560--Q&A WITH SWAMIJI- Significance of Pran Pratishta & Nyasa

[Guest guest]

Question from Kalidas:

Namaste Swamiji,i would like to know the internal significance of pran

pratisht and nyasa. Since one could just as easily invite the diety into

our hearts and meditiate on her there, and feel her there, without

necessarily going through all the pratisht and nyas mantras, i would

like to know what exactly do these mantras in fact do, as they

considered to be vital to all tantric pujas. Do they have the overall

effect of enhancing the potency of the japa mantra that follows? in

other words, one could just do the japa without nyas, but with nyas the

japa would be more powerful?

 

Swamiji's response:

The easiest and most effective puja is to sit silently in contemplation

of the Supreme Divinity with ourselves with only one mantra.

 

But the mind is restless. It won't sit still that easily. It wants to

roam from the past to the future, and rarely observes the truth of the

present.

 

The rishis designed the pujas to guide the mind into that stillness. The

pratishtha and nyasa viddhis allow the establishment of all the

vibrations of existence into our being, and then the establishment of

the DIvine Mother as the embodiment of all that energy.