Varaha Purana 142.9: Adhyaya 142, Shloka 9
The Greatness of Esoteric Practice: Menstrual Impurity, Mental Equanimity, and Seasonal Conjugal Ethics
Uttara Bhāga · Guhyakarma-māhātmya (Ritual/ethical guidance; purity and conduct)
न सा लिप्यति दोषेण भुञ्जमाना रजस्वला ॥ अञ्जलिं शिरसा कृत्वा मयोक्तं मन्त्र उत्तमम् ॥
na sā lipyati doṣeṇa bhuñjamānā rajasvalā || añjaliṃ śirasā kṛtvā mayoktaṃ mantra uttamam ||
na sA lipyati doSheNa bhu~njamAnA rajasvalA|| a~njaliM shirasA kRRitvA mayoktaM mantramuttamam
นางผู้เป็นรชัสวลา เมื่อฉันอาหารก็ไม่ถูกมลทินด้วยโทษ หากนางประนมอัญชลีเหนือศีรษะแล้วนอบน้อม และสาธยายมนตร์อันประเสริฐที่เรากล่าวไว้
Sandhi Notes
- mayoktaṃ = mayā + uktaṃ (vowel sandhi: ā+u→o)
Varāha
Seeking reassurance; concerned about doṣa and exclusion
What specific observance/mantra safeguards dharma when one must eat while in rajas condition?
Devotional reverence and mantra can sanctify necessary acts, preventing moral-ritual taint.
Adopt a brief pre-meal reverence (añjali) and recitation practice to keep daily necessities within dharmic remembrance.
Gives Bhū-devī a concrete ritual protocol: añjali to the head and recitation of Varāha’s mantra, removing taint for a rajasvalā who eats.
Mantra and añjali function as internal consecration (saṃskāra) that reorients embodied processes toward the divine, implying purity is ultimately consciousness-aligned rather than merely physical.
Añjali as offering-vessel; mantra as consecrating fire; eating as āhuti into prāṇa-agni under the Lord’s witness.
Purity as sattva of mind (citta-śuddhi) achieved through īśvara-anusandhāna; bodily states are secondary to inner alignment.
A rajasvalā incurs no fault in eating if she performs reverential añjali (raised to the head) and recites the excellent mantra taught by Varāha.
Observance prevents doṣa and maintains śauca in intent; neglect (eating with irreverence/without remembrance) increases impurity-through-attachment and social-ritual censure in dharma framing.
Varāha Purāṇa 142.8.0; Varāha Purāṇa 142.11.0
FAQs
It documents a specific accommodation within purity norms, pairing bodily condition with prescribed intention/gesture and mantra—useful for comparative studies of dharma and ritual manuals.
No geographic location is named.
The text frames ethical purity as compatible with necessary sustenance when accompanied by mindful, respectful practice.
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