Guest guest Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Yogaman and Mahamuni and others, Yes.. i guess there are various rules and regulations regd the mantras... some say the Gayatri alone is sufficient, some the panchakshari( om namah shivaya), some the panchadasakshari etc... but in all cases, initiation from a Satguru is a MUST . This much i have learnt. I knew of one case where the person was practicing the homa of a mantra without initiation and Amma asked him to stop it because he was not pronouncing it correctly. But as Linda says, all that matters is devotion- and I may add, if we have a personal mantra from Amma, that is equal to all these mantras. What is important is the inititiation of the Satguru. In india , many people are initiated into the gayatri. if you have a mantra from Amma, i would say it is equal to the Gayatri . It' s funny that we are having this discussion today- because today's the day, we indians change our sacred thread, and do gayatri japa- actually tomorrow is the gayatri japa day for us- we have to repeat a 1000 Gayatris. Maybe others could just do their personal mantra from Amma a 1000 times.. if you dont have one, just do Om Amritheshwaryai namah a 1000 times... also another intersting thing happened today... today's supposed to be auspicious to do your sacred thread ceremony and then invite others for food at your pace. so madhu had cooked this morning , and we were wondering as to who would come- when all of a sudden , it turned out a good friend was in the vicinity and she wanted to come for lunch.. it turns out that what madhu cooked was what that friend sudenly had a desire to eat.. and do you know the friend's name.... ... yes... it is Gayatri !!!!! so funny coincidence, we had Gayatri over for lunch- I guess the Gayatri Herself had sent her namesake for lunch . Amma's leelas!!! bala childofdevi <childofdevi wrote: Thanks for the info. It was interesting to hear that. Anyway, there are 15 different kinds of Panchadasakshari's among which are the three most popular -kadi,sadi and hadi. It is possible that rules for initiation of some of these are different.. No doubt it is a supreme blessing to receive it from Devi Herself (i.e. Amma LOL). A senior upasak once told me that after successive initiations of Shodasi, Mahashodasi and Parashodasi (possibly additional ones), one comes back to Bala mantra(traditions may differ), which generally is given at the beginning. So this sadhak was opining that the Bala mantra is the most powerful. Now that sounds like your name Bala :-). Offline is fine if you want to drop a line. -yogaman Ammachi, balakrishnan Shankar <balakrishnan_sh> wrote: > Namah shivaya > > Actually Yogaman, I know of one rare case when Amma initiated someone into the Sri Vidya (panchadasakshari). But yes, generally I dont think Amma will initiate people into that, as that requitres a lot of prior preparation and purity. > > A person I know once asked Amma for that mantra and She refused to give that mantra to him. I know of only one case where Amma has given that mantra- it is a very very powerful mantra ... but on the other hand Amma does encourage and bless people in reading the Saharsranama which I would say is equivalent. > > As for those who cannot do the Sri vidya mantra or the sri chakra upasana, daily repetition of the Sri Lalitha sahasranama itself is equivalent. ( actually the trisathi- but even that I hear that one of Amma's swamijis asked someone not to repet that without initiation ). > > If you dont mind, lets have an off line discussion on this. > > namah shivaya > > bala > > childofdevi <childofdevi> wrote: > Hi Mahamuni, > > Mantra must be remain a secret as per all rules, I was even reluctant > to write what I had written. > > It is also my belief that neither Amma nor Karunamayi amma will > initiate anyone in the two mantras below. They will direct the seeker > to a qualified lineage - this is what I think and I could be wrong. > > Best wishes, > -yogaman > > > Ammachi, "Mahamuni" <mahamuni@c...> wrote: > > Could I ask, just out of curiousity, what mantra it was that you > were asking for? Was it the Panchadashaakshari (Panchdasi) or > Shodasakshari (Shodasi) Mantra? > > > > yogaman wrote: > > > > ...The mantra that I had asked > > for was different from what I had asked Karunamayi amma. I had a > > discussion with Amma during Devi bhava that went for almost half > an > > hour (with myriad other things happening around us as you are all > > aware during DB)- the upshot was that Amma said she will not > initiate > > me in this mantra (reasons I cannot disclose), but will initiate me > > in another mantra. It turned out that this was the VERY MANTRA > THAT I > > HAD ASKED KARUNAMAYI AMMA, WHICH KARUNAMAYI AMMA HAD REFUSED TO > > INITATE ME BUT SAID WILL BLESS ME TO REACH MY AIM. I feel that > both > > the Ammas work together. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear yogaman ~ all I can say is Wow! and sit here shaking my head > in > > complete wonder. > > Jai Jai Ma ~ Linda > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! > > > > > > > > > > -- > ------------ > > > > > > > > a.. Visit your group "Ammachi" on the web. > > > > b.. > > Ammachi > > > > c.. 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