Chanting

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Hello

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> Could someone tell me why you touch the thumb with each of the

fingers when

> chanting some of the chants? Also - what

is the

> Ganputi Mantra?

>

> Many thanks - Diana

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Hello Diana

Here are my views on chanting of mantra :-

Chanting the sacred mantra while in meditation whole body senses

particularly concentrate the thoughts in an effective direction

towards the god. In that excersise all the energy centres emanate

the latent energy which reflect in a light one may feel so

much relaxed and totally detached from the worldly thoughts

excersise more and more concentration. For gaining more

concentration controlling the breath i.e, control the unnecessary

thoughts.

Therefore many gurus suggests to chant a sacred mantra. This

chanting of mantra create a strong propelling sound waves in side

the body touching all energy centres of body push forward towards

the brain. In this state the disciple feel much of devine light

emanate all over body and feel much relaxed state of mind. To

keep feeling this experience continuously and also to prolong one

may resort to have concentrating mind. For better concentration

chanting of sacred mantra is one.

 

Coming to other point why one has to touch the Thumb with other

fingers : It is suggested in some of yogic postures particularly

called "Mudras"

this posture has tendency to create a different sort of

experience in body and mental relaxedness also helps to

concentrate the mind on divine objects. In that a more prominent

mudra is "Chinmudra" touching the Index finger tip with the

thumb and keep other three fingers apart . In this position

chanting of mantras will help the mind to concentrate the mind

continuously on divine objects/light. In the hindu religious books

there is an explanation that Index finger ( jeevatma ... that

mean the "I" self esteem identity of physical body) and the

Thumb(paramatma ...that mean the God, inner self of person, Godlyness

in the body) uniting each other for the salvation from the

materialistic worldly affairs. The other three fingers representing

the Manas(self),Budhi(Intelligence), Ahankara(Ego) leaving apart from

these two fingers means salvation from worldly affairs.

 

That is why in Yoga yogis sit in Asan(posture) and concentrate

his mind chanting the mantra keeping the body in perfect erect

position and in the above mudras for chanting the sacred mantra

continuously to have divine experiences and ecstacy.

 

Ganapati mantra is as below :

 

Agajanana padmargam ;

Gajanana maharnisam ;

Aneka dantam bhaktanam;

Ekadantam upasmahe

 

from PVSC