Pāśupatāstra Repetition and Crowd-sourcing
Pāśupatāstra (the divine missile of Shiva) can be used to fight the evil in this world. How many times must the mantra be repeated in order to activate the Pāśupatāstra?
The text of Vasishtha Dhanurveda mentions the number “dvi-laksha” which can be translated “two hundred thousand”. However, texts on mantra selection say that for a given person the number might be more depending on their Jyotish astrological chart.
Given this time of Kali Yuga in which consciousness is low, and the difficulty of doing the “purascharana” correctly, it’s impossible to say how many repetitions it could take of any mantra to get the desired effect. For the purposes of this project we will assume that at least 200,000 repetitions are necessary. We also assume the repetitions can be done during one’s activities that don’t require concentration; see the webpage Mantra Repetition in Activity for an explanation of how this is done.
Regardless of how many repetitions one does, the Pāśupatāstra is arguably granted as a boon by Shiva, and with sufficient devotion one might not need any repetition. For example, see Shiva grants the Pāśupatāstra to a Vaishya devotee. Thus it’s a good idea to do the Shiva Boons procedure every day to seek a boon from Shiva. It’s also good to do the Pāśupatāstra mantra invocation daily because in it one specifically asks Pashupati (Shiva) to grant the divine missile.
One way to accomplish a large number (at least two hundred thousand) of mantra repetitions is to “crowd source” the task. If one had resources, one could employ a group of pandits to do the recitations and the “puruscharana”. The government of India would be wise to establish such a group of pandits.
Another way would be to gather a group of ordinary people who want to recite the mantra. If necessary, a platform such as Zoom could be used for recitation sessions. We encourage anyone who is interested to set up such “crowd-sourced” mantra recitation sessions on their own.
Another possibility is to use AI. Currently this is difficult because the consciousness of AI bots is low, and they do not actually understand Sanskrit (because Sanskrit cannot be learned from English translations as bots currently do). The current text-to-speech capability for Sanskrit is good. So, one could try to get AI to do the repetitions.
