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MANTRAS AND THE SHLOKAS
Mantras are powerful sounds and when chanted with devotion produce enormous effects. Mantras are well-off in their meanings and their meaning can be meditated while chanting. As the mind concentrates more and more on mantra and its meaning, it conditions the mind and takes up to the higher states and forms the path to salvation – the eternal bliss. Read on to know about the significance of
Mantra….
The Vedas are full of mantras, therefore have been kept for ages in their raw form to use in the different practices like patha, karma, jata, patas. It has been done to ensure that the chanter clearly interprets the correct letters and sound for each letter (svara). People are advised to chant the mantras only when they know the correct pronunciation of it. That is how mantras are kept against deterioration
With time.
MANTRAS ARE ENERGY-BASED SOUNDS :
Sound is the foremost content of the creation. Mantras are divine sounds. Saying any word produces an actual physical vibration. Over time, if we know what the effect of that vibration is, then the word may come to have meaning associated with the effect of saying that vibration or word. Mantras appear really powerful when this sound effect reaches the mind and the surroundings.
MANTRAS CREATE THOUGHT-ENERGY WAVES :
Mantra, when chanted sincerely produces a state where the organism vibrates at the rate completely in tune with the energy and spiritual state, represented by and contained within the mantra.
MANTRA HAVE FIRE-LIKE ENERGY :
Mantras have fire like energy which can bring a positive and beneficial result, or it can produce an energy meltdown when misused or practiced without some guidance. There are certain mantra formulas which are so exact, so specific and so powerful that they must be learned and practiced under careful supervision by a qualified guru.
MANTRAS EVENTUALLY QUIET THE MIND :
At a deep level, subconscious mind is a collective consciousness of all the forms of primitive consciousnesses which exist throughout the physical and subtle bodies. Sincere use of mantra can excavate into subconscious crystallized thoughts stored in the organs and glands and transform these bodily parts into repositories of peace.
A mantra is a powerful word or phrase that may or may not have meaning in the same way as a sentence. Mantras can only be experienced, there is no proper term to define them and phrase them. That is why they get passed from generation to generation.
Ved and Upanishad are explain of mantras and shlokas. Also mantr yog is explain lot of mantras. This mantras we are chanting in yog practice time.
VEDIC MANTRAS (SHANTI MANTRA)
OM SAHANA VAVATU SAHANA BHUNATTU
SAHA VIRYAMKARAWAVAHAI
TEJASVINAVADITAMASTU
MA VIDVISHAVAHAI
OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI...
MANTRA MEANING
Together may we be protected
Together may we be nourished
Together may we work with great energy
May our journey together be brilliant and effective
May there be no bad feelings between us
Peace, Peace, Peace…
OM
YOGENA CHITTASYA PADENA
VACHAM
MALAM SHARIRASYA CHA
VAIDYAKENA
YOPAKAAROTAN PRAVARNM
MUNEENAM
PATANJALIM PRANJALI
RANATOSMI
OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI…
MEANING
I bow to the sage Patanjali, who cured the
Imperfections of the mind through yog
The imperfections of speech through grammar
And the imperfections of the body through medicine
OM ASATOMA SADGAMAYA
TAMASOMA JYOTRIGAMAYA
MRITHYORMA AMRUTAMGAMAYA
OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI…
Lead us from darkness to light
From ignorance to truth
And from death to eternity
Let peace prevail everywhere.
GURU BRAHMA, GURU VISHNU, GURU DEVO MAHESHWARAH !
GURU SAKSHAT PARAHBRAHMA TASMAY SHRI
GURUVEH NAMAHA!
Teacher is a Creator, Teacher is a Survivor, Teacher is a Destroyer
Teacher is ultimately the super conscious, such Teacher should
Be always workshipped.
GAYATRI MANTR (FOR MEDITATION)
OM BHUR BHUVATSVAH TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM
BHARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHI
DHIYO YO NAH PRACODAYAT
OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI, OM SHANTI…
Let us meditate on the splendour of the God Savitr (Sun),
Who will illuminate our understanding.
AUM TRAYAMBAKAM YAJAMAHE SUGANDHIM
PUSHTIVARDHANAM,
URVARUKAMIVA VANDANANMRITYURMOKSHIYA
MAMRATAT!
PATANJAL YOG SUTR’S AND HATH YOG PRADIPIKA’S SUTR’S
“YAMANIYAMASANPRANAYAMAPRATYAHARADHARANADHYANASAMADHAYO’STAVANGANI”
Self restrains, fixed rules, postures, breath control, sense withdrawal
Concentration, meditation and Samadhi constitute the eight parts
of yog discipline. (P.Y.S. 2/29)
“ATHA YOGA ANUSHASANAM”
Here follow guidelines on how to be remade whole.
(P.Y.S. 1/1)
“YOGAH CITTA VRTTI NIRODHAH”
Yog is the ability to direct the mind exclusively towards an object
And sustain focus in that direction without any distractions.
(P.Y.S. 1/2)
“STHIRASUKHAMASANAM”
Asan must have the dual qualities of alertness and relaxation.
(P.Y.S. 2/46)
HATHASYA PRATHAMAANGATVAADAASANAM POORVAMUCHYTE
KURYAATTADAASANAM STHAIRYAMAAROGYAM
CHAANGALAAGHAVAM.
Prior to everything, asan is spoken of as the first part of hath yog ‘
Having done asan, one attains steadiness of body and mind,
freedom from disease and lightness of the limbs.
(H.Y.P. 1/17)
“TASMINSATI SVASAPRASVASAYOH GATI VECCHEDAH PRANAYAMAH”
Pranayam is the conscious deliberate regulation of breath replacing of
Breathe replacing unconscious patterns of breathing. It is possible
Only after a reasonable mastery of asan practice
(P.Y.S. 2/49)
ATHAASANE DRIDHE YOGEE VASHEE HITAMITAASHANAHA
GUROOPADISHTAMAARGENA PRAANAAYAAMAANSAMABHYSET.
Thus being established in asan and having control (of the body), taking a balanced
Diet; pranayamas should be practiced according to the instructions of the guru.
(H.Y.P. 2/1)
SA TU DIRGHAKALA NAIRANTARYASATKARASEVITO DRDHABHUMIH
It becomes firmly grounded by being continued for a long time
With reverence, without interruption.
(P.Y.S. 1/14)
TASYA VACHAKAH PRANAVAH
Aum is the word denoting God.
(P.Y.S. 1/27)
MAITRIKARUNAMUDITOPEKSANAM SUKHADUHKHA
PUNYAPUNYAVISAYANAM BHAVANATASCHITTAPRASADANAM.
In relation to happiness, misery, virtue and vice, by cultivating the
Attitudes of friendliness, compassion, gladness and indifference
Respectively, the mind becomes purified and peaceful.
(P.Y.S. 1/34)
PARAMANUPARAMAMAHATTVANTO’SYA VASIKARAH
So the yogi is given mastery over all objects for meditation ranging
From the smallest atom to the infinitely large.
(P.Y.S. 1/14)
TAPAHSVADHYAYESVARAPRANIDHANANI KRIYAYOGAH
Tapas, swadhyaya and Ishwara pranidhana constitute kriya yog.
(P.Y.S. 2/1)
YOGANGANUSTHANADASUDDHIKSAYE
JNANADIPTIRAVIVEKAKHYATEH
By the practice of the parts of yog impurity diminishes until the rise
Of spiritual knowledge culminates in awareness of reality.
(P.Y.S. 2/28)
AHIMSAPRATISTHAYAM TATSAMNIDHAU VAIRATYAGAH
On being firmly established in ahimsa, there is abandonment
Of hostility in his vicinity.
(P.Y.S. 2/35)
TASMAATSARVAPRAYATNENA PRABODHAYITUMEESSHVAREEM
BRAHMADVAARAMUKHE SUPTAAM MUDRAABHYAASAM SAMAACHARET
(H.Y.P. 3/5)
Therefore the goddess sleeping at the entrance of Brahma’s door should
be constantly aroused with all effort, by performing mudra thoroughly.
(H.Y.P.)
MEDASHLESHMAADHIKAHA POORVAM SHATKARMAANI SAMAACHARET,
ANYASTU NAACHARETTAANI DOSHAANAAM SAMABHAAVATAHA.
(H.Y.P. 2/21)
JAALANDHARODDYAANANAMOOLABANDHAA
NJALPANTI KANTHODARAPAAYUMOOLAAN.
BANDHATRAYESMINPARICHEEYAMAANE
BANDHAHA KUTO DAARUNAKAALAPAASHAAT.
Jalandhar bandh, uddiyan bandh and mool bandh are situated respectively
in the throat, abdomen and prinenum.
If their duration can be increased then where is the fear of death?
Yogataravali (sutra 5 sri Adi shankaracharya)
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