Guest guest Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Hello members , how do you pronounce hum in tha mantra Aum vakratundaya hum thank you with luv mohan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Namaskar and thank you for your post............hum is taught to be pronounced in two different ways depending on how you have recieved your teaching...........have heard it pronounced as hum like phoneticly sounding out the word humming........like you are humming a song..........the have also seen it as Hoom and this would be gramaticly correct for the Devanagari Letter U...........There are two U letters in Devanagari........one is pronounced phonetically as a short O and one as a long OO............last one like in Hoom..........so if you know the Devanagari Alphabet then you can read on the Yantras or in the books how to pronounce Suggestion for first reading would be Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley Farrand that you can find on Amazon.com or at www.sanskritmantra.com He teaches the Mantras by phonetics meaning if you know english language then you are able to read his book and get an idea of what Maharishi Panini was trying to teach about pronounciation when he made the rules for Sanskrit Speach hope this helps Wishing you and Family the Best DD In a message dated 4/7/2006 8:53:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, mohan88hg (AT) indiatimes (DOT) com writes: Hello members , how do you pronounce hum in tha mantra Aum vakratundaya hum thank you with luv mohan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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