🕉 Mangal (Mars) Mantra

Mangal (Mars) is considered the significator of courage, energy, land and property, younger siblings, blood, sports and valour. When Mangal is weak or afflicted in the kundali, or its difficult dasha is running, tradition recommends its mantra japa, charity and the worship of its presiding deity. Below are all four kinds of Mangal mantras with meaning, the japa method and remedies.

📖 Full text — with meaning

Tap «Roman (English) script» to see the original Devanagari text.

Beej and laghu mantras — the graha-shanti tradition; Vedic verse — as given in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (ch. 84), text checked against Rigveda 8.44.16; Shukla Yajurveda 13.14; Pauranik — the Navagraha Stotra composed by Vyasa.

💡 Essence

The purpose of chanting Mangal's mantra is not to «please» the planet, but to awaken its good qualities (courage) in your own life and to gain the strength to bear its difficult results.

📿 Japa counter (mala of 108)

📅 Next auspicious days (from our panchang)

• 27 Oct (Tuesday)
• 3 Nov (Tuesday)
• 10 Nov (Tuesday)
• 17 Nov (Tuesday)
• 24 Nov (Tuesday)
• 1 Dec (Tuesday)

Dates are for Delhi sunrise; see today's panchang for your city.

🪔 How to chant / recite

1. Start: Take a sankalpa and begin on the first Tuesday of the bright fortnight (shukla paksha), or on any Tuesday.
2. Time: Morning after bath; Tuesday is special.
3. Seat & direction: On a woollen/kusha asana, facing south (or east/north).
4. Mala & count: One mala (108) of the beej or laghu mantra daily; by tradition the total count for the beej mantra is 10,000 — do such a big anushthan only after checking the kundali and under an acharya's guidance.
5. Conclusion: At the end of the anushthan, the tradition is a havan of one-tenth the japa count, charity (masoor dal (red lentils), red cloth, jaggery) and feeding a brahmin/someone in need.

🛕 Puja vidhi (step by step)

🧺 Items needed

• Picture/idol of Hanuman ji
• Sindoor and jasmine oil (for chola)
• Red flowers (hibiscus/rose)
• Red cloth or red asana
• Ghee/sesame-oil lamp, incense
• Bhog of jaggery-gram, boondi or besan laddoo
• Tulsi leaves (on the bhog)
• Water vessel, akshata

🪷 Procedure

1. Bathe and wear clean clothes; clean the puja place and spread a fresh cloth on the altar (chowki).
2. Do achamana (sip water three times) and purify hands and mouth; sit on an asana and calm the mind.
3. Light a lamp of ghee or sesame oil — by tradition the lamp is kept to the deity's right.
4. Take water, akshata (unbroken rice) and a flower in the right hand and make the sankalpa — your name, gotra, place, date and the purpose of the puja, spoken or in the mind; then let the water fall to the ground.
5. First remember Shri Ganesha (Om Gam Ganapataye Namah).
6. Remember Shri Ram and Sita along with Hanuman — Hanuman puja is considered complete only with Ram-bhakti.
7. Bathe the idol with water (sprinkle water on a picture), then offer sindoor with jasmine oil (the custom of 'chola' on Tuesday/Saturday).
8. Offer red flowers, akshata, incense and lamp; offer jaggery-gram or laddoo with a tulsi leaf.
9. Recite Hanuman Chalisa / Bajrang Baan / Sundarkand, then sing «Aarti Kijai Hanuman Lala Ki».
10. Finally perform aarti, offer pushpanjali (flowers) and do parikrama (or turn around in your place).
11. Ask forgiveness for any mistakes in the puja, distribute the prasad and take it yourself.

⚠️ Rules & precautions

• On recitation days keep celibacy, sattvic food and avoid anger.
• Avoid meat and alcohol — purity is valued highest in Hanuman worship.
• By tradition women do not touch the idol or offer the chola, but everyone can recite, sing bhajans and do aarti.
• During sutak/ashaucha, remember mentally instead of a formal puja.

🎁 Items to donate (on Tuesday)

• Masoor dal (red lentils)
• Red cloth
• Jaggery
• Copper
• Red sandalwood

🌿 Other remedies for Mangal

• Recite Hanuman Chalisa / Sundarkand on Tuesdays.
• Keep the Tuesday fast and offer sindoor-jasmine oil to Hanuman ji.
• Maintain good relations with brothers and control anger.
• Consult an astrologer about Mangal dosha before kundali matching.

🌟 Benefits (as per tradition)

• A prayer for favourable results in the areas Mangal signifies — courage, energy, land and property, younger siblings, blood, sports and valour.
• Strength of mind and patience during a difficult dasha/antardasha of the planet.

These are traditional beliefs described in scriptures; results are understood to depend on faith, discipline and one's own actions.

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