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Dipa

Dipa

Dipa

दीप, dīpa

It is an oil lamp, the inalienable part of almost any puja, arati or homa. The dipa used for offerings in puja and arati. The soft oil light of dipa symbolizes the element of fire and also the shine of sadhak’s expanding consciousness. Often the five-lights dipa (pancha-jyot) is used in arati and puja as upachara. For example, the one-light dipa often is used as auxiliary source of light or fire. In Nath Tradition it is a symbol of eternal shine of consciousness (akhanda-jyot). There are many mantras for one or the other kinds of dipas depending on use. There is one of common mantras which can be taken for use in puja or arati:

jyota jagāne kā bīja mantra

sat namo ādeś | gurujī ko ādeś | oṁ gurujī | niranjan nirākār bij mantr tattasār pīvo pīvo carācar care-so prāṇī baikuṇṭh tare-gagan maṇḍal me jayajaya jape-nau kror devatā apane grah me tape | trikuṭi me śabd ḍhunḍo ḍhunḍo ek oṁkār nāth jot dasave dvār-nirmal jot bhī prakāś | bīj mantr kise niranjan yogī ke pās | amar yogī amar kāyā sodhe man bhare piṇḍ-vinase nahī kāyā paramoghe kāyā oṁ sohaṁ siddho kāyā bīj mantr akhaṇḍ chāyā | bīj mantr jo nar parhe vah caurāsī phere me nā pare | binā mantr jyot jagāve so nar narak me jāye | itanā jot jagāne kā bīj mantr sampūrṇa bhayā | nathājī gurujī ko ādeś | ādeś ||

Adesh to the Holy Name! Adesh to Guruji! Greetings to Guruji! Long live the flawless and formless bija mantra that is the substance of immense, agile and immovable fire and that moves a human being to paradise and free from rebirths. Long live the mantras to the nine gods shining in its planets. There are the sound, the overall Omkara, the supreme shine in the bridge of the nose and also the pure light is in the tenth door whose bija mantra is known to the faultless yogin. Due to this mantra yogin doesn’t die, the body is immortal, the spirit is pure, his nature doesn’t disintegrate and will escape the rebirths. I greeting to the bija mantra that is the sanctuary of perfect and beautiful body. The mantra put the light on so the man who reads this bija mantra for 84 laps will not go to hell. This way bija mantra kindling the light is completed.

The mantra from the book of Yogi Vilasnath "Shri Natha Rahasya"


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