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  • Athmalinga In Body Sadhasiva Pranava Form Thirumandhiram

    Athmalinga In Body Sadhasiva Pranava Form Thirumandhiram

    Siva means Auspiciousness. Siva worship in the South preceded the worship of Siva in Vedas. Details of Siva , in comparison with Siva in North India, is quite exhaustive in the South.The Avatars Siva are detailed as 64 in the South in ancient Tamil literature. The concept of Self Realisation, God, in the Saiva Siddhandha is the same as in Vedic Thought. The principles explained in Saiva Siddhandha are more detailed , 64 , though the Advaitic Non Dualism is the core. Nirguna Upasna is detailed as also Saguna Aradhana. Saguna Aradhana is centred around Siva. The basic principles are Pasu, Pathi and Paasam. This corresponds to Jivatma( Pasu) Paramatma ( Brahman, Pathi) and Maya(Paasam)

    One of the earliest and authentic works on Saiva Siddhandha is Thirumandhiram by Thirumoolar.Here one can get a detailed account of Saiva Siddhandha and also the essence of Yoga.

    Siva, as in Vedic Thought is expressed as Sabda Brahman in the Form of Five Aksharas ந ம சி வா ய. These Five letters are the same as Na Ma Si VA ya in Sanskrit.The pronounciation is the same with the same time taken , Matra.Siva ,as in Vedic Thought, is portrayed in Sthoola Rupa, in Gross , as Saguna with Five faces.

    As Nirguna Siva is expressed as Pathi and He manifests in Human Body too.Siva remains as Sound, Nadha Brahma, Pranava As Brahman. This is Subtle.This is experienced by chanting of Pranava OM.Si VA ya can also be chanted but it’s Chanting is different from chanting OM, though the results are the Same,Siva.

    This Sookshma Siva Manifests in Human Body when Om is chanted. OM, ஓம், Tamil ancient texts slightly differ in explaining OM, in that they say that when one pronounces A, அ,and உ , U mouth remains open and when you close the mouth ம்,M sound rises. Note that A and U are a part of OM in Vedic Thought too. There the explanation is that A U and M constitute Pranava,OM and that A rises from the mouth U from Throat and M from the pit of the stomach. These are the only places from where sounds originates in Human body.This is the Primordial sound and the basis of all spoken words.

    In Tamil Thoughts, Thirumandhiram By Thirumoolar,Saiva Siddhandha, A அ represents Siva and U, உ represents Sakthi.

    When these two Aksharas( letters) are intoned,OM is completed and Siva and Sakthi together rise as Sadhasiva in the Subtle Level in Human Experience. And This Experience is Athma Linga.Itcis also expressed as Siva is expressed as Sakthi and Siva in Humans as U and A respectively உ அ.

    One visuvalises this in the Gross Form as Siva with Five Faces.

    அகார முதலாய் அனைத்துமாய் நிற்கும்,

    உகார முதலாய் உயிர்ப்பெய்து நிற்கும்,

    அகார உகாரம் இரண்டும் அறியில்,

    அகாரம் உகாரம் இலிங்கம் அதாமே” Thirumandhiram 1753

  • Murugan Teaches Shiva Pranava Veda Swamymalai

    It is traditional to recognize Four Vedas , the Scripture of the Hindus.

    There are references in the Vedas and Tamil literature that that there is a Fifth Veda.

    The Vedas are the uswaasa and Viswaasa of Brahma , the Creator.

    Murugan Teaching Shiva Samymalai
    Murugan Teaching Shiva

    That is from the Inhalation and Exhalation of the  Breath of Brahma.

    Vedas came from the Five Heads of Brahma.

    Brahma , Puranas assert, had Five Heads and one was removed by Lord Shiva because of Brahma’s arrogance , His effort to Create , and assume that He is the Supreme Lord.

    This happened after Brahma’s evolution from the Naabhi, Belly Button of Lord Vishnu.

    On His emergence Brahma was commanded by Vishnu to meditate and begin Creation.

    When Brahma started meditating on Brahman , the Reality, His breath came out as The Vedas.

    As He had five heads then, Five Vedas came into Being.

    After the censure by Shiva the Fifth Veda was lost as Brahma’s head was removed by Shiva.

    This Veda is the Pranava Veda.

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    The Chandogya Upanishad.

     

    It states that there is another Veda, the Fifth veda.

     

    ‘itihāsapurāṇaṃ pañcamaṃ vedānāṃ’

    -Chandogya Upanishad (7.1.2)

     

    It is one thing for an Ithihasa or agreat literary work to be called a Veda, as a  tribute; but a Upanishad, a part of Veda, declaring that there is another Veda, is intriguing.

    ‘the Mahabharata declares itself a new Veda for a new era, intended for all people, and which is the equal of, and in some ways superior to, the four canonical Vedas.The other major Hindu epic, the Ramayana, also makes a claim to be the fifth Veda’

    The Bhagavata Purana elaborates on the Chandogya Upanishad’s statement concerning the fifth, by stating that after the four Vedas emerged from each of Brahma’s four mouths, the fifth Veda – itihasapurana – emerged from his fifth mouth[1] or all his mouths.[6] It then declares itself supreme over all other puranas, on the grounds that it was Vyasa’s crowning achievement.[5] Similarly, the Skandapurana, too, suggests that the puranas are the Fifth Veda, thus giving itself scriptural authority

     

    There is another view that this fifth Veda is called the Pranava Veda and it was from the Pranava ‘OM’

     

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    Eighty-four year old V. Ganapati Sthapati, is a renowned architect and sculptor.
    Ganapati Sthapati’s range of accomplishments is extraordinary. He has designed and built more than 600 temples in India and the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji, Sri Lanka and Kenya. He was the architect of Swaminatha Swami Murugan temple, popularly called Malai Mandir, situated on a hillock at Ramakrishnapuram, New Delhi.’He asserts that the controversy over which language is older – Sanskrit or Tamil – is needless. He calls Sanskrit “the classical language of sculptors.” He will build a Veda Mandapam in the University to teach not only the Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva Vedas but also the Pranava Veda in Tamil. He estimates that the Pranava Veda is older than the other four Vedas. Ganapati Sthapati has already recorded on audio-tape the 50,000 stanzas of the Prananva Veda. He is keen that the Tamil Nadu Government should publish it and spread it.’

    “The Pranava Veda is the first Veda and the “source Veda.” Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati explains, “A good deal of evidences is available both in Tamil as well as in Sanskrit works, particularly in Srimat Bhagavatam and Skandam about the remote existence of Pranava Veda. This Veda was later on called the science of Vastu (energy) and Vaastu (embodied energy), which is gaining much popularity today across the globe.”

    Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati goes on to say that Veda Vyasa himself said in the Bhagavatam:

    “eka eva pura vedo pranavha sarva vangmayha”
    (9th skandha, 14th chapter, sloka 48 of Bhagavatam)

    This phrase by Veda Vyasa, the compiler of the present day Vedas, means that there was only one Veda in the remote past and that Veda is called Pranava Veda – the Veda of the shilpis of India. Artharva Sheershopanishad makes mention of the term “Pranava” as being “ongara” – the all-pervasive substance.

    The Fifth Veda Pranava Veda Ramni’s blog

    Now there are references in the Purnas, especially the Skanda purana about Lord Subrahmanya teaching Lord Shiva, His Father the meaning of Vedas.

    And the place where He is reported to have done the Upadesa is Swamymalai, near Kumbakonam,Tamil Nadu.

    Swamynathan, Lord Subrahmanya
    Swamynathan, Lord Subrahmanya at Swamy malai

    This is one of the famous six temples dedicated to Lord Subrahmanya.,Arupadai Veedu in Tamil which means one of the six places which leads to Moksha, Self Realization, padai means regualating in ancient Tamil, refer Thirumurugatrupadai by Nakkeeran of Sangam Period.

    Because Kaarthikeya, called Murugan in Tamil,taught the precept of the Veda to Shiva, Guru of Gurus, a realized souls Brahmin, Murugan, meaning most beautiful, came to be known as Subrahmanya, The best among Brahmins, those who realized brahman, the Reality.

    He is also called Swamynathan, the Leader of leaders,

    Traditional accounts brush aside this stating that Subrahmanya explained the meaning of Pranava the letters A, U and M.

    To me this seems too simple an explanation for the Four Vedas contain detailed of Pranava in the Upanishads.

    Then what did Subrahmanya impart to Shiva , His Father ?

    It should have been the the Fifth Veda, the Pranava Veda, which was  lost when Brahma’s head as removed y Shiva.

    Pranava Veda went out of circulation  and Subrahmanya must have remind Shiva of this at Swamymalai..

    Please read my articles on Shiva a Man, Pre Sanatana Worship of Shiva.

    Will be writing more on this.

    Pranava Veda Text Ganapathi Sthpathai

    Swamymalai.

    How to reach.

    https://www.ixigo.com/how-to-reach-swamimalai-murugan-temple-swamimalai-india-ne-1293022

    Airport. Tiruchirapalli.

    Railway Station. Swamymalai. neaer by stations kumbakonam, Mayuram.

    Bus Station. Kumbakonam, Tiruchi, Mayuram.

    Worship Time :

    Period Timing
    Morning Open 05:00 A.M
    Morning Close 12:00 Noon
    Evening Open 04:00 P.M
    Evening Close 10:00 P.M

     

    Pooja Time :

    Pooja Timing
    Usha Kalam 06:00 A.M
    Kalasandhi 09:00 A.M
    Uchikala Poojas 12:00 Noon
    Sayaratchai 05:30 P.M
    Rendam kalam 08:00 P.M
    Arthajama pooja 10:00 P.M

    Image credit.

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/

    Temple information credit.

    http://www.swaminathaswamytemple.tnhrce.in/

  • Chanted OM Produces Sri Yantra in Tonoscope

    I have,in a post  on Paranormal, narrated my experience, during my college days, as to how the various Gayatri Mantras ,when intoned properly, produced the corresponding God’s Image in a TV Monitor!

    OM in Devanagari script.image
    OM

    Sri Yantra 3 D Image.jpg Sri Yantra 3 D Image.

    Quite a few were sceptical on this.

    I write what I believe /know to be true as I do not belong to Ideology to promote.

    I try to post facts as I see them.

    In the process some times I may rescind some of my views in the light of new evidence.

    This is applicable to posts relating to History of Sanatana Dharma, called Hinduism.

    However I am yet to come across information that is reliable which contradicts the Truth as explained in the Hindu Texts.

    OM produces Sri Yantra.jpg OM produces Sri Yantra.Tonoscope Image on your right. Image credit.http://www.thuban.spruz.com/

    In the present article, I would like to share the proof that the sounds used in Hindu practices in Pooja, worship of Gods, really produce images corresponding to the Deities mentioned in the Mantras.

    The fundamental sound of Hinduism is OM.

    This sound has three letters.

    A

    U

    M

    For correct pronunciation one should listen to authentic Vedic chants, for a slight change in intonation changes the results.

    Sounds in Humans rise from Three places in the Human body.

    Mouth.

    Throat and the

    Base of Stomach, ( near Duodenum)

    Most of the languages are built on these lines and Sanskrit is perfect in this aspect.

    The sound A rises from  the Mouth,

    U from the Throat and

    M from the pit of the stomach.

    These three letters together form OM .

    This is the primordial sound of the Universe.

    Please read my Post’The Universe hums OM with Audio, here I have shown that the Humming in the deep Galaxies produce the sound OM.

    Now when OM is intoned in a Tonoscope, it throws the image of the Sri Yantra.

    ‘The Sri-Yantra-Mandala is the image of the OM mantra, the primordial Hindu sound of creation. When OM is intoned into a tonoscope, it first produces a circle. As the tone is completed, the circle is filled sequentially with concentric squares, triangles and finally, as the “mmm” dies away, the Sri Yantra

    How do Yantras work? ?At the basis of yantra operation is something called “shape energy” or “form energy”. The idea is that every shape emits a very specific frequency and energy pattern. Examples of old believes in shape energy are the yantras and mandalas of eastern philosophies, the star of David, the five pointed star (pentagon), the Christian cross, the pyramids and so on. Certain ‘powers’ are ascribed to the various shapes.
    When one focuses on a yantra, his mind is automatically “tuned in” by resonance into the specific form energy of that yantra. The process of resonance is then maintained and amplified. The yantra acts only as a “tune in” mechanism or a doorway. The subtle energy does not come from the yantra itself, but from the macrocosm.
    Basically yantras are secret keys for establishing resonance with the benefit energies of the macrocosm. Very often the yantras can put us in contact with extremely elevated energies and entities, being of invaluable help on the spiritual path. Available at http://sivasakti.com/articles/intro-yantra.html

    For more on OM, Yantras check my posts on these under Hinduism category.

     

    Citation.

    http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_blueprint4.htm

    As the above link is now not working, I am providing from  Link from another site.

    http://rootshunt.com/vibrations/tonoscope.htm

     

  • Jana Sankalani Tantra,Secrets of Pranava OM

    Jnana Sankalini Tantra is a beautiful and meaningful dialogue between Lord Shiva and his consort, Parvati. In Tantric practices, both Shiva and Parvati are worshipped together, since the former represents consciousness and the latter, in the form of shakti, symbolizes energy.

    In tantric meditation, inner bliss can be obtained by arousing energy latent in humankind, and uniting it with Shiva. Tantra uplifts consciousness in order to embrace the cosmic spirit.

    Aspects of divinity Shiva and Shakti, play creates the entire universe.

    The Jnanasankalini Tantra is a brief work of 107 shlokas (verses) which outlines the dynamics of this interplay.

    The secrets of Pranava OM is described.

     

    Translation
    Mahadevi questioned Maheshvara, the Deva of all devas, the World Guru, sitting on the peak of Mount Kailasha: Speak to me of knowledge! (1)
    Devi said – Deva! what is creation and how is creation destroyed? What is the Brahma Jnana beyond creation and destruction? (2)
    Ishvara answered – Creation comes from that beyond words (avyakta) and returns to that beyond words at (the time of) destruction. Brahma Jnana is the avyakta, beyond creation and destruction. (3)
    From the syllable Om comes everything, the fourteen vidyas, mantra, puja, dhyana, action and non-action. (4)
    The four vedas, the six limbs of veda, mimamsa, nyaya, dharma shastra and puranas are the fourteen Vidyas. (5)
    For as long as these Vidyas are known, (true) knowledge is not. On knowing Brahma Jnana one is strong in all other knowledge. (6)
    The vedas and the puranas are like common whores but the Shambhavi Vidya is concealed like a Kula Shakti. (7)
    All knowledge is in the body, all devatas are in the body, all sacred bathing spots are in the body, known through the words of a guru. (8)
    Self-knowledge is the cause of happiness and liberation for a man, not dharma, not karma and not the reciting of mantra. (9)
    Just as there is potential for fire in wood, as there is scent in flower and nectar in water, so in the centre of the human frame is Deva, devoid of good or bad. (10)
    The Ida is the Ganges and the Pingala is the Yamuna. In the centre of the Ida and the Pingala is the Sushumna, the Sarasvati. (11)
    The union of the three is known as the king of bathing places. Whosoever bathes there is released from all badness. (12)
    Devi said-Maheshvara, what is Khecari Mudra? What is Shambhavi Vidya? What is knowledge of the self? Tell me of that! (13)
    Ishvara said-A steady mind without external support, steady breath without restraint, steady seeing without looking, that resembles Khecari Mudra. (14)
    Like a child or a fool’s mind drifts in sleep and dream, even without actually being asleep, so a man who wanders similarly without support knows Shambhavi Vidya (15)
    Devi said-Devadeva, Natha of the Cosmos, Parameshvara, tell me the differences between the different darshanas, each separately. (16)
    Ishvara said-The tridandins are devoted to practice of the vedas. The Shaktas worship Prakriti, the Buddhists follow the void. (Shunya). (17)
    The Carvakas, although knowing the tattvas, are atheistic prattlers, denying the existence of the source of all. (18)
    Uma said, Lord! Speak of the characteristics of the microcosm! Talk of the five elements and the twenty-five qualities. (19)
    Ishvara said-The five qualities of earth (Prithvi) according to Brahma Jnana are bone, flesh, nails, skin and hair. (20)
    Knowers of Brahma Jnana say that semen, blood, marrow, urine and faeces are the five gunas of water. (21)
    The knowers of Brahma Jnana say sleep, hunger, thirst, fatigue and idleness are the five qualities of fire. (22)
    According to Brahma Jnana, holding, shaking, throwing, expanding and contracting are the five qualities of air. (23)
    The knowers of Brahma Jnana say desire, anger, delusion, shame and greed are the five qualities of space. (24)
    Air comes from space, fire comes from air, water comes from fire, and earth comes from water. (25)
    Earth dissolves into water, water dissolves in fire, fire dissolves in air and air dissolves in space. (26)
    Creation comes from the five tattvas and is dissolved into them. Greater than the five tattvas is that which is above them, without stain. (27)
    The organs of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing are the five tattvas of the senses. Mind (manas) is the tattva that gives birth to them. (28)
    The entire macrocosm is situated in the centre of the body. That with form is destroyed while that without form is indestructible. (29)
    Whosever’s mind is fixed on the formless becomes one with the formless. Therefore, by every means, reject that with form. (30)
    Devi said-Adinatha, tell me of the seven dhatus. What are they? What is Atma? What is the inner Atma (Antaratma)? What is the Supreme Atma (Paramatma)? (31)
    Ishvara said-Semen, blood, marrow, fat, flesh, bones and skin are the seven (dhatus) in the body. (32)
    The body is Atma. Mind is the Antaratma and Paramatma is the Shunya (void) where the mind dissolves. (33)
    Blood is the mother dhatu and semen is the father dhatu. The Shunya dhatu produced from vital breath is the foetus. (34)
    Devi said-Tell me of the nature of speech. How is it produced and how is it dissolved? (35)
    Ishvara said-Vital breath comes from the Avyakta, mind arises from vital breath. Speech comes from mind and is dissolved into mind. (36)
    Devi said-Where does the sun dwell? Where does the moon dwell? Where does vital breath dwell? Where does mind dwell? (37)
    Ishvara said-The moon is at the root of the palate. The sun is at the root of the navel. Vital breath is above the sun and mind is below the moon. (38)
    The Cit is above the sun and the jiva is above the moon. Mahadevi, this is to be learned from the mouth of a guru. (39)
    Devi said-Where is Shakti? Where is Shiva? Where is Time? What causes ageing? (40)
    Ishvara said-Shakti is within (Patala). Shiva is without. Time is in space and causes ageing. (41)
    Devi said-What wants to eat? What wants to drink? What stays awake in waking, dream and deep sleep? (42)
    Shiva said-Vital breath wants food. Food is consumed by fire. Vital breath is awake during waking, dream and deep sleep. (43)
    Devi said-What causes karma? What causes bad deeds. Who does bad deeds? How is one liberated from bad deeds? (44)
    Shiva said-The mind does bad deeds. The mind is stained by bad deeds. That mind, having become itself, does neither good nor bad. (45)
    Devi said-How does an embodied soul (jiva) become Shiva? What is cause and effect? Speak to me, of your grace! (46)
    Ishvara said-Bound by delusion jiva, freed from delusion Sadashiva. You are cause and effect. Enlightenment is different from you. (47)
    Folk subject to tamasa wander to this sacred place and that sacred place, thinking that Shiva is here, Shakti is elsewhere, mind is somewhere else and vital breath is somewhere else again. (48)
    O Beauteous One, they do not realise the sacred place within the body. How then, can they be liberated? (49)
    Veda is not the vedas, the eternal Brahma is veda. Whosoever knows the Brahma Vidya is a brahmin, skilled in the vedas.(50)
    After churning the four Vedas and all the scriptures, the yogis have extracted their essence, leaving pandits to drink the butter milk which remains. (51)
    All the scriptures are like dirty leavings with everyone speaking of knowledge. The Brahma Knowledge beyond words is not dirty leavings. (52)
    The path of Brahma is the ultimate tapas and not ordinary tapas. Whosoever knows the upper semen, he is a deva. (53)
    Meditation is not meditation unless the mind is united with Shunya. He who does so becomes happy and liberated, no doubt. (54)
    Sacrifice (homa) is not homa unless it is samadhi, in which the vital breaths are sacrificed in the fire of Brahma. That is the true sacrifice. (55)
    Good and evil acts give rise to good and evil consequences. Therefore, by every means, a wise man rejects them. (56)
    For as long as ignorance prevails, so long does caste and family matter. After knowing Brahma Jnana, one is free from all distinctions of caste. (57)
    Devi said-Shankara, I do not understand this knowledge you have spoken of. Devesha, remove my doubts! Tell me how the mind is dissolved. (58)
    Shankara said-It is said that Brahma Jnana is like dreamless sleep in which is dissolved mind, speech and actions. (59)
    Brahma Jnana, it is said, is a state of one-pointedness, without anxieties, peaceful, free of delusion and bestowing a child-like nature. (60)
    In the next line I will declare that spoken by the knowers of the truth. Yoga is the the rejection of all thoughts and concerns. (61)
    One who reaches samadhi for a split second or even half a split second destroys the evil of a hundred births instantly. (62)
    Devi said-Deva, what is Shakti and what is Shiva. Tell me about this! Reveal the nature of Jnana! (63)
    Shakti dwells in the moving mind and Siva dwells in the steady mind. He who is established in the steady mind becomes accomplished while living in the body. (64)
    Devi said-Where are the three Shaktis? Where are the six cakras? Where are the twenty one macrocosms? Where are the seven underworlds? (65)
    Ishvara said-The upper Shakti is in the throat, the lower Shakti is in the anus. The middle Shakti is in the navel and the Shakti above these is without description. (66)
    The adhara cakra is in the anus, the SvadhishÖhana is near the penis. I have spoken previously of the distinctions of the cakras. Hail to that above the cakras! (67)
    The top half of the body is called Brahmaloka, below that is Patalaloka. The body resembles a tree with the roots at the top and the branches below. (68)
    Devi said-Parameshvara, Shiva, Shankara, Ishana. Speak to me! What are the ten vital breaths and what the ten doors? (69)
    Ishvara said-Prana is in the heart, apana is in the anus, samana is in the navel region and udana is situated in the throat. (70)
    Vyana is spread throughout the body, Naga moves upward, Kurma is situated in the tirthas. (71)
    Krikara is in crying, Devadatta is in yawning, Dhananjaya is in singing and roaring. (72)
    According to the yogis, these vital breaths have no support. The nine doors are clear and the tenth door is the mind, it is said. (73)
    Devi said-Speak to me of the characteristics of the nadis spread throughout the body. Tell me of the ten nadis arising from Kundalini Shakti. (74)
    Ishvara said-Ida, Pingala and Sushumna go upwards. Gandhari, Hastijihva and Prasava move below. (75)
    Alambusha and Yasha are situated to the right. Kuhu and Shankhini are situated to the left. (76)
    Various nadis, amounting to seventy two thousand, arise from these ten and exist in the body, it is said. (77)
    Only a yogi with knowledge of the nadis is a true yogi. Devi, nadi knowledge gives siddhi for yogis. (78)
    Devi said-Bhutanatha, Mahadeva, Parameshvara, speak to me! What are the three devas? What are the three bhavas? What are the three gunas? (79)
    Ishvara said-The Rajobhava is Brahma. The Sattvabhava is Hari, The Krodhabhava is Rudra. These three devas are the gunas. (80)
    These three devas, Brahma-Vishnu-Maheshvara, are one. Whosoever thinks of them as different in nature is never liberated. (81)
    Brahma is like semen, Hari is like vital breath and Rudra is like mind. The three devas are the gunas. (82)
    Brahma is compassionate, Hari is pure and Rudra is fiery. The three devas are the gunas. (83)
    With one meaning, they are the same thing, supreme Brahma, the cosmos, all which moves and does not move. Whosoever thinks of them as different in nature is never liberated. (84)
    I am creation. I am time. I am Brahma. I am Hari. I am Rudra. I am Shunya. I am everywhere. I am without distinction. (85)
    I am the soul of all, o Devi. I am free from desire, I am space. I am my pure own nature, without stain, there is no doubt of it. (86)
    He who has controlled his senses and courageous is a Brahmacari and a true pandit, speaking truth, devoted, generous, steady of mind. (87)
    The path of Brahma is the root of tapas. Compassion is the root of duty. Therefore, by every means, rest in the path of compassionate duty. (88)
    Devi said-Yogeshvara, Jagannatha dear to Uma as life itself, speak of veda, twilight worship, tapas, meditation, and sacrifice. (89)
    Isvara said-One thousand ashvamedha and one hundred vajapeya sacrifices are not equal to even a sixteenth fraction of the greatness of Brahma Jnana. (90)
    Travelling to the sacred tirthas and bathing there does not amount to a sixteenth fraction of the greatness of Brahma Jnana. (91)
    No friend, no son, no father and no relatives can ever equal the guru, the revealer of the supreme thing. (92)
    Learning, tirthas, and gods and goddesses (devatas) can never equal the guru, the revealer of the supreme thing. (93)
    A disciple who has received a single syllable (of a mantra) from a guru can never find anything in the world to repay that debt. (94)
    The Brahma Jnana is secret knowledge and should not be revealed to anyone but a devoted soul. (95)
    The wise should reject mantra, puja, tapas, dhyana, homa, japa, animal sacrifice, nyasa, and all acts. (96)
    Associating with others has many defects, not associating with others has many qualities. Therefore, by every effort, the wise should reject the company of others. (97)
    The letter a is sattvik, the letter u is rajasik and the letter m is tamasik, these three are Prakriti itself. (98)
    The indestructible is Prakriti, Ishvara is Prakriti and is itsef indestructible. From Ishvara came Prakriti which is triple in nature. (99)
    Prakriti is Shakti, the Maya, the cause of creation and destruction, the Avidya, the Mohini, whose form is sound. (100)
    A is the Rigveda, the letter u is the Yajurveda and the letter m is the Samaveda. (101)
    The Om should be known as the three nadas. The letter a is Bhuloka, the letter u is Bhuva and the letter m is Svarloka, it is said. In these three letters the Atma manifests. (102-103)
    The letter A is earth and yellow in colour, the letter u is like lightning and space, and the letter m is white and heavenly. For sure the single Om pervades everything and is Brahma itself. (104-105)
    Those seated in a steady position, who meditate daily and are free of worries and imaginings, are yogis and not otherwise, Shiva said. (106)
    Whoever hears this or reads this every day becomes pure and free of all problems and resides in the Shiva heaven. (107)
    Translated By A.G.Krishna Warrier.
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  • What To Chant In Yoga How Patanjali Sutra 27, 28

    Chanting of a Holy Name increases the efficacy of Meditation in Yoga.

    Pranava.
    OM, The Prnava

    The more senses the senses are involved better the concentration would be.

    There is one-act when all the senses are focussed on a single activity.

    It is sex.

    It is instinctive.

    In other activities, one has to attempt to focus the senses .

    In Meditation, eyes are focussed on the tip of the nose(Bhagavad Gita), later the eyes may remain closed.

    Along with this’, during Pranayama, breathing enables the focussing of the function of the Nose.

    Now three more senses, namely the whole body, mouth and ear remain to be focussed .

    Ears and Mouth can be made to focus by chanting.

    Rars are attuned to the our voice automatically.

    Once our voice is heard the Mind is directed towards it.

    Panjali proses Chanting.

    Chanting means, in its real sense in Indian Philosophy, a sound which has profound psychological and universal attribute.

    The fundamental unit of sound in speech is Letters.

    Letters raise from three parts of the Human Body.

    They are .

    The Mouth.

    The Throat and

    The Bottom of the Stomach.

    The letters that represent these are,

    A, Short,

    U, Short and

    M.

    These three letters together constitute the primordial sound of the Universe.

    AUM.

    If one were to listen to the sound in the conch by closing one ear is this.

    Listen to the vibration sound of the Earth, and The Galaxies , you would hear it; I have posted this under Astrophysics.

    This OM or Pranava is to be chanted during Yoga.

    The chanting is of three types.

    Holy chanting is called ‘Japa‘

    The first method of chanting is saying the Om aloud.

    The second is saying this without sound emanating from the mouth, only the lips move.

    The best is the one where the lips also do not move, the OM is chanted in the mind.

    To reach the last step mentioned, one has to go through the first two steps.

    In the first two steps, the ears and the mouth are engaged and they focus on the OM.

    In the third, as the mind is repeating this word, it is also engaged, thus diverting it from the external objects.

    In this context, I would like to state that those who do the Lalita Shasranma Parayana or The Soundarya Lahari regularly, they would, after some time some of the slokas or the Matnras keep running in the Mind with out your effort, while you are going about your daily work.

    Do not worry.

    You do not need a Psychiatrist.

    It is the effect of these Mantras and it shows you are evolving and leave it at that.

    Now to Yoga Sutra 27 and 28 of Patanjali.

    Patanjali Yoga Sutra
    Yoga Sutra 27,28

    “Tasya Vachakah, Pranavah’

    Tasya – His (God’s) [name]
    Vacakaha –sounds like or is expressed by
    Pranavaha– the syllable AUM

    Patanjali Yoga Sutra 28.
    Patanjali Yoga Sutra 28.

    Taj – that [AUM]

    Japah – quiet repetition

    Tat – that [AUM]

    Artha – goal, purpose

    Bhavanam – beauty experienced with humility and reverence (bha = splendor, va=reverence,nam=humility.

    It is important to understand the meaning of AUM while chanting.

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