Varahi Mantra
Who Varahi is, the tradition this mantra belongs to, and how it is received from a teacher. The mantra itself is given at initiation and is not printed here.
Who Varahi is
Varahi is the boar-faced goddess, the power of Varaha, the boar incarnation of Vishnu, and one of the Seven Mothers, the Saptamatrikas. In the Devi Mahatmya she comes out with the other Mothers to fight beside the goddess against the demon Raktabija. Sri Vidya raises her far higher. There she is Dandanatha, the commander of Lalita’s army, riding the chariot called Kiri Chakra, and the Lalita Sahasranama praises Lalita as delighted by Varahi’s valour in killing the demon Vishukra. Her hands hold the plough and the pestle, tools of the field and the threshing floor, and she rides a buffalo. Buddhist Tantra knows a related fierce goddess, Vajravarahi, who inherits much of her character.
A goddess of the night hours
Varahi is a goddess of the night, and her worship is traditionally offered after dark rather than in the daytime hours when most rites are held. Her practice belongs to the Tantric side of Sri Vidya and of Shakta worship more widely, and it is guarded for that reason: the mantra is received from a teacher, together with the timing, conduct and restraint the lineage attaches to her, and it is not taken up from a book. Devotees associate her with a guardian’s concerns, protecting what has been gathered and holding a boundary firm. Ashadha Navaratri, nine nights in the lunar month of Ashadha, around June and July, is kept in her honour.
The mantra itself
This mantra is given at initiation. Tradition transmits it from teacher to disciple with the practice that belongs to it, so we do not publish it in full. A teacher who has the authority to give it will give it with its method.
When Varahi is chanted
Weekday. Friday
Have your chart read before you decide
Chanting is yours to do, and free. But which deity your situation calls for — and whether a mantra alone is the right response — depends on your chart. Sometimes it is; sometimes it is not.
- Over 30 years in the Guru–Sishya Parampara, from the age of five
- He reads every chart himself — 60 minutes, one to one, never delegated
- Charts are read only between sunrise and sunset, following tradition
Related
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