Monday, 18 July 2016
Monday, 3 June 2013
Spiritual
Mantra
Upon clicking https://www.youtube.com/spiritualmantra, one is welcomed with a serene aura of religious chanting. The very first sound that hits the ears is that of Ganesh Vandana. For Hindus, Ganesh is the first and foremost deity to be worshipped. Keeping in
tandem with this religious belief, this link does the same.With a wonderful
collection of Hindu Vedic mantras, chants, bhajans and Hindu slokasaccompanied
by music that is nothing but healing,
Spiritual Mantraas a YouTubechannel offers meditative recluse from the nagging
issues of everyday living.
The power
of mantrasand spirituality has
proved itself over the last few years. The new
age meditation aided by chant musichas
the power to healalmost anything.
That is why the chants are also
known as power mantras.Most vividly
known is theGayatri Mantrawhich is
believed to act as a protection shield for the one practising it. The channel
has a separate playlist altogether dedicated to Gayatri Mantra which can be accessed on the given link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D694F694768ABDB . The playlist has Aartiof Gayatri Mata, recitation of the Gayatri Mantra in pleasant voice of
renowned singer Suresh Wadkar and, the significance of the powerful mantra
recited in Sanskrit.
There are twenty-four letters in Gayatri- Mantra which are related to
twenty-four such glands located in the body which, on getting stimulated,
activate and awaken the hidden powersof
righteous wisdom.Repeated listening to the
chanting of this mantra is very
soothing. In the morning hours at my work out cum meditation centre, I log in to Spiritual
Mantra and let the soulful music play. It helps greatly to concentrate and
revive one’s mental and physical energies.This is the very first step to spiritual awakening.
Other playlists pertain to Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesh, Sai Baba and to Indian Gods and Goddesses at
large. As we all know that the revered Hindu festival of Mahashivaratri has
just gone by. It was an amazing experience for me and other disciples at my
centre to listen to bhajans and Shiva mantras through the day on the
link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1cVDhKZ6g&list=PLM3TSQaW_spMQtYzMWlR_nHQM9GFAytJe.
Perpetual playing of power mantras like the Mahamrityunjay
Mantra and Om NamahShivay Mantra created positive vibrations at the centre.
That day, each one of us was able to focus better on our yoga and meditation
exercises.
Even for those who are more religious than
spiritual, the channel serves well through its playlists which feature Hindu
bhajans. The links to the same are :
The last link mentioned here has videos
uploaded by subscribed users. This playlist has a wonderful collection of Art of Living Bhajans, Lord Krishna Bhajans, SaundarayaLahiriand Hindu Aartis for almost all the
deities.
Only when you go to this channel on YouTube and let the mantras, bhajans, chantsplay for a while, will you know how powerful can be these sounds. They heal
one from inside. With faith, I help people improve their lifestyles. This spiritual music is my best aid in doing
so.
To subscribe to the channel, you can click on
the following link:
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualMantra
Friday, 8 March 2013
WELCOME TO Spiritual Mantra
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A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of "creating transformation" (cf. spiritual transformation).[1] Its use and type varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra.[2]
Mantras (Devanāgarī मन्त्र) originated in the Vedic tradition of India, becoming an essential part of the Hindu tradition and a customary practice within Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism.
In the context of the Vedas, the term mantra refers to the entire portion which contains the texts called Rig, Yajur or Sama, that is, the metrical part as opposed to the prose Brahmana commentary. With the transition from ritualistic Vedic traditions to mystical and egalitarian Hindu schools of Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra and Bhakti, the orthodox attitude of the elite nature of mantra knowledge gave way to spiritual interpretations of mantras as a translation of the human will or desire into a form of action.
For the authors of the Hindu scriptures of the Upanishads, the syllable Om, itself constituting a mantra, represents Brahman, the godhead, as well as the whole of creation. Kūkai suggests that all sounds are the voice of the Dharmakaya Buddha — i.e. as in Hindu Upanishadic and Yogic thought, these sounds are manifestations of ultimate reality, in the sense of sound symbolism postulating that the vocal sounds of the mantra have inherent meaning independent of the understanding of the person uttering them.
Nevertheless, such understanding of what a mantra may symbolize or how it may function differs throughout the various traditions and also depends on the context in which it is written or sounded. In some instances there are multiple layers of symbolism associated with each sound, many of which are specific to particular schools of thought. For an example of such see the syllable: Om which is central to both Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
While Hindu tantra eventually came to see the letters as well as the sounds as representatives of the divine, the shift toward writing occurred when Buddhism traveled to China. Although China lacked a unifying, ecclesiastic language like Sanskrit, China achieved its cultural unity through a written language with characters that were flexible in pronunciation but more precise in meaning. The Chinese prized written language much more highly than did the Indian Buddhist missionaries, and the writing of mantras became a spiritual practice in its own right. So that whereas Brahmins had been very strict on correct pronunciation, the Chinese, and indeed other Far-Eastern Buddhists were less concerned with this than correctly writing something down. The practice of writing mantras, and copying texts as a spiritual practice, became very refined in Japan, and the writing in the Siddham script in which the Sanskrit of many Buddhist Sutras were written is only really seen in Japan nowadays. However, written mantra-repetition in Hindu practices, with Sanskrit in any number of scripts, is well-known to many sects in India as well.
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