Mantra questions

[Guest guest]

Dear Family,

I have a couple of questions which I would like some help with.

My first question is to do with Sanskrit grammar: Which of the following two

mantras is the correct way?

Om shree Kaalii Devyai namah (or)

Om shree Kaalyai Devyai namah

In other words, is the " yai " termination only on the last in a series of words

within a name, or on all of them? In this example, the name I am starting with

is " Kali Devi " .

 

My second less pressing question: In the Mahamantra of Lord Krishna ( " Hare

Krishna, Hare Krishna.....Hare Rama.... " etc.) does " Hare Rama " denote 1:

Ramachandra of the Ramayana whose wife is Sita, or 2: Krishna's brother Balarama

who tended the cows with Him? Or both?

The reason I would like to know is because I occasionally worship Lord Krishna

(I believe He is a form of Maa Kaali) and when I sing " Hare Krishna " I think of

His form with the flute and the gopis and herding cows and so on. So when I sing

" Hare Rama " I would like to know whether I might think either of the form of

cowherd Balarama, or of the form of Lord Ramachandra (and thus Maa Mathangi).

If anyone can answer either of my questions, I thank you for your patience.

 

Jai Maa Kaali

 

Loladas

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Sree mathre namah

greatness to mother

 

dear sri Loladas,

 

allow me to discuss about the questions that you have posed in your earlier

mail. as per the sanskrit grammer, all the female genders' words should end

with aa, ee or ai or the 2nd, 4th, 11th vowels in the sanskrit alphabet. there

are also some extensions which need not be mentioned at this juncture. these

pronounciations one would find in the namavalis of all the female goddesses.

regarding the lines that you have sent, they are the puja mantras not the japa

or the dhyana mantras as they donot contain any Bijaksharas. with these lines,

you can do puja and the right sentence is

 

Om Sri Kaali Devyai namah

 

which means, respected Kaali Devi, i offer my salutations to you. as such all

the lines can and should be adorned with 'Om'. Word 'Devi' means that one

which has a female shape. Kaali means (very emphalitacally speaking, as this

word contains in it vast ocean of Knowledge) that which is a form of Time or

'Kaala' which we ordinaryli pronounce as time. female form of time is Kaali and

the male form is Kaala. Out of the two, the above lines are grammatically and

syntactically correct according to grammer. this line any one can do or recite.

the actual mantra should be beget from a authoritative Guru or a teacher.

 

always at the feet of my guru

 

Samvidaananda saktha.

 

 

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