![]() We can read and learn about mantras and their uses from books and the internet but that will only satisfy the intellect and not translate into experience. If it is simply thrown around, birds may eat them up. When we want a seed to sprout, it needs to be sown into the soil, hidden, a secret. The mantras work at the level of the consciousness. That which is kept a secret alerts the subconscious mind. When the mind is unable to cognize, it simply dissolves and moves into a meditative space. It is a sound vibration beyond the cognition of the mind. Often we wonder why we chant some sounds without understanding their meanings? Can something beyond our understanding help us? Mantras help to free you from your worries. Mantra is that which saves you from repetitiveness. In Sanskrit, it is said, Manana trayate iti mantra. Their effects, influence, method and mode of working are all a mystery. Here the meaning would be, “This chanting is my offering to you.Mantras are impulses or rhythms of the consciousness. Svaha is a word used at the time of offering oblations unto fire for different devatas. That is why you pray, “Oh Lord please bless with me with medha and prajna.” ![]() If medha and prajna are there, all success will come to you. Medha, thinking power and memory has to be at service always. No matter what the topic is, whether it is a moral issue, a legal issue, or an economic issue, to succeed you require prajna. In understanding any topic, you require prajña. For making the right decisions you require two things, prajña, clarity of knowledge and medha, availability of memory. You are what you are because of your decisions. Gaining anything in terms of worldly or spiritual life depends upon your making the right decisions. This grace is like ground water that has to be tapped by the act of prayer. Bhagavan’s grace is always available, but you have to tap it. He knows what do you need.” Asking is part of prayers, as a karma. ![]() Mahyam, to me, prayaccha, give what? Asking is important. Salutations unto Lord Daksinamürti who is the source of all-knowledge and the source of all blessing. As the source of all-knowledge, he faces the south. The Lord is everywhere, but the one who wants release from samsara faces the Lord in the north. ![]() The south stands for samsara it is Lord Yama’s place. What is the significance of the southern direction? The north attracts, and it stands for moksha. He is the Lord who is facing the south, daksinn-dik-abhi-mukha murtih. Therefore, Isvara who is daksina as well as amürti is Daksinamürti.ĭaksina also means the southern direction. With maya-sakti Isvara is daksinah, the one who has the capacity to be the creator and sustainer, and also the one who can take back the whole creation into himself. Therefore, in relating to the Lord as Bhagavan, I am invoking the grace of Bhagavan.Īmürtih is the one who is formless and who is the truth of everything. Not only do I seek moksa, knowledge, I also seek blessings for achieving whatever I need to achieve in life. The word Bhagavan, by which I invoke the Lord, is everything that I seek. Namah, my salutations, to the Lord, Bhagavan, the one who has bhaga, the six-fold glories: aisvarya, overlordship Sri, wealth and health virya, strength yasas, fame jnana, knowledge, and vairagya, freedom from a sense of want.
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