To Julian about Mantra

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Julian wrote:

 

I'm looking to use a personnal mantra...

Julian ~ welcome to the Devi Mandir group. This is such a wonderful digest;

I've not encountered anything else like it. You will find, over the course of

time, that there are group sankalpas to participate in as well as traditional

festivals that we can each observe, along with Swamiji and Shree Maa and the

residents of the Mandir, "according to our capacity," as Swamiji says.

 

Right now there is a year-long Earth Mother Sankalpa. At the beginning of

the year, Shree Maa asked us to pray for the welfare of Mother Earth, using the

9 planets Mantras. Even though I am slow as a turtle and may or may not

complete the suggested numbers of malas for each planet, this sankalpa, referred

to on the digest as EMS, has been the center of my spiritual practice, and my

anchor in hard times. You can find all the information on the Devi Mandir

(DM) page under files. It is very far down on the list (just so you

won't miss it). Here is the link:

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There is also a weekly prayer club. Participants may submit names for the

prayer club, and may also join in by chanting, at any time on Saturday, the

Maha Mrtyunjaya Mantra, which we refer to as the MM Mantra, 21 times (or 42, or

any multiplication of 21 ... please Nandaji, if I am wrong about this, let

Julian know). This mantra alone is a wonderful mantra to use at any time. I am

sorry, I just moved, and I can't find anything, including the little card I

got when I ordered something from the DM, so I can't provide the words, but

there will be someone who can, especially if you join the prayer club. There is

an audio clip of this mantra (same link as above, about halfway down the

list), with the file name the same as the mantra: Maha Mrtyunjaya Mantra, which

you can listen to.

 

Since I am two digests behind, you've probably gotten lots of responses to

your request, and some of my suggestions may be simply repeating these. If so,

I'm sorry. If not, I'm glad. At the same link as above, there is also a

folder, about 2/3 down on the list, "sound clips of some mantras." The great

thing about this file is that next to the little musical note thingie, the actual

words to the mantra are given (you actually click on the words, not on the

notes to hear the mantras). All of these mantras are wonderful. For the time

being I seem to have settled on the Durga mantra, but I also use the Ganesha

mantra (Om gam ganapatayai namaha) and the Saraswati mantra.

 

Sometimes, in addition to having a primary personal mantra, you might want

to use one of these other mantras. For example, Durga can help keep away

negative thoughts and feelings of "too much" and "too little." The Ganesh mantra

you might want to use in a time of difficulty, since Ganesh is the Remover of

Obstacles.

 

I have probably given more information than you really needed, yet I hope

this will help acquaint you with the wonderful resources Shree Maa, Swamiji and

their band of loving elves have provided, both on the site and on the

Shree Maa website (_www.shreemaa.org_ (http://www.shreemaa.org) ).

 

Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~ Linda