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I find your saying' in earlier days very few.. used to chant KS Aand LSN. What I have observed in my own community is that in the earlier days almost every household eas reciting LSN every morning and Vushnusahasranamam in the evening as a matter of routine. This is borne out by the fact that books in grantha scipt are available for these.

 

It is only now that people donot do this and of course Sanskrit pronunciation is a far cry.

 

Venkata Ramana Abbaraju <ramanaabbaraju (AT) (DOT) co.in> wrote: In ealier days people very few of them used to chant

KS and LSN. The logic was that you have to more

discplined when your are worshipping the mother.

 

MY logic is simple. We are all children to Mother. We

need more dedication than discpline. Where dedicatio

is an intrnal process and displene is exteral.

 

As we are close to our mother, because she care us,w

e shold also be close to the greatest mother who is

the mother of all,with internal dedication. If you

happend to get the intiation from guru, it is

excellent otherwise you assume your guru is great

shiva (Dakshina Murth / Adi Guru ),do salutations to

him and start self initiation.

 

Regards

Ramana

--- Maior <rory12001 > wrote:

 

> Hello;

> I'm new to this group, I'm an attorney-writer

> female in my 40

> s & long time Buddhist practitioner. I've always

> read a great deal in

> Hinduism but never made a connection to the right

> (for me) teacher or

> teaching. I was initiated into Buddhist tantra and

> realizing these are

> all Sanskrit mantras and Hindu gods & goddesses read

> further about the

> tradition.

>

> And of course found this wonderful group and the

> great big reading

> list. I've read a few in the past; Avalon etc..I've

> taken most of the

> books out of the university library and am in the

> process of reading

> them. It's a great, great path

>

> My question is; not having been initiated by the

> guru yet, is it

> permissable to start chanting the Khadgamala Stotra

> & Mantras?

>

> If not what is permissable to begin with?

> many thanks

> Cory

 

 

 

 

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