Why Right Intonations

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Its fine that Rudra and Chamaka are made available in

the audio form but a little bit of caution needs to be

exercised while chanting.

1.Please chant only if you have been initiated into

chanting by a right guru.Your guru should have mantra

siddhi himself(perfect knowledge of the right

intonations,when and how to use the mantra..etc) and

should teach you with right intention and purpose and

not for any gains(material or otherwise).

2.Right Intonations occupy a sacred place in vedas and

have terrific impact on the person who chants and also

and the people who hear to these chants.Correct

chanting sets up the appropriate and harmonious

vibrations in all living things surrounding the place

leading to beneficial effects.

We all know from Mahabharatha how the son of

Bharadwaja maharshi is self destroyed for not

acquiring the knowledge of vedas from a

sadguru,without heeding to the warning given by his

great father.He tries to acquire knowledge through

yogic powers.

I quote here an example for the importance for

perfect intontions. Ghanapati SundaraShahtir Avadhani

, a learned brahmin from Guntur in Andhra

Pradesh(india) went to Jagadguru Chandrashekara

Bharathi of Sringeri Sharada Peetam and poured out his

owes.He was a very devout and religious brahmin who

had learned all the shahtras and veda's and was a

chandi Upasaka(worshipper).He used to do

chandiParayana(Durga Sapthashathi) regularly and was

an unparallelled srividya upasaka . He told the

jagadguru that he married three times till then, but

somehow all his three wives died soon after

marriage.He being a Grihasta performing yagnas and

yagas , could not be without a wife as a wife has

certain important functions in a yajna.(A "Apatneeka"

,one who does not have a wife or is unmarried is

prohibited from from performing yagnas in the

veda's).he told the jagadguru, that he recited the

Sapthashathi regularly in additon to his daily pooja

and japa.The acharya a Srividyopasaka himself went

about and divined the problem.He asked SundaraShatri

to repeat the Chandi Kavacha chapter of

Sapthashati.When he recited the same the acharya

pointed out the reason for his wives death.During the

recitation Sundara Shastri was reciting"Bharyam

Bhakshatu Bhairavi"(meaning ,let goddess durga in the

form of bhairavi claim my wifes life)instead of

"Bharyam Rakshatu bhairavi"(mening, let my wife be

always protected by bhairavi), which led to the wifes

death.Likewise when Durga Sapthashati is learnt from a

sadguru and if it is recited properly is equally

capable of bestowing bhoga and moksha.And finally

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