The perils of pronunciation

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Dear All,

 

 

 

Many people these days begin to read some litany or mantra to get relief from some germane malady which besets their lives.The reasons might be to pry out the malefic-effect of grahAs which grab them(grahAni grAhayanthI manIshinaha:),or upon the advice of some saintly/elderly figure(yoginAm sUchayanthi manIshinah:) or by a chance aquaintance about the healing powers of a particular verse or mantra or litany from some book,magazine or website(s'AstrAni GhoshayanthI manIshinah:)

 

Whatever be the varigiated reasons which one might have for doing so,one must take extreme care and caution to chant the litany or mantra perfectly.One must also take steps to get the corrected version of the litany from either knowledgable elders or highly standardized old texts(here too again with benefit of second opinion of adepts).

 

 

 

I see horrible mistakes,typological errors,'printer's devils',ommissions,commissions,etc in the popular stuff put up for sale,including most versions of lalithA sahasranAma and even vishnu-sahasranAmA.This is most abominal.The publishing houses are the main culprits.They see the pulse of the people for the season and publish some stuff and sell it with beautiful covers,paper quality and design,without realizing how much of quantitative bad karmA they incur, how much of damage they do to the people who read them faithfully and how much of deletirious vibrations they encourage in the atmosphere.

 

The case is compounded with people's ignorance or a mere smattering of samskruthA,the veda-bhAshA.

 

When I recently even tried to correct some people,who were priests of a particular famous and very ancient Devi temple in the outskirts of Chennai,they frowned upon me and said,"This is how we were taught and this is how it should be chanted." I could only pity them and their arrogance and prayed to the s'akthI there that She should bless the devotees who come there inspite of these ignorant priests.This was the best I could do.

Most of the(almost 90%) of the tamizh-transliterated texts of the samskruthA verses do not carry any sort of number notations to differentiate the syllables and the way people read them makes me quiver like an aspen leaf.

 

Maybe, the plight of the brahmin community in tamizhnAdu at the hands of anti-god dravidian forces, might have percolated faster because of the collective detrimental vibrations of the devabHashA being compromised.Just my two cents! Instead,they can even do a tamizh vazhibAdu(worship with the native language) and get the same blessings.Afterall, the deity understands all languages and definitely understands the underlying emotions.

 

SamskruthA is not be construed as a weapon to bamboozle ignoramuses by the erudite.It is a beautiful language with highly puissant and synchormistic vibrations,which has been well-researched to quench the thirst of scientific minds as to its efficacy and aura-producing abilities.(Cymatics)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image of the srIchakra being formed when the sound "OM" was chanted continuously in the Cymatic tonoscope.

 

 

 

Formation of Om due to "Shreem" sounds of winds on Mount Kailash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Hans Jenny's tonoscope experiments the sounding of 'OM' produces the circle O which is then filled in with concentric squares and triangles, finally producing (when last traces of sound have died away) the geometric expression of sacred vibration found in many world religions In his research with the tonoscope, Swizz scientist Hans Jenny noticed that when the vowels of the ancient languages of Aramic(the language Jesus spoke),Hebrew and Sanskrit were pronounced, the sand took the shape of the written symbols for these vowels. Experimentation with modern languages generally produced only chaos. Is it possible that the ancient Hebrews and Indians knew this? Could there be something to the concept of "sacred language?" Would other sacred languages produce similar results i.e. Tibetan, Egyptian or Chinese. These languages have always proposed that they have the capacity to influence and transform

physical reality through the recitation or chanting of sacred syllables and mantras. This proves very cohesively the existence of magic words.Creative phrases that transform the physical reality we see around us. There are legends of Navajo shaman being able to whisper words that created patterns in the sand.

 

 

"First there was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God"

(John 1:1 KJB )Words, thoughts, feelings, are all powerfully creative things. Be clear about your intent. What geometry are you making? Are you contributing to or contaminating your environment? Take charge and responsibility for what sound you create!

 

 

 

(If this be the power of gAyatri,then imagine the power of panchadasi said to be 15 to 64 times more powerful than the common gAyatri mantrA)

 

Daily repetition of a text's inspired samskruthA poetry creates within one's mind conditions into which the text's inherent spirit can be infused

 

 

 

 

 

When one chants and more so repeats on a daily basis a samskruthA litany one beings to immidiately create a receptive grid in the auric body(the 5 body system theory) wherein the samskrutha padhArthA(the text's inhrent meaning and spirit) is infused and lapped-up.

With defective vibrations what one has is either ineffectual results or worse, detrimental results.

 

 

 

We find people complaining,thereafter, "I have done such and such a verse/litany/mantra and nothing has happened and infact the reverse has happened."Upon enquiring a bit further as to how they chant the "such and such a verse/litany/mantra" would most definitely throw a clue to their pitiable plight.

 

The doctor injects medicine using a needle and a syringe.The nurse who has had no formal training in any nursing college (these days nurses have to be qualified,Im talking of good old days) who keeps observing how the does it also later on injects in a similar manner with his guidance(Nowdays Nurses are taught all these basic things in Colleges.Im just using this as a metaphor,so please bear with me without getting granular).And when any fever or illness attacks her/him,she/he(Medical-nurse is gender nuetral these days!) too injects the syringe and the needle with the medicine into her/his arm in the same manner.

 

Now, if a layperson who watched the Doc just once does the same by trying it,without his guidance,either the liquid in the syringe goes out/wasted or the needle with liquid bubbles in the medicine pierces the wrong portion of his arm and injects bubbly medicine creating further troubles.

 

The layperson can also learn to inject himself/herself by reading from some medical manual too.The results would be even worse than that mentioned above.

 

 

 

Doctor = Guru,the preceptor,the manthra-guru,the one who initiates.Get a 'good doctor' for a good diagnosis and treatment is a simple commonsensical rule which many don't adhere to.Reasons:People dont have patience,they need quick-fix and instantaneous results,are not prepared to endure any amount of suffering,read a few books and consider themselves great yOgis,etc

 

Nurse = shishyA. Many are not nurses with lot of patience but just are impatient patients in the hands of charlatans seeking quick-fix results.

 

Syringe = The rishi vAk inhrent in the litany with the spirit of the healing.This has to be understood properly.But many times,simple belief in the litany without knowing the meanings too can cure,though knowledge of what is being said would greatly enhance the bhAvA.

 

Needle = The Chandas,swarA,and other tools needed to render the chant properly.You get a wrong needle and you can even contract AIDS!

 

The medicine in the syringe = God's/The deity's blessings.This can be asecrtained by the doctor alone in most cases---> what to give,when to give,to whom to give and in what dose.Thus here too the importance of having a genuine Guru is reconfirmed.

 

 

 

Litanies are like Fugues,in which all notes cannot be contained into a single melodic scale, rather the doer is plunged directly into the "midst" of things and follows a temporal order created by their own state of mind which revebrates with the chant and flows forward,this revebration in turn creates an aura and when the "Fugue" takes place with bhAvA,bhakthi and bhAshA,then the results are almost instantaneous.