Guest guest Posted January 18, 2001 Report Share Posted January 18, 2001 Namasthe How aptly said by revered G.Jprasadji. thank u. For information of the readers I am One of such experimenter for which I have been punished very heavily. Let this not Happen to our fellow devotees. I am actually saved by Mother's grace. Otherwise my Family and I would have been ruined. Hence beware of consequences it may not Happen to others but why should we go out of string. When a good path and guidance Is available.further it is also necessary to test ur would be guru and their parampara Once taken initiation do not turn back since Parameswari Herself is that Great Guru. Our deep faith would definitely come to our rescue.One more information is that Using panchadasakshari for prayoga is absolutely prohibited. It is a great sin.This has Been advised by our jagat guru Paramacharya. It is Her karunai saved me I have also seen the people who have done like me and their fate is as inform by Our revered prasadji. I can go on cite numerous examples like one quoted by him Many many prostrations to Devi. s.krishnamoorthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2001 Report Share Posted January 18, 2001 > > --- sreecharana <sreecharana@i...> wrote: > > sreecharana <sreecharana@i...> > > "'miinalochanii'" <miinalochanii> > > Hi > > Can you give me some info on the panchadasAkshari mantra, any > > commentary etc ? > > > > thanks > > sreecharana 1) lalitA trishatI is itself a commentary on pa~nchadashaxarI. Each of the axarA-s is expanded into 20 names. 2) bhagavan's shrI sha.nkara's vedAntic commentary on trishatI is another greater commentary on it. Acharya brings out the light of vedAnta hidden in each of the name. 3) The book I have on trishatI bhAShya says in the introduction that there is a work by sage agastya called "shrIvidyA dIpikA" which explains the mantra. 4) upaniShads like tripuratApini upaniShad also deals with this subject matter. Actual meditation of the mantra is prohibited without initiation. There is nothing wrong, however, in understanding it intellectually. That type of knowledge will come under the category "samAnya" or ordinary. They even say that if you do not know shrIvidyA you can not recite trishatI. Tradition agrees with it. I personally wrote a letter to kAnchI piiTham and asked, shrI jayendra sarasvatI svamigaL replied that one should be initiated to recite it. This is true to sahasranAma also. However, from the phala shruti of trishatI, I think when hayagrIva says "one should know shrIvidyA", i think it is sAmanya knowledge. There are ways to circumvent all this. I took a book of sahasranAma in 1997 and got it blessed by mAtA amr^itAnandamayI, who is the protectress of our family, and the one whom I love deeply. In fact, after she blessed the book and gave it, I was able to learn to say (and almost memorize) the text. The same thing I did last year, I took shankara bhAshya of trishatI and got it blessed by Her. It should be noted that She has refused to initiate people to panchadashAxari mantra per se. These are my views. Ravi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2001 Report Share Posted January 18, 2001 friends; As a student of the beloved pandit brooksji I am not wont to ever make commentary negative in reguards to him. I feel that it is possible that contemporary adepts may feel he has revealed information that should be accesible via initiation only to the public. However, it should be mentioned that panditji comes from a lineage that believes the power of initiate-specific information is only present when used with initate keys and powers. namaskar Stephen J Brown - <seshagir Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:56 PM Re: Fwd: panchadasAkshari > I would like to hear what the learned members of the group have to > say regarding this.. i believe this requires a guru for initiation > and is best not trifled with.. as a non-initiate, i would recommend > the book > > Brooks, Douglas Renfrew. 1992. Auspicious Wisdom. > Edited by P. E. M. -Ortega, SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. > Albany, NY: SUNY Press,301 pages. > > I think i was maybe imprudent in reading the book, since elders > at home disapproved of my reading it (but i was curious :-) > > Regards, > Sridhar. > > , "Ravisankar S. Mayavaram" > > > > Can you give me some info on the panchadasAkshari mantra, any > > > commentary etc ? > > > > AUM shrImAtre namaH > > Archives : http://www.ambaa.org/ (Edited) > : /messages// > > Contact : help > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2001 Report Share Posted January 20, 2001 Namaste, I recvd this email from Shri Ganesh Prasad. I am fwding it to the list with his permission. Regards, Sridhar. ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- "B.J. Ganesh prasad" <bjganeshprasad Re: Fwd: panchadasAkshari Srividya, is regarded as a mantra shastra and is regarded as a sadhana for getting mundane benefits (Its is the pathetic condition that we worship parameshwari for gains , not understanding vedanta and karma theories, where our worship is to faciliate the process of jnana and not achieving things with mantras). However Srividya is the practical part of Advaitha vedantha and its theory surpasses the contents of Vedantic texts, the vedas and vedangas. It may surprise you if i tell you that it deals with medicine, astrology and of course prayogas too. There is a method of astrology using srividya which is regarded as a fail proof mechanism. This essence of our glorious heritage is for advanced souls (mentally) and not for everyone. The benefits can be realised when there is a combination of Bahiryaga (Navavarna pooja), mahayaga and antaryaga (the inner worship of the body as a srichakra and the atma as lalitha). This method culminates in the aspirant through a competent guru, who imparts not just the manta and pooja vidhana, but the finer aspects and more important details of mahayaga and antaryaga which is the dhyeya or the goal of an aspirant. (antarmukha samaaradhya bahirmukh sudurlaba) The gurus we find in common, including the peetadhipathis of Sringeri and Kanchi (no offense meant again, but i know these great souls personally and have discussed the same with the sringeri acharyal, who nodded in agreement) are people who are saatvik by disposition and use srividya as a mantra shastra alone disregarding or ignoring the other aspect to a large extent, and if they are into antaryagas (chandrasekharendra saraswathi swamigal, chandrasekhara bharathi swamigal and abhinava vidya teertha samigal of kanchi and sringeri resppectively) will not initiate the same to practitioners of srividya due to the problems of accessability and lack of time in case of peetadhipathis. Hence finding a guru, who will take one as student and personally see him come up is rare. The shastras say that one finds a guru according to his karmas. If one is destined for a great guru who is jnani he will get him, if one is destined for Chandraswami as his guru he will get him !!!!! Srividya because of the inherent powers of vibration and energy present in it, has to be accessed in the right manner, with the instructions of a proper guru in the vaidika marga with an aspiration for moksha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 , "Ravi " <miinalochanii> wrote: > > Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!! Namaste Dear One!! i discovered in your comments on the panchadasAkshari mantra that you had taken a copy of the Sri Lalithasahasranama to your beloved Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi...protectress of your family....so too, have i done dear brother....i asked our Amma to bless a copy of that revered book too, (one of the smaller Archana books) when She was touring in the US in 1996....She ever so kindly inscribed what are to me most precious words, in Her own inimitable handwriting....Dear Mother told me: "OM! Darling Son, Learn to follow the path of Divine Love"....which is the only actual teaching that She has given me personally, other than the Mantra, and Name...But to me the whole teaching is summed up in that simple sentence...and Her Love cannot be summed up or fathomed at all!!!! only tasted!and shared! as Amma always says: Meditation is like pure gold, but meditation with compassion for others, is like pure gold with a wonderful fragrance.... In Our Amma's Divine Love, and in Her Service, most humble salutations to you!! as ever, Your Own Self, visvanathan Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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