mantra and nama

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dear sreeram anna

 

1)

i heard that if we cannot find correct guru then we can write the particular

mantra/stotra in front of adi guru shiva or dattatreya and start doing mantra

anushtana.is this correct for kamya prayoga like getting relf from graha

piida.also can this be done for ishta devta upasana?

also in mantra upasana there's no need to actually have bhakti towards devta,but

enough if we chant it properly,follow niyamas for mantra anushtana from

competant guru.is this correct?

 

2)

do u know abt pakalpati guruvugaru who lived in 70's and attained siddhi in

1974.u can know abt him more in ekkirala bharadwaja(great devotee of sirdi sai)

website.he was a gayatri mantra siddha ,jnani though he lived like a normal

human being and stayed in agency areas of vizag(chintapalli forest).

 

regarding upadesha of mantras,especially gayatri he said " people in this present

era do not follow basic dharma and due to lack of sattwa mantras r not giving

fruitful results,even if some r gettng it is due to their evolved sattwa guna

and previous good karma that brings them results,as many do not know what

bijam,keelakam,shakti mean for a particular mantra but just start chanting them

by saying " this is bijam,this is kelakam etc " and also most do not get initiated

from the person who has attained siddhi in that mantra,hence no expected results

would accrue.

 

he also says that simply chanting mantra without nyasam ,knowing its bejam

other mantra-anga(if im not wrong) would be same as nama japa

 

in nama japa there is " aarti " ,devotion which brings abt grace of devata whereas

for mantra its pros cons,utilities,niyamas r required to be known by sadhaka

from siddha guru(who attained siddhi of mantra) "

 

3)

so,in present times we do not know who actuallly have mantra siddi or not,what

shld we do?

 

in that case many have to stop doing even sandhya vandana as most of gayatri

upadeshas being given now in thread ceremonies r not given by mantra siddhas and

i think gayatri mantra will work as gayatri nama japa only.

 

please enlighten me on this as i do not know anything abt mantra shastra,but

just wrote based on that siddhas words.