गजकणमकः ।
लम्बोदरश्च र्वकिो र्वघ्ननाशो र्वनायक: ।
धम्र
ू केतग
ु ण
म ाध्यक्षो भालचनरो गजाननः ।
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द्वादशैतातन नामातन यः िठे च्छणय
ुम ादर्ि ।
र्वद्यारम्भे र्ववाहे च प्रवेशे तनगममे तथा ।
संग्रामें संकिे चैव र्वघ्नस्तस्य न जायते ॥
8. Show 3 handlocks of Ganesha. (Ganesh mudra)
9. Vedic hymn of auspiciousness. (Svastivachana)
Om Bhadram karnebhihi
10. Meditate on your Guru. (Guru dhyana)
Offer a flower or visualisation.
Gurur Bramha…
11. Chant your Guru mantra. (Guru mantra japa)
Take the name of your Guru or recite the Ishta mantra.
11, 21 or 108 times.
12. Offer obeisance to all siddhas
Om Divyaugha Namaha
Om Siddhaugha Namaha
Om Maanavaugha Namaha
13. Meditate on your deity. (Ishta dhyana)
14. Chant the preliminary mantra. (Ishta mantra japa)
If you have been initiated into any mantra, chant that mantra now
11, 21 or 31 times or else chant the Gayatri mantra.
15.Pray to Mother earth. (Prithvi Pooja)
ह्ीं आधारशक्तये नमः |
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Triangle with a dot in between. Put a flower on the dot. Mentally
express gratitude towards mother nature/ mother earth for
blessing you with the privilege and that ground where you are
able to sit now and invoke divine energies.
Masculine mantra
16. Sankalpa. Take the vow. With water, flower & rice.
I, full name, born in _____ gotra on DOB, hereby vow to do a
purushacharana of Ganesha mantra over the next 30 days so I
may become a worthy recipient of your grace and attain the
desired outcome.
17.Mantra breathing. Mantra Shvasa. 3 rounds of anulom-vilom.
ॐ वक्रतंड
ु ाय हुं |
18.Application. Viniyoga.
Take water in your right palm, chant the mantra and leave it in the
saucer.
ॐ अस्य श्रीगणेशमंत्रस्य भागमवऋर्षः, अनष्ु िुप्छनदः,
र्वघ्नेशो दे वता, वं बीजम ्, यं शस्क्तः, ममाभीष्िससद्धये जिे
र्वतनयोगः |
19. Purification of hands. Kara Shuddhi Mudras.
Chant the following mantras and show the appropriate mudras
ॐ वं नमः अंगष्ु ठाभयां नमः |
ॐ क्रं नमः तजमनीभयां नमः |
ॐ तुं नमः मध्यमाभयां नमः |
ॐ डां नमः अनासमकाभयां नमः |
ॐ यं नमः कतनस्ष्ठकाभयां नमः |
ॐ हुं नमः करतलकरिष्ृ ठाभयां नमः |
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20. Nyasa of the sages (Rishyadi nyasa – with right hand touching
the..)
Head - ॐ भागमवषमये नमः सशरसस |
Face - ॐ अनष्ु िुप्छनदसे नमः मुखे |
Heart - ॐ र्वघ्नेशदे वतायै नमः ह्टद |
Groin - ॐ वं बीजाय नमः गुह्ये |
Feet - ॐ यं शक्तये नमः िादयोः
Take the right hand over your head and then bring it back in front
of you to clap softly.
ॐ र्वतनयोगाय नमः सवाांगे | (right hand over head and then clap)
Six-limbed mantra nyasa (Shadanga mantra nyasa)
Heart - ॐ वं नमः हृदयाय नमः |
Forehead - ॐ क्रं नमः सशरसे स्वाहा |
Crown with thumb - ॐ तुं नमः सशखायै वषट् |
Shoulders with cross hands - ॐ डां नमः कवचाय हुं |
Three eyes - ॐ यं नमः नेत्रत्रयाय वौषट् |
Right hand over head and then clap - ॐ हुं नमः अस्त्राय फट् |
Mantra varna nyasa – nyasa of the letters (touch with you right
hand)
Between your brows – ॐ वं नमः भ्रम
ू ध्ये |
Throat – ॐ क्रं नमः कण्ठे |
Heart – ॐ तुं नमः हृदये |
Navel – ॐ डां नमः नाभौ |
Groin – ॐ यं नमः सलंगे |
Feet – ॐ हुं नमः िदयोः |
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21. Purva mantra japa – Ganesha mantra 21 times
ॐ वक्रतुंडाय हुं |
22. Purva mudra (Rub your hands. Place on belly. Mudra for 10 secs)
Shunya – Tucking your middle finger with your thumb
Prana – Ring and little finger with thumb. Extend others.
Apana – Ring and middle finger with thumb. Extend others.
Samana – All fingers with the thumb
Udana – All fingers except index extended
Vyana - Index & middle with thumb
Dhyana mudra.
23. Panchopchara
Gandham. Pushpam. Dhoopam. Deepam. Naivadyam.
(Om Gandham Samarpayami)
24. Mantra samskara – Not needed in this Sadhana
25. Mantra dhyana – ‘Vakratunda Mahakaya..’ Chant mindfully for 5
mins
26. Moola mantra japa – ॐ वक्रतंड
ु ाय हुं | (40 rounds)
27. Post japa handlocks
Anjali Mudra (namaste), Nirvana Mudra (inverted namaste)
28. Japa Samarpana
Visualise that your deity has manifested before you. Offer it in
right hand of Ganesh- Abhista Siddhim Me dehi saranagata
vatsale, bhaktya samarpaye tubhyam japamevarcanam
Om sarve bhavantu sukhinaha.. Om shanti…
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29. Freeing all energies. Japa Visarjana.
गच्छ गच्छ िरं स्थानं स्वस्थानं िरमेश्वरः |
िूजाराधनकाले च िुनरागमनाय च ||
ततष्ठ ततष्ठ िरस्थाने स्वस्थाने िरमेश्वरः |
यत्र ब्रह्मादयो दे वाः सवे ततष्ठस्नत मे हृटद ||
30. Seeking forgiveness. Kshama prarthana.
अिराध सहस्राणण क्रक्रयनतेsहतनमशं मया ।
दासोsयसमतत मां मत्वा क्षमस्व िरमेश्वर ।।
आवाहनं न जानासम न जानासम र्वसजमनम ् ।
िूजां चैव न जानासम क्षम्यतां िरमेश्वर ।।
मंत्रहीनं क्रक्रयाहीनं भस्क्तहीनं सुरेश्वर ।
यत्िूस्जतं मया दे व िररिूणम तदस्तु मे ।।
31. Fire offerings. Yajna. 450 (4.5 rounds) Moola mantra ‘SVAHA’
32. Libations. Tarpana. 45 times. Moola mantra ‘Tarpayami’
33.Coronation. Marjana/Abhishekam. 5 times.
34.Charity. Sadhak bhojan or Brahmin bhoj.
35.Seeking forgiveness again. Kshama prarthana.
36. Surya Arghya. Offer water to the Sun.
Japa of 125000 over 30 days - means every day 40 rounds (4320). This means
every day yajna offering 4 rounds (432 times), libation 45 times, coronation of
5 times.
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Daily checklist
1. 2 Brass lamps, wick, ghee. 5 small water pots, 4 spoons, 3 small saucers
(silver/copper/brass). Wash all pots and lamp everyday.
2. 2 bowls for keeping havan samagri & ghee for havan.
3. Gandham. Dhoopam. Flowers. Sweets. 30 dry coconuts.
4. Sweetmeat, jaggery or honey (Madhuparka offering - Shodashopchara)
5. Yajna – Hawan kund, Chaaru = 1 packet havan samagri (1kg), 75 gms
white sesame seeds, 75 gms black sesame seeds, 75gms rice each, 50
gms paddy (if available) & 50 gms dry fruits without shells. Firewood
(peepal,mango, palasha/dhak, deodar,sagaun).
6. Match box. Napkin. Tissue papers. Scissors. Cash, envelope.
7. Chanting beads (rudraksh/ sandalwood).
8. A lot of faith, devotion, discipline
Purushcharana
• How long - 1,25,000 Japa in 15 or 30 days (40 rounds of Japa for 30 days)
(1,25,000/30 = 4167=4200. 4200/108 = approx. 40)
• When – Fourth night of the waxing or waning moon (either in wee hours
of morning or at night)
• Diet – Vegetarian. Without onion & garlic. Dairy allowed. Avoid biscuits,
cakes, cheeses which might have animal derived ingredients.
• Lamp – Brass lamp only. Cotton wick. Pure ghee only.
• Direction – Facing east or north
• Clothing – 2 pieces of loose yellow-coloured clothes
• Seat – A blanket covered with a yellow cloth. Meditation cushion or any
cotton seat allowed. Need to sit on the floor with a STILL posture.
Mantra
Om Vakratundaaya Hum – ॐ वक्रतुंडाय हुं |
Before You Begin
2 days prior, consecration of beads. A day before, after sunset, take a bath, sit
at your altar. Call upon Mother Divine in the form of Maa Gayatri with some
water in your palm. 30 rounds of Gayatri mantra.
