i was curious if anyone uses mantras in their meditation and if they help? for people who dont know what a mantra is, its basically a sound in your body. like an energy sound, and when you say certain lines it froms a mantra sentence. when you say the sentence it is supposed to activate the certain energy vibrations in your body. note that sanskrit was made from this mantra alphabet, and sanskrit was the first written language widely used. the dead sea scrolls are written in sanskrit and so were many of the books in the bible. heres a few of the more popular mantra sentences to activate this divine energy. om namah shivaya. - om. obeisance to shiva. om namo bhagavate. - om. obeisance to krishna and vishnu. om shante prashante sarva-krodha-upashamank svaha. - om. at peace! pacifying! all anger be subdued! hail! om sac-sid-ekam brahma - om. the singulair being consciousness, the absolute.
just om. om. or to get a little more phonetics into the text representing the sound, "auhmn" it is said to be the sound of the birth of the universe, and i can understand this from various ways, and so am comforatable with it. if you're uncertain or uncomfortable, a little research and seeking will have you finding the answers you need. I often look up other specific mantras in sanskrit or seek out mantras for a specific purpose, like Aug 2 this year i did pooja all day on and off interspersed with my daily activities with three A4 sheets of paper full of mantras so that me, shiva, and saturn were on better terms. om mani padme hum & om mani peme hum. (hum pronounced hoom) some say it translates as something like the jewel in the heart. also heard it translated as i submit myself to the void. whatever, it's really popular. allows flow, grace, ease, and compassion. om gum ganapatayei namaha, this one's for ganesh, lord of obstacles (the big friendly one tusked elephant headed one) and is really great before tackling any task or endeavor. nam myoho renge kyo. in nicheren school of budhism chanting this is said to be the only way of freeing oneself from suffering. it is increadably powerful when said slowly, with intent and focussing on it's meaning. here's a translation as best i can: nam= i summon/evoke in me myoho= universal law renge= the lotus heart, ever flowering ever seeding kyo= sutras/teachings though the nichiren school of buddhism also suggests you study scriptures also. I had also once found a site that allows you to find your own mantra, based on which hindu deity avatar, your numerology, and then a little of your own preference and even offered various mantras for many different religions from islam to jain. as such a came away with Vighna Rajendra (hindu, Ganesh), Anotonus (christian), Parshva Natha (Jain), and a few others i've forgotten from lack of use. Vighna Rajendra features regularly. but remember, these are mantras chosen specifically for me. I can use them like i can use my own name, so unless you too wish to chant my own name..... no. please don't, lest you jest. gonna have to remember om sac-sid-ekam brahma meditation lead me to reccognition of brahma before any other awareness of god consciousness since childhood. also, Brahma wholeness om shanti (peace)
do you happen to have link to that site? sounds interesting. om sac-sid-ekam brahma, is the mantra i most often use during meditations. i just recently got into mantras and find them prety useful. im gonna try out the ones you posted above. The Mahanirvana-Tantra (3.13) calls this mantra, om sac-sid- ekam brahma, the most excelent of all mantras, which promptly bestows not only liberation but also virtue, wealth, and pleasure. It is suitable for all practitioners and does not require careful computation before it is given. "Merely by recieving the mantra," this scripture (3.24)claims, "the person is filled with the Absolute." And, this Tantra (3.26) continues, "guarded by the brahma-mantra and surrounded with the splendor of the Absolute, he becomes radiant like another sun for all the planets, ect..."
Not that I haven't tried I just didn't find them useful. I concentrate on breathing and posture it's all I can handle atm. Maybe I will later on find a mantra but for now I am mantraless.
I didn't really know about the mantras, i thought they were just phrases that one can say in meditation, prayer, and times of fear. Here's one (I guess you can call it a mantra?) if you're on the verge of a bad psychedelic trip or just in a time of intense fear: [FONT="][/FONT] Fear is a mind killer. I will let my fear pass through me and only I will remain. This is unrelated but I think it cool to meditate on phrases such as: -My responsibility for the world begins and ends with myself -The chicken is the eggs way of reproducing itself -Home can be a state of mind -To a person chained in a cave, the shadows on the wall are reality -Within the microcosm and marcrocosm there are worlds in their own space and time I got this idea from the shroomery I'm gonna try it on shrooms next time
that fear one... sure, its a warning, a stick rather than a carrot to move the donkey, but as it contains the word "fear" and "killer", though in context it's meaning is well intended, it does implant those words, which when on their own hardly give you a contemplative reference point for all existence, which is why i find some of the others much more to my preference. excellence, abundance, wholeness, excellence, abundance, wholeness, excellence, abundance, wholeness, excellence, abundance, wholeness, and those others are more "affirmations" than mantras. not that i'm saying you can't use them as a mantra, but they might be more powerful if said only once with focussed concentrated intention. Om shanti!
http://www.shaktakaur.com/Meditations/Long Sat Nam Meditation.htm new to me. heard it on a video blog as a greating, nice it can be both. much prefered. http://www.indiayogi.com/consultation/mantras/mantras.asp somewhere on this site, i think. gives a list of mantras, how to make your own, and you'll get the gist of it. you can make up any numerology to work it i suppose. vibration surely more important than numerology systems though, so pick a mantra that "resonates" with you. sorry took me so long to find it.