Bij Mantras & Astang Mantras?

January 1, 2002

SAT NAM everyone!

can someone please explain what the bij mantras & Astang Mantras are,

and what their benefits are!

I have not managed to find mcuh resourses on these!

Thank you in advance!!

SAT NAM

Patwant Singh

January 2, 2002

Sat Nam & Namaste,

Hope this helps:

Humbly, Bhagavati

ps - don't try auto spell check after this one :- )

What is Mantra?

The root 'Man' in the word Mantra comes from the first syllable of that

word, meaning 'to think', and 'Tra' from 'Trai' meaning 'to protect' or

'free' one from the attachments to the phenomenal (gross) world.

Mantras are powerful tools for clearing and restructuring your subconscious

mind from those "undesirables" stuck there.

"Everything in the universe is made up of energy. All energy vibrates.

Differentiation happens because energy vibrates at difference frequencies.

Each frequency has a sound. (Actually every frequency IS a sound.)

Everything in the universe has a sound which vibrates at its particular

frequency.

Mantras are the sounds of the language of the universe. Mantras are tuning

instruments. If we want to tune into and access a particular universal

frequency, we chant the mantra that vibrates that frequency. For instance,

chanting MAAAAAAAAAA tunes us into the frequency of the Divine Mother and

Feminine. If we want to tune into the frequency of the sun, we chant

RAAAAAAAAAA.

When we chant a particular sound, our body and energy field resonate with

that frequency. The connection is established and maintained through

resonance. Our energy matches and synchronizes with the energy of the

sounds we make and the thoughts we think. It is the nature of our energy

that attracts to us and creates events, circumstances and environments

around us.

Much of what we create and attract is produced by our subconscious

automatic-pilot programming. Mantras are a powerful tool to "de-program"

ourselves, to create new programs and to influence our thought patterns.

Mantras are also ACCESS CODES to different channels in our mind. Mantras

help us open channels that we often cannot access consciously or reach by

rational thoughts, or even intent, i.e. our higher consciousness and higher

spiritual connections."

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MANTRAS

Three main bij (seed) mantras are:

SAT NAM

SAT means Truth, NAM means Name or Identity. Translation: "truth is my

identity."

HAR

HAR is for prosperity and personal power. HAR is the Creative Aspect of

Infinity.

ONG SOHUNG

Creator, I am Thou!

There are also Ashtang mantras:

Sat Narayan Wahay Guroo, Haree Narayan Sat Naam

This is the most powerful ashtang mantra. It cleans out the subconscious.

When perfected, man rules the heavens. Chant from the navel. With the

navel vibration-- earth and axle start vibrating.

RA MA DA SA SA SAY SO HUNG

Sun, Moon, Earth, Impersonal Infinity. Totality of Experience?and it is

personal. Personal sense of merger and identity. The Infinite: vibrating

and real. A healing mantra.

RA= Sun--root chakra, base of the spine

MA= Moon--sex chakra, abdomen

DA=Earth--navel chakra-2-3 inches below belly button

SA=-solar plexus

SA=Infinity--heart chakra

SAY=Totality of Infinity--throat chakra

SO-ajana chakra, third eye

HUNG-crown chakra, top of the head

So Hung=I am Thou or I am the totality of Infinity

RA MA DA SA is the Earth mantra.

SA SAY SO HUNG is the Ether mantra.

Together they link Heaven and Earth.

Perfect to cultivate the power embodied by Capricorn to connect and

integrate dimensions.

GOBINDAY, MUKANDAY, UDAARAY, APAARAY, HAREEANG, KAREEANG, NIRNAAMAY,

AKAAMAY

Sustainer, Liberator, Enlightener, Infinite, Destroyer, Creator, Nameless,

Desireless. (These are the eight aspects or Names of the Creator) It brings

stability to the hemispheres of the brain and works on the Heart Center to

develop compassion, patience and tolerance, uniting one with the Infinite.

PAVAN GURU WAHE GURU WAHE GURU PAVAN GURU

The air, the air, the air, the air. The Infinity and beyond the Infinity.

The air is the Guru. The air is the Guru. Wha! The Guru is beyond

description. Wha! The Guru is wonderful. The air is the Guru.

More Mantras:

AD GURAY NAMEH, JUGAD GURAY NAMEH, SAT GURAY NAMEH, SIRI GURU DEV-AY NAMEH

Guided from the primal core and beginning, through every moment of

experience and activity, guided in your heart's deepest truth and being, by

the unseen Infinity of your highest self.

Ardas Bha-ay, Amar Das Guroo, Amar Das Guroo Ardas Bha-ay, Ram Das Guroo,

Ram Das Guroo, Ram Das Guroo, Sachee Sahee

This is a mukta mantra. It frees you from all garbage. The prayer has

already happened, you are a true witness to this fact-- between two Gurus,

you put heaven and earth together. It is very powerful.

Kaal Akaal, Siree Akaal, Maahaa Akaal, Akaal Moorat, Wahay Guroo

Chant it from the navel. You will reach a state where you can feel what

is Prakriti, the Heaven, and what is Earth. You will feel how many angels

there are in the room. When the Unknown of you starts shining, all Heavens

bestow their best luck on you.

EK ONG KAUR SAT NAM SIRI WAHE GURU

There exists one Creator throughout creation whose name is Truth. Greatest

is the ecstasy of that Supreme Wisdom.

HARI NAM SAT NAM SAT NAM HARI

This mantra is for opening the heart chakra. Translated: "the Lord's Name

is Truth."

HUM DUM HAR HAR

This mantra opens the Heart Chakra and means "We the universe, God, God."

HUMEE HUM BRAHM HUM

We are we, we are one.

Sa Re Sa Sa Sa Re Sa Sa Sa Re Sa Sa Sarang

Har Re Har Har Har Re Har Har Har Re Har Har Har Rang

Sa means God. Har means earth. Combines ether and earth.

"This is the base mantra of all mantras. You must perfect this mantra

before all others? Before this mantra adversity can not stand. It gives

you the power of communication. Your words shall have mastery and impact.

It is to conquer the wisdom of the past, present and future. All the three

world's knowledge and all totality will come to that person who recites

this mantra? It will bring peace to those on whose forehead it is not

written. It will bring prosperity to those who do not know how to spell

it. It will bring you good luck when you have done nothing good" ? Yogi

Bhajan

SA TA NA MA

This mantra is for creativity and balance. Translated: "Existence, Life,

Death, Rebirth"

AD GURAY NAMEH, JUGAD GURAY NAMEH,

SAT GURAY NAMEH, SIRI GURU DEVAY NAMEH

is the Mangala Charn Mantra, and is chanted for protection. It surroundsthe

magnetic field with protective light, and means "I bow to the primal Guru

(guiding consciousness who takes us to God-Realization), I bow to wisdom

through the ages, I bow to True Wisdom, I bow to the great, unseen wisdom."

ADI SHAKTI, ADI SHAKTI, ADI SHAKTI, NAMO NAMO,

SARAB SHAKTI, SARAB SHAKTI, SARAB SHAKTI, NAMO NAMO,

PRITHUM BHAGAWATI, PRITHUM BHAGAWATI, PRITHUM BHAGAWATI,

NAMO NAMO,

KUNDALINI, MATA SHAKTI, MATA SHAKTI, NAMO, NAMO.

The First Shakti Mantra tunes into the frequency of the Divine Mother, and

to primal protective, generating energy. Chanting it eliminates fears and

fulfils desires. Adi Shakti means the "Primal Power," Sarab Shakti means

"All Power", and Prithum Bhagawati means "which creates through God."

Ang Sung Waha Guru

Posture: Easy Pose

Eye focus: Eyes are closed

Mudra: Clasp your own hands, right hand over left, with the top of the

right hand facing up. Place them at the level of the heart or sternum.

Part 1

Chant along with the mantra, moving the navel point 4 times with each

repetition of the mantra for 11 minutes. Then inhale and exhale

Part 2

Maintain the posture, eye focus and mudra and listen to the mantra for 8

more minutes.

AKAL, MAHA KAL:

means "Undying, Great death" is a powerful life-giving chant removing fear

and relaxing the mind.

AP SAHAEE HOA SACHE DA SACHE DHOA, HAR, HAR, HAR:

means "The Lord Himself has become our protector, the Truest of True has

taken care of us, God, God, God", or "The Lord Himself is my refuge, true

is the support of the True Lord". Chanted for prosperity.

EK ONG KAR, SAT GUR PRASAD, SAT GUR PRASAD, EK ONG KAR,

is the Magic Mantra so named for its power and sacredness. It is usually

chanted in reverse (Ek Ong Kar, Sat Gur Prasad, Sat Gur Prasad, Ek Ong

Kar). Many pages are devoted to the explanation of this mantra and we are

warned to chant it in reverence. It means, "There is one Creator - Truth

revealed through Guru's grace".

HAR means Creative Infinity, a name of God.

HARA is another form.

HARI is the active form of Creation.

SAT NARAYAN, WHA HE GURU, HARI NARAYAN, SAT NAM.

Narayan is the aspect of Infinity that relates to water, and Hari Narayan

is Creative sustenance, which makes the one who chants it intuitively clear

or healing. Sat Narayan is True Sustainer, Wahe Guru, indescribable Wisdom

and Sat Nam, True Identity. This is the ancient Chotay Pad Mantra.