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Mantras are psychically potent sound syllables cabable of influencing the human system

 

Mantras

 

 Mantras can excite the emotions and give suggestions to the mind. Mantras affect both the one who chants them as the one who hears them. The word mantra comes from the Sanskrit "mantrana", which means advice or suggestion. In a sense, every word is a mantra. In our daily life we use words to get everything done, obtain everything we need. Each mantra or word is a sound pattern that suggests to the mind the meanings inherent in it, and the mind immediately responds.

 

According to Ramana Maharsi, repetition of mantras (japa), with attention directed to the source of the sound, completely engages the mind. This is Tapas (penance). The source is not in the vocal chords alone, but also the idea of the sound is in the mind, whose source is self. Thus the practice of mantra repetition is more than a suggestion, a bit of advice or an idea. It is a means of getting in touch with our self.

 

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Mantras may be used for religious worship, for japa (repetition), for healing, to help spiritual evolution, for purification, for making offerings and in Mantra Yoga. Some mantras are only chants or expressions of nearness to the divin. But some saints who were inspired by divine love and unshakable faith used these mantras in their own spiritual practice and their followers afterwards started using those mantras,  calling them mahamantras  or  great mantras.

 

Primarily  it  is  faith  which  creates  the  effect  of mantras. Melody, intonation, pronunciation, whether silently or aloud, all are important in the recitation of mantras. Moreover, the beat cycle in which mantras are recited are important, but it changes according to the state of consciousness of the one who is chanting. An increase in the speed of chanting increases  the  speed  of  mind,  heartbeat  and  respiration. The beat cycle of the mantras affects the emotions.

 

A fast speed sometimes creates a continuous vibration and when it is done in groups it creates a good effect, because the mind works in synchronization with the beat cycle and has no time to fantasize. Fast chanting of mantras exhausts the mind, heart and breath and relaxation comes after the chanting is over.

 

Slowing the beat cycle of mantras also creates the same continuous vibration, but it slows down the speed of mind, heart and breath while the chanting is going on. It induces a hypnagogic state, but it is good only when the chanting of mantras is done individually. A medium - speed beat cycle is good for group and individual chanting of mantras. It does not disturb the heartbeat or breathing pattern and makes the mind more awake, alert and conscious.

 

The place from which the sound emanates influences its' tonal quality. Deep tones are produced by the vocal chords in conjunction with the abdominal region, middletones in conjunction with the chest, heart and throat regions and high - pitched tones in conjunction with the upper region of the body. Indian classical music uses all three regions in a gradual order, but the middle region is used most and produces a greater emotional impact on the listeners.

 

Following are some of the main mantras used in Mantra Yoga.

 

Online Ganesha Mantra

 

Online Saraswati Mantra

 

Online Durga Mantra

 

Online Kali Mantra

 

Online Mahalakshmi Mantra

 

Online Brahma Mantra

 

Online Hanuman Mantra

 

Online Krishna Mantra

 

Online Ram Mantra

 

 

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thanks Eva !

 

my personal favourite : The Shurangama Mantra—The Efficacious Language of Heaven and Earth

 

http://www.longbeachmonastery.org/NEWShurangama.htm#Skip to Shurang...

Thanks, Chris ! 

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Mantra's are also System of the combination of particular words with other words of the requisite character is followed in the composition of a mantra, which literally means, 'that which protects a person who thinks of it'. Mananat trayate iti mantrah - a mantra is that which protects us when we chant it.

It protects us like armour, like a shield that we wear in a war, by generating in us a resisting power against any kind of influence which is extraneous in nature, and which is unwanted for the purpose on hand.

----- SWAMI KRISHNANANDA, direct disciple of SWAMI SIVANANDA

Regards & Chant
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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Thanks, Ravishanlar, for these infomations.

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