pancAkshari mantram

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- SriparasuKAnandanAtha, krishnarao.lanka

 

Date:- August 27, 2007

 

Subject :- pancAkSharI mantram

 

 

 

Priya mahAsayah,

 

 

 

" OmkAravadanA dEvI vayakAra BhujadwayI |

 

SikAra dEha madhyA ca namahkAra pada dwayI |

 

pancAkSharI parA vidyA sa tArA lingarUpiNI |

 

Siva mantrABhidA SaivI mamAngE supratiShTitA || "

 

 

 

This is one SlOkam addressed in the name of dEvI (who is not

at all different from Siva), whose name is " pancAkSharI parA vidyA " . The

term 'vdya' is generally used for the mantras of feminine deities and the

term 'manu' is applied for masculine deities. So, her name is " pancAkSharI

parA vidyA " . ParA because, it is an outwardly inverted order of Siva.

pancAkShari

because it is a vidya consistent of five divisions, akAra, ukAra, makAra,

nAda and kalA, all are one and the same through out in structure or

composition All the above five alphabets are pronounced unitedly together

as a single letter " Om " . In total, her face is 'praNavam'(OmkAra vadanA).

 

 

 

She is " tArA " , which means 'praNavam'=OmkAra. It is just like a

perfect boat with which we can cross the ocean of births and deaths.

 

 

 

A flash in the memory of paramaSiva causing a noise as " ah " ,

reverberated in a space in himself as " aham " (I consciousness), and

formulated into a logo. It contains both sabda and artha in itself. All the

fourteen worlds of the " artha " factor, and all the vEdas, all the purANAs,

all the itihAsas, and every kind of literature of the " sabda " factor are

residing in it in a nonduel unity.

 

 

 

This is the personification of the abstract Siva himself.

 

 

 

She is " lingarUpiNi " . The word 'linga' denotes to the body

without the five sense organs. This indicates 'swapnAvastha', which

figuratively indicates the object which actually not present before us. Our

BhavanAs are the creators of such objects. We all think that all our wishes

are so good and that they are all our benefactors. For every such unit of

good thoughts we attribute a form and name of certain god or dEvata and we

will visualize that form in our mind and also in our dreamy state.

 

We consider such good thoughts as divine because we believe that

dEvatAs are good ones and that they always do good for us. So this BhAvana

avastha (swapna avastha) is divine, which we believe do good for us. That

goodness will not be other than taking us to our own abode, ie., mOkSha. Or,

the place for which we all have to reach to find out the Siva swarUpam.

 

 

 

" mananAt trAyatE iti mantrah " This protects and guides us to

reach 'Siva' the ultimate goal. So this praNavam has been rewarded with the

name of " Siva mantrABhida " .

 

 

 

This is " SaivI " , the wife of Siva, ie., 'umA', which is an

another form of " aum " . This is his spouse or better half. She is his

Sakti. She is his manifestation in a visible state. She is the expanded

form from him like a pseudopodia.

 

 

 

S he is " namahkAra pada dwayI " . This indicates that we should

have the footing of the basic realization that I am ( " na+mah " , mah=mortal

being and na=not) not a mortal being; but " SikAra dEha madhyA " ; 'deha

madhyA' is our own self and SikAra is Siva according to EkAkSharI niGantu. So

all this says, that before starting any efforts for obtaining the

liberation, we must realize ourselves that we must put aside the body

consciousness (dEhAtma BhAvana) and be cognizant of our real self is the

almighty.

 

 

 

The devotee is praying her to be implanted in his body structure

as 'vakAra'in his right hand in the form of nectar; having 'varada mudra'

and 'yakAra' in his left hand in the form of the mighty strength of

vAyudEva, showing 'aBhaya mudra'. By these two mudras he is attaining the

divine form, and he himself becoming the dEvatA.

 

 

 

I think this kind of decisive determination should always be preceded

with every single chanting of the mantra. I may be pardoned if I am

exceeding any limits in the analysis of the SlOka.

 

 

 

krishnarao

 

 

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Krishnarao Lanka