From Swamiji to Ganesha on Chanting Mantra

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Namaste Ganesha,

 

Here is what Swamiji had to say about your post.

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Jai Ganesha,

There is always more we can do to make ourselves more worthy of

receiving this grace. We perform structured sadhana: performing

siddhantachara, karma yoga, the actions specifically designed to reduce

the ego.

These are specifically addressed on our website under What We Do:

http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal-4.7.3/taxonomy_menu/46/60

<http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal-4.7.3/taxonomy_menu/46/60>

We send you all our love and blessings,

Shree Maa and Swamiji

======================= Hope this helps.

Namaste Nanda , "patrickwcoyle"

<patrickwcoyle wrote:

>

> Namaste,

>

> After the post about chanting a mantra constantly, i began to realize

> that some of my practice had been less than my capacity. I rembered a

> time in which i forced myeslf to chant constantly for day (I chanted

> the ganapati atharvarshirSha upanishat). I would fall asleep chanting

> it and wake up still chanting it. The difficulty was that there were

> so many karmic bonds to cut that though i woke up chanting the

> upanishat i also felt so much anger and fear and sadness that i could

> not control the bodies involuntary urges to break things and scream.

> When i realized that i would have had too little contol to keep myself

> from hurting people (if they were present) i stopped chanting

> constantly.

>

> I have realized now that i am much more able to chant constantly than

> i was previously. It does limit my ability to do worldly things but i

> am not much inclined to do such things so that doesn't matter. I have

> begun chanting constantly a simple mula mantra of ganesh for which i

> recieved diksha from a satguru. It is immpossible to ask her directly

> about this so i am trying to find suggestions from this group.

>

> I know from previous experience that it is possible to chant a mantra

> constantly for many, many days without fully understanding its power.

> It seems now that i am much closer to actually focusing all my

> attention on the mantra. The attention is clearly still skewed. The

> text that my mantra occurs in says that its repition will unfold the

> radiance of the sun from inside my being. I do not understand this to

> be true.

>

> I have stopped a few times in the last few days, when lord ganapati

> appeared and asked me to stop. One time i stopped to be kicked out of

> the temple where i sat; once to conduct a yajna; once to talk to a

> group of people about the nature of god... Each time i stopped i

> noticed i didn't realy care about what was happening (i was detatched

> though in a loving way). I noticed that the vibration of the mantra

> was continuing in the mind, making it very difficult to not chant the

> mantra. As i continue it is strengthening. It seems like it will be

> soon that only the mantra remains, but i could be mistaken. I don't

> realy care though because i am completely indifferent to this practice

> now and i can not seem to stop it any way. It is difficult to maitain

> focus to type because i am drawn to the mantra resounding from the

> inner cavity of the head.

>

> I feel very blessed that the lord's grace is descending on me in the

> way. I love him and have prayed for this for a long time! I accept

> his divine purpose and do not wish to limit it by my expectations. It

> seems as if the mantra has come alive and is now moving on my behalf

> (It is chosing my actions and i simply witness that). I do not know

> who i was or where he is but a little of him seems to remain. It

> wants to serve him perfectly now. It wonders if it should try to help

> the mantra come in, but does not know how. It seems best in this

> ignorance to welcome its grace and simply allow it to do what it will.

> There is trouble to sit still at times but it is lessening. Is there

> any additional way for me to make the self a worthy receptacle for

> this grace or should i simply continue to dissapear into its lulling

> nadi? May his purpose be fulfilled! Jai Ganapati!

>

> With Love

> Ganesha

>