Namaste Krishnaji Why is Vārāhiamman called 'andhini'?

I stumbled upon your website from reddit, and I must say that this is the best work on spirituality that I have come across. Many thanks for putting your time and effort into this. If I am able to understand correctly then the total process of śāpavimocana is Viniyog --> All Nayasa --> digbandha --> All Utkīlana mantra (as per specified recitations) --> vimocakaṃ and then we can recite out mantra after this process? If this understanding is right, then this whole process needs to be done everyday?

Charansparsh shri tivra ji..my aatmkarak planet is mangal and amatyakarak planet is chandra and I'm devotee of shri pratyangira amma..is this good for me?? Pls answer me.

Dear Nesh, would you mind sharing the avarana krama of kamakala-kali as per her khadgamala? I was wondering if kamakalakali and siddhikarali guhyakali will have similar avaranas and deities in thier chakras?

Hi I would like to enquire about the 16-avarana Sri Chakra. please elucidate on this topic anyone

Dear Nesh ! Thank you for your answer(s) regarding point "Nr.1" and "Nr.2". Both answers are very good, and very well thought out ! Again thank you very much ! Sincerly, Michael

Hi Nesh, would be great if you can share info regarding paths and systems that can help with kaal sarp dosh. Thank you

Maybe if you pause a moment and consider it like this. You are standing on a street and there are a variety of skyscrapers along the street. You have heard that the top floor of each skyscraper is a good place to be. In each skyscraper there is no elevator, the many floors are laid out like a maze and if you can find the scattered stairwells they are guarded by various guards, so that the journey to the top is arduous and not straightforward. Now you go into the lobby of each skyscraper and ask "What is it like on the top floor? What is there?" and the answer is "Go and see for yourself, but find a guide." And then you walk back out and go to the next skyscraper and go in the lobby and repeat. The question you might consider is whether this behavior is a way of avoiding the work and dedication involved in working your way up through one of the buildings, or whether this behavior comes from a fear that you will commit to one building only to find out much later that another building had an even better top floor and feeling then like you made the wrong choice of buildings. The secret is that the very top floors are ultimately all the same, and the key is just to get to one of them while you have the chance. That is my own humble understanding of the landscape and your struggle, I mean no offense. (Also just to make it a little more accurate and even more frustrating, there is also a secret elevator in each building that goes right to the top but only very few people can find it and get in and there's no way to understand or change who gets admission to the elevator, lol.)

Could someone clarify if the order of the Nitya Devis for Khadagmala recitation is reversed during Krishna Paksha? Specifically, do we recite from Chitra to Kameshwari in Krishna Paksha, as opposed to the usual order of Kameshwari to Chitra in Shukla Paksha?

Hi Claire. I might’ve been thinking of David Kinsley. would you know if your David Frawley is the same one who wrote Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses? That book has been in my library for a couple of years and I’ve not read it, I’m always looking for signs and serendipity to determine what read next. Regarding gurus, in my heart my beloved guru whose selfless and endless efforts for humanity salvaged my life, will always be Vaidyanath Ravi, the founder of this site. I got to talking with him directly when it turned out he knew of my dad from a mutual friend. So that is how I met him, and he by example showed me how to be a human being, and besides the humans who created me, I am most grateful to Ravi Guruji for this life. Through him I met one of my current gurus, Sriram Rengan, who is a sterling devotee of Divine Mother and a veteran Shri vidya practitioner. Sriram graciously taught me of the Bala mantra and Mahaganapathy mantra and later Lalita mantras, and gave me initations in Chennai and US over WhatsApp. I feel that japa of the Shri vidya mantras he gave me had a genuinely very beneficial and stabilizing effect on my life, and japa of the Mahāshodasi mantra even closely correlated with the karma modulating effects discussed in some detail here. His initations felt very caring and also energticlally palpable. I am not sure if he is still doing them, but you can find his contact info on the guru initations page on this site. Ive met other gurus in person in India, of varying qualities and skills, and I keep in touch with one gifted priest and nadi reader of an Agastya and Lopa Mudra temple, but he is extremely focused on external rituals and jyotish even though he is an advanced meditator and can go into useful trance states with some effort. He’s alright. I had one guru who was a very dedicated and focused mystic but he had personal issues with loneliness and other things, and he begin dabbling with Indic occult stuff and sadhanas for lesser beings, and it yielded bad results. I used to be impressed by his abilities at teleporting small objects or the glowing orbs that floated around him, but the lesser beings really got a hold of his mind and he became very mentally Unwell and lost. Willingly parasitized upon. Very disturbing situation to behold. It’s tough to find a good guru who has the shakti and connections to really help and guide you to the extent you may seek. Besides Ravi Guruji and Sriram, I’ve had better luck with people I would call mentors, of which I would include recent commentors here in that category, such as Tivra and Dylan, and over recent years Krishna has given me gems of advice and Santosh provided an excellent mantra after calculating my atma bijas as well, and you can find their info on guru initiations page, although not always are they available. You can be very sure that the manblunder gurus are very genuine and selfless people who serve others as service to Divine Mother, and you would be in good hands with any one of them. However, they are busy people and you may want a guru with more time or closer proximity. When it comes to that, I would suggest, if you are healthy enough, to choose a hatha yoga or pranayama or something like wim hof breathing, and use that to clear your mind and purify your subtle form. The hermeticism methods can work well too. I suggest focus on something like that and try to see the Divine in the face of every person, every creature, and don’t be too hard On yourself either. When you are ready, have faith the right guru will appear. But it is hard. Kaal sarp can be very rough, my Rahu Mahadasha felt like an endless bad dream with lots of disorientation and loss and errors. There are ways to make the most of it. I can try to find some books or websites for you if that’s of interest. There are other paths and systems outside of Hinduism that can make worlds of difference with astrological and phenomenal difficulties