Bagalamukhi (Bagalāmukhī) — The Deceitful, Crane-headed, the Power of Cruelty

Bagalamukhi (Bagalāmukhī) — The Deceitful, Crane-headed, the Power of Cruelty 

In the middle of the ocean is a pavilion of jewels with an altar inside it. On the altar is a lion throne on which the goddess Bagalāmukhī is seated.

Her complexion is completely yellow, perfectly yellow, and she wears a yellow dress, yellow ornaments, and a yellow garland. I call to mind she who holds the tongue of the enemy in her left hand and a raised club in her right hand.

She has assumed a serious mood and is maddened with intoxication. Her brilliance reflects the golden hue of her body. She has four arms and three eyes and is seated on a lotus.

On her forehead is the crescent moon, which is yellow in colour. She wears yellow clothes, has high, firm breasts, and wears golden earrings. (Brihat Tantra sāra)

An aspect of our human psychology that we very quickly learn to repress is a subtle desire to kill other living beings – a desire to destroy all others but ourselves; the forbidden pleasure that we feel when hurting another — something we don’t like to admit to.

This desire to kill, to torture, is present to some degree in the psyche of everyone. This repressed destructive desire unconsciously motivates many of our actions in day to day life.

In the iconography of Tantra this aspect of mind-force is represented as a woman with the head of a crane, the placid, graceful crane being considered the most deceitful of all creatures.

Bagalāmukhī is also known as Pitambara-devi (The goddess garbed in yellow) she presides over all the subtle forms of killing.

She is more than any of the other Mahā-vidyās the presiding goddess of the supernormal yogic powers known as “siddhis” which can either be used for universal good (“white-magic”) or subjective self-agrandisement (“black-magic”). She is the cosmic force which incites men to kill and to torture one another.

A demon named Mādan undertook austerities won the boon of vāk siddhi, according to which anything he said fulfilled. He abused this siddhi by killing people.

Enraged by his mischief the gods worshiped Bagalāmukhī. She stopped the demon’s rampage by taking hold of his tongue and stilling his speech.

Before she could kill him, however, he asked to be worshiped with her, and she relented. That is why he is depicted with her:

“I bow to the two-armed goddess who with the right hand grasps the tongue of her enemy and with her left hand tortures him. She holds a mace and is clad in yellow.” (Bagalāmukhī Tantra.)

Bagalāmukhī is also strongly associated with sexual desire and pleasure — particularly that of the sado-masochistic type. Several of her epithets in her thousand-name hymn associate her directly with kāma, “sexual desire,” or the god of sexual desire, Kāma-deva.

She is called, for example: She Who Dwells Where There Is Sexual Desire, Who Likes Sexual Desire, Whose Form Is Sexual Desire, Whose Eyes Are Full of Desire, Who Promotes Sexual Desire, and Who Takes Pleasure in Sexual Play.”

Another string of epithets associates and identifies her with the female sexual organ:

She Whose Form is the Yoni, Who dwells in the Yoni, Whose form is the Lingam and Yoni, Who Has a Garland of Yonis, Who is adorned with Yonis, Who Enjoys the Union of the Lingam and Yoni, Who Is Worshiped with the Lingam and Yoni, and Who is Absorbed with the Lingam and Yoni.

Her consort is the One-faced (Ekavaktra) Rudra. The night of Bagalāmukhī is identical to that of Chinnamastā. It is the Night-of-Courage (Vīra- Rātri), the time of suffering.

Bagalāmukhī Sadhana -

Bagalāmukhī Sadhana is done to defeat and paralyze the enemy. She is also worshipped to win the court cases and to get success in all sorts of competitions.

Bagalāmukhī Moola Mantra -

ॐ ह्लीं बगलामुखी देव्यै ह्लीं ॐ नमः॥

Oṁ Hlīṁ Bagalāmukhī Devyai Hlīṁ Oṁ Namaḥ॥

56.Bagalamukhi Sadhana Siddhi and Prayoga

Bagalamukhi Sadhana Siddhi and Prayoga
Dear all, let me outline the perfection and the detailed prayoga(use)

The aspirant for the perfection with vrutha and dhyana has to chant the mantra for 100,000 times and then do a homa with picchi flower for 10,000 times. Then again do the pooja as mentioned above. He/she gets the perfection.

The person who gains perfection in this way can do a stambhana on even devas [as bagalamukhi is a part of the dasamahavidyas and she is the stambhanashakthi. The RV 10.120.1 attributes to her, subtle intonations]. The aspirant has to use yellow colored garland, clothes, yellow colored anoints and with red sandalwood paste should do the pooja for bagalamukhi.

With thila mixed with trimadhura, if the perfected one offers for 10,000 times in homa, he enslaves all people around him. If salt is used instead of thila to mix with trimadhura, then he can attract people to him.

With neem leaves dipped in oil and do an offering 10,000 times, then it causes discord among desired people and entities.

With the dark palm leaves, mixed with salt and tamarind powder, 10,000 times, it causes stambhana of enemies.

Now I am providing you with a marana prayoga. But whoever performs it is at their risk as most marana prayoga has the innate ability required to deploy it against someone successfully. If one do not the have the innate ability, the spell back fires and the one who deploy loses his sthula sharira or physical body... :)

Now let me outline the marana deployment. The articles used are charcoal, mutha fruit, small mustard seeds, ghee of buffalo and gul gul. This is offered on any funeral pyre of 10,000 nos. It results in the slaying of the enemy intended.

One added comment I would like to make here as aghori is - if you are performing it and the sukshma or the fragment of sukshma of the person whose funeral fire you do the offering; is strong enough, it can definitely attack you. :) it attracts karmic debt for even the person whose funeral fire is being used.

Dear all, let me continue with the detailed prayoga.

If the perfected one do a homa of 10,000 times with the mixture of karuka , chitamrut, malar dipped in trimadhura , he can cure all the incurable diseases.[as stated in ayurveda]

For achieving a higher wattage, the aspirant can perfect the mantra by sitting on the top of mountain , or the deep jungles or the river confluences, adhering to brahmacharya and recite it the same 100,000 times. He will get all the perfections.

If the perfected one do a japa of 300 numbers with a mixture of milk from a cow having a single color , sugar and honey and give it to anyone for consumption, he will be cured of the effects of any venom.

If the perfected one makes a wooden sandal made out of white plash wood, then anoint it with mehndi, chant the mantra for 100,000 times touching the sandal and then do a homa of 10,000 numbers, the person can cover very long distances in a matter of seconds on wearing such a perfected sandal.

if the perfected one, cleanse and perfect mercury [this is one topic I am going to refrain from writing as it is a secretive alchemical methodology and should be passed from guru to disciple.. :)) ] grind with cleanse manola and juice of black palm fruit and honey and chant the mantra for 100,000 times and consume it. This will give the perfection to be invisible from normal eyes [you will be still visible to subtle levels.. :))]

Dear all , let me outline some of the prayoga with yantra.

With the charcoal taken from funeral pyre, draw the yantra on a copper plate or kanjira wood plank. Draw the shalkone and then use the juice of leaf of umma, mixed with tamarind and arithala and with that ink write on the chakra. The writing is as follows. On the center you write, hreem, on the shalkone, six six letters from the mantra. Encircling the madhyabeeja, write the saadhyanaama, karma (amuka stambhaya stambhaya), along with the yantranyaya. Do the prana pratishta on the yantra and tie it with a yellow thread completely. With the mud made of the potter’s clay wheel, make a small idol of ox and place this yantra concealed inside the stomach portion of the ox idol. With arithala, smear the entire ox idol. This ox idol is being worshiped with the mentioned mantra daily. Also one should chant this mantra for 108 times daily sitting near the ox. After the proper pooja for a few days (the number of days are omitted on purpose.. :)) ) , place this ox on the cremation ground. It will bring stambana to words, movements, intellect and all activities related to it to the chosen selected name of enemy.

If one perfected is using this yantra to be written on the cloth used to cover a dead body and writes the yantra on it with charcoal and do prana prathista to it with placing in the mouth of a frog, cover it deep with clothes and do pooja; after words keep in on cremation ground, its a stambhana for all enemies.

If there is a problem in a place with ethereal beings, the perfected one can write the yantra with the juice of aadalodaka leaf and do the prathista of yantra on the same land. Do the japa of the mantra for 10,000 nos and with this even the ethereal beings including lower order devas will be even stunned (stambhana).

With the root of forest grown type of cucumber plant, the perfected should chant the mantra for 108 times and drop it in water; it will cause stambana of water.

Any one who perfected the mantra and do perfect upasana of the yantra, the stambana of enemy activities, mobility and words are the voluntary results. As i mentioned earlier, Bagalamukhi is the devastambana and hence most of the karmas mentioned above and pertaining to the same. But the upasak will have all his wishes fullfiled by this manifestation of goddess saraswathi.

iti bagalamuki prayoga vidhanam samaptam |

55.Bagalamukhi Sadhana

Bagalamukhi Sadhana

Dear all, let me outline the Bagalamukhi sadhana now.

Astra mantra : sleem pashu hum phal

Moola : Om hreem bagalamukhim sarwadushtaanaam vacham mukham vadam stambhaya jihwaam keelaya budhim vinaashaya hreem om swaha ( its a humble request that please do not recite even this moola :)) )

Anga :
1) Om hreem hridayaya nama:
2) bagalamukhi sirase swaha
3) sarwadushtaanaam shikayae vashal
4) vacham mukham vadam stambhaya kavachaya hum
5) jihwaam keelaya nethratrayaya vaushal
6) budhim vinaashaya hreem om swaha astraya phal

Chanda : narada rishi: brihathi chanda: bagalamukhi devatha :

Dhayana shloka

“sauvarnaasanasamsthitaam trinayanaam
peetamshukollasineem
hemaanbhaamgarucheem shashaankamakudaam
sachambakasragyuthaam
hasthayirmmudhgarapaashavajrarasanaa:
sambhipratheem bhushanaervyaathaamgeem bagalamukhim trijagathaam
samsthambhineem chindayaeth”

Pooja yantra : trikone , shalkone , astadala , shodashadala , bhupura

Peeta shakti , peeta samisti , peeta pooja as per baneshi sadhana

Moorthi kalpana : peeta shakti , moola , bagalamukhi moorthayae nama:

Upachara : Om hreem om nama:

Aavahana : as per bhuvaneshwari sadhana

Ayudha nyasa :
1) mudgaraya nama:
2) paashaya nama:
3) vajraaya nama:
4) rasanaayae nama:

Bhushana nyasa :
1) makudaya nama:
2) ardhachandraya nama:
3) champakamalaayae nama:
4) peethambaraya nama:
5) angadaadi sarwabhushanaebyo nama:
6) swarnasimhasanaaya nama:

Upahara : arkhyamidam , paadyamidam , achamaneeyamidam

Moorthi pooja : omitting on purpose.. :)

Dwastas to naivedya as all per bhuvaneshwari sadhana

iti bagalamukhi sadhana samaptham |