Kavachas of Planets / NarsimhaJi -Intonation and Mental Chanting

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|om|Dear Pradeep, namasteVery nice writeup by you. I think that this will be very helpful for me to understand more about manasa puja and its subtle nuances.Thanks and best regards

HariOn 6/21/06, vijayadas_pradeep <vijayadas_pradeep wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Hari Namaste

 

Hope Narasimha Rao ji will upload and give better explanation.Shri

Neeraj had also expressed his views.

 

From the following link you can listen to Bhagawan SaiBaba, reciting

gayatri mantra with proper intonation.There is also another audio with

longer invocation.

 

http://wahiduddin.net/mantra/gayatri.htm

 

Mental Chanting

 

It can be a gradual process and i feel there is nothing to worry.One

should never be under stress.Let everything happen on its own.The bhava

while doing the chanting should be one of Nirvrithi and Prema with a

smile on your heart.Dont think you are sitting for mental chanting,just

be cool.In your chart Mercury has high influence and Venus is

neecha(ofcourse bhanga is there).Thus Shukracharyas blessings are needed

for subtler understandings.With your exalted mercury,jupiter in lagna

and exalted lagna lord,progress has to come with lords blessings.Mercury

has exalted Vimshamaha and it is your 8th lord(rashi chakra).

 

Before doing Mental Chanting one may closely observe loud chanting.It is

actually amazing.Sound originate from within ,but initially we are able

to recognize them only after, they have reached, a certain distance.Thus

we have to travel back in search of their origin.My humble view is to

first observe closely how the sounds from various letters or perhaps

words(initially ) are ending, during loud chanting.Try to chant them

loud and from depth.

During unrefined or Asamskrita state,we mistake our singing/chanting as

perfect.Thus when we start observing closely,we will find that our

endings(how we end a word while chanting/singing) are not polished.Then

we will try to correct our mistake,and explore depths(downwards from

throat).The kind of satisfaction you get with every small correction is

divine in nature.

 

Would feel blessed if Guru like Ramanarayanan ji can explain the divinty

and various Thalas of sound.

 

I can share my academic views based on own trial and errors.

First of all we have to closely observe,enter and then follow the flow

of breath.Close your eyes,take a light breath, hold it in a relaxed

fashion,concentrate(single point),think as if you are about to recite it

mentally,or as if you are just thinking about the mantra.Simultaneously

release the breath,in a relaxed fashion.Then words will flow in your

mind with rhythm and laya.Never force.Relaxed release of breath,with

control and continuity is the key.During this process ,if you can

concentrate between your eyebrows,it is great.This is the key as per my

experience.Release of breath and mantra movements are felt/understood

between eyebrows.

 

Continuity or Laya can only result in Brahman or HIM.Continuity can

result only if there is lack of distraction.This is Shradha.Mantras

takes us there.Taking Mana closer and closer to Aatma and finally a

merger.

 

Ramanarayanan ji advised Brihaspati Gayatri and it gives the wisdom in

understanding.Gayatri mantra will help us in understanding OM.I feel if

we do a Tapas on OM through chanting,we can make it similar to Sankha

Nada.Reciting & Practising Namshivaya along with OM can make us flow

along with OM.

 

I feel when some one is in real need,mere thought of the lord and simple

recitation will serve the purpose.Example - Accident case which

Lakshmiji has mentioned.Then the person is having complete submission or

aatma samarpana.

 

But when one is reciting for AatmaSakshathkara or self realization one

has to strive for perfection.Intonations and pitch matters.Thus music

and Shukra is important and hence Vedas stressed on the importance of

samasangeetha.In either case when done in the proper way,it is always

good.

 

You may be knowing all these,and these are just my random thoughts.If

you can get guidance from Ramanarayanan ji it will be

great.Jyotirlingamantras can help us a lot.

 

Hope learned members will correct,if i have made any mistakes.I am no

man to talk on these divine points and kindly pardon.In Dashadhyayi the

author seeks the boon of ''Vak'' - I assume this Vak is '' Sound or the

Supreme Nada from which everything originates''.

 

Thanks

Pradeep

sohamsa , " Jyotisa Shisya " <achyutagaddi

wrote:

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> |om|

> Dear Neeraj, namaste

>

> Thanks very much for your inputs here. They are very helpful for me to

> visualize the manasa puja. Somehow I cannot seem to progress to the

> sound-less, lip movement-less chanting of mantras. I wonder if this

has to

> do with the inherent tendencies in the vimsamsa.

>

> best regards

> Hari

>