असितांग भैरव साधना Asitang Bhairav Sadhna

This form of Bhairava specifically removes the most severe and frightening illnesses. Even incurable diseases are destroyed, and protection from future ailments is granted. If someone you know is suffering from an incurable disease, you may perform this sadhna on their behalf as well. It carries many benefits — inner turmoil, mental afflictions, and anxiety are dispelled, feelings of inferiority running through the mind are destroyed, and the seeker feels fresh energy in every passing moment.

Method and Rules

In Bhairav sadhna, following the rules carefully is especially important — so pay particular attention to this. Even a small mistake can sometimes ruin the entire sadhna.

Rules

On the day you perform sadhna of any form of Bhairava, do not eat garlic or onion that day.

Do not eat anyone else's leftover food, and especially avoid drinking water someone else has already sipped from.

Do not sleep during the daytime.

Do not eat food from plastic utensils. In these sadhanas, copper vessels in particular bring great benefit. Under no circumstances should plastic vessels be used.

Avoid sour foods.

Sadhna Method

This sadhna can be performed on any auspicious day, though Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday are considered especially favourable.

Perform this sadhna between 9 pm and 12:35 am — this time is particularly powerful.

Before this sadhna, plant a peepal sapling in a pot and place it at your worship spot — or alternatively, the sadhna may be performed beneath an actual peepal tree. Worship that plant. Afterward, this plant can be planted anywhere — at a temple, or along a riverbank.

Draw a trishul (trident) with kumkum at the main entrance of your home.

Spread a red cloth on a bajot, and install a picture of Bhairav Ji upon it. Worship it with incense, a lamp, akshat (unbroken rice), kumkum, naivedya, and flowers, and offer fruits such as apples. Use red flowers for the worship. In a separate vessel, place a few grains of black mustard seed, and worship that as well.

Offer two laddus in a vessel as the bhog (food offering). Place a few cloves, betel nuts, and small cardamoms on a betel leaf and offer it; also offer saffron and honey. A red cloth should be offered to Bhairav Ji as well.

Wear red clothing and sit on a red seat (asan), facing east.

Chant the mantra mentally, without a mala. Before worshipping Bhairav, also perform the worship of the Guru and of Lord Ganesh. Chant 2 rounds of the Guru mantra. Then the following mantra may be chanted for anywhere between 1.25 and 3 hours — adjust according to your own convenience.

After the sadhna, perform the aarti of Bhairav Ji, and pray for the healing of whatever illness afflicts you or your acquaintance, or for the pacification of all illness in general.

|| Om Bham Bham Sah Asitaangaaye Namah ||

After the sadhna, gather all the materials used in worship and wrap them in that same red cloth, then immerse them in flowing water. Plant the peepal sapling elsewhere — such as at a temple or along a riverbank.

May this Bhairav Sadhna remove every illness from your life and grant you a disease-free existence — this is the wish I offer at the feet of Sadgurudev Ji.