Posted on: 26 Jun 2022
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I want to give a mantra to every devotee and a little introduction before giving that mantra. The subject is that a devotee is unable to concentrate his/her mind on the spiritual line (which means loving God without aspiration for any fruit in return) and people are worried about their worldly problems, which disturb their minds obstructing their concentration on the spiritual line. By solving the worldly problems, one will get peace of mind to concentrate on God with real love. Of course, many people look at God to solve their worldly problems only, which is just instrumental devotion, thereby the eternal doubt always stands that whether people will try for goal devotion even after getting mental peace because worldly problems are always continuous. Even if mental peace is obtained, such peace may be used to concentrate on other worldly matters only. I have set aside this doubt and with a positive hope that if the worldly problems are solved, certainly, people will divert to goal devotion of God. With such a positive hope, I am proceeding to give the following mantra for certain relief from worldly stress.
I am giving the background of the mantra. God performs the administration of the creation through His executive powers called the nine planets. These planets are giving the fruits of good and bad deeds of the souls alone and not as per the like or dislike of the planets. These planets are just executive forces like the jailor imprisoning the criminal after receiving the judgment from the court. The planets have no power to cancel the judgment. Even God having such omnipotent power, follows the cycle of deeds of the soul and does not violate the constitution written by Himself. The only path to cancel the fruits of sins is only the reformation of the soul involving realization, repentance and non-repetition of the sin. When the non-reformed devotees pray God to cancel the punishments of sins, God makes a temporary adjustment by postponing the punishment to latter births with accumulated interest. The devotee thinks that he is successful in washing the brain of God through his prayers and feels that his punishment is cancelled forever by the omnipotent God! God also keeps silent allowing the devotee to think in this false way so that he will be happy for some time.
Among the nine planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus give the fruits of good deeds of souls whereas, Saturn, Mars, Raahu and Ketu give the fruits of bad deeds. This is a general background. In this mantra, you are saluting the four planets and remembering the divine forms that can control these four planets. God Hanuman controls Saturn because Saturn was relieved from the prison given by demon Raavana by the grace of God Hanuman. God Subrahmanya and Mars are of the same nature of fire and are treated as one (kumāraṃ śaktihastaṃ taṃ maṅgalaṃ praṇamāmyaham). God Subrahmanya married the daughter of Adishesha (Head of serpents) called Vallii. For her sake, He also became a serpent and hence, controls Raahu and Ketu, which are joined with a serpent. If you salute God Anjaneya and God Subrahmanya, all the four planets get pacified. If somebody has objection to God Subrahmanya, being son of God Shiva (some devotees do not like God Shiva), in the place of God Subrahmanya, God Adhishesha can be worshipped. For the worship, you can keep two photos of God Anjaneya and God Subrahmanya (in the place of Subrahmanya, photo of Adishesha can be kept if you wish so).
Mantra in English script:- Śrī Śanaiścara – Kuja – Rāhu – Ketubhyo Namaḥ | Śrī Āñjaneya – Śrī Subrahmaṇya
(if you want, you can replace Śrī Subrahmaṇya by Śrī Ādiśeṣa)
Mantra in Hindi script:- ‘श्री शनैश्चर – कुज – राहु – केतुभ्यो नमः । श्री आञ्जनेय – श्री सुब्रह्मण्य’।
(अगर आप चाहें तो श्री सु्ब्रह्मण्य के जगह में ‘श्री आदिशेष’ नाम जप कर सकते हैं।)
Mantra in Telugu script:- ‘శ్రీ శనైశ్చర – కుజ – రాహు – కేతుభ్యో నమః. శ్రీ ఆంజనేయ – శ్రీ సుబ్రహ్మణ్య’
(శ్రీ సుబ్రహ్మణ్య స్థానంలో ‘శ్రీ ఆదిశేష’ అను నామమును జపించవచ్చును.)
Even if you utter Śrī Āñjaneya – Śrī Subrahmaṇya (or Śrī Āñjaneya – Śrī Ādiśeṣa), it will do. You can utter this even if you are not having difficulties so that the advance uttering (Japam) will help the future coming problems. You can utter this as many times as possible.
